cleaning your hydro equipment...

[bud luv]

what should I use? bleach?

bud luv Reviewed by bud luv on 03-13-2007. cleaning your hydro equipment... what should I use? bleach? Rating: 5

[xcrispi]

We use way hot hot water and like a cup of bleach in our laundry tubs and scrub everything w/ a scotchbrite pad / scouring pad .

Are you reusing all your tubing ? I've had algee grow in the transparent blue garbage from G/H . I replaced it all w/ blk. stuff from HomeDepot and am hoping that just a flush of it all w/ flora clean will be good enough now ?
Peace Bud
Crispi :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

I use H202....about a quart per 15 gals....so 2 quarts or so for the 8 waterfarms after I've scrubbed everything with hot water and rinsed through all the #(!*$# medium thoroughly. Then I run the peroxide through the system for 2 days and empty it. If any gets missed the H202 becomes water anyway so no worries. For the tubing I got a pipe brush thing from Amazon.com and it works terrific to get the algae out.

[bud luv]

thanks crispi and w/h.

Just wanted to make sure the bleach was cool. right on!

budluv.

p.s. crispi the blueberry turned purply a few days ago. I'm chopping it on thurs night or friday morning. I took down about an ounce 8-9 days ago and even though it's early and only partially cured it's some solid smoke!

[xcrispi]

I use H202....about a quart per 15 gals....so 2 quarts or so for the 8 waterfarms after I've scrubbed everything with hot water and rinsed through all the #(!*$# medium thoroughly. Then I run the peroxide through the system for 2 days and empty it. If any gets missed the H202 becomes water anyway so no worries. For the tubing I got a pipe brush thing from Amazon.com and it works terrific to get the algae out.

Hey Weedhound , Whats up sis ?
I've got a crazy long bottle brush to do tubing but I'm lazy . Didn't figure it'd algee up to begin w/ as the sys. recirculates . As cheap as I am I don't reuse hydroton either , afraid all it will take is a lil missed root mat. to mess up the next grow .

Weedhound ,
We just germed a few sour northernlights x nevilles haze . Sativa dominant stuff cause I've been a useless hunk of goooo since all the blueberries been done / way couch lock . You said something about not topping your sativas , just L.S.T ? Were only gonna do 2 in the new style buckets . Im afraid to top them a lil , I dont need like 6-8 tops that are hard to control and havta worry about tying them all down . What were your yields like w/ the sativas ?

Gotta run
Peace all
Crispi :jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

Yeah I thought about buying new medium but I found it to be more work then just rinsing stuff through....all that red dust....plus maybe i'm the only one with this problem but it always seems to take a few res changes for the ph to stabilize w/new medium. One of my last plants ....well never mind. That's why my hydro guy suggested running H202 through the system for a few days to kill off anything I may have missed during rinsing and (cross fingers) so far I haven't had any problems in that direction.

X-C I really like to top everything once or twice. I found with my indica-things last time that they didn't do well with lst but the sativa things loved it and went crazy. But I topped them both. I had two sativa based plants and they came up with 2oz on one and almost 3 oz on the other. My indicas on the other hand came up pretty flat....about 1 and 1/2 oz apiece plus the 3/4 oz from the early one I picked.

Sorry we took over your thread bud-luv. :jointsmile: