I messed up with watering. Should i be worried? Unfiltered water accident

[Gtjoker420]

Should I be worried?
I accidentally used water that wasn't filtered for today's watering.
I normally use a rv filter attached to the line but forgot that it was hooked up in a different room.
Should I be worried?
I use promix amended with down to earth fertilizer, compost, ewc
I also used my container of nematodes I bought in this watering, can nematodes survive unfiltered tap water?

 

[madvillian420]

ive had to do it a few times, youll be okay.

I was gonna suggest watering to runoff with the good stuff next time, but thats not the best idea with the nematodes

 

[Gtjoker420]

ive had to do it a few times, youll be okay.

I was gonna suggest watering to runoff with the good stuff next time, but thats not the best idea with the nematodes

Do you think the nematodes will remain alive?

 

[madvillian420]

i honestly dont know man id be lying if i gave you an answer. Id assume one day of tap water wouldnt kill every single one of em even if it did some harm

 

[Rozgreenburn]

Do you think the nematodes will remain alive?

You should be just fine. Nematodes thrive wherever we put them outdoors, and our ground varies quite a bit {none of it good}. If you have "bad" water, then yes, go back to filtering. I grow organic in super soil and don't even PH my water. Just well water with minerals built right in!!!

 

[Gtjoker420]

You should be just fine. Nematodes thrive wherever we put them outdoors, and our ground varies quite a bit {none of it good}. If you have "bad" water, then yes, go back to filtering. I grow organic in super soil and don't even PH my water. Just well water with minerals built right in!!!

Yes I typically water with a rv filter to filter chlorine out.

 

[OldMedUser]

Should I be worried?
I accidentally used water that wasn't filtered for today's watering.
I normally use a rv filter attached to the line but forgot that it was hooked up in a different room.
Should I be worried?
I use promix amended with down to earth fertilizer, compost, ewc
I also used my container of nematodes I bought in this watering, can nematodes survive unfiltered tap water?

What is an rv filter or did you mean to type RO filter? If it's chlorine you're worried about I wouldn't worry too much as the residual chlorine in tap water is so low, maybe 2-8ppm, that one dose isn't going to harm anything and likely repeated doses won't either and I think folks fret about it too much.

I'm growing in basically the same kind of medium as you and use RO water only. Not to avoid chlorine but our tap water comes from a dugout on my property and is 400+ppm and pH8+ depending on the season. Less of both after spring runoff but higher in both later in summer as the water evaporates down and concentrates the mineral content. As I'm using organics more now I'll use some of that water early in veg to introduce lots of different bacteria etc as the dugout has a healthy amount of life in it and feed sugars all thru the grow to keep them happy.

I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Gtjoker420]

What is an rv filter or did you mean to type RO filter? If it's chlorine you're worried about I wouldn't worry too much as the residual chlorine in tap water is so low, maybe 2-8ppm, that one dose isn't going to harm anything and likely repeated doses won't either and I think folks fret about it too much.

I'm growing in basically the same kind of medium as you and use RO water only. Not to avoid chlorine but our tap water comes from a dugout on my property and is 400+ppm and pH8+ depending on the season. Less of both after spring runoff but higher in both later in summer as the water evaporates down and concentrates the mineral content. As I'm using organics more now I'll use some of that water early in veg to introduce lots of different bacteria etc as the dugout has a healthy amount of life in it and feed sugars all thru the grow to keep them happy.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Rv filter. It's like a $40 filter that removes the. Chlorine and sediment

 

[Richard Drysift]

Your plants won’t know the difference. Top dress with some EWC if you are worried about the microherd.