Replacement for hydroguard?

fragileassassin said:

Its also like 1/20th the cost and just as effective for most people. Its the same strain as hydroguard which people have used successfully for years.
Yes great white has many strains, but it would cost more than my nutrient to use at the recommended rate in my system size.
A bottle of southern ag $16 per liter and 5ml treats 50 gallons.
GW is not cost effective at all for anyone growing in anything bigger than a single bucket.

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Yes it's less cost effective but I was going to multiply it in a heisenberg tea for 48 hours to stretch a bottle much longer. Now I'm reading up about how the heisenberg tea might not be as productive as it sounds. The endo and ecto mycorrhiza apparently wont live for the duration of the tea brew (48h) because they aren't exposed to plant roots so really his recipe would be just bacillus and others multiplying with all the mycorrhiza dying. I'm so lost now.

You're lost because you're over complicating something that a vast majority of us hydro growers have simplified by using 1 thing that's the cheapest and has been proven to work over and over and over.
People that dont have success with hydroguard/southern ag typically have other glaring issues with their systems that they can't be bothered to fix for whatever reason.
I'd use pool shock or h2o2 before dealing with the hassle of all that tea stuff. Its unnecessary.

DIY grower said:

I'm so lost now.

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like fragile said, southern ag is all you need. it's a million X more concentrated than hydroguard. i don't have a big system so i go thru 16 bucks a year on that stuff (one bottle)
and nowhere near the mess and hassle of brewing H'berg tea

fragileassassin said:

You're lost because you're over complicating something that a vast majority of us hydro growers have simplified by using 1 thing that's the cheapest and has been proven to work over and over and over.
People that dont have success with hydroguard/southern ag typically have other glaring issues with their systems that they can't be bothered to fix for whatever reason.
I'd use pool shock or h2o2 before dealing with the hassle of all that tea stuff. Its unnecessary.

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damn, you beat me to it. and almost word for word. lol.

rkymtnman said:

damn, you beat me to it. and almost word for word. lol.

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Something great minds something something lmao..

fragileassassin said:

You're lost because you're over complicating something that a vast majority of us hydro growers have simplified by using 1 thing that's the cheapest and has been proven to work over and over and over.
People that dont have success with hydroguard/southern ag typically have other glaring issues with their systems that they can't be bothered to fix for whatever reason.
I'd use pool shock or h2o2 before dealing with the hassle of all that tea stuff. Its unnecessary.

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So to get rid of root rot on my seedlings would I pool shock/h2o2 first then introduce southern AG in a fresh res change?

DIY grower said:

So to get rid of root rot on my seedlings would I pool shock/h2o2 first then introduce southern AG in a fresh res change? View attachment 4569898

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root rot is the on the roots. that's algae more than likely. block the light.

First, you need to address why you have that problem to start with.
Which is a simple answer of that rooter is WAY too wet. You've created the perfect conditions for algae, rot, and damping off.
Take a fresh rooter and soak it in water for a few mins. Squeeze it out in your hand as hard as you can. Thats about how wet you want a rooter to stay, not much more. Ideally, you dont want anything that gets constant light to stay wet.
If you do a top feed in the early stages, you need to make sure its aimed properly so it doesnt hit the rooter and cause this.
Its better to do a single drip line and run it into the middle of the pot so it just wets the hydroton below the cube where the roots are.

After its established a bit you can pretty much do whatever... but this is a delicate stage for the plants to start with and one of the biggest pains in the ass we have to deal with as hyrdo growers.

dirtdan said:

I ordered Southern Ag Garden Friendly Biological Fungicide from ebay, delivered to Montreal 2 weeks ago.

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Are you able to link where you bought it on ebay? I can't find any that ship to Canada.

DIY grower said:

Are you able to link where you bought it on ebay? I can't find any that ship to Canada.

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