Root Rot Woes

So Ive run into a root rot problem. I've never experienced this problem before so I'd like some input if anyone has successfully committed genocide on their rot root. My reservoirs are at 72F, I have o2 in them and I'm eliminating all light leak. I'm in week 3 of veg and want to know whether I should pull my plants and remove the contaminated roots, add hydroguard and let them re-establish, or let it sit and run the hydroguard and extend the veg period. I'm not sure how long to expect the hydroguard to take to get rid of the issue and if eliminating the majority of infected roots would hasten the healing process or draw it out. Any help is appreciated.

In your res, anything above 68 can lead to problems. Try to get your res temps down. You will also want to increase the amount of oxygen in the water, better airstones and a more powerful pump. Try the pawfly 4 inch stones. Great quality and move alot of air.

I've had my best results using h2o2 at 10 ml per gallon as it seems to really knock it down, coupled with a light proof, cool and highly oxygenated res will kill the rot.

Dont remove the roots, they will die and fall awayon thier own.

CK

My understanding is hydroguard is more of a preventative than a cure.

You should clean out your system with a hot chlorine rinse and then wash it out with plain water. While you do this allow your roots to sit in an h2o2 bath if possible.

Fill your now clean system with water and hydroguard and hope for the best. Or you can go with Heisenberg's tea which I have heard nothing but great things about.

Be sure to rinse your roots after the bath so you dont kill the new bennies.

you can either run a sterile res, using chlorine, or hydrogen peroxide, or you can run benes, like hydroguard. sterile is pretty easy, you just add a small amount of chlorine or hydrogen peroxide on a schedule, your roots stay nice and white, decaying roots are dissolved, easy peasy.
hydroguard and products like it, (subculture b, oregonism xl, this product from southern ag is the same stuff in hydroguard, at 1/10th the price....https://southernag.com/residential-products/garden-friendly-fungcde-12x1-pt/ ) are intended to colonize your res and out compete any possible non beneficial microbes like pythium (root rot)...so you have to keep adding it on a regular schedule. the benes are in "suspended animation" while in the solution that comes in the jug. when you add them to your res, they wake up, and have a limited life span. you can feed them in the res and they'll multiply and keep their numbers up, but that also supplies food for any bad vectors.
either method you choose requires you to maintain it to work.

Been here. I disagree with not cutting the roots, I’d say cut them. Hudroguard didnt do anything for me once the pyth started. The only product I used that really worked (and it worked like a miracle) is cx hydroponics wilt guard. I trimmed my roots, sterilized my equipment, replaced my water pump and air stones, and ran wilt guard the rest of the grow and everything recovered. This was an rdwc system. I did the same thing with hydroguard the grow before and it got pyth again, fast, and I lost that crop. I do not advocate bennies - never saw a benefit

Major Blazer said:

Been here. I disagree with not cutting the roots, I’d say cut them. Hudroguard didnt do anything for me once the pyth started. The only product I used that really worked (and it worked like a miracle) is cx hydroponics wilt guard. I trimmed my roots, sterilized my equipment, replaced my water pump and air stones, and ran wilt guard the rest of the grow and everything recovered. This was an rdwc system. I did the same thing with hydroguard the grow before and it got pyth again, fast, and I lost that crop. I do not advocate bennies - never saw a benefit

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i can't find the ingredients of wiltguard anywhere online....and i don't use anything if i don't know whats in it. i appreciate that it worked for you...but i'm not putting a damn thing in my pots without knowing everything that's in it