First Hydroponic Grow DWC Assistance much needed

Like the title states this is my first Hydroponic grow, looks like something is going extremely wrong here or it could be my inexperience growing with hydroponics eh prolly even both. Hopefully someone could help me out and ease my mind with telling me what happen and what steps I could take to fix the problem or else I'll be going back to soil . My setup is a DIY DWC Cloner with an 200GPH air pump in a 3.5 Gallon Bucket all black sealed of light. My PH is always around 5.8 and water temp around 75-80. I recently added nutes @ 1/3 strength seedling solution of GH Flora Series Expert lineup with a ppm of 300 in RO water, the problems these poor babies are running into are brownish material build up on roots which are not slimy nor smelly & light green leafs with very visible red/purple veins and stems. Please anyone out there that could help it would be much appreciated thank you

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Anyone ever have similar problems or is this just a complete mess?

Hey bro thats 100% the brown slime
you can risnse off some of it gently!

what are the water temps?
and what additives are you using?


options are

1) go sterile......not the best option
2) brew up hiesenberg tea
3) add 7ml per gal of aquashield and 2ml per gal of perihna
#3 is what i use

hellraizer30 said:

Hey bro thats 100% the brown slime
you can risnse off some of it gently!

what are the water temps?
and what additives are you using?


options are

1) go sterile......not the best option
2) brew up hiesenberg tea
3) add 7ml per gal of aquashield and 2ml per gal of perihna
#3 is what i use

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Thanks for taking a look at this! Temps are around 75 lights off and 79/80 lights on nutes that were added to the bucket are GH Flora Series Expert line up
Flora Grow 1ml per gallon , Flora Micro 2ml per gallon, Flora Bloom 1ml per gallon, Rapid Start 2.5ml, Diamond Nectar 2.5ml per gallon, Floralicious Plus 1ml per gallon, and lastly FloraBlend 5ml per gallon. Bucket had 3 gallons of RO water @ 13ppm and PH at 5.6

You got to get those water temps down to 66f if your going to solve this

Oh man that's gonna be a tough challenge a water chiller is out of my budget atm hmm

You could start using frozen bottles of water! Kinda shity but works

Freezing bottles now where can I get some perihna I've been searching no results thank you for all of the help I was almost thinking about giving up hydroponics

Rock*Star said:

Freezing bottles now where can I get some perihna I've been searching no results thank you for all of the help I was almost thinking about giving up hydroponics

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Aquashield is made by botanicair
pirahna is made by advanced nutes

get a tub thats big enough to put your dwc buckets in
and fill with water so theres water on the outside of your
buckets. Then put the frozen bottles in that. This will stop
any contamination from taking place.

a good way to lower res temps would be to take white or aluminum foil tape and cover the outside of your res, because the black will absorb heat energy from yours lights. the foil would probably be best cause it can release heat much easier, mainly cause its used in a/c ducts, and its ment to be durable and non porous which also helps keep out lights. if you cant get any of the above, a SMALL amount of h2o2, a capfull, could be added with each res change. because the h2o2 breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen after a short while and wont damage your roots. purpdaddy has a great guide for all of this and a simple diagnosis / treatment for sick plants as well as how a proper setup should go. https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/146610-roseman-purpdaddys-guide-my-bubbleponics.html . goodluck