bleach in rez water?

boombats said:

I used to buy the 20$ bottle of hydrogen peroxide from the hydro stores then commercial greenhouse growers saved me a fortune on my car insurance.
No but seriously I used to sanitize and prevent algae and all the good stuff with H2O2 then I learned the powers of Bleach.
I have tested it from rooted clone stage to harvest 3 times now with amazing results.....

my personal battle between which was better

- rez's tend to get funky and buds tend to taste like their enviorment they were grown in.

h202 has a naturally funky odor in itself and tends to do better as an oxidizer than a algae/root rot killer
Bleach keeps the rez very sterile and fresh even 2 weeks into a fill, also has proven to be 100% effective in ELIMINATING root rot at the right dosages (see this thread https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/327967-bleach-instead-h2o2.html)

h202 leaves burns on your skin with even the slightest splash you never seen coming
bleach leaves a nice stain on your new black shirt you never saw coming

h202 can burn those fine hairs on roots when roots submerge long periods of time (dwc)
bleach has produced some amazing white clean sterile roots in my experience

equal evaporation time inside of a solution

H2O2 $20
bleach 69cents

I tested it obviously on a smaller scale but i pump a lot of bleach nowdays when things get funky and have never ever seen a side effect...... as a matter of fact chlorine is in some way an essential to plants i read somewhere you will always have debates 24/7 vs 18/6 ........ indoor vs outdoor........1000w vs 600w...... but for some reason bleach has been a eternal enemy of the hobby growers due to a bad rep and the debate is very lopsided ...... but trust me when i say I can run 30mil of bleach in 50gal rez everyday for a week to treat and have no side effects I have heard of some people using twice that to effective kill off pythium ... I add .25 ml per gal everydayto my rez and never get any problems

I use R/O also go figure the things I initialy was convinced to buy the R/O system to remove I now add...... sigh

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budafinger said:

Bleach is by far the best and easiest method for killing Pythium, slime and plants love it, well in moderation anyway. I run fully synthetic nutes in RDWC and apply 5% household bleach at 5ml per 50L every 3 days, I had a really bad case of root rot some time back and tried many enzyme based products to no avail, what I will say is RDWC is definitely not for organics or enzymes of any kind full stop! They cause way more problems than there ever gonna solve. I found using 10ml every 3rd day for the first week wiped out the slime and sterilised everything, from then on in 5ml again every 3rd day, within 1-2 weeks the roots exploded with new growth, plants looked happy and no sign of and slime anywhere! Don't knock it until you've tried it and if you do I'm sure you'll be happy with the results! Anyone ever opened Pythoff and smelt the stuff... BLEACH AT ITS PUREST FORM IM SURE. BLEACH IS BY FAR THE BEST, SIMPLE!

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