Make $2200 worth of "Clear Rez" for $4 !!!

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Blue Dog

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I've been doing this for almost a year now and it works great.

As the OP stated mix 1 gram of shock with 1 gal of tap or distilled water to make your solution, store in a dark & airtight container. I fill the old Clear Rez bottle with some of it and leave the rest in a gallon tupperware thing with an old shirt wrapped around it to keep the light out. I add about 50ml of that solution to my 2.5 gal rez every 4 days or so. Don't overdo it, it can kill the emerging roots. I have 2 cloners and the gallon mixture lasts months. I also used to fight slime, etc constantly, now I never see anything like that and I've gone as long as 45 days without changing the res water.

Super cheap and super effective.
 
BudgetGrower87

BudgetGrower87

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Bumping this old post, going to try it on my next grow. My current project i have mild brown algae. Cleaning and changing water every 7 days has been working so far. Plants seem fine, but it would be amazing to keep a reservoir stable and sterile without hurting the plants.
 
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churchhaze

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I guess it always sounds like bragging (and people hate that without pics), but I've never had to use a bleach, pool shock, H2O2, bennies, ever in the 10 or so years I've been taking DWC seriously. I've had root issues, but it's always been solved by fixing the nutrients or some other condition.

What gives? Why is everyone having problems with brown roots these days? I've also never heard of chilling water until about a year ago (from reading you guys). Are you guys feeding with organics or something?

Assuming you don't feed with organics, I feel like it's unhealthy roots that leads to rot, not the other way around. Roots store a ton of starch (think potatoes). Certain types of deficiencies will cause too much starch to buildup and the roots will appear "slimy". That's the bait. You can actually get this starchy slime off by jiggling the roots, then changing the water, but that doesn't fix the underlying problem.
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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churchhaze said:
I guess it always sounds like bragging (and people hate that without pics), but I've never had to use a bleach, pool shock, H2O2, bennies, ever in the 10 or so years I've been taking DWC seriously. I've had root issues, but it's always been solved by fixing the nutrients or some other condition.

What gives? Why is everyone having problems with brown roots these days? I've also never heard of chilling water until about a year ago (from reading you guys). Are you guys feeding with organics or something?

Assuming you don't feed with organics, I feel like it's unhealthy roots that leads to rot, not the other way around. Roots store a ton of starch (think potatoes). Certain types of deficiencies will cause too much starch to buildup and the roots will appear "slimy". That's the bait. You can actually get this starchy slime off by jiggling the roots, then changing the water, but that doesn't fix the underlying problem.
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A little more than 20 yrs ago, me and some close buddies started out growing indoor with homemade aeroflo tubes, WAY before some supposed NASA scientist invented them haha. Absolutely no problems, and then about 6 yrs later, we had the pleasure of picking up the devastating slime/root rot. Couldn't figure out how to stop it, so we ditched that otherwise beautiful way of flowering directly from rooted cuts. Anyways, we think, we either got it from cuts, that were just then available from the very first clubs in San Fran. Or, coincidentally, we had just switched over to the best water to use on the planet, RO :-( vs. Tap water with a little chlorine to boot.
I built some new tubes a few years later. This time, I knew now to keep your rezy at lower temps, and concentrated H202 was readily available. Tried hygrozyme, but not sure if it was helping. Didn't experience the slime ever again.
I don't usually bust out my tubes anymore though, because of plant counts. But they fuckin rocked man.
 
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clownbow

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flyingsteve said:
Have fun with the pondzyme lol. I've tried pondzyme and got a huge mess of bad bacteria. I tried brewing a beneficial tea and got a huge mess of bad bacteria. Running bennies in DWC is just plain dumb if you ask me. I've had a major battle with brown algae (cyanobacteria) for the past few months and that shit just laughed at the beneficial bacteria and went right back to wreaking havoc. I'm running a chiller AND UV sterilization inline on my RDWC, and sterilizing equipment with rubbing alc each time AND use distilled bottled water AND 1w/g air pump. I've tried SM-90, DM Gold Zone, H2O2, all laughable at best. I've had that shit form a thick colony of gelatinous crap on my air stones when using more than the aggressive dose of DM Zone (Probably bc Zone is Copper Sulfate and it is an algaecide, which this brown algae cyanobacteria IS NOT).

