Root slime comes from the roots

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churchhaze

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You know that white slime stuff you get on the roots sometimes?

What if I told you that that slime is produced by the roots?

That white slime is excess starch, which is being produced as a result of poor health due to a bad nutrient solution. In particular, when P is either locked out or deficient due to high pH or low ppms, sugar to starch conversion is very high, and new growth is retarded.

Stems and roots in particular tend to be higher in starch when cellular inorganic phosphate levels are deficient. Combined with a calcium deficiency, the roots will be mushy, slimy, and likely infected.

What Am I really saying here? Your plant is sliming itself! Use a good, well balanced, nutrient solution designed for hydroponics at the proper ppm and pH, make sure there's enough air in the water, and you won't get slimed!

If you're pumping enough air in your reservoir, your reservoir temperature is fine. That's not why you have slime.
 
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churchhaze

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AGPase is an enzyme the plant uses to regulate the partitioning of non-structural carbon flux (or in layman terms, carbohydrates)

 
PetFlora

PetFlora

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Eliminate the slime and root rot, with an outboard rez, which is easier to clean and maintain

See the root pic in my Mini-Me F & D. They don't develop like this in DWC
 
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churchhaze

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Healthy roots (healthy plant) are resistant to infection. They are harder/firmer. Less sugar is dumped into starch because it uses that sugar for growth instead (both root and shoot growth)

It's very rare for a healthy plant to suddenly get slime if the airstones are good and the nutrient mix and pH are right, but if growth is retarded and all new energy is put into starch, it is likely to start rotting, and that in turn is likely to become infected quickly.
 
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rory420420

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not knocking ya,just this seems to be a revolving topic as far as cause,cure,and actual nature of the organisms supposedly responsible for slime...
i dig it tho,i keep my shit healthy,and see no slime...
 
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churchhaze

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People also raise their ppm from starving levels to adequate levels while doing AACT or sterilizing. They then (wrongly) credit the AACT for fixing the problem. Since they start their seedlings/clones at starving ppm/ec levels, they always bump into the same problem, and frequently need to clean up after the mess.

If you actually do get the slime and it gets infected, clean the roots and bins with water, use the correct ppm and pH, make sure there's enough bubbles. Use bleach temporarily until the roots look healthy again.

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So why does AACT or sterilizing agents clear this up
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Hydroburn

Hydroburn

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churchhaze said:
You know that white slime stuff you get on the roots sometimes?

What if I told you that that slime is produced by the roots?

That white slime is excess starch, which is being produced as a result of poor health due to a bad nutrient solution. In particular, when P is either locked out or deficient due to high pH or low ppms, sugar to starch conversion is very high, and new growth is retarded.

Stems and roots in particular tend to be higher in starch when cellular inorganic phosphate levels are deficient. Combined with a calcium deficiency, the roots will be mushy, slimy, and likely infected.

What Am I really saying here? Your plant is sliming itself! Use a good, well balanced, nutrient solution designed for hydroponics at the proper ppm and pH, make sure there's enough air in the water, and you won't get slimed!

If you're pumping enough air in your reservoir, your reservoir temperature is fine. That's not why you have slime.
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SnaFuu

SnaFuu

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LOL
Oh man.

Thanks for that hydroburn. I thought i was the only one not buying his bullshit.

It's just not worth it...

I'm out.
 
vostok

vostok

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churchhaze said:
You know that white slime stuff you get on the roots sometimes?

What if I told you that that slime is produced by the roots?

That
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churchhaze said:
white slime is excess starch, which is being produced as a result of poor health due to a bad nutrient solution. In particular, when P is either locked out or deficient due to high pH or low ppms, sugar to starch conversion is very high, and new growth is retarded.

Stems and roots in particular tend to be higher in starch when cellular inorganic phosphate levels are deficient. Combined with a calcium deficiency, the roots will be mushy, slimy, and likely infected.

What Am I really saying here? Your plant is sliming itself! Use a good, well balanced, nutrient solution designed for hydroponics at the proper ppm and pH, make sure there's enough air in the water, and you won't get slimed!

If you're pumping enough air in your reservoir, your reservoir temperature is fine. That's not why you have slime.
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Once again RIU takes a dive in the face of world growers opinion, and wonder why looser like this.. that cut and paste total bullshit for their own folly ..misleading members with shit like this, and supported by other indecent local trolls is just disgusting and embarrassing
any 14 yo school kid knows slime molds are just that.. a derivative of the group Protista. ...theres about 500 plus different types but all are
"jelly slime" ...had you ever went to school or ever used a DWC grow ..then you would know that jelly slime.. eat dead plant matter, ..when they are hungrey they bunch up, well fed then they disperse ...next piece of shit ................no thank you!​
 
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churchhaze

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Disinfecting your reservoir isn't going to prevent your roots from rotting. Using beneficial bacteria won't do that either.

Why is it so hard to believe that the best preventative measure for stopping root rot is strong roots?

Disinfecting with bleach is done to clean up after the fact, not as a preventative measure. Beneficials are just stupid and have no place in DWC. Keep it inorganic down there. (Only inorganic ions).
 
SnaFuu

SnaFuu

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i think this may be the first time i'm in agreeance with vos... Not only about the 14 y/o spountin off bullshit, but also the fact that this is the kind of shit that is making me lose my faith in this fine site. There's only so much you can do for the noobs who are easily mislead by these trolling threads.

Ill give you the benefit of the doubt this time and believe you're just so ignorant of the useful information here that you actually believe this crap. Like raising ppm will magically stop a bacterial infection in the root zone. When Infact, lowering ppm (among other things) is textbook.

Funny i dont see sativied liking your latest post, after you got called on your shit.

Hmmmmmmmmm
 
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