my plants are starting to look over watered, ive had the drip on 24/7 now ive got it on every 3 hours for 15mins if ive over watered it what should i do turn the dripper's off for a day or so? im using a flo gro 500 also my system has an oxy pot stlyed emptying blue tube on the front (added by my hydro shop) which has a little leak what can i seal this with
HElp needed again
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lordjin
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Try to scrape as much as you can off gently with a knife or something. Then cover. And cover with a single layer of clay pellets if you can so the area can still breathe.
lordjin
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No. Unless you kill them.
Those look like pretty big rockwool cubes. Gently dig out the top layer with a knife (it's just spun fiberglass, you should be able to remove like a quarter to an eighth of an inch without touching root) just be careful and use your common sense. This will also create a nice lip with that plastic wrap that will support a single layer of pellets.
Once covered, your reduced watering schedule should help. Yeah, the massive algal growth is an indication that there was too much moisture and not enough absorption. Remember that the roots need oxygen just as much as they need moisture. Your plants should spring up, but if they continue to look yellow, increase your Nitrogen if you can.
Edit:
Oh, wait a minute, boss. It just dawned on my why your plants are suffering and why you have that thick layer of algae.
Here's what you gotta do if you want to save those babies. Dig out as much of those pellets as you have to in order to remove that white plastic wrap entirely. Then re-bury it. I just noticed you had so much of that plastic covered rockwool buried in the pellets. It's meant for the roots to growth through that rockwool block and into your pellets if your gonna bury it that deeply. That plastic wrap is also responsible for trapping too much moisture in the dense rockwool block. The whole thing has to breathe with each drain. That should fix things. And you should be able to do it without shocking them if you're gentle.
For future reference, when planting rockwool cubes in clay pellets, bury it deeply enough so that the surface of the rockwool cube is just about a half inch under the intended surface of pellets... just enough to bury the surface of the cube in a single layer of pellets. No plastic wrap.
kushnotbush
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IMO I would also stop watering at least 1 hour prior to lights out and not water until lights come back on or maybe an hour before. Also get some H2O2 and mix it at recommended dosage to kill anything left inside the res. And still make sure to take the wrapper off of the rockwool. The above advice IMO is spot on.
good luck and happy growing.
KnB
good luck and happy growing.
KnB
RavenMochi
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For clarification, sense you were given multiple suggestions, what exactly have you done so far?