severe nute burn?

[dankenstein]

Originally Posted by DierWolf

Pics of the roots, sounds like they are burnt.

I have taken some pics of the roots today. Here they are. Also when I came home the ppm went up by another 30 or so, and the water had a faint smell of sulfur, which I assume means she is still flushing a little bit. So because of that I decided to drain that water and give her a fresh batch of tap water pH balanced to 5.8, which has a ppm of 65. When I did this yesterday the base ppm was in the 60s so I take the fact that the ppm rose to mean she still wasn't quite ready for a small batch of nutrients. Anyways before I took the pics of the roots there was a kind of dark sludgy buildup on the lower part of them, a little brown, which could've either been from the brown colored organic nitrogen, or from possible fungus in the tank. Either way I mixed a small amount of clearex and water in a spray bottle and sprayed down the roots with it which cleared off all of the buildup. I am hoping that doing that is productive somehow, because it seemed like it was hindering the root uptake, etc. Anyways here are the root pics let me know what you think.

[DierWolf]

Root Rott and pretty damn bad too... is that a picture After you washed sprayed them? or before??

What kind of nutrients were you using (i am talking in past tense because the plants wount last much longer with that root rott) your pm to me sort of indicated your not using hydro specific nutrients but more of a mish mosh of various granualated water soluable stuff.