Root rot? Help!

Fibbage3

Fibbage3

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is this root rot?? Ph was around 7.8 and water temp around 70F ...

I just added some ph down, but may have put too much as it dropped down to 3.5 or so. I’m not sure what I can do about the water temps.. although I had 2 air stones running in each bucket. I have since turned 1 air stone off for each, Hope this reduces heat.

Appreciate any and all feedback to save these girls!
 

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NGA

NGA

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Doesn’t look horrible,I would flush plants and system with water ,feed and ph properly maybe something for root rot ,H2O2 at lease
 
vostok

vostok

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Fibbage3 said:
is this root rot?? Ph was around 7.8 and water temp around 70F ...

I just added some ph down, but may have put too much as it dropped down to 3.5 or so. I’m not sure what I can do about the water temps.. although I had 2 air stones running in each bucket. I have since turned 1 air stone off for each, Hope this reduces heat.

Appreciate any and all feedback to save these girls!
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I see no root rot, it smells like rotten sox once advanced looks like nute def to me

a flush and re feed with 50% less is a better option and a shot of cal mag is useful too

good luck
 
Bernie420

Bernie420

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Fibbage3 said:
Would I flush using just diluted h2o2? And for how long?
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dont use h2o2 if not done correctly you can burn the fine root hairs off of it.
You have lots of air going and it doenst look like root rot.
Get your ph in check that is why your having problems.
70 degrees is on point for a water temp.

Whats the ppm should be around 400ppms
 
shawnery

shawnery

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I disagree, that's totally some form of root rot. Those are some short nasty hairs that I bet are currently dying back and not coming in.

To treat your system do the following.

If you have other buckets fill them with ph'd water and 4ml of 30% h202 or 40ml of 3% h202 per gallon of water and allow to rest in mix till done cleaning system.

Preferably you want to boil your stones of you have the time but if not leave in system. Drain your sytem and fill with hot water and chlorine, not sure about strength but easy to find, and try to rub as much down as possible.

Drain system again and fill with fresh ph'd and slightly lower nuted water with 4ml of 30% h202 or 40ml of 3% h202 per gallon. Make sure you ph, ppm are good and get your temps close.

Put your plants back in and hope for the best.

Or you could buy some hydroguard and go that route but that's more for before you have a problem not after.

By the way, your water getting down to 3.5 ph is crazy bad for your plants. Try to be more careful about how much you add.
 
Bernie420

Bernie420

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shawnery said:
I disagree, that's totally some form of root rot. Those are some short nasty hairs that I bet are currently dying back and not coming in.

To treat your system do the following.

If you have other buckets fill them with ph'd water and 4ml of 30% h202 or 40ml of 3% h202 per gallon of water and allow to rest in mix till done cleaning system.

Preferably you want to boil your stones of you have the time but if not leave in system. Drain your sytem and fill with hot water and chlorine, not sure about strength but easy to find, and try to rub as much down as possible.

Drain system again and fill with fresh ph'd and slightly lower nuted water with 4ml of 30% h202 or 40ml of 3% h202 per gallon. Make sure you ph, ppm are good and get your temps close.

Put your plants back in and hope for the best.

Or you could buy some hydroguard and go that route but that's more for before you have a problem not after.

By the way, your water getting down to 3.5 ph is crazy bad for your plants. Try to be more careful about how much you add.
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its not root rot, not even close, doesnt have to boil any rocks, h2o2 isnt the way to go about it if it was and hydroguard is great to use at any time full blown root rot or not.

He has a ph issue.
 
shawnery

shawnery

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I agree he has a ph problem but each time I got aka "root rot" it started just like that.

Could be we're both right but I'm probably wrong!
 
Bernie420

Bernie420

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shawnery said:
I agree he has a ph problem but each time I got aka "root rot" it started just like that.

Could be we're both right but I'm probably wrong!
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Right on im just seeing stained roots probably from the nutes in the water.

In the pic you can see new roots forming, the little side roots are still there, you can see no slime and in the pics they're pumping a shit ton of air in the bucket and they said the water is about 70 degrees.

If the op fixes the ph problem and lets hope they didnt leave it at 3.5 and they add a little microbes in the mix with a little kelp they would have roots coming out their ears, assuming they are running decent nutes at the proper ppms. and decent lighting of course.

:blsmoke:bongsmilie:bigjoint::hug:
 
shawnery

shawnery

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What the hell is the foam from in the pics because you don't mention using anything that should be causing that? That is not bubbles from an airstone or even three for that matter. It's way to sudsy like biological matter in your res.
 
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TheHarvester

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Bernie420 said:
Right on im just seeing stained roots probably from the nutes in the water.

In the pic you can see new roots forming, the little side roots are still there, you can see no slime and in the pics they're pumping a shit ton of air in the bucket and they said the water is about 70 degrees.

If the op fixes the ph problem and lets hope they didnt leave it at 3.5 and they add a little microbes in the mix with a little kelp they would have roots coming out their ears, assuming they are running decent nutes at the proper ppms. and decent lighting of course.

:blsmoke:bongsmilie:bigjoint::hug:
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I have experienced dyed roots from certain fertilizers. Some use beet juice in them.

That water temp is not ideal and you have to do something with your PH.

way too high and you are experiencing potassium deficiency by the looks of it, possibly from the PH.

What are you feeding it?
what type of water are you using?
 
Bernie420

Bernie420

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TheHarvester said:
I have experienced dyed roots from certain fertilizers. Some use beet juice in them.

That water temp is not ideal and you have to do something with your PH.

way too high and you are experiencing potassium deficiency by the looks of it, possibly from the PH.

What are you feeding it?
what type of water are you using?
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not the op and water temp is legit
 
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TheHarvester

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Bernie420 said:
not the op and water temp is legit
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I should have double qouted, second half was for the Op regarding the info I thought you relay in your post. ;o)

70 degrees is ok. You are on the borderline of lower air solubility and a higher change of bacteria forming.

the higher you go the higher those risk become.
 
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