The Bubblehead Showcase

Some nutes, like the Stealth Hydro nutes, add pink dye to the nutes.

hmm.. that's interesting, is there a reason? (excuse my ignorance)

to differentiate from the grow nutes (green)

ok, like my GH flora bloom. Mine has never looked like that... or stained my roots. I think the micro does...

yeah, the micro stains in the flora series. And if you use the one part Nova series, that stains as well.

I got nothing for you, C5rftw. I'd say nute stain, but the discoloration is above the water line. Overall those roots look healthy and well established like they are - or were - growing in good water conditions.

The only time I get real nervous is when I do a full reservoir change, unless I'm growing in sterile conditions (i.e. using H2O2 continuously as a preventative measure). I discuss this in detail in my response to PolishFalcon420 (Post #18 and 55) in my grow thread, but in short when you do a complete flush/clean you are also flushing the beneficial bacteria/fungi that have been helping protect your plant so it can thrive. Not only this, but you are rapidly changing the environment it is growing in - from an aged, perfectly balanced environment were everybody was working together as nature intended to an unbalanced new environment where it basically has to start over.

If an established plant growing in good water conditions is ever susceptable to attack it's when you do a full water change/cleaning in my opinion.

I'm not trying to scare anybody, this is just my opinion and I know it flies against conventional wisdom. There is probably a simple explaination for the discoloration. I am almost certain there is nothing wrong with your plants C5rftw. All I'm saying is to keep an eye on both the plants and roots. If the plants start to wilt when they haven't before, or if the discoloration continues or spreads for no apparent reason, or the roots get a slimey substace on them, or the water starts to foam or smell, then I would take some kind of action.

Just my humble opinion...

thanks guys. im just watch the plants and monitor them a lot. i really hope are just stained and it does make sense to me that it could be that

The stain will wick up the root as it absorbs water... Its def nute stain

Werd. Just nute stain. Mine looked like pink cotton candy for quite a while lol. Lookin good guys. I'm so close I spent all day sterilizing and cleaning scissors and bubble bags and such.
Some quick time point and shoot porno sorry about the quality I was headin out the door. Starting the flush tomorrow choppin monday and leaving the lower sites for another week to catch up a bit.








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erkelsgoo420 said:

Starting the flush tomorrow choppin monday and leaving the lower sites for another week to catch up a bit.

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how well does that work? I was considering doing the same thing.. but I didn't know if they would actually fatten up any more after harvesting the main stems....

Stgeneziz said:

hmm.. that's interesting, is there a reason? (excuse my ignorance)

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yea, I asked them. They put pink food coloring in the Bloom nutes(for Flowering) and Green Food Coloring in the VEG nutes, so you can tell them apart on sight and not mix them.

Yeah, that's what johnny was tellin me. It makes sense. thanx for the reply.

yah i dont why SH would go to the trouble of makin a die, I get why they do it, when it is gonna cause more harm than good... why have a product that only the informed will not worry about its affects. Im making this point based on the fact that only ONE person knew(thankyou ROSEMAN) what this was a result from.

??? okay hmmm

I knew ! I Knew! LOL! It's come up before you got here! Green for Grow and Pink for flower. Says right on the instructions not to use both together.

MostlyCrazy said:

I knew ! I Knew! LOL! It's come up before you got here! Green for Grow and Pink for flower. Says right on the instructions not to use both together.

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instructions? who reads instructions?

I do but only as a last resort or if I want to find out what the manufacturer has to say about a question I have! Doesn't happen often! Instructions are really only another man's opinion! Oh, by the way, I use a wrench as a hammer sometimes! LOL!

I applaud this thread for showcasing BubbleHead Grows!

It ought to be more active with more BubbleHead bud pics to view.

Roseman said:

Some nutes, like the Stealth Hydro nutes, add pink dye to the nutes.

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Gotta be something like that. Either that or somebody dumped food coloring in his res...lol

c5rftw said:

yah i dont why SH would go to the trouble of makin a die, I get why they do it, when it is gonna cause more harm than good... why have a product that only the informed will not worry about its affects. Im making this point based on the fact that only ONE person knew(thankyou ROSEMAN) what this was a result from.

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The die doesn't cause any harm at all. I prefer it do when I'm adjusting nutes, I can tell which is which.