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I dont have all the answers ...YET. Pythium is a water borne pathogenic mold. It essentially smothers the roots in a brown jelly like substance that prevents the roots from taking up any water or any nutrient and after 2 to 3 weeks the plant shuts down and dies from whats called "Damping off"...

Update: So far so good. I ended up soaking each start in a 10 qt pail with three shot glasses of H2o2 and let them soak for 3 hours making dam sure that no cross contamination of any kind happened. Its been 30 hours so far and things are looking good. I made up a solution using four shots of...

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OK...here is the update. I went to my local hydro heaven and picked up some 29% H2o2 and then went to the local mega mart and picked up 2 huge bottles of bleach and 3 10 qt pails. The first thing I did was to put on some rubber gloves. Then in a 5 gallon bucket I mixed up a solution of 3 cup...

RandM... This thing has been driving me absolutely insane for almost a year now. It wasn't until about 3 weeks ago that after 6 weeks of searching the net I finally found a video on you-tube from a guy that was having the exact same problem as I was. What I didn't know was how evil and...

Thanks Randm. I haven't been able to keep starts living past 3 week before total collapse. Always the same thing and this stuff has a grip on my mothers. I'm going to try and take some fresh clones from parts of the existing mothers that don't show any signs of red colored veining. My plan of...

Greetings all. I am currently fighting the most tenacious strain of what I just found out was "Pythium" This stuff can actually withstand and flourish is a solution of 1/2 cup of bleach followed by 60 Ml of zone in a cloner that holds about 8 gallons of solution. I am running a NFT System...