Did Subculture B Cause Foam In Res And On Roots?

GreenBro$

New Member
  1. I woke up this morning to check the ph and looked at my roots and they have a slime building up on the nice white roots with foam it’s like a clear slime please tell me it’s not Pythium or root rot setting in?

    My Setup;

    30 gallon tote (Green color) with 25 Gallons of tap water topped off with distilled water PHd to 5.5 - 6.0
    PpM: 400
    ‘6 Cool Tube 600w set at 360 thats 18 inches away inside 24x59x42 tent
    Lid is light proofed
    6 fems from seed, 11 days old today 2/13/18
    Tent temperature: 73 Room Room Temp: 66
    R/H: 33%
    Nutes: GH Flora trio 1/4 strength added yesterday w/ GH SubCulture B

    Everything was fine until this morning now there is a funny smell lingering and a clear slime and foam coating working it’s way up my roots I added GH SubCulture B in yesterday as well could this just be the bennies at work? Any input would be nice because I’m freakingout about to dump the whole and start over I will try to add a clearer pic.


    Also the first set of true leaves are starting to twist what could this Be it is it from normal growth?

    Forgot to add this is my second grow, first one was with great success only thing different im doing is the tote color and adding GH Subculture B also the problem first started a few days ago then I dumped, scrubbed and cleaned the hell out of res, tubing, air stones, and lid then light proofed it! so im scratching my head on this that’s why I’m wondering could it be from the GH SubCulture B?

 

GreenBro$

New Member
Just came back from the hydro store and bought new everything, tubing, res, air stones, hydroguard as well. gonna follow some of the other threads advice since the info is there for me. all I wanted to know was if subculture b was the culprit not gonna add it this go since no one has any experience with it
 

Lordhooha

Well-Known Member
Just came back from the hydro store and bought new everything, tubing, res, air stones, hydroguard as well. gonna follow some of the other threads advice since the info is there for me. all I wanted to know was if subculture b was the culprit not gonna add it this go since no one has any experience with it
Yah I don’t run a sterile res. Just jam pack it with beneficial bacteria.
 

PetFlora

Well-Known Member
First - wash it off ASAP, and disinfect with H2O2

How are you aerating? If using air pump/stones, you need a lot of them to super-saturate the O2 in the nutes

Next, your water temps need to be maintained @ ~ 68-72*s F

That's hard to maintain in a DWC, especially once plant & roots get big

Also how do you check pH and EC/PPMs, which need to be done daily

F & D (outboard rez) makes it super easy to check/adjust therefor resolving those issues
 
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