Well...
First off - I'm setting aside the brown spots on the leaves. It doesn't seem to be affecting the plant much so I'll ignore for now..

Adding molasses didn't help, only made a new problem. The morning after adding 1tsp/2.5gal of molasses, I had this nasty brownish, snotty, slimy, algae stuff ALL OVER the roots; they appear as big snot boogers. The slime totally covered all of the roots that were exposed from the net pot.

I gave the baby 6-hour 3% H2O2 bath to attempt to kill the slime/algae; there was no real evidence that it did much. Besides that, I removed all of my supplements (Superthrive, FloraBlend, molasses) out of my nutrient equation, when I rinsed the bucket and changed the nutes (added 2 tsp of H2O2). I hear that these supplements can possibly add to the slimey stuff. I also made sure the bucket is completely light proof now.

Well, it's been 2 days since, and there are now a good amount of clean, white, fresh roots poking out of the slime mass. The slime mass has decreased but still resides near the water-line area of the roots (refer to picture). The roots and plant are both showing "normal" growth rates again.

My questions- Is there any way to rid my roots of this slime mass?? I feel like if I leave it, it'll eventually cause root rot, if it doesn't degrade on its own. Do I attempt to trim the roots, leaving about 1cm of root out of the net pot???

Any help appreciated ! :stoned: