New to Aerogarden

h2Ouser said:

My only lowryer left is not doing to good. From my last post parts of the plant were turning dark green which is good. However hours later I saw it turning yellowish again and looked like its drying up. I see from the bottom part of the main stem looks like its drying up and damaged. So I checked the pH and it was fine, about 6. I looked at the roots and it looked very dark then usual. I flushed the res, when flushing I noticed the airstone had formed some yellowing scale on it as well. I cut the air pipe which goes from the pump to the res, and used a new airstone. When I was placing the top of the res, I noticed when the roots made contact with the water it caused some type of brown mist spreading into the water. It seemed like dirty roots. So I looked at some pcis of rotted roots. It was dark like mine. So I flushed the res again. Used some rubbing alcohol to flush out the res.

Here are the steps I took for disenifecting the roots.

1. Filled up a glass with hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, and hot water.
2. Filled up another glass with hot water.
3. Dipped the roots into the glass which has hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol. Then dipped the water into the glass which had only hot water. I repeated these steps a few times.

Note: I saw bunch of bubbles forming on the roots.

4. Measure the pH level of the water in the res, this is after the flush. Then place the plant back onto the res.

As of right now the leaves are drooping and seem to be turning yellow. Also I see a bunch of bud sites on the plant where it has white hairs. However there are a bunch of leaves around it that are drying up. Can I cut the dried up leave which are still connected to the lowryder? Any suggestions?

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SICC";1985765]damn that sucs said:

Dude, I think you may have just put the nail in the coffin by dipping your roots in rubbing alcohol, that stuff is lethal to plants! Hate to be the bearer of bad news man, but rubbing alcohol is often used as a home remedy weed killer!

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Just Wanna Smoke said:

Im new to this site and just wanna say thank you to all of you guys, reading about how much you all help eachother out really makes me feel confident enough to grow my own plants. Ill have questions when everything is set up. Thanks agains and sorry about the dying children H2O

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lurkmaster said:

nice man, looks nice and green.

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h2Ouser said:

Thanks



Yup...lol those are the only ones that survived. Just dont understand why it survives in soil and not the AG.

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h2Ouser said:

Damn the pot which has two plants growing, one turned out to be a hermie. There are buds growing all over it, however some places have the male seed pockets. I took the pot away and placed it to another room becaue I dont want it to affect my other plant which all female. Any suggestions?

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