Bleach in DWC

Steve Man said:
I fought rot for my entire first time and at the end began using pool shock to use in the root zone. The last 2 weeks i cleared almost 80% of it up (I used bennies and h202 with no success) . Second run and i havnt seen a single sign of any root problems and the plants are nearly double what they were my first run. All you need is like a gram a gallon and then like 21ml every 3 days per 5 gal. Also a huge plus is i took a clone (first time ever) and i couldnt get it to root no matter what i did, used pool shock and bam 100% success rate and 3/3 cloned! If you do clone tho and use a spray bottle make sure not to use any shock in it
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i think one mistake alot of people make is that they add bleach to the reservoir only to get rid of a case of rot. you really need to soak from the bottom of the stem thru the entire root zone to get all the nooks and crannies. i took my whole plant, net pot and all, and dunked it in a 5 gal bucket with a max load of dutchmaster zone for about an hour.
 
Steve Man said:
I fought rot for my entire first time and at the end began using pool shock to use in the root zone. The last 2 weeks i cleared almost 80% of it up (I used bennies and h202 with no success) . Second run and i havnt seen a single sign of any root problems and the plants are nearly double what they were my first run. All you need is like a gram a gallon and then like 21ml every 3 days per 5 gal. Also a huge plus is i took a clone (first time ever) and i couldnt get it to root no matter what i did, used pool shock and bam 100% success rate and 3/3 cloned! If you do clone tho and use a spray bottle make sure not to use any shock in it
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I think the original recipe is 1 gram of htc pool shock mixed with one gallon distilled water and then add to rez at 5 ml per 5 gallons. The shock is super strong ..too much will shock them pretty hard! If you're using more and getting by then good to know. Are you using well water or city as the city already has a little chlorine in it. Also make sure you the the correct kind of shock as they have sodium based ones that will overload the plant with salt. Again, the original recipie said to use the following ones that have CH as the ingredient as it add as little extra CAL instead of salt. Most any walmart will start stocking this now since pool season is coming ..a bag of htc pool shock is $6 and will last you a very long time.

Calcium Hypochlorite
 
taproot said:
I think the original recipe is 1 gram of htc pool shock mixed with one gallon distilled water and then add to rez at 5 ml per 5 gallons. The shock is super strong ..too much will shock them pretty hard! If you're using more and getting by then good to know. Are you using well water or city as the city already has a little chlorine in it. Also make sure you the the correct kind of shock as they have sodium based ones that will overload the plant with salt. Again, the original recipie said to use the following ones that have CH as the ingredient as it add as little extra CAL instead of salt. Most any walmart will start stocking this now since pool season is coming ..a bag of htc pool shock is $6 and will last you a very long time.

Calcium Hypochlorite
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First thing i looked for was ch on the label. My current roots are going wild but it could also be because of rapid rooter from gh. However towards the end of my first i had a ton of roots most brown or slime and 3 days into using it i had tons of new roots flooding out of the net pot and allot of the discoloration either cleared up or they fell off and left them for me... how nice.

If you are in dwc pool shock (for me atleast) is a no brainier from now on
 
rkymtnman said:
i'm guessing you maybe had a bit of root rot that the bleach killed and the dead roots are sloughing off
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Day 2 using bleach 5.25% @ .5ml/gal. Today is the second day of bleach treatment. At the end of day one, before lights out, I checked res. Solution was cloudy, with bits and pieces of old roots. Airstones were clean, which I believe is a good sign, as that was a heavy collecting spot of the slime. Today I changed res solution again with fresh, sterilized again my bubble buckets and added 2ml of bleach for 4 gallons. Yesterday I added 1.7 but since bleach is 5.25% instead of 6% I bumped it up a bit. Plants looked healthy, more so on this second day as they did with a weeks worth of H2O2 treatment and 10 times better than they did using bennies. I will continue to change res water daily until the cloudiness and debris has subsided.
 
Steve Man said:
First thing i looked for was ch on the label. My current roots are going wild but it could also be because of rapid rooter from gh. However towards the end of my first i had a ton of roots most brown or slime and 3 days into using it i had tons of new roots flooding out of the net pot and allot of the discoloration either cleared up or they fell off and left them for me... how nice.

If you are in dwc pool shock (for me atleast) is a no brainier from now on
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Thank you for the pool shock advice. I may try at a later date, but I am currently invested in this bleach technique. I will continue this approach and update daily. Your advice and insight are appreciated.
 
Here's a question for you. Your sick, you get your weed from your shop, your told it's been treated with bleach and pool shock. Why would you ever do that to your plants? Don't be so cheap, your acting like the Koch brothers would, stop maximizing profits and get a bottle of h202 run it for 24 hours and then add hydroguard or pondzyme.
 
