Recent content by GrumpyGrower

I agree!! It may sound as if I am somehow against organic gardening, but I am not. I am only against those who take advantage of ignorance. Some seriously sick people get tricked into paying more for an organic product which, in terms of safety, is essentially identical to it's synthetically...

Best place is to ask at your local hydro store. You can substitute other products in place of the aquashield and ZHO, such as sub-b/m from GH, great white, ect, but they will be more expensive. Stay away from any advanced nutrients brand microbe products, they tend to agravate slime in a DWC...

Drop the hygrozyme... it breaks down organic material like dead roots and turns it into food, on which the slime feasts before your plants can. Keep any sort of organic material out of the res, the slime will eat it first. Use beneficial microbes to displace, starve, and attack the slime...

Molasses does tend to add gunk to the res. Again, being organic, it needs microorganisms to process it before it can used by the plants. Once processed, it becomes chemical fertilizer. You can achieve this by adding beneficial microbes to your res which will break down the molasses, but it...

Algae will grow anywhere there is water, nutrients and light. No light = no algae. Common algae will not attack the plants directly. What they will do is eat nutes, bloom and change the PH, possibly clog roots/pumps and attract fungus nats. Proper res maintenance means 1wt air pump per...

Organic material can not be absorbed by roots until it has been processed by microbes. If you do not add beneficial microbes to your water, then you are providing an empty food filled home for harmful microbes. The foam and the smell confirm that your res is now a rotting soup. You can either...

This is not to discuss improved flavor or whatnot that some ppl claim comes from organics. This is only to address the myth that organics are clean and healthy, while chem ferts are somehow dirty and unhealthy. Some people, especially medical users, feel that buds grown with chem ferts are...

Why use beneficial microbes in your DWC? The benefits you hear about such as, increased nute uptake, increased root mass, ect. all refer to soil grows. In a hydro chemical only set up beneficial microbes really only serve one purpose; to displace, starve and attack harmful microbes. In DWC...

All root disease issues can be cured, or near cured, with proper res maintenance. Which means... water temps around 68ish 1wt air pump per gallon of res NO light reaching the water NO organic material in the res EVER The exception to this is something called brown slime algae, which it looks...

Molasses, like any organic material, must be broken down by bacteria before it can be absorbed by the plants. In a DWC you generally want to keep a sterile res, so you have nothing in there to process organics, which means the plants will never use it. Adding molasses only serves to pollute...

The answer seems to be kind of simple actually. Displace the bad microbes with good ones. This brown slime algae is simply one organism. Granted it is a super hearty one, it can withstand h2o2, cold temps, high oxygen, and sterilizing chemicals. But being just one organism, it can't compete...

I have 5 plants, diff stains, in 2 gal dwc tubs. I have read every post i can find on root health 2 or 3 times, cos I delt with root slime a few months ago. I discovered DM root zone back then and found it cured my root slime problem very fast and very thoroughly. Months later, I have...

Can't offer any advice, but I am interested in how it goes for you. Please let us know, I like this idea.

The choice was to either kill everything, or put up with seeds. All three mothers were showing these little balls, and all the clones, with no stress, and after being sprayed with reverse. I noticed a few in the back of the plant that I missed when picking them off, and I saw that these...

Just to give ppl hope, This is what my roots looked like with res temps at 65, a 950gph air pump with a 4 foot air wand, 0 light leaks and moderately heavy h202 treatments. I even sprayed the roots down with straight peroxide at one point. That was just before adding DM root zone. This is...