Have I Been Slimed????

I Forgot · Oct 13, 2010

I have recently started my first dwc grow and have just recently started getting this on my roots. I thinks is brown slime but not 100% sure. I'm usning technaflora recipie for sucess nutes, res temps are about 75-76, tent temps around 78-79, foil wrapped buckets to prevent light exposure, ph is high 5's, ppm is about 890-920. The water in the res isn't green either it's just the bucket color. I'm just about a month in and plants are small and my biggest is maybe 8in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

student121 · Oct 13, 2010

I Forgot said:
I have recently started my first dwc grow and have just recently started getting this on my roots. I thinks is brown slime but not 100% sure. I'm usning technaflora recipie for sucess nutes, res temps are about 75-76, tent temps around 78-79, foil wrapped buckets to prevent light exposure, ph is high 5's, ppm is about 890-920. The water in the res isn't green either it's just the bucket color. I'm just about a month in and plants are small and my biggest is maybe 8in. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

hi there ur rez temps seem high... so it could be did u wash ur medium out before usin it....

rez temps need to b under 70 over 62

angelsbandit · Oct 13, 2010

Do you have air stones in your buckets? Do you keep the water level that low?

You should have way more roots than that.

I keep mine at about 4 gallons of water, and use two 4" round air stones per bucket.
I don't use organics - so I also run H2O2 and have never had any kind of invasive growth in my res.

Weedler · Oct 13, 2010

Growth looks to be stunted. As mentioned by angelsbandit your water level in the buckets seem low. If using 5GA bucket put 4GA of water/nutes per container. I personally use 2 4" round air stones in each one the ones you have pictured are fine. What type of lighting? PPM's seem high I'm at 800-900 and on 3rd day of flower! I never went over 650 during veg. Are you foliar feeding? Also as mentioned above your temps in the reservoir are too high. Mine only climb that high if I am gone for a weekend or forget to add frozen water bottles for a day or two.

Heisenberg · Oct 13, 2010

Do this,

https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-how-breed-your-own-beneficial.html

Thor1911 · Oct 13, 2010

Don't mean to thread jack but have same problem. My plants got slimmed to two days ago I just put some hydrogen proxide in there and brushed the slime off the roots. My root growth is good, roots are still white but have a little slim. I started putting frozen two liters in their to lower the water temp. Water temp was 73 degrees, not sure what it is now w/ frozen 2 liters

student121 · Oct 13, 2010

Thor1911 said:
Don't mean to thread jack but have same problem. My plants got slimmed to two days ago I just put some hydrogen proxide in there and brushed the slime off the roots. My root growth is good, roots are still white but have a little slim. I started putting frozen two liters in their to lower the water temp. Water temp was 73 degrees, not sure what it is now w/ frozen 2 liters

hi there i have been readin Heisenberg post on how to breed your own microbes and it makes alot ov sence if ya got root problems pls read the link
https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-how-breed-your-own-beneficial.html

I Forgot · Oct 13, 2010

i have read that maybe there was too much water so i had emptied some out the other day and thought maybe it was root rot but i did have them at 3 1/2 gallons. the h2o2 i read about but hydro store is about 2 hours away have to make time to get there. but it is something i was thinking about since im using organics. damn i guess im not researching good enough cuz i swear i also saw that res around 800-1000 was fine. i am a noob. i have only done 3 successful grows and that was all soil this hydro stuff intrigued me so i just wanted to give it a try.

Heisenberg · Oct 14, 2010

Slime is expected in an organic DWC unless you prepare for it with bennies. Organics adds extra steps to hydro without any real benefit.

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