Well, I flush for the last week or so; but I'm not concerned with chlorine much which is what pool shock is. I mean it's chloride ions which are natural and healthy when kept in balance. And, I like the fact that I'm using something natural to disinfect with. It's cheap, it's widely available, it works extremely well and it's a natural ion despite it's synthesized. I do see your point but I don't find chlorine much of a threat as oppose to some of the other chemicals that are sold. Besides, without the chloride ion we'd still be dying of dysentery.
 
Go swimming after shocking your pool. Tell me if you want to smoke that even after a flush man. Capitalism only works long term with unregulated personal responsibility.
 
NVGrower said:
Go swimming after shocking your pool. Tell me if you want to smoke that even after a flush man. Capitalism only works long term with unregulated personal responsibility.
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Ummm just a note but most hydroponic veggies are grown using chlorine as a disinfectant in commercial ops. They don't use hydroguard lol. I use hydroguard but see nothing wrong with using chlorine if it works for you, I have used it all and for my little hobby grow hydroguard works well.
 
NVGrower said:
Here's a question for you. Your sick, you get your weed from your shop, your told it's been treated with bleach and pool shock. Why would you ever do that to your plants? Don't be so cheap, your acting like the Koch brothers would, stop maximizing profits and get a bottle of h202 run it for 24 hours and then add hydroguard or pondzyme.
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Unless their spraying bleach on the buds it wouldn't be a problem.
 
What type of bleach are you using? I was thinking about this for a single plant. I have Clorox germicidal. I don't understand what bleach is what but I'm going shopping today so I'll just pick up whatever other people use.
Did u use 8 drops a gal for the first time or did u soak it in a stronger amount?
 
MedicalMike420 said:
What type of bleach are you using? I was thinking about this for a single plant. I have Clorox germicidal. I don't understand what bleach is what but I'm going shopping today so I'll just pick up whatever other people use.
Did u use 8 drops a gal for the first time or did u soak it in a stronger amount?
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Just make sure it has no additives and is pure.
 
You people pool shocking and adding bleach to your resivours and using non-consumable product for your medical plants are the reasons why all these people are getting sued and you'll have super tight regulations one day. If your growing in a non medical state damn I feel sorry for your unsuspecting consumers. I smoke 2 oz a week roughly and with that much I really worry about the build ups of things on the plants.
 
NVGrower said:
You people pool shocking and adding bleach to your resivours and using non-consumable product for your medical plants are the reasons why all these people are getting sued and you'll have super tight regulations one day. If your growing in a non medical state damn I feel sorry for your unsuspecting consumers. I smoke 2 oz a week roughly and with that much I really worry about the build ups of things on the plants.
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I'd rather have a little bleach in my weed then lose thousands of dollars and hours of hard work. Obviously this is being used as a last resort. Probably smoked it before and didn't even know.
 
NVGrower said:
You people pool shocking and adding bleach to your resivours and using non-consumable product for your medical plants are the reasons why all these people are getting sued and you'll have super tight regulations one day. If your growing in a non medical state damn I feel sorry for your unsuspecting consumers. I smoke 2 oz a week roughly and with that much I really worry about the build ups of things on the plants.
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chlorine is added to every municipal water supply. i'm pretty sure it's defined as consumable product.

are you concerned about dihydrogen monoxide poisoning too?
 
Noone is getting sued because their using chlorine... They are getting sued for pesticides and mold in the buds you bonehead... Everyone on city water has chlorine or chloramine
 
NVGrower said:
You people pool shocking and adding bleach to your resivours and using non-consumable product for your medical plants are the reasons why all these people are getting sued and you'll have super tight regulations one day. If your growing in a non medical state damn I feel sorry for your unsuspecting consumers. I smoke 2 oz a week roughly and with that much I really worry about the build ups of things on the plants.
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First, It's pool shock because it's extremely concentrated hence the shock; I'm hoping you paid attention to the recipe which was only a little chlorine in the end due to mixing and using it so diluted. This is why one bag last so long. You can't use it in high concentrations or it will shock the plant due to too much chlorine. I'm hoping you also realize it's pure chlorine and nothing else, nobody is promoting using any chemicals.

Second, chlorine evaporates very quickly and there is probably no trace at all in the final product; if you flush you wouldn't have anything anyways but I'm betting even without flushing the finished bud would not have anything left. The water you drink should worry you more; but without it you'd have disease on large scale water efforts such as a city. The ferts usually have more chemicals in it than this. If you're swimming right after shocking your pool you need to stop . As already stated commercial grows use it to control things even in organic situations ..after all chlorine is a natural ion.

Have you researched this or just going off how you feel; not everything is how it seems so please look into it and study. You can save yourself from having to spend lots of money on special guards and bennies and have a nice clean healthy crop.
 
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