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Plant Dad

What would make a thriving plant in pon all of a sudden get root rot? My Dragon Scale Albo has been in pon since I've had it then one by one leaves started to die. When I went to go lift it up to check roots, it was just mush.

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  1. Slytherin Around

    Watch the leca queen’s videos on YouTube! You gotta transition them slowly and make sure the roots aren’t completed submerged.

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    • Plant Dad

      I've had this happened with a couple of other plants as well. It is happening to well established plants that have been in semi hydro (pon) for a while went from thriving to dead in a week

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  2. Slytherin Around

    Hmm did your water change? Or your nutrient solution?? I try to change out my leca every 6 months with fresh sterile stuff

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  3. Mateja

    Root rot bacteria thrives in an anaerobic environment. The main reason I see semi-hydro growers lose their plants to root rot is they are not oxygenating the water enough. You can have water cycling with a pump, you can have air stones running into your pot, or you can change over your water every 24-48 hrs, all ways to keep the water oxygenated and make it a less ideal environment for root rot. Because of the porous nature of leca or pon, I wouldn't reuse any substrate that has had a root rot infection.

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    • Mateja

      And to add to my own thought, the chlorine in tap water evaporates within 24 hours. Another reason hydroponic systems can get funky.

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