blazechronj
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This is my first post, so I'll use the guidelines I found.
2) Growing indoor or outdoors
Growing indoors w/ AeroGrow Deluxe
3) Watering schedule
17 hours on / 7 hours off
4) Growing Medium
Sponge like (I'll attach a picture)
5) What stage of growth
Late vegetative; just began inducing flowering.
I have excellent circulation and alot of fresh air.
Temperature varies from 70 to 75.
I'm keeping humidity from 5-10% until resolved.
I know herb enthusiasts like to talk trash about the aerogrow, but these plants are growing incredibly fast and they seem happy as hell.
So the biggest drawback I've found is the inability to manipulate the pump cycle since the pump and the lights run off the same power source.
About two weeks into my grow, I started noticing a fluffy white looking mold on my grow mediums. The first thing I did was to eliminate all humidity and maintain constant airflow around the base of the plants. After a week of this, the fungus still continued to increase it's spread across all the growing mediums. At that point I decided to block all the light, which of course isn't working.
I'm now 30 days into my grow and the only reference I can find to is in a CC thread where someone describes the same occurrence but notes that he had a successful harvest regardless. I also found the following:
"White mold grows kinda like a fuzzy cotton ball on the clumps of the soil. If yours looks kinda like this then it is a moisture problem. Clean off by removing the top soil around it and along with it. let the top soil dry out for a couple of days, then proceed to water as you did before. If it comes back, try a different soil and or get better air circulation going around the plant. Most forms of mold don't grow in light to well if at all. More lighting can help."
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"On the top of the soil? Mold?
Are you talking about nutrient salts that collect on the surface and dry to a powder-like stuff? If that's the case, it's nothing to worry about."
Potroast on rollitup.org
It's driving me insane trying to find some concrete explanation of this specific mold. I've done a lot of research and I know it's not fungus botrytis "grey mold" The white just appears on the growing mediums; I'm circulating/ventilation air like mad but it doesn't seem to want to spread anywhere on the plants themselves. Unless this is a marijuana specific organism (which I can't find a solid reference to), I doubt anyone would marken a hydro system that has such flaws.
While this doesn't seem to inhibit my growth all that much, I have to assume that it thrives off of something in my nutrients or something in the air which my plants probably need.
This is my first time growing so any constructive criticism will help; Again don't bother talking sh*t about the aerogrow, I got it as a present anyways so I didn't blow any money on it.
All the pics attached are no older than 30 days of growth. (I have some deficiencies as well but I'm growing w/ custom fertilizers as opposed to the aerogrow "nutrient tabs" next grow so I'll focus on those later)
Any idea what this white stuff is?
(sorry this is so winded, just worried about my babies and I'd like some site to have a good reference of this for other growers)
2) Growing indoor or outdoors
Growing indoors w/ AeroGrow Deluxe
3) Watering schedule
17 hours on / 7 hours off
4) Growing Medium
Sponge like (I'll attach a picture)
5) What stage of growth
Late vegetative; just began inducing flowering.
I have excellent circulation and alot of fresh air.
Temperature varies from 70 to 75.
I'm keeping humidity from 5-10% until resolved.
I know herb enthusiasts like to talk trash about the aerogrow, but these plants are growing incredibly fast and they seem happy as hell.
So the biggest drawback I've found is the inability to manipulate the pump cycle since the pump and the lights run off the same power source.
About two weeks into my grow, I started noticing a fluffy white looking mold on my grow mediums. The first thing I did was to eliminate all humidity and maintain constant airflow around the base of the plants. After a week of this, the fungus still continued to increase it's spread across all the growing mediums. At that point I decided to block all the light, which of course isn't working.
I'm now 30 days into my grow and the only reference I can find to is in a CC thread where someone describes the same occurrence but notes that he had a successful harvest regardless. I also found the following:
"White mold grows kinda like a fuzzy cotton ball on the clumps of the soil. If yours looks kinda like this then it is a moisture problem. Clean off by removing the top soil around it and along with it. let the top soil dry out for a couple of days, then proceed to water as you did before. If it comes back, try a different soil and or get better air circulation going around the plant. Most forms of mold don't grow in light to well if at all. More lighting can help."
Vote 2 Legalize Marijuana on rollitup.org
&
"On the top of the soil? Mold?
Are you talking about nutrient salts that collect on the surface and dry to a powder-like stuff? If that's the case, it's nothing to worry about."
Potroast on rollitup.org
It's driving me insane trying to find some concrete explanation of this specific mold. I've done a lot of research and I know it's not fungus botrytis "grey mold" The white just appears on the growing mediums; I'm circulating/ventilation air like mad but it doesn't seem to want to spread anywhere on the plants themselves. Unless this is a marijuana specific organism (which I can't find a solid reference to), I doubt anyone would marken a hydro system that has such flaws.
While this doesn't seem to inhibit my growth all that much, I have to assume that it thrives off of something in my nutrients or something in the air which my plants probably need.
This is my first time growing so any constructive criticism will help; Again don't bother talking sh*t about the aerogrow, I got it as a present anyways so I didn't blow any money on it.
All the pics attached are no older than 30 days of growth. (I have some deficiencies as well but I'm growing w/ custom fertilizers as opposed to the aerogrow "nutrient tabs" next grow so I'll focus on those later)
Any idea what this white stuff is?
(sorry this is so winded, just worried about my babies and I'd like some site to have a good reference of this for other growers)
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