36OhBuds
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Sounds good. I cleaned out the foamy res hardcore yesterday as I said with iso and h202, then soap, then tons of hot water until it smelled like plastic bucket again. The foam is gone in the other two like I said, but they're still stunted out.I think if you weren't using all those additives that wouldn't of happened.
Your res temperatures sound fine.
You could run bennies. I have used them before to clear out problems and they work great. Unless your roots are brown and slimey feeling I think all you will get is a nice sleep at night from it. If you rinsed your roots of foam and made a clean res, you should be fine. You're feeding way too much though. At this stage I would not be using nutrients at all and if I was it would be something like my water is .12EC out of tap and i'd do like .2EC total. So not even a .1EC so something like 50ppm.
I've gotten the foam before and everything stayed healthy. Just changed the res every 1-2 weeks.
Oh and stop PHing tap water. PH balance is only relevant when nutrients are present to absorb.
Should I just take ALL the nutes out of the other two buckets and give them tap water too? One bottom cotyledon on the Snow White plant is literally half yellow, but since I changed the bucket to just water it seems to have stopped. Not lime green, yellow, and it stops in an abrupt line, not gradually throughout the leaf.
They're not brown, but the net pots had some clear slime on them. I tried wiping them off the best I can until I can get bennies in there.
The plants are definitely stunted. Today is day 11 or 12 above ground and they don't even have two full leaf sets... plus they've been frozen at the size they're at for like 4-5 days now.