It's definitely not the plant or the strains fault.... It's operator error....Quote:
Originally Posted by gigimarga
10% bleach - 90% water makes for good cleaning....warm water.... Clean every freaking thing!!!
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It's definitely not the plant or the strains fault.... It's operator error....Quote:
Originally Posted by gigimarga
10% bleach - 90% water makes for good cleaning....warm water.... Clean every freaking thing!!!
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Come to think of it, the only thing that was common to them besides the space was the nutrition with calmag. This happened within about 24 hours after the roots hit the solution. The common ingredients in both were calmag (8th recommended dose), which I was using so that I make up for the lack of it in the RO water, and the bat shit in bigbloom and the rain forest soil. Could the calmag or bat crap have been contributing factors? What is the ideal start solution for hydro? Is big bloom ok? The total PPM was only ~170 in hydro and about 50 on top of the soil. (last one because of the calmag)
Besides cleaning everything, what else could I do to prevent that disease? I'm going to go hydro bubble bucket/aeroponics/fogoponics in a brand new grow tent next.
You mentioned rain forest soil....which brand exactly do you have???Quote:
Originally Posted by gigimarga
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Just a quick side-shot here! If you are convinced your problem is "mold", I would hedge away from a hydro grow! Due to humidity and control! Just a thought! pr
>CanGroIt: You mentioned rain forest soil....which brand exactly do you have???
Sunshine Advanced Rain Forest.
>paintreat: I would hedge away from a hydro grow! Due to humidity and control!
I think my main problem was air circulation in very small space (30x30x13). The duct work on my new tent should take care of that problem. Humidity here where I am is almost non-existent and the powdery mildew occurred when my RH was around 30% in soil with minimal watering of the plant in the dixie cup! Another thing I might skip on is the CFLs in addition to the 90W LED. I thought that more blue spectrum light would be good but that only compounded the heat and lack of circulation problem.
I'm going to do some heirloom tomatoes on my aeroponics/fogoponics grow first on next attempt. The system is almost built. These designer seeds are WAAY too expensive to trial and error on.
Post the strain you are interested in and what your are looking for in your medication. Ask which seeds are best for a first grow. There are many very well experienced growers here that may help you choose a "fool proof" (almost) seed. Good luck, I prefer homegrown anything as to store purchased! pr
Even if you could salvage it , it would be useless. Mold deforms it after a while. As it did to 32 of my babies in 1 hit. trashed em
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Originally Posted by gigimarga
And the humidity in your room is? You will not kill powder mildew or grey mold until you control the humidity. And forget the baking soda , if you to use a bicarb type spray then utilise *potassium* bicarb , it's a bit more efficient than sodium bicarb...........
Look this up....SNS244 , get some. If you still have it after that your next solution will unfortunately be something heavy such as Eagle 20.
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Originally Posted by bigsby
OP...reread this ^^^^^^ , and then read it again. It's excellent advice. Don't even *think* of hydro until you can control a soil grow,
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Originally Posted by gigimarga
Bring you temps down a bit 70-76 and bring the RH to 40% and see what happens. And ditch the coco for now. When you go to soil keep it simple.....and **make sure you don't overfeed**.
Do you have a fan on these plants? Remember that you need not only ventilation you also need air movement , get an oscillating fan if you don't have one..