[k-grower]

how do you know there is not sugars left on tea, and if you have successfully used this tea in hydro why you have not make any journal whit pictures of root development etc?
i would want to use organics tea on hydro but whit this information i have found is so little that i cant "place my bets" on this as all the money for this hobby is difficult to get, and i have all ready buy´d so much crap and fallen to all sorts advertisement whit zero to very little improvement.
i ask´d for proofs, i know you maybe not so enthusiastic to do so, isn`t it hole purpose of these forums to share knowledge about growing or do you use this site just for your own diary to keep yourself reminded?

[richyrich]

Knowing the sugars are gone comes from experience and knowledge of working with aerated compost teas. There is no for sure way to know unless you want to get into scientific testing. Nobody wants to go there. It costs and is overkill. On a personal level you just have to trust yourself and know how.

I don't care to post journals nor do I have the time for that. I'm way past newb level to care about that. I like to and prefer to come on here and help people with their problems. If you search hard enough on other mj websites you will find plenty of testimonials and pictures. I had earlier on.

[gmanwho]

hey richy rich, i wanna first thank you for your contribution here. It is much appreciated!!!!

been using your tea mix now for about 2 months. Ebb & flood bucket in bucket. I have witnessed far better root growth since. Roots are whiter, crispier, an have far more lateral root development then ever before.

the rez smells like a fresh fish tank. lots of air movement in the rez. I add the tea filtered every5-7 days. i have a lava rock & growstone sediment filter on the return line.


My question is i am using a 105 gal auto pot collapse-able vinyl reservoir. i noticed im getting this yellow cream white wax paste build up on the side walls. not slimey at all. pasty. like a soft bees wax.

u can see in the photos it is circular growth patterns so it must be bacterial. the brown specs you see are mosquito dunk. the last pic is some of the stuff i scraped off the side walls.

was wondering if you may know what this is. at this point it doenst seem harmful. plants an roots are healthy. thanks in advance......

b-safe

[Hazeo]

Originally Posted by richyrich

I even tried an ozone generator in the room to kill spores.

Hey richyrich,


have you also tried those ozone generators for the use in a aquarium-reservoir yet???
i dont know if those affect the ph-stability but if not, they should be perfect for our purposes!

greets
Hazeo

[KingTitan]

I got the slime... and I know exactly what caused it.

I am a soilless grower but after seeing pictures I decided to build my own 6 site 60 gallon system. I started seeds in Rapid rooters then stransfered to s small 3 inch netpot. I put these netpots in a 5 gallon bucket with a pump and a spray head. Just plain PH water, roots were coming out fast and white.

After putting everything into my RDWC system I was reading on temp ranges and to add Hydroguard or some other root inoculate in case temps go out of whack.

In Canada you can barely find any microbe stuff available. I found Southern AG Garden Friendly Fungicide on ebay and they were shipping here! SAG is extremely concentrated version of Hydro-guard (10 billion/ml vs hydroguard at 10 thousand/ml) I did research on this from other forums and it was working for them.

I dosed this at 3ml for the system and within 6 hours the system was already in a state of emergency. Open the res and it smells like aquarium water really bad. anything that was not smooth was growing brown slime. Go to check my roots and they were covered in a white slime, thicker areas were brown.

I don't know what happened with this SAG, maybe it was bad? no one seems to have the issue that I do. I have been fighting this thing for 3 weeks now, tried everything. My back cant handle anymore water changes and cleanup as I am now on my 7th res change.

I cannot get 90% of the stuff in the EWC tea so I made just the tea 2 days ago, first 24hrs the tea was not foaming and smelled very like molasses. waited about 36 hours and molasses smell was lower but there was clear growth on the mesh bag. I have added about 20 cups or somewhere around almost 2 gallons of the tea to my res last night after a res flush and sensitization with bleach at 40ppm, rinsed each netpot and roots under tap water sprayer to get rid of what I could.

Its been 15 hours and I am not sure if it is working, water doesn't smell but it is cloudier than usual. Most of the time its has a clear brown coloring.

I see some slime on a few tips of the roots, the roots them self look like its collecting some brown deposits. I am not sure how long this is sapposed to take but I almost feel like it is the same stuff coming back with a vengeance?

Plants are small, you think maybe i should ditch the DWC and transplant to soil less pots?

[KingTitan]

also why are these threads not sticky? these guys spent almost a decade on this, I see a lot less worthy stickies than this.