while your humor eased my mood a bit i am not freakin happy atm...
as it turns out, its the plantacillin covering the roots in grey the snot!!!
new stones are in h202 bath as i type this. i'm gonna wash her up AGAIN tonight and do ANOTHER res change tonight. FFS!!!
well at least i found the bacteria on the ph down bottle last night and found the snot hangin in blobs from all the roots tonight.
gonna be busy for awhile.
cya later.
Sorry to hear, Brother, but at least you figured out what the problem was.
Personally, I'm NOT a fan of organics in hydro for exactly that reason. People use them successfully, but IMHO, you run a much greater chance of growing stuff you don't want along with the stuff you want. And, you can NOT use H2O2 with organics (and, some organics aren't supposed to be used in a res with an air stone!).
Checkout DutchMasters Gold Zone. It's a great root zone optimizer and has copper, which is a fungicide, so again it should not be used with organics, but is great for root health in hydro and CAN be used with H2O2. I don't use the DM nutes, but I have used their Zone and Silica products for quite a while.