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Hydrogen peroxide
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richirich_99
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great! im going to take more cuts tonight and put them in the bubble cloner with water and 3% at 15ml and hope it keeps the slime away. i'll add new water/h202 every 2-3 days. that way there is always some active h202 that hasnt broken down in the water to help fight the slime.
Outportgrower
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The chemical formula of hydrogen peroxide is H2O2. You may notice it is simply water with an extra oxygen atom. In fact, as hydrogen peroxide breaks down in a solution the result is oxygen and water. Its application helps deliver oxygen to over watered plant roots and helps to sterilize the growing media by killing harmful anaerobic (not oxygen compatible) bacteria and pathanogens that cause disease. This includes bacterial wilt, pythium fungi, fusarium fungi, and others.
Most avoid using the common 3% hydrogen peroxide you normally find at drug stores. This is because such low percentage solutions are unstable, and chemicals are added to the peroxide to keep it from breaking down before it can be used. I did a little research because I did not know what chemicals were used for this, or if the plants uptake these chemicals, or if there was a health risk associated with any of these stabilizing chemicals.
Hydrogen peroxide is usually stabilized with acetanilide. Acetanilide is a synthetic compound that was first used for its fever reduction and pain killing properties in the late Nineteenth Century. For many years it was utilized as an alternative to aspirin to treat various ailments, but large-scale medical use stopped when the toxic side effects of consuming acetanilide became apparent. This was enough to make up my mind to use 35% hydrogen peroxide instead.
By going to the drug store version you are not running an organic system since you have just added chemicals to your brew. For those that rather cheap out and use it, all the power to ya. More serious growers would never entertain the thought of adding contaminates such as those found in that lower grade product. The whole reason for medical grows is to remove the chemical components from our lives, not add them
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richirich_99
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Im not running a hydro set up or a very large bubble cloner, its a micro bubble cloner, so i dont think going to UV is necessary for such a small scale. If i ever start running a hydro set up i would consider using UV. richyrich was and i believe is still running the ewc tea in his aero cloner with no slime and very nice roots. Im still going to try the ewc tea again, but also going to try the h202 as well.
richirich_99
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The chemical formula of hydrogen peroxide is H2O2. You may notice it is simply water with an extra oxygen atom. In fact, as hydrogen peroxide breaks down in a solution the result is oxygen and water. Its application helps deliver oxygen to over watered plant roots and helps to sterilize the growing media by killing harmful anaerobic (not oxygen compatible) bacteria and pathanogens that cause disease. This includes bacterial wilt, pythium fungi, fusarium fungi, and others.
Most avoid using the common 3% hydrogen peroxide you normally find at drug stores. This is because such low percentage solutions are unstable, and chemicals are added to the peroxide to keep it from breaking down before it can be used. I did a little research because I did not know what chemicals were used for this, or if the plants uptake these chemicals, or if there was a health risk associated with any of these stabilizing chemicals.
Hydrogen peroxide is usually stabilized with acetanilide. Acetanilide is a synthetic compound that was first used for its fever reduction and pain killing properties in the late Nineteenth Century. For many years it was utilized as an alternative to aspirin to treat various ailments, but large-scale medical use stopped when the toxic side effects of consuming acetanilide became apparent. This was enough to make up my mind to use 35% hydrogen peroxide instead.
By going to the drug store version you are not running an organic system since you have just added chemicals to your brew. For those that rather cheap out and use it, all the power to ya. More serious growers would never entertain the thought of adding contaminates such as those found in that lower grade product. The whole reason for medical grows is to remove the chemical components from our lives, not add them
After reading this, i have decided to go with the 35% and not the drug store 3%. I grow using organic soil, and nutes and have no desire to add a harmful chemical to my grow. going to call/ stop by the hydro store and see if they have it and check around online.
anyone else here use it in thier bubble cloners? not just in hydro setups?
Thanks everyone! hope everyone has a happy and high halloween!
