Photo Grow Journal - "The Producer" Grow Cabinet - Start To Finish

[GrowerXLT]

Are your roots healthy? What color are they? How often are you changing your res?

BlueBear,

Thanks for asking the above question. You pointed me in the right direction so I can finally start to understand why my plants are doing poorly. You rock brother.

GrowerXLT

[GrowerXLT]

hey growerxlt is the producer really loud or kinda loud?

Dr.Smokealot,

I would say that it is the equivalent of 8 computer fans. Each one of the four fans is about twice as loud as a computer fan. They say on their site that the unit is less loud than a computer fan. This is just not true.

GrowerXLT

[GrowerXLT]

Day 41 - 07-09-2006 - 28 Days Into Flowering - Problem Photos

Here are some photo showing the stunted root growth that is affecting 13 out of my 17 plants.

Pic 1 - Stunted Root Growth Close Up
Pic 2 - Stunted Root Growth Close Up
Pic 3 - Stunted Root Growth Side View

[GrowerXLT]

Day 41 - 07-09-2006 - 28 Days Into Flowering - Problem Photos

Here are some photos showing the rotting roots affecting 4 out of my 17 plants. Its pretty sad because these are the roots of my "good" plants.

Pic 1 - Root Rot
Pic 2 - Root Rot

[GrowerXLT]

It was a day of mixed emotions for me. I am happy that I finally pin pointed my problems (thanks to all of your help) but am a little sad due to how prevalent and advanced the probelm is. So now to my BIG question:

What do I do now?

Is their anything I can do to "fix" my roots. I am thinking of washing the rotted roots off with some fresh water, possibly with a spray bottle. But what can I do about my stunted root growth on the majority of my plants? How can I get those roots to grow out of the pots and into the water?? Is their and additive I can add that would help at this point? As always any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

GrowerXLT

[BlueBear]

QUOTE=GrowerXLT]BlueBear,

Thanks for asking the above question. You pointed me in the right direction so I can finally start to understand why my plants are doing poorly. You rock brother.

GrowerXLT[/QUOTE]
Hey XLT, I am glad you have found a clue to your problem. It seems to me that at this point in the game you are so late into flowering that there isn't much you can do. I am going to do some snooping around and see if I can pick up any ideas though.
Perhaps washing off the roots in a peroxide salution may help, or adding a little peroxide to the res, 1tsp per.. I don't remember, need to search, also I am not sure if there are any negative affects with the nutes you are useing, what are they GH or advance? I know that the peroxide treatment can have a negative affect with organic nutes. Hope someone else can chime in as well.
I would also consider getting those roots out of that rockwool and placing them in grow rocks
or lava rocks as the mediam. At that point you can run the drippers 24-7 and perhaps your roots will respond a little better and might be able to produce some new growth.
New growth is going to be the key at this point. You need to get some cleaning salution for those roots, IE peroxide and then start looking for new root growth. Also, do you have any clones on stand by? Just something to think about.
PS. try to use the search tool and check out any related terms I mintioned above, I may or may not have time, but hopefully someone like Zandor can also check up on this thread, but I know that he is a busy fellow. Harddon, LW and GNome's help and any others help would be highly appreciated as well.
Adieu

[BlueBear]

I would get those roots out and spray them down with PH adjusted water. With the peroxide I would get some 3 Percent, the kind that is used for cuts, Wally Mart. You can use 100ML in a liter of distilled water. I am reaching, hope that someone else will give some more feed back.
I know that after making such a large investment that this is probably not what you expected so I am trying to help as much as I can bro.
Adieu

[Zandor]

I change my res every 7 days.

The roots of the sevierly stunted plants havent even grown out of the 3 inch rookwool cubes that are in the the 3 inch pots.

The good plants roots are a white/tan color.

GrowerXLT

Do the roots of the sick ones smell?
Or more like does the rockwool smell?

Are they all the same strain too?

You could be dealing with plytherwilt. It's common in Rockwool, there is an art to growing with it.

What is your water schedule again...I'm sure you answered somewhere but this great thread is to large to read. I just don't have that much time this month. (not that your post is that long) I just have a new project that is taking all my time right now.

I will stop back tomorrow AM and see if I can offer you any advice. The CalMag Plus was a good thing to add.

[Garden Knowm]

Grower..

sorry about the root rot.
it is very very serious issue..

1. you need to add as many air stones and airpumps to your reservoir as possible

2. DO NOT ALLOW ANY DEAD MATTER TO STAY IN YOUR RESERVOIR. dead matter will consume much needed oxygen

3. pull off all dead and slimy roots.. if you need to use scissors.. use scissors

4. add as much H202 as possible and read this..

http://www.hotlib.com/articles/show....rdening_System

5. lower your reservoir temperature... do not let it go about 72 degrees..

over coming these types of issues will MAKE you a GREAT grower!!

iloveyou


I have witnessed succesful harvests...massive yields... from plants that have root rot.. it is possible!!

[Sabrinaleena]

After reading this thread, I'm still going to be saving up for The Producer. Not the Bloom Box like I had originally intended. But my main question is this now... why did you get such root rot with your grow? Was it a fault of the box, or was it just bad luck? I'm very curious because I'm hesitant to plunk down this kind of money for such a unit if it's inherently flawed in its growing techinque through no fault of the grower.

Again, I do hope that your next grow is a great one. This thread has been so helpful for me in making up my mind on what I want to buy, and also when I do get it, I'll be referring back to this thread often


Sabrina