My only lowryer left is not doing to good. From my last post parts of the plant were turning dark green which is good. However hours later I saw it turning yellowish again and looked like its drying up. I see from the bottom part of the main stem looks like its drying up and damaged. So I checked the pH and it was fine, about 6. I looked at the roots and it looked very dark then usual. I flushed the res, when flushing I noticed the airstone had formed some yellowing scale on it as well. I cut the air pipe which goes from the pump to the res, and used a new airstone. When I was placing the top of the res, I noticed when the roots made contact with the water it caused some type of brown mist spreading into the water. It seemed like dirty roots. So I looked at some pcis of rotted roots. It was dark like mine. So I flushed the res again. Used some rubbing alcohol to flush out the res.
Here are the steps I took for disenifecting the roots.
1. Filled up a glass with hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, and hot water.
2. Filled up another glass with hot water.
3. Dipped the roots into the glass which has hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol. Then dipped the water into the glass which had only hot water. I repeated these steps a few times.
Note: I saw bunch of bubbles forming on the roots.
4. Measure the pH level of the water in the res, this is after the flush. Then place the plant back onto the res.
As of right now the leaves are drooping and seem to be turning yellow. Also I see a bunch of bud sites on the plant where it has white hairs. However there are a bunch of leaves around it that are drying up. Can I cut the dried up leave which are still connected to the lowryder? Any suggestions?