Can't help but think 'conspiracy' too...
Designing weapon systems for target populations is a well documented practice (at least in effort, if not application).
What other population really uses this hose to the extent that this population does?
Although cheep toxic shit from China doesn't need a conspiracy. It's another well documented practice.
where would one find black silicon tubing? I scoured the net and could only find translucent.
this is great info, I am using just a small 3' piece of the NGW black tubing and am having this same issue.
Wow... Pretty sure I lost three whole crops, a car, best friend and almost everything else worth of value that I owned because of this issue...
A friend of mine built a DIY ebb n grow-type bucket system for me when I first started out. He had used the same exact system before with great results. For some reason I couldn't, for the life of me figure out why my plants kept instantly dying off (it was my first time ever growing so I had no clue of what was what). I'd blame it on heat, light intensity, root rot, phosphorus def., you name it. When I saw the pics from this thread I couldn't help but notice my plants looked exactly the same. Just so happens that all the tubing used had ngw.com stamped all over it. I think this is far from a coincidence....
I usually buy into a lot of conspiracy talk but I think this issue can just be chalked up to distributors buying the cheapest product possible (from China...known for producing toxic crap...it's the cheapest...you get what you pay for) to expand the profit margin as much as possible. It's a symptom of the 3rd world status that the US is slowly slipping into.
Thanks for your research and this thread UGU. Extremely valuable info for all. It's just a shame that I only randomly stumbled across it in my IC travels. I wonder how many growers are scratching their heads right now (if not pulling out hair!) wondering what the hell is wrong with their babies.
Wow... Pretty sure I lost three whole crops, a car, best friend and almost everything else worth of value that I owned because of this issue...
A friend of mine built a DIY ebb n grow-type bucket system for me when I first started out. He had used the same exact system before with great results. For some reason I couldn't, for the life of me figure out why my plants kept instantly dying off (it was my first time ever growing so I had no clue of what was what). I'd blame it on heat, light intensity, root rot, phosphorus def., you name it. When I saw the pics from this thread I couldn't help but notice my plants looked exactly the same. Just so happens that all the tubing used had ngw.com stamped all over it. I think this is far from a coincidence....