Dutch Master Zone

[Capn]

Maybe OldMan can help me with this one? Haven't had any success in tracking down the active ingredients in dutch master zone.

The product almost smells like chlorine of some sort, but wouldn't that decimate the plants? Also, it makes your res bubble up if you have an air pump doing it's thing in your res.

Thanks in advance and I look forward to the responses.

 

[Weedhound]

Cant tell you whats in it......but it was recently recommended to me to treat fungus gnats in my hydro setup and res. Did it work? Sure seems to have as the gnats are gone and only a few dead bodies remain. I used it in conjunction with Fox Farms Don't Bug Me for the gnats but am using it now just because I like it.

 

[Capn]

Works great for me. Got it to get rid of brown algae, and it works very well. Very concentrated too.

Makes me wonder what it's made of.

 

[Darkstarlive]

I think it is something along the lines of Hydrogen Peroxide because their website says to not use beneficial bacteria with zone because it will kill all bacteria good and bad.

Peace...

 

[Capn]

It bubbles more along the lines of soap more then peroxide though...It smells like chemicals of some sort.

 

[richyrich]

The main ingredient is some type of chloramine derivative. And, chloramine is a derivative of chlorine. It will kill all beneficials, so it's only for sterile use. Chlorine dissipates and this stuff does not. It's a great product and the bubbling is normal.

 

[ackuric]

anyone have any insight as to using tap water that already contains chloramine for dwc, maybe a 50/50 mix w/ r/o. Would this aid in brown algae/ect? I recently started using proyzme only to get the clearish white snot/slime affect and oxygen starved roots which followed. A cold water rinse takes all the flem and nasties off. I've never had issues even in non light proofed setup's prior to the prozyme, and a call to humboldt nutrients (manufacturer) gave me little or no faith as they seemed to play dumb and say its the prozyme in action. Something really funky is happening to attain such snotty slime over a 12 hour period. The worst part is I've used prozyme in two other setups for 2 months straight, less light proofed with no slime, and healthy roots. Its as if this stuff just suddenly went bad.

 

[richyrich]

Chloramines are in tap water. Zone is different and stronger though. Go to the cannabis infirmary and read the slimy roots sticky. All your answers are there. Go read now.

 

[ackuric]

been there done that richy, read it all, my problem is fixed and gone for good, heres my journal from 1 small setup

Only change other than light reduction; molasses added

2/4 flowering kali, sis, afghan ,bbc- clearish/white slime issues - h2o2'd, dead root cut off, new nutes/water - no molasses or additives to be safe

no slime for 6 days

2/9 molasses +additives added again, woops

2/10 sis/kali/afghan/bbc clear snot reappeared-cleaned-monitoring

At this point I had thrown a few other small dwc setups into flower, came from vegging 2-3 weeks with great root structure, to getting the same slime after 1 night w/ spoiled molasses. It finally clicked....treated the remaining two setups, I didn't even change out 2/3 setups and things cleared up.

11 days without any instance of this stuff, and im throwing another 6 into flower in a few days, all being the same minus molasses I guarantee I won't have slime issues in that setup, nor in the corrected ones.

didn't use anything more than tap water, a lil h202 bath, and the removal of molasses from my mix, I'm talking 3 separate reservoirs, and each recovered with 48 hrs of treatment. All it takes is 1 spoiled product to keep getting the same explosive algae/bacteria in your tank. Zone is different than monochloramine, but pythoff is based on monochloramines, regardless monochloramines are used to treat bacteria in water, my tap has monochloramine, free treatment ftw


If I'm wrong and slime returns to any of my setups, I'll quit dwc like you richy.

 

[ackuric]

just thought i'd update as i promised. 3 weeks and NO SLIME!!! The solution to my problem was as simple as removing a product from my garden that had gone bad

 

[knifehitz]

The main ingredient is some type of chloramine derivative. And, chloramine is a derivative of chlorine. It will kill all beneficials, so it's only for sterile use. Chlorine dissipates and this stuff does not. It's a great product and the bubbling is normal.

I will second and verify everything in this post!

 

[avant gardener]

how the fuck did this end up in the organics forum?