Recent content by headhoncho

Have you tried this yet?

Just an update - after a couple weeks of this disaster. I thought I got rid of the Pythium but it just kept on coming back. I then called Foxfarm and told them of my situation (I use Foxfarm nutes). The tech person told me that Hydroguard and Hydrozyme were "watered down fixes"and that I...

Definitely root rot. I must of completely changed the res 13 times in the last 4 days and did the best I could in rinsing the slime off of the roots each time. I have read in a few posts elsewhere that I shouldn't have used the molasses in hydro grows. All this started within a few hours of...

My res temps are 65 degrees and ph is down to 5.5 today. Because I'm doing so much res changes, I haven't been using any nutrients (they are expensive to use if am changing them 3 times a day now. The roots look like crap but after I rinse them, they look ok (meaning nothing really falls off...

Actually, I put 1 tablespoon per bucket - so less than the 1 tsp per gal. Isn't Hydroguard and Hygrozyme very similar products? This pythium grows faster than anything I have ever seen. If this was like cancer for humans, i'd be dead in 24 hrs. I've been able to rinse it moderately off and...

I am in the middle of my very first grow - 4 weeks into veg. I'm doing a deep water hydro in 5 gal black buckets - 3 of them. After doing some incomplete research, I got the stupid idea of adding a little Molasses in there and within 24 hours, I got a massive amount of brown bubbles. After...