Help with Mold, Algae, and Keeping things clean, etc...veteran growers where are you?

[InspectahEX]

I had some nice plants like a few years ago right, Very big, smelly, juicy, and healthy plants. Like 2 nice ones under a HPS light that were growing very fast. I had this aeroponics system called aerosrping. Everything was cool but when I started the flowering period, and further on in the later stages, I started to see things and began to have problems. Maybe someone can help me and tell me what I did wrong. First of all, there would be leaves here and there either dead or brown, and I just left them on the plant, in the end it seemed to spread to other random leaves. If I see this on a leaf should I just clip it off? like cut the brown or dead part of the leaf off and trim it? Ok another thing, say I have a 10 gallon resovoir. Do I have to flush out and replace my resovoir water periodically? If so how often, figure i have up to 4 plants max/10 gallon resovoir/aeroponic system. Because I started to see mold and nasty stuff growing on the walls of my resovoir, and even on my pump, and its really nasty, some was white, and some was like a greenish brown color. But either way this stuff always began to show up around my resovoir and around the plants. OH YEA and the main stems, or trunks, of my plants were very thick and strong, but this green algae-like stuff started to grow around the main stems where the rockwool used to be. My plants kind of began dying, turnin colors and stuff, stuff growing on them, this kind of made me wonder. Do I have to scrub the resovoir often. How do I get rid of algae and mold? Do I have to scrub all my equipment and plants like every week??? HOW DO I KEEP THINGS CLEAN???? HOW DOES EVERYONE ELSE CLEAN THEIR SETUPS??? DO U HAVE A ROUTINE??? WEEKLY ROUTINE?? MONTHLY???

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InspectahEX Reviewed by InspectahEX on 09-26-2008. Help with Mold, Algae, and Keeping things clean, etc...veteran growers where are you? I had some nice plants like a few years ago right, Very big, smelly, juicy, and healthy plants. Like 2 nice ones under a HPS light that were growing very fast. I had this aeroponics system called aerosrping. Everything was cool but when I started the flowering period, and further on in the later stages, I started to see things and began to have problems. Maybe someone can help me and tell me what I did wrong. First of all, there would be leaves here and there either dead or brown, and I just Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

Run Cannazyme in your system.
Keep room humidity down (can be hard in hydro if you can't control evap).
Avoid letting plants get large enough that the root mass becomes thick and tangled.
If aero gave you problems, try a different configuration such as DWC or ebb n flow.

[InspectahEX]

Yea i think the problem was i let my plants get too big, roots got tangled, and i didnt flush my resovoir which probably made the nutrients build up and mess up the ph, also i never cleaned it or scrubbed it, im guessing thats where the algae and the mold came from

[theshaker]

good someone started this thread.we have just had a similar experience in the cellar.we had some nice indica(not sure what kind)thick shit though it was in flood/drain hydro ph and nutes were all on point then switched to 12/12 light cycle and in about 10 days later we seen some yellowin on the plants ans on the bottom leaves had gray/brown spots.i never growed plants in a cellar before so i left it go.LOL well the next day it looked much worse i mean i looked like it was cursed,i honestly could not beleive my eyes in only 24 hrs like 1/4 the bottom canopy was brown/grayish spots and some leaves had dropped.
we had a 400 hps for lighting.day 3,4,5,6,7 they continued to die fast.we had no humidity gauge in the cellar just a temp.i decided after some thought that i had underestimated the humid air.i planned on buying a sulphur burning once the buds set but it never really got that far.the plants dropped all the main brack leaves and died over 1-2 weeks i misted them with a product called safers it has sulphur in it but it didnt save them.


my question is will a dehumidifier correct the problem?after we got a humidity meter we found out it was 80%-100% in the cellar.
i had read about using a doktor doom fogger .
will a 40pint dehumidifier prevent this disaster from repeating itself again?

[the image reaper]

a good flushing with a hydrogen peroxide solution kills the bacteria and algae, plus gives the roots an oxygen rush ... I use 2-4 ounces per gallon ... :thumbsup:

[DOUGAL25]

Making sure your reservoir container is dark and covered (no light = no photosynthesis = no aglae) should help. H202 idea works too.

[k1ng87]

can you use a the H2O2 just for precautionary measures?

[Icabod]

I use Super Oxy H2O2 35%. 2oz. of it in my 70gal rez every flush(10 days). It keep algue down and delivers more oxygen to root. Also keep all tray surfaces,pots included light tight- cover with small pieces of panda-plastic.

[DOUGAL25]

can you use a the H2O2 just for precautionary measures?

yes u can