Gary Goodson
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Tap water ftw
Which type of water do you use?
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Bugeye
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RO, distilled, and rainwater are all SOFT water, near 0ppm, and will benefit from addition of cal/mag if not already in you medium. I can't find the link, but I seem to remember reading something somewhere about getting less lockout if cal/mag is in your nute mix, even if it is in your soil as well. Perhaps I am not remembering right so any comments on that are welcome!
If you are using tap water as your source for cal/mag, remember that in tap water cal/mag is usually in a large molecule form that is not easily taken in by your plants.
If you are using tap water as your source for cal/mag, remember that in tap water cal/mag is usually in a large molecule form that is not easily taken in by your plants.
Bugeye
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Regarding your ph question, if you are in soil the water ph is going to be over powered or buffered by your soil ph, so no practical difference between 6.0 and 7.0.
bravedave
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Fortunately, I pass both the spring and 2 stores selling refillable RO on my way home from work. If I was forced to use $.37gl RO I might consider a Hydrologic system. I Currently have no reason to spend $400+ on water treatment when the spring water works great. I also figure I would spend about $230 a year on store bought RO. So, an at-home RO system would take a couple years to start paying for itself... Oh wait at that point I would have to replace the membrane and the filters for another $200. So yeah, 3 years later it kinda starts paying for itself.
I love peat.
a senile fungus
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Mine get well water. About 7.4pH and 380ppm.
My nutrients have no calcium or magnesium and I haven't added any, just relying on the water. Growing in promix currently. Straight from the same hose that I use to water the horses.
My nutrients have no calcium or magnesium and I haven't added any, just relying on the water. Growing in promix currently. Straight from the same hose that I use to water the horses.
Darth Vapour
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i use H20 what water do you use ??
Kingrow1
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The H3O stuff, H20 sucks for plants.
Indacouch
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Tap water that sits out for a day or two ........unless I'm get to wasted to let it sit out then it's literally straight into my girls chlorine and all no difference seen between my city plants on tap and my mountain plants on a private well .......ph in good soil growing is pointless in my opinion it will buffer .......peace
GrowUrOwnDank
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I have a 5 gallon water bottle. You can fill it with filtered, not distilled water for about .30 a gallon. But, my tap is pretty good with a low ppm so just use that now. Hempy bucket and Lucas formula.
a senile fungus
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It's got electrolytes
racerboy71
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baking soda, baking soda, i got baking soda
daloudpack
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i use tap water as well.... my plants dont have any complaints and my soil has both dolomite and peat moss both ph buffering so i dont even ph it ...
Darth Vapour
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Way i look at it if the water will not kill you its surely not going to kill the plants , people tend to think that the high ppm levels of possible calcium is going to change your feed when in fact most o tap water minerals plants can not uptake
As for chlorine its in the essential charts there fore again many tend to think its going to kill te microbiology you know them 40 billion per table spoon
i tend to look at it like hey whats it gong to hurt deb bacto is food for worms and the plant nothing wrong with culling some o the herd it makes them stronger ...
As for me have have 300 gallon out door tank of collected rain water plants appear to go nuts over or i could use lake water
As for chlorine its in the essential charts there fore again many tend to think its going to kill te microbiology you know them 40 billion per table spoon
i tend to look at it like hey whats it gong to hurt deb bacto is food for worms and the plant nothing wrong with culling some o the herd it makes them stronger ...
As for me have have 300 gallon out door tank of collected rain water plants appear to go nuts over or i could use lake water
daloudpack
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like some one else said buying water for a low plant count just doesnt make sense i was spending 15@ a week on distilled water in my hydro res and switched to tap water half way there and saw no difference... when i swtiched to soil it was even better
smokefacekillah
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I use Tap water, Sometimes I bubble it over night, or sometimes I use it straight from my bathroom, My PPM is usually around 150-180, also I use the lucas formula, and my plants don't ever need Cal/mag, I've had the same bottle for like 2 years now, Really when you stop obsessing over, PH & PPM's growing gets way easier, Its nice to keep an Eye on it, But if your starting PH was like 5.8 and it went up to like 6.1 or 6.2 and you immediately try to put it back, You might run into problems, even might cause a lock out depending your growing type
Budley Doright
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Your lake water is full of goose shit, no wonder the plants like it lol. My plants do better using the well water than both rain and lake water for some reason and the well is 50' from the lake.Way i look at it if the water will not kill you its surely not going to kill the plants , people tend to think that the high ppm levels of possible calcium is going to change your feed when in fact most o tap water minerals plants can not uptake
As for chlorine its in the essential charts there fore again many tend to think its going to kill te microbiology you know them 40 billion per table spoon
i tend to look at it like hey whats it gong to hurt deb bacto is food for worms and the plant nothing wrong with culling some o the herd it makes them stronger ...
As for me have have 300 gallon out door tank of collected rain water plants appear to go nuts over or i could use lake water View attachment 3509416View attachment 3509419