Thank you both for chiming in. Yah lets hope that I can get this cleaned out well but I have a plan now that I have gotten my answers. That's a start. I am hoping I am already going in the right direction as the res stench went away with just the Dutch Masters but I did start with a heavy dose of h202 since then as well... Boy the learning truly never does end. Every reading was good so I have been struggling to find the answers.. I was checking roots daily and the plants showed poor growth etc long before the roots even showed a sign. Just in the last couple days did the roots started to really show issue's... browning and very fragile.. breaking up easy...
Converting to drain to waste tonight... All new plants will be in coco as I feel it is a better medium for drain to waste than the hydroton. Hydroton I feel is great in recirculating. I will use up what is in the res now as I just changed it a few days ago.. but I am sure it is infected still.. unless the h202 and DMZ are working.. but in a few days I will bleach and clean the entire rez. Then I will know that When I clean each tub etc from there there I should be all set. It may stay with this lot of plants until they are gone. But it should be clean for anything starting from there forward. I just need to spend the next few days dialing it in based on consumption. My feed schedule in recycle was easy I wouldn't be wasting nutes/liquid. But DTW I need to monitor it to be more accurate. I don't want to under or over water them. I will start with probably 3-4 feedings at 1 minute per daily, but I need to see if I will need to reinstall drippers if it is too much. if I do then I may need to go to 2 minutes.. well what ever... Time and dialing it in will set me straight...
Thanks my 420 friends for posting and helping me out.. Quite frustrated at this point.. I feel silly like a noob grower sort of embarrassed. Then I remember I am a noob grower and there is nothing to be embarrassed about, Just something I needed to learn and get out of the way. The only way I can effectively help others some day as I do hope to do. Is to experience this stuff I guess first hand.
FE
Converting to drain to waste tonight... All new plants will be in coco as I feel it is a better medium for drain to waste than the hydroton. Hydroton I feel is great in recirculating. I will use up what is in the res now as I just changed it a few days ago.. but I am sure it is infected still.. unless the h202 and DMZ are working.. but in a few days I will bleach and clean the entire rez. Then I will know that When I clean each tub etc from there there I should be all set. It may stay with this lot of plants until they are gone. But it should be clean for anything starting from there forward. I just need to spend the next few days dialing it in based on consumption. My feed schedule in recycle was easy I wouldn't be wasting nutes/liquid. But DTW I need to monitor it to be more accurate. I don't want to under or over water them. I will start with probably 3-4 feedings at 1 minute per daily, but I need to see if I will need to reinstall drippers if it is too much. if I do then I may need to go to 2 minutes.. well what ever... Time and dialing it in will set me straight...
Thanks my 420 friends for posting and helping me out.. Quite frustrated at this point.. I feel silly like a noob grower sort of embarrassed. Then I remember I am a noob grower and there is nothing to be embarrassed about, Just something I needed to learn and get out of the way. The only way I can effectively help others some day as I do hope to do. Is to experience this stuff I guess first hand.
FE
