Root rot... Need advice please

ru8fru

ru8fru

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Hello all... It has been a very long time since I've been on these boards. I used to do grow journals and been very active back in the day. I've been cultivating for the past 5ish years (indoor) and never experienced anything like this. I run perpetually and I have 30 girls in my veg room that I'm 100% positive have root rot. I grow in a drip system drip to waste method, with Rockwool as my medium.

So I hoped online and did research for days... Most if not all led me back to h202 being the best and most efficient way to combat this. So I went out and bought some 35% hydrogen and hand dunked my 6inch cubes in a water solution I made. No nutes just water and peroxide, I believe I did around 5ml per gallon of water of the 35% peroxide. Waited a couple days to let them dry out and really haven't seen a difference.

I can take pictures and upload them if necessary but I'm completely confident it's root rot. This post is getting sort of long so does ANYONE have any ideas, tips, thoughts on how I may be able to kill this stuff and throw these ladies into flower? 30plant crop wasted would really suck but I'm about to the point of just cloning and killing them all off and deep cleaning everything. Can I clone off a plant with root rot and it be okay?

Thanks in advance for any replies, id really appreciate it!
 
ru8fru

ru8fru

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Bumpppp. Nobody's got anything for me? I'll probably just end up killing them all and taking the loss unless someone has suggestions.
 
nameno

nameno

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Look under bubbleponics a thread called DWC root (something) I've heard it works.Good Luck
 
delvite

delvite

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ru8fru said:
Hello all... It has been a very long time since I've been on these boards. I used to do grow journals and been very active back in the day. I've been cultivating for the past 5ish years (indoor) and never experienced anything like this. I run perpetually and I have 30 girls in my veg room that I'm 100% positive have root rot. I grow in a drip system drip to waste method, with Rockwool as my medium.

So I hoped online and did research for days... Most if not all led me back to h202 being the best and most efficient way to combat this. So I went out and bought some 35% hydrogen and hand dunked my 6inch cubes in a water solution I made. No nutes just water and peroxide, I believe I did around 5ml per gallon of water of the 35% peroxide. Waited a couple days to let them dry out and really haven't seen a difference.

I can take pictures and upload them if necessary but I'm completely confident it's root rot. This post is getting sort of long so does ANYONE have any ideas, tips, thoughts on how I may be able to kill this stuff and throw these ladies into flower? 30plant crop wasted would really suck but I'm about to the point of just cloning and killing them all off and deep cleaning everything. Can I clone off a plant with root rot and it be okay?

Thanks in advance for any replies, id really appreciate it!
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Root Rot


What causes root rot? Low Oxygen levels. (DO) Desolved Oxigen. Temp's are the main reason for root rot, Low temps will lower the DO levels and high temps will cause low DO levels. Keeping temps between 65 to 72 will allow MAX DO levels or max o2 for roots.


Over watering also causes root rot, Root Rot infects parts of the roots, which then spread infecting the whole roots causing death, Root Rot can be caused by to high of temps in hydro as well as over watering. Not enough drainage in your soil can cause Root Rot, even signs of it looking over watered, because the soil holds moisture to long for the roots to dry out. So these 3 things are all connected together. The main one that causes everything is over watering. Once you find out you have root rot, depending on how bad the problem is, you can add H202( Hydrogen Peroxide) with your water or hydro setup to kill the bacteria caused from root rot. If the plant is severely taken over by it, there are only a few things you can do, cut off the roots affected by it depending on if its hair roots or tap roots, use H202 mixed with water in a different bucket and use it for a dip to help kill off bacteria before putting it back in the system, also note the system needs to be cleaned out if you have root rot.... using products like sm90 will kill off the root rot, using h202 in your system does more harm than good, it kills off the bad bacteria and good thus creating a worse off problem after the h202 has been overran, h202 if used in a hydro/aero system must be replaced everyday due to it disapating from the air. After it disaptes the plants defensive system has been killed off by the h202 causing the root rot that was not killed by the h202 left and thus overruns the plants root system. So again h202 should never be used in the hydro system, be kept in the system, although it is safe to use to rid of algae growth in rockwool and other mediums, but never be used in with the root zones regularly. Sm90 is a good product you can use to kill off root rot. Hydroguard helps protect and there are many other products that work as well, hydroguard is one of the more popular ones that work.




To prevent Root Rot, adding product's like Thrive Alive B-1, See Weed, Super thrive will help protect your plant's from root rot and will help cure root problems.




Here is what root rot looks like:




........................hope this helps ;) Delvite
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W

WAZZER

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pythoff by flairform or dutchmaster zone you can even combine them together for beter results
 
welshsmoker

welshsmoker

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got told a secret by an old grower dont know if its right or not, but he said( fuck the h2o2 put some co2 tabs in the res, plants produce oxygen and use co2 ) sounds logical to me.
 
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