Long story short I use diluted solution of pool shock now and have no issues. If you want to have a fun little experiment and pull your hair out, dump a beneficial tea in to your DWC system. If you want to grow like a pro (Or like commercial hydroponic agriculture) you use chlorine/chloramines... OR Performic Acid.
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I went through the same problem that you are talking about but I am still using beneficial bacteria and it works fine....the problem you were having was with the sweeteners once you add the sweeteners into your water it will create a slime...hygrozyme will also cause slime because it creates sugars for the bad bacteria to feed on instead of feeding your bacteria sugars feed it humic acids or amino acid and cut out anything involving sugar the bad bacteria will thrive on that sugar and go wild ....I did switch over to a sterile run for one grow and like you were saying most stuff did not work like h2o2 is one of the things that did not work what the chlorine like the ez clone clear rez did to seem to work in my cloner ....when I was using the h2o2 I had to use massive doses and it still would barely keep it away ..l
 
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clownbow

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hydrolyzed said:
Wanted to check something here about the original posters math....... First it's stated to use 1 gram into one gallon, then use 1 ounce (30ml) of that mix per 5 gallons solution, or 6ml per gallon @ 1 Gram per gallon ....Then he goes on to say he makes a more concentrated mix as to use less of it per addition, stating to use 24 grams into a gallon of water, then use 1ml per gallon of solution. The problem I see is he is making a mixture 24x stronger, but only using 6x less of it...therefore going by his math, if you added 1ml/gallon of the 24x mix, your actually using 4x more shock than the original 1 gram/gallon concentration into 6ml/gallon equation.

Maybe my math is wrong? But a lot of people, especially hydro/DWC noobs will follow this advice to the T and this seems to be a huge error....anyone care to chime in?
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I don't think he was meaning for the math to match up....he was just saying that that's what he could get away with doing ...the original recipe he gave is the one that's going around the internetand that's probably the one I would stick to
 
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clownbow

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churchhaze said:
I guess it always sounds like bragging (and people hate that without pics), but I've never had to use a bleach, pool shock, H2O2, bennies, ever in the 10 or so years I've been taking DWC seriously. I've had root issues, but it's always been solved by fixing the nutrients or some other condition.

What gives? Why is everyone having problems with brown roots these days? I've also never heard of chilling water until about a year ago (from reading you guys). Are you guys feeding with organics or something?

Assuming you don't feed with organics, I feel like it's unhealthy roots that leads to rot, not the other way around. Roots store a ton of starch (think potatoes). Certain types of deficiencies will cause too much starch to buildup and the roots will appear "slimy". That's the bait. You can actually get this starchy slime off by jiggling the roots, then changing the water, but that doesn't fix the underlying problem.
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I have also grown dWC for many years and never had a problem until I moved to Colorado and then I started having problems with root rot.....so I think a big factor is your environment and where you live in what is floating in the air around you
 
SheepsBlood

SheepsBlood

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superstoner1 said:
Thats not proof of anything, not to mention I'm not snorting it.
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I am saying not to use it because the plants uptake the chemicals which in turn people burn and can possibly be harmful to you.
I say it out of care for your and others health. Not to be rude.

I think it's a good product to maintain a Rez but I am concerned about side effects.

As for uptake of more than nutrients, they supposedly used hemp to uptake the heavy metals in and around Chernobyl. Though I haven't researched that one any. Maybe now I will.
So, what I am saying with that statement is, that, if one uses hemp to uptake heavy metals because of the plants ability to absorb them well then it would make sense that it has potential to uptake other dangerous molecules that could be negative.
 
SheepsBlood

SheepsBlood

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As far as the companies state on the bottle, they are organic. Though I can not speak for them obviously.
Hey, I went to Home Cheapo today to look for some Pondzyme. I am thinking of giving it a go. Though I couldn't find any there. Where might I find some in a local store? Is it only sold mainly in a hydro store from what you have seen or are there other major stores that carry it?
 
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doctorman

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how do you guys major the grams of HTH pool shock?

I wanted to make the 24gram/gallon soloution but perhaps just 1 quart or half a gallon, 1 gallon would take a while to use
 
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