Recent content by 5BY5LEC

Your EC is dependent on a lot of things. For instance, the more oxygen you pump into your water the less EC you will need. That is just one example and this is the reason why you get so many different answers. YOU gotta figure out how to do you on that one. Start low cause its easier to fix...

Chlorine Dioxide is good shit but I wouldn't just handle that stuff without having any kind of lab experience. Significantly better than pretty much anything else though is right. I think of HOCL as more refined bleach. Its the better half of the reaction which happens when a bleach/shock hits...

Soak them in some strong peroxide, 5% maybe until it has oxidized out and then bake @ 400f/200c for an hour. That is my method. There wont be much organic material left behind. Is this a cost thing? Hydroton is fairly cheap so if you go buying some stuff to clean it, you might as well have just...

No, UC Roots has you run a low amount .5-1ppms. Problem with HOCL is the instability. You might have enough to last a long time but like bleach it loses potency over time. Keep in mind that even though you have whatever PPM chlorine, it needs to be free chlorine and not combined.

Are you asking what the stuff around my airstones is? White slime so thick I burnt out an ET-100 from the resistance.

Cyanobacteria, no. Cyan = blue/green. It would be colored. "The dreaded white slime" It is similar to that pink stuff you see on your shower curtains and faucets. It has a cellulose layer protecting the organism that needs to be broken down before you can actually kill it. Been there, it sucks...

Get rid of your organic Fox Farm and run a synthetic like GH. Any organic load you have in your water is going to be oxidized by peroxide or HOCL rendering it useless for protecting roots.

"My roots and wallet dont lie" Realest shit I have heard on here in awhile.

Tying the branches down to your scrog net is an option. Supercrop as a last resort but try to avoid that. Your going to end up limited as far as soft training goes soon. The branches will get quite woody and brittle the further into flower you get.

EC dropping only .2....you are pretty close so I could keep it around there unless you start seeing bigger drops. I like how clean you keep your area....that says a lot. What has your PH been doing? Mine always started to tank during late flower but then again....I was running 20 gallons with 4...

I think I mentioned all that in a previous post but w/e.

For god's sake don't put a vampire valve on it to try and fix it. Its going to cause you nothing but problems down the road. Plus the low side reading only gives you half the story. You need to see high vs low but that is getting into something else. If nothing else you have gotten an intro to...

Just take the jug, pour a couple glugs in your res every so often and call it a day. For real. But Hydroguard by itself is weak. The real powerhouses are the Trichoderma fungi. Look it up.

My 1/4 is rated for 250-650gph IIRC. Is your compressor kicking on when in cooling mode? If not there is really not much you can do other than taking it to an a/c place. You really need to hook it up to a high/low gauge set to figure out what is going on. BUT...those connections will have to be...

Is this your first hydro grow?