Pond water good for teas? If so, what type?

HeartIandhank

HeartIandhank

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I am using water from an aquaponic tank to water my organic indoor crops now.
I JUST started doing this a few days ago.. but I think it should add some good bacteria, nutrients, humates, all kinds of good stuff..

My plan in the future is to have a 1000 gal koi tank just outside the grow.. fully stocked.. used only to water the indoor crop and then topped off with rain water. Though, I will use filtered water from late November thru Mar 1st... I'll leave them be for that time.

Ive been doing this with backwater veggies and my landscape for years.. works great.

I've watered plenty of guerilla crops with river water.. works just fine.
 
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Mr Hyde

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Midwest Weedist said:
In my experience if the pond water is cached rain water then you're all good. When it's not freezing I source my water from a goldfish/koi pond and my plants go ape shit for it. Lots of organic matter floating around in that water that your soil microbes would loooove to eat for your plants. Just becareful if you use tap water to fill said pond.
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What if green stuff is still growing with tap water? Is it the flouride and shit that your worried about or the chlorine/chloramine crap? Just wondering, I like fountains in the yard and stuff so I was thinking of doing this but I usually toss in tap water.
 
Midwest Weedist

Midwest Weedist

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Mr Hyde said:
What if green stuff is still growing with tap water? Is it the flouride and shit that your worried about or the chlorine/chloramine crap? Just wondering, I like fountains in the yard and stuff so I was thinking of doing this but I usually toss in tap water.
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Green isn't inherently a good sign. Though usually is an indicator that there is less man made materials floating around. Flouride, chlorine, chloramines, amonia, any sort of possible pesticide/herbicide from field run off (if applicable), and besides that there is the possibility of non beneficial microrganisms to be swimming around in stagnant water. They're a breeding ground for mosquitos
 
Mr Hyde

Mr Hyde

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Midwest Weedist said:
Green isn't inherently a good sign. Though usually is an indicator that there is less man made materials floating around. Flouride, chlorine, chloramines, amonia, any sort of possible pesticide/herbicide from field run off (if applicable), and besides that there is the possibility of non beneficial microrganisms to be swimming around in stagnant water. They're a breeding ground for mosquitos
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Gotcha, yeah the water definitely wouldn't be stagnant it'd have a pump flowing. The birds really love when I have a fountain in the yard only thing is my pup decided to curl up in a ball in the last one and it broke :P.

thanks for answering!!
 
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kkt3 said:
Hey thumper60, here's a pic of my garlic patches. They are loving life for sure right now!!!
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I'm envious! Last year was a disaster for garlic. I grow mostly Music and just ended up with a minimal seed crop and pretty much zero to eat. No one had seed cloves so it wasn't just me. No scapes either, I let them fully develop to get some bulbils started for down the road. Music has huge cloves and you only get 4-6 cloves/bulb, so you need a LOT of bulbs for seed. Also grow Georgian Fire which is almost identical to Music.

What I really like to do is grow garlic in newly made 'fresh' mix to age and condition it. I'll make up 10+cf of mix in late summer and plant garlic in 12-18, 5gal buckets in Oct. That mix, after harvest, is so full of micros, mycos, and worms, is amazing. That's my soil for the following year(s). It's kinda rare for me to use newly constructured mix for anything when the 'garlic aged' mixes are available.

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