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    AAAHHH Root Rot Help!!

    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...
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    AAAHHH Root Rot Help!!

    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...
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    AAAHHH Root Rot Help!!

    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...
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    AAAHHH Root Rot Help!!

    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...
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    AAAHHH Root Rot Help!!

    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...
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