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I can order z9 or localy Hygrozyme is available.
Oldsmokey Goes Hydro
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StRoostifer
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Looking great oldsmokey. You took good care of the problem quick man!
Stltoed
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What about UV light.... find a waterproof light like they use for disinfecting RO water and put one in each tub. Maybe 2 for your tubs. Just thinking outloud. You would have a sterile rhizosphere. The question would be will it hurt the roots. I have a Cleanlight for PM. Its an asskicker and will burn leaves, so its imperative that you keep the light moving, but the lights used for RO systems are much smaller.
UV light would work I think, but it may take some R+D
UV light would work I think, but it may take some R+D
Dankman_420
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The roots look great smokey. Are you over dosing on turkey yet 
StRoostifer
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Tryptophan hangover!The roots look great smokey. Are you over dosing on turkey yet
They also make inline ones for fish ponds and tanks. I’ve considered it, but can’t really justify the expense...
yet.
Stltoed
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But you're happy using bleach. I can't imagine you would need it.They also make inline ones for fish ponds and tanks. I’ve considered it, but can’t really justify the expense...
yet.
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The roots look great smokey. Are you over dosing on turkey yet
No I think my turkey dosage is just about right.Tryptophan hangover!
Sounds interesting how much are they?They also make inline ones for fish ponds and tanks. I’ve considered it, but can’t really justify the expense...
yet.
Stltoed
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It depends on what you get. They start around $40 but go up quickly from there. The ones I have seen would require modification so the light is exposed, which can be a problem for you health wise. And you would probably need one per bucket. It was just a thought
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Ity did peak my interest did a quick search there are lots of them.
Stltoed
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I think It would work... as long as the light doesn't damage the roots
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I was thinking of an inline UV light. Treating all of the water being pumped out of the reservoir. I did see one on zon but it's only good for .5 - 1 GPM I am running a 700 gph pump. So I would need about 12 or 13 of them not really feasible. Unless I can find a much larger one but then price would probably be the problem.
Stltoed
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I believe you will need to clean the roots directly. An inline light will clean the water just fine, but the pathogens will be coming down from the hole the plants live in, so an inline isnt really addressing that. I believe a light thats made for cleaning water tanks would work better. Something with an exposed lightsource. I took a look at McMaster Carr to see what they would offer. They had the inline variety with the hefty McMaster prices..
When I worked for Philips I had to make an enclosure for a machine that ran a UV lamp used for lithography. It was a UV light in the C scale "C" is what you're after for disinfection. It will attack RNA/DNA. Anyway this light was a bruiser, any exposed skin was a serious nono and required special eye protection like I had never seen before. Now this lamp was many thousands of watts and required a healthy dollop of Mercury to make the spectrum they were looking for.
You will never run across this thing at Home depot, but UVC light is bad news and needs to be treated with serious respect. The light used for water purification will probably be a fluorescent lamp similar to my Cleanlight, but may still have Mercury in it. The power output will probably gonna be around 20 watts, so sunburns are probably be a non- issue, but your eyes can take a hit even from a lower wattage. Im just saying all this in hopes you decide to look into it, and if you do please stay protected.
This is a 10000watt lamp used for outdoor spotlights. Its hand made from Quartz, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Tantalum, and Platinum, The lamp i was talking about was a little more streamline with a huge amount of Mercury.
The anode on this lamp weighs 19oz, its Tungsten so its super dense
The stuff some folks have laying around...
The Phantom
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Right? @Stltoed reminds me of David Hahn.
The Phantom
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Was anyone else like me and as soon as you read it was tungsten, you instantly wondered how many ice fishing lures you could make from that hunk of metal? It was the first thing to cross my mind.
Stltoed
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The foreman was good enough to let me have it. It was a scrapped lamp. You can see the error circled in red at the "bulb" area to the left of the cathode (pointy thing). It would make a great veg lamp for a couple hundred hours. Its a Xenon lamp so the color is blueish.. But you'd have to run it across the street as it is 10000watts
Stltoed
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Is that good?
The Phantom
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Probably best to use the neighbor's power too.
Do a Google search on David Hahn and read his story, very bright kid who also had crazy things in his garage.
Stltoed
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Just don't mistake the garden hose for a power cable