Impossible to have sterile system. To many other variables including air pathogens,nooks and crannies,pathogens in the rocks,air stones. Unless you plan on using distilled water to clean all your buckets cause as soon as you rinse off all the bleach you used to sterilize you just put the pathogens back over everything.
Pythium is always there looking for the right moment to take hold and it always starts below the root crown in the hydroton. I've tried 30 percent h202 ,zone and all that other shit and hydroguard was the only thing that ever kept it at bay to get through grows.
Now I'm looking into uv sterizilers on the incoming water used to clean the system and uv sterilizer on the RO output line. I may try uc roots on a run from scratch but will still need a chlorine test pen or strips to make sure there is enough ppm to keep the system clean. Not enough and pythium takes over and to much and chlorine toxicity
68 degrees. I have chillers. The bacteria will grow in cold water it doesnt care. The colder water slows it down but doesnt prevent it.Well, it sounds like you've tried every additive, so why not chill your res water? That is usually the main problem in nasties growing in your res, especially in passive hydro.
What is your res temp?
I meant for this to be my entry for the first drop. Really been eyeing the wedding cake and adub. I dont mind posting pics of progress. I've been holding out on buying new seeds for this. I'm confident it will be worth the wait.Been lurking on this thread since the beginning and tracking the progress. Sorry to hear about the unfortunate news. I've been eyeing the Wedding cake and adub seeds/crosses. Excited for the future of your drops!
Quick update on whats going on, Been having major root issues in DWC, None like i have ever dealt with. I ended up losing both scrogs in dwc before i could get to spraying. Did a few test to figure out WTF was going on and it came back to bad hydroguard. The dates on The back were erased off and someone put a price tag date on them.Lesson earned after i got the second gallon and there was no date or sticker. I talked to the rep and he said amazon is notorious for selling garbage hydroguard as they are no an approved vendor, leson learned so i ended up spending 3 days throwing away rocks,air stones,and hoses and pumps.
Now for the good news. The moms were all in dirt and had stayed healthy the whole time and actually grew big enough to get a few cuts. I ended up taking last minute cuts off the DWC plants before they completely shit the bed so i didnt lose any of the moms.They are in dirt now but smaller.
The 4 I have in the flower room now are Wed Cake,GG4,ECSD,and 91 Chem. I started spraying them 2 days ago and have cuts off them in the dome.
ALL S1's will be given away for free from these plants. There will be a small supply because i was limited on the amount of cuts i took but i should have enough for at least 30 packs of each to go out. I will update with pics as soon as they start to throw balls. Ill have at least 6 receiving plants of each mom to make the S1;s .
I have the other 13 strains in the cloner now and as soon as they are rooted will go back to DWC for the next pollen collection runs. There will be crosses of the above 4 moms but seeds will be limited so whoever wants the free packs on the first drop. YOU CAN REQUEST them here and when the drop comes I will make sure toget them seeds out to all the people active on the thread so we can get some pics up here of some dank.
I could care less to make a penny on these first seeds as I am that confident they are gonna be stellar and people will post some pics of the progress.
The second drop will have A LOT more S1s and more variety in crosses.
The first drop will be limited so I will post up exactly how many I have so the first ones who sign up after this post will have first dibs on choice untill they are all gone.
The second drop will be shortly after the first. This is alot more work than most anticipate and i wanna make sure IM GIVING everyone exactly what they are. I plan to be around for a little while and based on the test reports will determine my first few pheno hunts and what i decide to run to select new breeding moms. Doing it this way makes sure i can get them out when you guys have been patient.
Sign up starts here and ill go back after the seeds are packged and we can go from there.
Anyone who has been trying to get ahold of me past few days i have been stupid busy getting things organized and cleaned up to avoid any future issues.
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I will look in the logs. My apologies. I have been offline from RIU for a few days, will set up a customer support contact form, ASAP. Thank you for the report. Will circle back with you.My order of preference is chem, wc, gg, ecsd but I'll run whatever I get. Also @Michael Huntherz I tried filling out the tester form this morning and got an error code 500...dm me if you need details.
Dobie fracking Gillis? You never stop with the surprises.
Fuck yes. You win +5 internets.I have black dog amongst my mothers but believe it or not I've never cloned it and flowered anything off it because I've been working on genetics people are wanting. If they hadn't heard of black dog they don't want it. Many around here have never heard of g13, LA confidential, headband, Bruce banner, Casey Jones, c99, etc
If it's in a rap song they want it and don't want anything else but that lol.
I had guys say they didn't want that shit. Told em I had other varieties and asked what they wanted Said og kush so I said ya I have some of that, which I do and said I'm gonna run home and get a lb for ya. Was back 2 hrs later with the exact same bag and they loved it.
Dobie fracking Gillis? You never stop with the surprises.
68 degrees. I have chillers. The bacteria will grow in cold water it doesnt care. The colder water slows it down but doesnt prevent it.
Aquarium canister filters with UV have been on my radar. Or custom UV, for sterile-range growers. I run bio-active aquariums and “sterile” hydro. Sterile is a range, in that sense, not a specific number.Sorry to hear about the root rot problems. I ran UC's for quite awhile with great success...then...BAM....something got in there and I just couldn't get it out. Tore down 3X...bleach...physan..etc.etc. Cleaned seals...replaced piping...did 2 more runs...both of which stalled 4-6 weeks in....same shit. Finally went back to soil cus the timing coincided with legality and the whole drop in the market/etc.and the lack of need for weed did it in for good. UV is where I was going next. Good luck figuring it out.
Maynard Krebs was a modern hipster before that was an imaginable thing, look at that beard! I forgot how handsome he was...damn, boi.You're correct, it was the Dobie Gillis show, but that picture is Maynard G. Krebs, who later played Gilligan.
It was my favorite show in 1958.
They call it the Florida panhandle, lol!Wow, you've got pathogens growing in your res when the nute soup is 68 degrees?
You must live in Bacteria City!