First time dealing with root rot

Dealing with the very beginning of some root rot. Using ebb n gro hydro system w/ a 55 gallon res. Going to add some h2o2.

My only question is should i use 3% or 30% h2o2, and what concentration should i use? How much h2o2 per gallon?

Thanks.

are you talking about peroxide?

Use bleach. It's much more effective than H2O2. It'll persist in the water for a day or two while peroxide is neutralized pretty rapidly. How bad is your problem?

righteousjo said:

Dealing with the very beginning of some root rot. Using ebb n gro hydro system w/ a 55 gallon res. Going to add some h2o2.

My only question is should i use 3% or 30% h2o2, and what concentration should i use? How much h2o2 per gallon?

Thanks.

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This is really strange. I operate a flood and drain system and I have nevered suffered root rot. Go with the bleach if your going to do anything. Can you figure why you have root rot?

It's an ebb and gro with buckets and tubes. I have one and don't use it because it's too hard to sterilize and it gave me problems. Lots of tubing, double buckets, a controller, and a barrel res. Give me a flood table any day.

But bleach is your friend. It won't hurt your plants (Really) and it kills all microbes without mercy.

The most common cause of root rot is res temp too high or just bad housekeeping. And if you don't have plenty of airstones in the res you are asking for it too, IMO.

The root rot was entirely my fault, on account of a simple mistake. In between crops, after sterilizing and cleaning the entire system, the timer switches got fucked up. Long story short, it was flooding and draining normally, except it accidentally got set to flood at 9pm, drain at 12am, instead of the normal 15 min flood/drain. Basically 2 weeks of sitting in stagnant water for 3 hours a day = root rot. It's not bad since i caught it early, and most likely can be taken care of so the plants can go to full bloom.

i've always used a bit of bleach in my res' just as a sanitary thing. when i clean my res, i always add a tablespoon or so to 55 gallons. To deal with the root rot issue, how much concentration of bleach are we talkin about?

Wow. Timer nightmare! I once had a timer with an extension cord dangling in front of the face, as the dial turned, the cord kept flipping more of the switches on it and pretty soon I had three light periods a day and my plants started to reveg. I didn't notice for weeks while the leaves got more and more fucked up. Then I finally saw the light on when it should be off. Ah, mistakes. It's how we learn.

I'd go with 3ml a gallon and see how that goes.

yeah the ebb&gro is a bitch between cycles. I learned that the hard way too, Almost lost this whole crop to root rot because i didnt completely sterilize the system, I left all the tubes connected and just flush w/h2o2 and bleach oh boy what a mistake. Now I'm back to replacing all hoses every cycle. good luck w/ yours

How much bleach do you add to 1 gallon of ph water? how much peroide do you add in 1 gallon of water per plant? I have nasty black flying nats. Tried differnt chemicals from Hyro stores, Bug bombed area. then resprayed. These things just will not go away.Help help any one can advise I will gladly accept the help.

Katy1955:fungus gnats can be easily controlled with yellow sticky traps. The flying adults (which are harmless, it's the larvae that are eating your roots that are bad). Anyway, yellow sticky traps reduce the adult population before they can reproduce and in a little while you will have very few gnats which is just as good as no gnats at all. And no poisons! Also, if you are growing in soil, you can put a layer of sand on top of the soil in your pots. Apparently the gnats or their larvae can't get through the layer and die out that way. Try the sticky traps though. They are very effective

Like I said, I'd go with 3 ml/gallon of bleach but I don't think that will kill fungus gnats.