Root rot help

Microracer87

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What a cheap sultion to cure a plant that already has root rot? I had resv temp problems before but now with my ac runnin my resv doesn't get above 72, but I believe it already had some root rot and now it's spreading for some reason. Also can it spread to other plants? Also whats the deal with ph fluctuation? I'm running a homemade tube aero system
 

MickFoster

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Hydrogen Peroxide - inexpensive cure. SM-90 - a cure for a little more money. If your plants are all connected by a reservoir - yes it can spread to all of them unless you take care of it now.
 

Demosthenese

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it will allready have spread in fact. Pythium, the bacteria that causes root rot tends to spawn when temperature fluctuate. Basically, getting it during and because of heat issues and then solving those heat issues have spurred it so spawn trillions of spores which will be floating arround in your res. The rest of the plants will get it, and at 72 F you're borderline on res temps at best. Do a comeplete res change with regular water and get 35% H202 from a hydro sto lre. Use 1.7ml/L in your res and run it for a day at least, then swap res again and try nutes. If you have some $ get some hygrozyme at the hydro store too and add some at half strength. The H202 will kill surface bacteria and sterilize the inside of your system. The hygrozyme will eat any necrotic tissues and get rid of any dead roots and dead bacterias.

Root rot is the plant plague. You don't ever get "just a little bit" of root rot in a common res system. It will spread and kill all of your plants, or at the best stunt them horribly and lower their production very significantly. If you have a mother and clones and your only at the beginning of teh grow, restart. Starting fresh without any root rot will work best, and since you have now solved the temp issue if u use h202 it shouldn't come back again. Obviously we don't have any pictures, but if it's not super advanceded you can probably save these plants as long as you get some bacteria fighting shit in there now! Don't underestimate root rot, it is the worst thing that can happen to hydro plants unfortunately.
good luck
 

racer3456

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it will allready have spread in fact. Pythium, the bacteria that causes root rot tends to spawn when temperature fluctuate. Basically, getting it during and because of heat issues and then solving those heat issues have spurred it so spawn trillions of spores which will be floating arround in your res. The rest of the plants will get it, and at 72 F you're borderline on res temps at best. Do a comeplete res change with regular water and get 35% H202 from a hydro sto lre. Use 1.7ml/L in your res and run it for a day at least, then swap res again and try nutes. If you have some $ get some hygrozyme at the hydro store too and add some at half strength. The H202 will kill surface bacteria and sterilize the inside of your system. The hygrozyme will eat any necrotic tissues and get rid of any dead roots and dead bacterias.

Root rot is the plant plague. You don't ever get "just a little bit" of root rot in a common res system. It will spread and kill all of your plants, or at the best stunt them horribly and lower their production very significantly. If you have a mother and clones and your only at the beginning of teh grow, restart. Starting fresh without any root rot will work best, and since you have now solved the temp issue if u use h202 it shouldn't come back again. Obviously we don't have any pictures, but if it's not super advanceded you can probably save these plants as long as you get some bacteria fighting shit in there now! Don't underestimate root rot, it is the worst thing that can happen to hydro plants unfortunately.
good luck
This is all really good info. Thank you. I just want to point out that any enzyme (Hygrozyme, etc.) is incompatible with H2O2. Use one or the other. It explicitly says on the back of my bottle of Cannazym to not use H2O2 with it. It breaks down the enzymes as well. But yeah, good info otherwise.
 

dynamitejack

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This is all really good info. Thank you. I just want to point out that any enzyme (Hygrozyme, etc.) is incompatible with H2O2. Use one or the other. It explicitly says on the back of my bottle of Cannazym to not use H2O2 with it. It breaks down the enzymes as well. But yeah, good info otherwise.
It says on the back of the bottle (hygrozyme) that it is compatible, I just looked :leaf:
 

hydgrow

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so if my res temps go above 72 do I deffinetly get root rot? what if I am using hygrozyme and the temps are up there will I still get rot?
 

dynamitejack

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Weird, Cannazym says not to. I just figured they were all the same. Thank you for clearing this up though.
Ya it's one of hygrozyme's selling points to their secret formula that it is compatible with h202,

so if my res temps go above 72 do I deffinetly get root rot? what if I am using hygrozyme and the temps are up there will I still get rot?
My res temps were around 70 degrees and with 3% h202 and hygrozyme and I still got the rot. Thats why I am switching to ebb n flow, no root rot. If Iwere you I would hit up craigslist and find a cheap refrigerator to put your reservoir in, that will keep your temps nice and cool. I didn't have that option because I was using a DWC system.
 
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