Who's running bene's bacteria and who's not ?

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Originally Posted by caregiver99

also, I forgot to mention source water.

I use regular tap water and bubble it for 6 hours to rid it of chlorine before brewing the ewc tea. my particular water source does not include chloramine (chlorine + ammonia) which does not bubble out easily. you can just buy distilled water to brew the tea if you have chloramine in your water. I called my water treatment plant to find out. you can also usually find a report online for your municipality.

Also, I should mention that I take advice coming from people who haven't dealt with the slime with a grain of salt. Their techniques won't work for us, because we are the select few who are blessed with the stuff. And once you get it, it never seems to go away completely. The physan kills off the bacteria, but the bacteria leave behind these primitive spores that can survive anything short of a nuclear blast. These spores (not actually what they are - can't remember what they're called anymore) are what begin the whole cycle all over again.

Ok, I'll shut up now. ;-)

Everything you describe to a tee. From the snot in the areo cloner to the brownish slime in DWC and DRIP. Looks just like root rot and just gets worse the more you treat it like rot.

I went back and found where you talked about the physan. We have cleaned things up real well. We need to do the worm casing tea but we have the great white and for the first time in months we have some white roots going in the flower room. Just using the great white could be costly but it's working and just a wee bit of molases as I forgot the carboload.

I think your instructions should be a sticky.
Once you get this it's as bad as the two spotted spidermites from hell my bro gave me. The mites came with the slime.

I will keep reading back over this many times. Thanks.