White film in reservoir, chunks of stuff in autopots.

Hey everyone, obviously something im mixing isn't reacting well. Had to clean out all the autopots from last week and only new addition is the flower nutes and terpinator and rhino skin.

This is what went into the last reservoir 2 days ago

Almost has a car wax type of smell to it, its odd. Experienced soil guy but still learning the ropes in hydro.

Anyone ever have issues with terpinator clogging things up like this? Bottom of autopots has a brown gunk layer in there which is new. Never had these problems when in veg. Thank you so much for your time

Here's another shot of one of the flakes in the res. Also a 600 gal pump runs 20 seconds every 3 minutes to keep things in suspension

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i would guess the rhino skin. that is silica, right?

First tip: don't use organics in hydroponics.

OT: Like @rkymtnman wrote it's probably precipitation from adding silica last instead of mixing it first.

gotcha, next res fill Im just gonna skip using the rhino, the stalks are already enormous and plenty strong to support a good yield. appreciate the feedback, just havent had this issue before

aceofbase said:

gotcha, next res fill Im just gonna skip using the rhino, the stalks are already enormous and plenty strong to support a good yield. appreciate the feedback, just havent had this issue before

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Cleanliness and sterility is key for a stable hydroponic system. Organics will create variables out of you control IMO. It maybe works for many cycles and suddenly autumn hits and the indigenous micro organism changes creating a room for bad bacteria culture. If you don't run a chiller with organics you just running a lottery for success.

Cleaning between runs is very important, it should be an easy jobb if you stay away from dirty soil products.