This is madness…chlorine dissipated in about 3 days so I have been adding a quart of pre-bubbled bennies w Mag pro trace elements to slowly change chemistry. I tried to keep the done off overnight trying to run the pump longer to warm internal temp, and this morning I found another damped off. Then I start pulling out others out, and viola the white shit cum stuck on the end There is no end.
The only thing left I can think of since RO bottled lacks trace elements, is to boil tap water and then add it in after cooled. I can’t think of any way this pathogen survives that step to be active in the cloner. I am going to find out my “free chlorine” content in the tap, so I know what I’m dealing w. Adding water pre bubbled w the bennies isn’t going to work.
Back to crystal clear treated water, but I’m going to run it warmer and longer, add 2-3 test cuts in until I get a viable root. It’s impossible to root cuts wanted for mother/crop purposes while this keeps happening, so now it’s going to be about testing EVERY aspect of rooting clones.
The first test will be ordinary bleach 2 drops per gall, ph’d water. No hormones/power/gel/additives used. I’ll only cut underwater. If after 2 weeks or slimed/damped off I’ll move to the next up, Oxine, Rez Clear, UC roots, Physan 20, gel only, powder only, hormone solution only, lights far away and dim, lights close and brighter, hotter and colder temp zones, dome on always and no dome. This will be a process of elimination to find out what keeps the res stable to root.
Every test will use boiled water/cooled ph’d. I will not fill from tap, bubble or treat water used that isn’t boiled, but I will do one for RO/bottled only. My baseline for all of this is using boiled water, and eliminating each product/method/aspect that isn’t a cause or finding what is the source… I can see why aero cloners are thrown on a shelf in disgust now…already thinking 1.5” wrapped RW cubes here I come after wasting 250 Could’ve bought a thousand of those for that much