First Diary - SLH DWC

She is swelling up nicely. Root rot is still hanging around but not killing her. Only have a few more days till I have to take her so she is not getting any nutes this week. Starting flush over this weekend. Ph has stayed stable. Why do I have root rot? Well three big reasons 1. Light penetration through the bucket cover. It's not visible in the pictures but there is a nice thin green algae layer in a spots of the lid. I will fix this in the next grow using sound deadening wrap. I like it as the sheets I use in car audio fit right over the top of the lid. I skipped it in this grow to see just how much it helps. Looks like a good bit. Using Foil or Electrical tape on the lid works too, but with many strips it tends to loose bonding in places. 2. Water temp. While I have a pretty good setup, it's costly to run everything isolated indoors, so I used nature to cool my grow for a bit and she tossed me some hot days. Three days where water hit 73 and stayed over 70 at night probably helped build up the rot. 3. I don't change the whole bucket until the final flush. Nutes and clean water is expensive, even a few weeks back where I washed the root rot out. I only moved the worst area into a small container and rinsed with fresh water till slime stopped falling off, then back into the regular bucket. At transition from veg to flower I will sometimes swap water. Next grow will start in after the heat in the desert turns all the way up to high, so I shouldn't have temp issues, unless AC goes out. Light barrier should fix the algae issue.