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Re: Brown Roots!! is it because of this? or that? No need to use beneficial bacteria if there's H2O2 in the system.. it will kill the good stuff too. You're going to be in deep shit with this until you get your reservoir temps down to 68 deg and below. Once you limp through harvest, make sure...

Hey Hogdady, Very cool device and easy to use without pulling your panel apart. Thanks for the link! I had some major load balancing issues going on during the summer and smoked 4 interval timers, a heat mat and a light rail motor. The cheap $60 model clamp on meter from HD saved me by...

Hey Irishboy, you're right, they do say to chop just before first light. Though I'd challenge anyone to be able to tell the difference if the weed were harvested in the dark, or in the light. Myself, I opt for as close to the time the lights come on as I can.. As a rule, I like to do all...

I'd also recommend a clamp on amp meter.. you can see exactly where your load issues lie and resize/balance accordingly. Peace, Farmer Rich

I swap mine every 4-5 days and the plants don't seem to have an issue of when I do, which is always with the lights on.. Considering I run aeroponic with a 1 minute on, 5 minute off cycle on flowering systems, I don't think the plants really give a shit when the reservoir swap occurs because...

Here's what I like with AN (for a 7 week flower cycle). I use Sensi A/B for base. Week 1 - base nutes, sensizyme Weeks 2-4 base nutes, big bud, sensizyme, bud candy Weeks 5-6 base nutes, overdrive, sensizyme, bud candy Week 7 - Flush As far as strength, I generally go for 600-800 ppm...

Re: Brown Roots!! is it because of this? or that? I had this problem on one of my aero systems at the tail end of summer. I limped through harvest using 1oz of 35% H2O2 to 10 gallons of water in my reservoir, and swapped every 4-5 days. You may want to drop your nutes down to 600 ppm too.. I...

Thanks Hogdady! Peace, Farmer Rich

Any of you locals around Tacoma and Puyallup hear anything about a county task force doing surveillance around the local grow shops? Scary shit..

Sounds cool, I'll look into it but I'm not sure if I'm that ambitious, especially with winter coming. I have found a lot of good material on using H2O2 and will do a bit of experimenting as I'm needing a quick fix for one system.

A chiller is probably the best answer.. Once the res temps start getting into the 70's all bets are off on controlling fungus, especially in aeroponics. Word is Hydrogen Peroxide helps, but I haven't cracked the code in regard to strength and application.

Just the cycle for aeration.. 1 on 5 off with a reasonable drop on the return. I've had successful results in the system prior to a bout of pythium that developed in veg, got a bit better, and then worse during flower. Current plan is 1/2 oz of 35% H2O2 to 10 gallons.. all at 780 ppm at 5.7

Hi All, Any of you aeroponic growers having trouble with root rot (pythium) and what have you done to correct the problem? My issues are largely related to reservoir temps getting a tad to warm. I've tried food grade H2O2 with little success.. I added 1 oz to 10 gallons of water, which...

Yup, you got a hermaphrodite. If you can pull the nanners (that's what they look like) when they're forming you may be able to stay ahead of it. Regardless, you're this far along.. finish the grow and smoke the bud anyway!! Same thing happened to me on my first grow from bag seed.. Farmer Rich

I think with the measurement methods you mentioned, you're going to get close. I've switched to a TDS (total dissolved solids) meter that measures pH too. Here's a little blurb about it. "The waterproof Hanna Instruments HI 98129 and HI 98130 combination testers offer high accuracy pH, EC /...