DWC still having trouble's. Need Help ASAP

[dankdadank]

Ok. I am using a dwc system with two flourescent dual spectrum 65 lights. It has a 6 gallon resevoir. I am using tap water with a ph of 7.5. Also i am at 12/12 lighting right now. I am also using an organic micro and bloom. Last week i had a problem trying to get control of allgae. I flushed my whole system, water lines, air pump and the air disk yesterday. Now today when i went to go check on them this is how they looked. The ph is 5.65, water temp at 68 degrees and the air temp about 74. Humididty is alittle low at about 35 percent. The smaller of the two plants is my orange crush. That plant started drooping yesterday before i flushed it. And the lager on, Exhile, was real perky this morning so in the last 10 hours or so is when this really started. Any idea's on how to save my babies???????????????????????????

dankdadank Reviewed by dankdadank on 12-02-2008. DWC still having trouble's. Need Help ASAP Ok. I am using a dwc system with two flourescent dual spectrum 65 lights. It has a 6 gallon resevoir. I am using tap water with a ph of 7.5. Also i am at 12/12 lighting right now. I am also using an organic micro and bloom. Last week i had a problem trying to get control of allgae. I flushed my whole system, water lines, air pump and the air disk yesterday. Now today when i went to go check on them this is how they looked. The ph is 5.65, water temp at 68 degrees and the air temp about 74. Rating: 5

[dankdadank]

Please if some one could just help me tonight. i dont wnt them to die.

[Weedhound]

Flush them with what?

[Weedhound]

Fill out Stinky's troubleshooting form at the top of this forum for me and I'll give it my best shot. But without good info, you won't get good help.

[Weezard]

Flush them with what?

That looks like an H2O2 bottle in pic # 3.
Perhaps that's what he meant.
Howzit, Weedy?

[Weedhound]

Yep, heres to hoping the full strength stuff is NOT what he flushed with.

[Revanche21]

drooping is generally caused by too much water

try adding another air stone

this helped enormously from my 2nd grow to my 3rd grow by adding a 3watt air pump

maybe the algae is covering the roots from getting oxygen

maybe try flushing a few times to get the algae off?

I use Hydroguard from Botanicare's line-up and I think it works better than when I used H202

good luck!

[dankdadank]

well, i ended up getting it straightened out. I flushed the system and started using frozen bottles of water to help keep the temp between 65-70, to keep the alge from growing. it is really hard to stablize the temp when only using frozen water. but any ways the smaller of the two never did come back to life. and the bigger on was a male. S***. So now i started new one's and they seem to be doing great. but i am using powder for my nutrients and i hate it. anyone have any good place to order liquid nutrients?

[Weedhound]

Don't buy mine online so nothing to offer there but glad to hear they are improved.

[greenthumb2007]

you might want to try sealing the container better. alage needs light to grow so you probably have a light leak. you should try planting 4 at a time because a 6 gal res. wont support 6 plants to have full root systems