lab_rat_x

bgetting,
this is a first that i have heard of a bacteria colony. could you please give me some more information on this. i have had these little boogers now for 3 weeks, i put threads in mci under my grow, but no one supplied me with a clue to what it was, other than possible algae growth.
so alittle info would be great!
peace...
lrx

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bgetting

If they truly look like little slimy boogers, they are probably bacteria. If you are using chemical ferts, I may be wrong, but even then it probably is bacteria. If you have earth juice or some other organically derived nutes, they are bacteria. Not all the stuff in organic nutes is usable to the plants, it needs to be in a particular form to be used by the plant. In nature bacteria are one of many things that convert nutes into the forms that plants can use. They can also thrive pretty well in a aqueous environment, which is why you see them. Unless you are seeing an effect on your plants that isn't good, they are probably just feeding and living in your roots, changing nutes to usable forms and dying, then being eated by each other, and around and around we go.

lab_rat_x

truely interesrting! i've never incountered this bacteria, i didn't now what to make of it. i thought that possibly they (it) would hamper the ability for my roots to grow and take in o2. from the chart of my growth rate, i thought that maybe it was the reason my plants were not growing at the rate i thought they would. but anyway, i rinsed them off the roots with a sprayer, i'm sure they will reappear again soon, but when they do, i won't freak out next time.
thanks...
lrx

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