another cloudy rez question

70's natureboy

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I have been doing some reading about coudy rez problems on several different sites and can not find a clear answer. There may not be an answer but this is what is bugging me today. I have 13 DWC buckets some in Dynagro and some in GH lucas formula. I use 250 ppm tap water like I have for 20 years. I only have 2 buckets that are cloudy. Why would that be? I thought ah ha, I put Kool Bloom in 4 buckets the other day. I checked the other 2 and they were not cloudy.

So the 2 buckets that are cloudy have GH lucas formula 8/16ml and some Kool Bloom. 2 other buckets have the exact same thing and are not cloudy. The PH is not changing. The nutes probably don't matter because I have had the same issue with Dyna gro. Dyna is clear as water but it got cloudy on me a few years ago. My water temps are at 74 which is the warmest it gets all year.

When I changed the bucket, I let the cloudy bucket set until I figure something out. In half an hour it is clear and there is a layer of salt laying on the bottom of the bucket. The cloud is actually salt or something like salt being bubbled in the water. This salt must be my nutes seperateing from the water. Why would that happen in only 2 buckets?

When I mix, I put in the micro and stir then the bloom and stir, and if using Kool Bloom (rarely) add that last. I'm stumped. I guess it could be temps and only 2 are feeling the effects so far. The plants look fantastic. My best plant that is almost ready to harvest is one of the cloudy ones. It's flush time for that one now.

I may be answering my own question but if anybody has anything to add I'm all ears.
 

Niblixdark

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It might be the PH buffers. If you don't shake the bottle up at all, you can get more or less buffers in your res or buckets and it might look cloudy. ie: PH up bottle with the blue looking sediments at bottom.

Might explain why one or two are cloudy and the rest are not. Your water temps are a tad high, try getting lower if possible.

Another thing to do is to keep your hydroton in the baskets clean of salts (PH swinger) Use (Flora Kleen).

One more thing that could explain this is that you may have bad bacteria in your buckets from warm nute water temputers and thus it's lowering the PH of the nute water in those specific buckets.

When this happens I assume your reaching for your bottle of PH up and using a fair amount of it to keep it drifting madly down. This will give the appearance of cloudy nute water and or res. Especially if you don't shake the PH bottle up good enough.

Good luck my friend !
 
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