Boiling water - good or bad?

[growwwww]

Just wondering if boiling ur water then letting it cool in a container over night to get to room temp. is that alot better for making the water quality good or what?

 

[Florida Girl]

I think you are confusing boiled water with distilled water... they are not the same thing.

Boiling it will kill any bacterias in it... but it won't remove the minerals.... you have to distill it for that.

 

[tusseltussel]

and you would be boilin lotsa water for just 1 plant sounds and if you wanna flush... im just thinking of the largest pot i have and thats prolly nuff to water 2 plants i guess hard to tell depends on the size of the plant container aswell seems like a pain i have nuff trouble getting myself to cook myself food then i gotta cook up my plants meal and i have 6 so i gotta boil three potfulls of water... that sucks , if your worried about your watter get ro for your house and use it on your plants

 

[growwwww]

reverse osmoasis or whatever im in england ill try and find it do i just mix 50.50 with tap water and carry on normally confused

 

[Florida Girl]

if your worried about your watter get ro for your house and use it on your plants

Yep... my tap water has a ridiculously high salt content in it (costal living) and my first few plants died.

At first I looked into making a homemade distiller... LOL... I soon realized that catching steam off a boiling pot was not going to cut the mustard when it came to producing enough water to water my plants.

I bought a portable RO machine... and my plants have done better ever since.

 

[Florida Girl]

reverse osmoasis or whatever im in england ill try and find it do i just mix 50.50 with tap water and carry on normally confused

If you use RO water don't mix it with tap water. What I did is I bought a few of those 5 gallon water bottles from walmart. I use my RO machine to fill them up. That way I have enough water for a few days.

You don't want to mix the water... you want straight RO water as it's as low PPM as possible. My RO machine does not filter out all the minerals... but it gets my water down to 50 PPM (mine is 550+ out of the tap). The point of RO is being able to start with little to no minerals and you add nutes to bring the PPM to where you want it. See that way you are controlling exactly what minerals the plant is getting.

 

[Twistyman]

Yep... my tap water has a ridiculously high salt content in it (costal living) and my first few plants died.

At first I looked into making a homemade distiller... LOL... I soon realized that catching steam off a boiling pot was not going to cut the mustard when it came to producing enough water to water my plants.

I bought a portable RO machine... and my plants have done better ever since.

I never check my PH (I should, and will this year)..but last year CannaSeur brought a PH tester and I checked reg. tap evaporated (remove chlorine) and boiled..the boiled was 7.4 the tap was 7.2....

 

[growwwww]

YOU HAVE TO BUY A MACHINE im broke cant afford one by babies are gonna have to live with my tap water being set out for a few days... ill hope for the bst staryting this week.

 

[Twistyman]

I've used just tap water for years..I think outside plants take it fine.... everything seems more of an event for inside grows.. the smallest thing bites your ass....
outside,.. water and nute..fini..

 

[mr.nsc]

i bought a water purifier at kroger...worked great for me....i couldnt afford using bottled purified water...so that was my next choice worked about the same...

 

[DaveTheNewbie]

boiling will remove the chlorine, but letting it sit in a bucket for a few days works too.
neither way removes heavy metal tho ...

 

[Florida Girl]

I've used just tap water for years..I think outside plants take it fine.... everything seems more of an event for inside grows.. the smallest thing bites your ass....
outside,.. water and nute..fini..

My outside water is just as bad. My first vegetable garden I had here was this year and it sucked big time. My Big Boy tomatoes came out the size of walnuts, so did my bell peppers. My broccoli didn't even grow at all.

After having this discussion with Al B.F. I dug out my water report and found my sodium content is 130 PPM (I'm right on the coast) .... as a comparison, the neighboring county's (30 miles inland) sodium content is 8 PPM. Al told me the way my vegetables grew is a sign of high salt content.

So unfortunately no matter where or what I grow here I have to use RO or distilled water because the stuff coming out of the tap is lethal to my edible and smokable plants. Funny though... the tropical plants I have in my yard do great, I guess they don't mind the salt in the water.

This was all new to me as I'm a born and bred Cali girl and my gardens there were always awesome with water right out of the hose.