New Grower First Grow Newbie! 4X4 RDWC LED CBD

[Boradan]

I would avoid using buckets with rough surface and way to many corners and spots for bad stuff to hide maybe this is just me being overly cautious from my days of home brewing but the more places you provide bacteria to hide the chances of contamination is higher so for me only smooth surfaces and anything that comes into contact with the rez water completely sanitized including hands
I generally boil my clay pebbles a few times to kill of as much as I can and before every grow Star San no rinse sanitizer stuff is liquid gold most homebrew shops carry it

No sanitizer, This is not a sterile grow, He is using Great White Beneficial bacteria and fungus. Sanitizers would kill this.

I find it hard to believe that much debris came off the little bit of hydroton that you use especially if it was prerinsed several times. Do you have sludge in the reservoir or just in the pots?

Yeah. That has me baffled too, although I DID get quite a lot of sediment on my first run due to poor rinsing of the pebbles, it was nowhere near as much as this.

 

[Duckster]

No sanitizer, This is not a sterile grow, He is using Great White Beneficial bacteria and fungus. Sanitizers would kill this.


Yeah. That has me baffled too, although I DID get quite a lot of sediment on my first run due to poor rinsing of the pebbles, it was nowhere near as much as this.

Yeah and any sediment that I get is always a dark reddish brown - same color as the pebbles. This looks more like an organic

 

[nbbeerguy]

No sanitizer, This is not a sterile grow, He is using Great White Beneficial bacteria and fungus. Sanitizers would kill this.


Yeah. That has me baffled too, although I DID get quite a lot of sediment on my first run due to poor rinsing of the pebbles, it was nowhere near as much as this.

Yes but before the start of next grow to completely make sure the bad stuff is gone

 

[mattskeee]

I find it hard to believe that much debris came off the little bit of hydroton that you use especially if it was prerinsed several times. Do you have sludge in the reservoir or just in the pots?

The amount of gunk was the same throughout all the pots and resevoir....

An even coating.

Sent from Space

 

[mattskeee]

I'll see if I can get a better photo, or a video when I go and check everything today. And also see where my ppms and ph are at over the last 24 hours. If this IS organic, it should be having some effect on the system, right?

Sent from Space

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

I tried Mycorrhizae at the start of my current grow with MC2 and that is exactly what I had in my res and it totally blocked my airstones, suffice to say I moved back onto my hydro nutes and stopped using the mycorrhizae and MC2!

 

[Boradan]

I tried Mycorrhizae at the start of my current grow with MC2 and that is exactly what I had in my res and it totally blocked my airstones, suffice to say I moved back onto my hydro nutes and stopped using the mycorrhizae and MC2!

And I am also using MC2 with Myco and do not have this problem.

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

And I am also using MC2 with Myco and do not have this problem.

Yeah but you make yours into a tea and aireate for 24/48 hours no? Also how do you first mix the powders in warm water?

 

[Boradan]

Yeah but you make yours into a tea and aireate for 24/48 hours no? Also how do you first mix the powders in warm water?

I only just started the tea for this grow - my previous grows were Great White with Megacrop without making the tea from the GW - just powder dropped into the res.
Which powders are you referring to? Not sure what exactly you mean there (though, in my defence, I am relatively baked right now)

 

[Mr Green Fingers]

I only just started the tea for this grow - my previous grows were Great White with Megacrop without making the tea from the GW - just powder dropped into the res.
Which powders are you referring to? Not sure what exactly you mean there (though, in my defence, I am relatively baked right now)

Haha not knocking what your doing or trying to criticise just trying to understand what your doing to get your res clear, the powders I am talking about are MC2 and the mycorrhizae, the way I tried to do it was weigh out the amount of powder I needed to use, put it in a jug, boiled the kettle, filled up the jug (about 1 litre), stirred furiously for about 10 minutes, it then looked dissolved so I added to res, but then I would get what matskee has now like the powder didn't dissolve completely and would create a film over my airstones so basically they weren't creating bubbles anymore