wiping down the res wouldn't do much help if you've already got microbes in there. they are micro scopic and just one can start a colony. if you still have the growth on ur roots i'd really suggest scrapping it because trying to get rid of microbes is like trying to sweep a barn clean its not going to happen. if your going to try to keep your plants i'd suggest a complete res change, and a scrub down of everything with bleech and to soak the rooots in undiluted 3% H2O2 for atleast a few hours. if you have sterile gloves you can massage the algae out of the roots while it is in the h2o2. you dont have to worry about getting all of the traces of bleach out. weak bleach solutions can be used for things like fungus in soil so its not going to kill your plant. funny story i was mopping my kitchen with bleach and i moped some trash and dirt into a corner, i know lazy, and 3 days later i had a sprout coming out of my mop. crazy i kno. but anyway good luck.
its really hard to tell with microbes. my algae came in thru my drinking water... on average there are about 10 trillion cells in a healthy humans body, and on average there are about 100 trillion microbes in and on the body. bacteria, fungus, algae, protozoa are everywhere. every spec of dust you see floating around probably has some sort of microbe on it. Now this doesn't nessicarily mean thats its pathogenic to you or plants. your best bet when cloning and this may sound extreme, but when your having issues nothing is extreme, but i'd suggest wearing new clothes, washing most of your arms and hand thoroughly, using sterile gloves, soaking your razor tweezers and what ever instruments you use in alcohol and then puttin the utensils to flame to burn of the alcohol and microbes. distilled or RO water is almost a must, so is making sure you dont dip your clones into the bottle of cloning solution, that you pour out what your going to use and then discard it after wards, sterilizing your pump tubes sprayer and everything with a strong bleech solution. i know this is alot of stuff but until you can eliminate where your microbes have come from its the safest.
no prob and you can literally pour a whole big bottle the ones that cost about a dollar. into your res. it wont hurt your plants and when it breaks down it oxigenates the water. and the only other byproduct is water so no harmful traces of anything left. just the dead algae
24/7 on my EZ Cloner too! Works like a charm, 100% of the time.
am i on the road to success with this cloning method?