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Originally Posted by pecker88
one thing I noticed was that your SWC's are white. Have you lifted the inner bucket out and checked the water in the reservoir for algae? I tried using white buckets outside and the reservoir turned to algae. I ended up painting mine black.
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Greetings Pecker, I've been following some of your progress on your containers. Your findings with the peat moss had me a little nervous that I over-did it with mine. Hopefully not though.
I chose white to keep soil temps down. Might cover them with something darker this winter, but we'll see.
I've seen some indications of algae growing around the edges of the buckets where they contact the ground, probably makes sense that there could be some inside. Do you think having some algae is detrimental beyond it competing with tomato for nutrients? I guess an algae bloom could lead to deoxygenation in the water once it overpopulates and then crashes, but with plenty of holes for ventilation I'm not sure that's the end of the world.