Can you have nutrient Slime on roots?

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GotADAB305

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Hey just wanted to get a second opinion on this.

Is this root rot?

Or just build up of the nutrients? Nutrient slime?

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Bernie420

Bernie420

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Rinse roots with a gentle spray of water to knock off the slime a little. add hydrogaurd, little lighter feed as stated above. H202 can burn sensitive root hairs no need to test what the strength might be. h202 will kill your hydrogaurd.


water temp is too high. whats the water temp in the bucket????
 
Cold$moke

Cold$moke

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Bernie420 said:
Rinse roots with a gentle spray of water to knock off the slime a little. add hydrogaurd, little lighter feed as stated above. H202 can burn sensitive root hairs no need to test what the strength might be. h202 will kill your hydrogaurd.


water temp is too high. whats the water temp in the bucket????
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True,

but with slime there are no root hairs left .:)

Best to sterilize then re colonize it with hydroguard im my humble opinion

But you are totally correct about the fine hairs of a healthy plant being burned off :)
 
Haze the maze

Haze the maze

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Only use Hp.
I use 2 oz. on nut change per 5 gal and 1oz every other day of the 3% stuff
You can just toss it in or add it with water. No difference and the plants love it
I use about 1 gal. of 3% per grow with two 5 Gal. totes over 3 months.
I mix it from a twenty dollar gal. of 33% that's 100 grows. Easy Peasy Lemon Cheasy
 
polishpollack

polishpollack

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Slime on roots isn't root rot. It's algae which is going to grow in hydro bucket when light is allowed to hit the water. Algae feeds on the light/water mix and create a slime that can be brown, green, red, or no color, depending on the kind of algae it is. To prevent this you have block all of the light from getting into the bucket. Hydroguard might help get rid of it.
 
Dynamo626

Dynamo626

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polishpollack said:
Slime on roots isn't root rot. It's algae which is going to grow in hydro bucket when light is allowed to hit the water. Algae feeds on the light/water mix and create a slime that can be brown, green, red, or no color, depending on the kind of algae it is. To prevent this you have block all of the light from getting into the bucket. Hydroguard might help get rid of it.
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Slime on roots could possably be algi would have to see it. Know this though... If hydrogaurd takes care of it then it most certanly is not algi Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens helps break down dead organics, make nutrients more available, helps make plants more resistant to arobic and salt stress, and it makes an antibiotic protine that along with competive exclusion will wipe out pithium and other harmfull bacteria. It does not however kill algi.
 
Cold$moke

Cold$moke

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polishpollack said:
Slime on roots isn't root rot. It's algae which is going to grow in hydro bucket when light is allowed to hit the water. Algae feeds on the light/water mix and create a slime that can be brown, green, red, or no color, depending on the kind of algae it is. To prevent this you have block all of the light from getting into the bucket. Hydroguard might help get rid of it.
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I have an un light proof container im growing in now.
With warm temps and no algae and White roots. :)

Not saying you arent correct because i havent tried it without hydrogaurd yet

With hydrogaurd next run im going to try it without the gaurd
 
polishpollack

polishpollack

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The last three posts don't make much sense. I don't know where you guys get your info. Pithium root rot actually turns roots brown without any slime. The roots die. If slime is building on roots, it's algae.
coldsmoke, here's your bioslime:
 
Cold$moke

Cold$moke

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How exactly are my posts wrong?

My first post waz just an example of how light on my roots and high temps are doing nothing to my plant WITH. Hydroguard.

And my last post was just a quick break down on what slime could or could not be

Sorry pythium may not make roots slimey but in 90 percent of the times its accompanied by slime

Slime can be both benign or bad but a lab would have to test it to tell ya whats whats

Although i gota add i dont allow for any slimes if i can help it :)
 
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Tim1987

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polishpollack said:
slime on roots will prevent nutrient uptake. it's never benign in a hydro grow. it's plant death on a stick.
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Im not so sure, its that bio slime, stops your roots from feeding. Its more that it eats the nutrients in the media too.
I was always under the impression you have to be sterile, in water culture. Until last week, someone here was having problems with rot.
I believe the person was @CookieKush. Who was growing organically. If i got the wrong guy, sorry cookie.
I told him to sterilize everything etc.
Someone else told him to use an organic at home brew.
Turned out my advice was actually counter productive. Adding his tea really helped his reservoir, and had the larger, healthy root mass to prove it.
I have to say i was surprised. Not gonna try it myself. I like it sterile. But it was a great surprise.
I do agree though, most slimes will eat your roots. The slime is just waste from the pathogen feeding on your root ball.
Of course there are algae too.
 
CookieKush

CookieKush

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Tim1987 said:
Im not so sure, its that bio slime, stops your roots from feeding. Its more that it eats the nutrients in the media too.
I was always under the impression you have to be sterile, in water culture. Until last week, someone here was having problems with rot.
I believe the person was @CookieKush. Who was growing organically. If i got the wrong guy, sorry cookie.
I told him to sterilize everything etc.
Someone else told him to use an organic at home brew.
Turned out my advice was actually counter productive. Adding his tea really helped his reservoir, and had the larger, healthy root mass to prove it.
I have to say i was surprised. Not gonna try it myself. I like it sterile. But it was a great surprise.
I do agree though, most slimes will eat your roots. The slime is just waste from the pathogen feeding on your root ball.
Of course there are algae too.
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Wasn't me dude : )
 
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