hygrozyme

has any had hydrozyme make there rez water smell like a wet dog .this is my first time using the stuff .ive done two water changes with hygrozyme in the hope of ridding myself of the organic matter i couldnt get out off my grow rocks after my last grow and is this even needed ?im using the same recipe that i always use and the hygrozyme is the only new edition and my water has always just smelled like water any insight would be great.

when i had no water movement in the rez (no air stones/circulating pump) mine smells like rotten eggs and slimish water...

I am glad you posted this. I just started using the hygrozyme also. The plants love it and the roots are healthier than I have ever seen them. I am using an air pump in my 40 gal on my 24 areoponics, but in my 50 gal for my flood and drain set up I took out the air pump because I could see stuff floating on the top of the water. After I took the air pump out the stuff went away. I still have circulating pumps in each though.

My grow room has been a little funky smelling though too. I was about to change out the resivoir but I think I am going to leave it now. Again glad you posted I am going to leave it and change the water after a week as usual.

whitefrost said:

has any had hydrozyme make there rez water smell like a wet dog .this is my first time using the stuff .ive done two water changes with hygrozyme in the hope of ridding myself of the organic matter i couldnt get out off my grow rocks after my last grow and is this even needed ?im using the same recipe that i always use and the hygrozyme is the only new edition and my water has always just smelled like water any insight would be great.

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i take it you re-use your media, i tried to clean used clay once before and soaked it in a hygrozyme mix and it stunk like shit, perhaps this could be happening to you too? this is one reason i choose not to re-use media. aslong as your plants are healthy looking and roots are good you should be fine, hygrozyme is like a condom for your roots. also in my area i have good tap water, but during the changing of seasons PH changes, i dont know why but i have usally a 7.1 PH now its at 7/8 outa the tap

i dont mess with hygrozome way too pricey, use inorganic nutes and 35% hydrogen peroxide.

Ive heard of that happening. Search for it in the search colum. Ive tried it and I dunno, I didnt see results in soil

your innocing your water. your gonna get some kinda organic smell n what not. reduce n dilute till optimum . imo.

Take a pile of chicken manure. Compost it. IE let it rot while mixing and turning frequently. Now dump some water on the pile and collect the nasyt *ss brown *rap that runs out. That is hygrozyme. It is the leachette of composted chicken *hit. No more, no less. They say they also add a few other enzymes that also grew in other such nasty environments. It is amazing the things they charge big bucks for. It is really more amazing how many people actually buy it. It is simply an organic tea/fertilizer made from water run through partially decomposed organics feeds, antidiotics, ephedrine, cementand other stuff they make the chickens eat, plus the very little bit of straw and saw dust they add to keep the compost loose so air can enter the pile. While it is beneficail with soil grows/absorbant medias and organic nutrients it should not be added to chemical nutrient reservoirs as it essentially turns your reservoir into a sewage treatment lagoon. It will smell like one also. All the major and secondary nutrients and the chelated trace nutrients are taken up without any difficulty by the MJ roots. the enzymes are not beneficail in a chemical nutrient system except pporly designed or construcy ted systems that are prone to root rot. Even so chlorine and H2O2 work better with a chemical nutrient growing system than the hygrozyme in that area also.

nordowell said:

i dont mess with hygrozome way too pricey, use inorganic nutes and 35% hydrogen peroxide.

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Smart man. Chlorine will work also.

Organics are organics, inorganics are inorganics. Both are fine by themselves but they do not complement each other well at all.

ya know what, i gotta give it up to fatman he knows too much tech stuff, because thinking back i tried technaflora nutes with hygrozyme and it stunk exactly like a wetdog and didnt know what it was, this makes total sense because i run botanicares PBP and thats 50/50 organic and it smells tasty, the plants didnt respond well to the BC nutes so out they went so i raise this cup of coffee to our friend fatman, too much wisdom to doubt.....p.s. do not call him an old hippie =)

But we want to grow organics for taste right? The more I think about it the more I want to just get a chlorine tester and go search through fatman's threads on using chlorine and inorganic nutrients.