i recently transplanted my plants from my aeroponics system to my dwc system because my pumps went out and when they did alot of roots dried up i then put them in dwc and where doin alrite but then got some brown slimey residue on the roots i changed the water again and continued with the nutrients. iv never had this problem.does anybody know what it could be.
need help with my root system
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Mylar
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This could be the start of root rot. Depending how long they sat with no oxygenated water. No oxygen = lots of space for stuff to eat and grow...and your roots will be the food. I am a noob so don't bank on my advice but I would flush the hell out of them repeatedly and add hydrogen peroxide to your res it helps kill the crap growing on your roots. Do some searches on "root rot" or "root rot/hydrogenperoxide". You'll have your answer in like 15 min. Good luck bro!!
you have the start of root rot,like mylar said do a search on it and get going on it before you loose them good luck and grow on
Heisenberg
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if you have good old fashioned root rot it isn't that big of a deal. I mean, it will kill your plants, but it isnt hard to correct. You can try h202. If you use the weak kind from a drug store you can actually spray the roots directly. Spray them hard and try to remove all the dead roots. I am not gentle when I do this. Then run them under the tap and flush them as best you can. Make a fresh res and add some h202 to the water, keep the res temps under 68f and keep lots and lots of oxygen in the water. You should be able to recover.
Some people will tell you that h202 is bad for your plants and roots. If you want, you can use a sterilizing agent such as Dutch Master Root Zone. It's pretty cheap and a bottle lasts forever. I would clean the roots as I described before, and then run DM Zone at full strength for a few days. Then flush again. At this point you can drop down to the preventative amount of DM Zone and run it continuously.
Some people might suggest and enzyme product to proccess the dead roots. I would personally hold off on that.
If you have root rot...
Your PH should drop, sometimes a little, sometimes drastically
You should notice a smell ranging from musty gym socks to putrid death
You should notice real improvement from H2O2 or sterilizing agents
You should see real improvment from cold water temps and lots of bubbles
If none of these things help, then you have 'brown slime algae' and you will have to reevaluate your situation at that point.
Some people will tell you that h202 is bad for your plants and roots. If you want, you can use a sterilizing agent such as Dutch Master Root Zone. It's pretty cheap and a bottle lasts forever. I would clean the roots as I described before, and then run DM Zone at full strength for a few days. Then flush again. At this point you can drop down to the preventative amount of DM Zone and run it continuously.
Some people might suggest and enzyme product to proccess the dead roots. I would personally hold off on that.
If you have root rot...
Your PH should drop, sometimes a little, sometimes drastically
You should notice a smell ranging from musty gym socks to putrid death
You should notice real improvement from H2O2 or sterilizing agents
You should see real improvment from cold water temps and lots of bubbles
If none of these things help, then you have 'brown slime algae' and you will have to reevaluate your situation at that point.
sixstring2112
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read some of the thread by closetgrowth and do a search on bleach and h202. i have done the h2o2 and it works but if your res is getting hot your roots will brown alot
Heisenberg
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If only that were true... 'Brown slime algae' is actually a cyanobacteria. It actually starts off clear like snot and gets brown after it kills the roots, when true pythium sets in. It is also oderless until pythium takes over. The roots can at that point be cleaned and sterilized with h202 or another product, and the pythium is usually gone, but the slime itself comes right back in a matter of hours.
What you saw might have been brown and slimy, but if it cleared up overnight from h202 it certainly wasn't the dreaded brown slime...after all if it were that easy people wouldn't dread it.
1/4 tsp. per gallon is no good. try 2 tsp per gal.
