SomeGuy's LED & Other Grows. 2014-15 Season

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@SomeGuy - I just filled mine again. I'm noticing that my water level indicator tubes are starting to cloud up. I don't know if my local city water has that much minerals (I kind of doubt that) or if the water in the res is murky. Since I can't see into my res and you've checked your roots, I'm wondering if you noticed if your water is clear or cloudy? I would imagine some amount of particulate material is leaching into the water from the wicks, and that the water being a bit cloudy would be "normal"?
 
Mohican said:
Drain some out and smell it and look at it under magnification.
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OK... next SIP design I'll see if I can make a way to drain water out. For now, I have a clean eye dropper, and I pulled a little bit of water from the level indicator tube. That water has been pushed up from the res, so its definitely res water. The only magnifier I have is a cheap 30x loop I use to look for amber trichomes. I really didn't know what I was looking for, overall the water is crystal clear. But, I did see some little tiny ameba-looking-things swimming around in there. I'm not sure what to do with that information. H2O2 in the res? Or have I simply created a healthy living aquatic system? Since the water is in contact with soil, aren't some micro-life-forms inevitable? I tried to smell it from the fill tubes, got no scent at all.

SomeGuy, you ever look at your water under magnification?
 
They could have come with your tap water. I had a boss that worked for the water department when he was young and he told me that they had to pull a dead body out of the water supply line once!

A tiny bit of H2O2 or bleach will probably work. There is also a treatment called Pond Zyme that might work.

Mix the bleach or H2O2 with water before adding it so as not to burn any roots.
 
Mohican said:
They could have come with your tap water. I had a boss that worked for the water department when he was young and he told me that they had to pull a dead body out of the water supply line once!

A tiny bit of H2O2 or bleach will probably work. There is also a treatment called Pond Zyme that might work.

Mix the bleach or H2O2 with water before adding it so as not to burn any roots.
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What if I use my chlorinated city tap water straight out of the tap (without letting it sit for 48 hours like I usually do to let the chlorine evaporate out)? Would a small amount of chlorine help?

What about adding something like Hygrozyme? Is that similar to Pond Zyme?
 
@SomeGuy - not sure if there is a simple answer to this, but since you are using a scrog/screen, how do you lift your plants up to get those great root pictures?
 
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