I need to kill chloramines
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CaliRootz88
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Take a look at this product.
It's from the same company who makes Microbe LIFT the BTi supplement for gnats.
- Destroys chloramines
It's from the same company who makes Microbe LIFT the BTi supplement for gnats.
Jjgrow420
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This product is intended for use with all ornamental pond and aquarium fishes. Not for use with fishes or aquatic invertebrates intended for human consumption. This is not a medication or economic poison and is not intended for use as such.
Wastei
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Kill chloramines? You can only remove that. Do you mean bad bacteria cultures like Pythium? Then chloramines would help you.
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Jjgrow420
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Chloramines aren't bugs or animals. It's a chemical. You can remove chloramine with a 2stage filter containing a catalytic carbon filter.
Aquarium products are meant for ornamental aquariums never meant to touch consumption in any form by people. These products don't have to be regulated and they can put almost anything in them and not have to label it etc. Id NEVER use any type of aquarium hobby product on anything I consume EVER. And I keep fish. Used to run a fish 'grow room' with over 22 tanks of fish and 5 tanks of all plants.
Unless of coarse you'd like to bulk up the slime coat on your plants....
Aquarium products are meant for ornamental aquariums never meant to touch consumption in any form by people. These products don't have to be regulated and they can put almost anything in them and not have to label it etc. Id NEVER use any type of aquarium hobby product on anything I consume EVER. And I keep fish. Used to run a fish 'grow room' with over 22 tanks of fish and 5 tanks of all plants.
Unless of coarse you'd like to bulk up the slime coat on your plants....
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calvin.m16
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Reverse Osmosis Filtration with GAC (Activated Carbon) pre-filter block.
My ground water is shit where I live so I had to just resort to RO to know that my solution is clean when I hit my roots with it and smoke the end product. I add a pinch of BioAg TM-7 to my RO water every time so it replenishes minerals and micronutrients.
My ground water is shit where I live so I had to just resort to RO to know that my solution is clean when I hit my roots with it and smoke the end product. I add a pinch of BioAg TM-7 to my RO water every time so it replenishes minerals and micronutrients.
xtsho
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Plants don't care about the small amount of chloramines in tap water. I can make a sourdough starter from scratch using tap water that has chlorine and chloramines in it. If the wild yeast can survive and multiply in the presence of chloramines then plants will be fine and if growing in organic soil the soil microbes will not be killed off.
People have been watering plants with water containing chloramines for years. I water straight from the tap. Plants don't give a damn.
If you have bad water then an RO system may be required but you'd just be wasting your money getting one to remove chloramines.
This water topic comes up quite often. People need to realize that there are standards set for the amount of chloramines and chlorine in water and those levels are extremely low and not nearly enough to cause any harm to your plants or soil.
People have been watering plants with water containing chloramines for years. I water straight from the tap. Plants don't give a damn.
If you have bad water then an RO system may be required but you'd just be wasting your money getting one to remove chloramines.
This water topic comes up quite often. People need to realize that there are standards set for the amount of chloramines and chlorine in water and those levels are extremely low and not nearly enough to cause any harm to your plants or soil.
calvin.m16
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My friend grows outdoor every year and feeds his plants straight up Flint City Water and they do not care. Same thing with when he is vegging them indoors, they don't care. lol they look great with zero filtration or special process. I think people overthink it a bit. My well water comes out orange and smells like Iron xxxxtreme so I RO it or all my cans and tanks get coated in Iron and other bullsh*t.
GroBud
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I just use a boogie blue RV water filter and water plants with water hose or fill buckets up for indoor plants. I have used cheaper ones but bought a double pack and put them together instead of running just one. Idk if it takes chloramines out I do know that my tap can get up to 800ppms I live in a desert climate with limestone. This doesn't effect plants using that filter. Look up 10lbs off one plant on YouTube under " Growing your greens " if they can do that with garden hose, I think it's okay. Been using this method for a little over a year.
When you have shitty tap I think if it's not recommended that humans consume tap I dont want my plants either. My dogs don't even drink our tap water. Same as not spraying buds with pesticides or whatever i dont want that shitty water being soaked up by plant. Not swearing by that filter, I've never tested. I have watered plants with direct tap not filtered and ruined plants not cannabis so that's why I dont use direct tap on my weed
When you have shitty tap I think if it's not recommended that humans consume tap I dont want my plants either. My dogs don't even drink our tap water. Same as not spraying buds with pesticides or whatever i dont want that shitty water being soaked up by plant. Not swearing by that filter, I've never tested. I have watered plants with direct tap not filtered and ruined plants not cannabis so that's why I dont use direct tap on my weed
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xtsho
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There you go. That's probably some of the nastiest tap water on the planet and the plants don't care.
Hollatchaboy
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You can't kill what isn't alive.
hotrodharley
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“ Herein, we treated an experimental soil-plant-microbiome microcosm system by continuous irrigation with a low concentration of chlorine-containing water, and then analyzed the influence on the soil microbial community using metagenomics. After 14-d continuous chlorine treatment, there were no significant lasting effect on soil microbial community diversity and composition either in the rhizosphere or in bulk soil. ”
Assessment of residual chlorine in soil microbial community using metagenomics - Soil Ecology Letters
Chlorine-containing disinfectants have been widely used around the world for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, at present, little is known about the impact of residual chlorine on the soil micro-ecological environment. Herein, we treated an experimental...
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Coco-garden
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So like you I was worried about chloramines in my water with my first grow. I went out and bought a 3 stage RO system and used it during veg and had nothing but problems doing so. I had mag problems tried a bunch of different things that somewhat worked but not entirely. I switched over to using tap water that I sat out with a bubbler for 24 hours because my tap is legit only .1ec at the highest and my plants responded well. I do have chloramines in my water but my plants don’t seem care. I also should note that I use coco as well so I don’t have much or any microbes to kill. If your using soil I’d worry a little more but in hydro or coco it doesn’t matter all that much.
xtsho
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"In summary, our study focused on the impact of continuous chlorine treatment on soil microbial community diversity, composition, and functions. Our results indicated that continuous chlorine treatment have no significant effect on the growth of wheat and soil microbiome neither in rhizosphere or in bulk soil over a period of time. "
Assessment of residual chlorine in soil microbial community using metagenomics
Assessment of residual chlorine in soil microbial community using metagenomics
Ecothrive Neutralise - Water Conditioner
Ecothrive Neutralise - Water Conditioner
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Wastei
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So regular ascorbic acid in a fancy bottle?Ecothrive Neutralise - Water Conditioner
Ecothrive Neutralise - Water Conditioner
People have been using ascorbic acid for ages for water treatment. You're better of buying a bag of ascorbic acid, there's dosages and recommendations if you search this forum.
In most scenarios it's not needed for plants, but handy in case you need to sterilize drinking water with chlorine and then neutralizing it with ascorbic acid. Some plants are very sensitive to chlorine, not common but wasabi is one of them.
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xtsho
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People could post a thousand legitimate studies showing that the levels of chlorine and chloramines in tap water are at levels that are completely safe to use to water their plants and will not kill the soil microbial population.
Yet people still feel the need to post links to products that are unnecessary. I've never seen so much disregard for actual science than I have in the cannabis growing community.
Yet people still feel the need to post links to products that are unnecessary. I've never seen so much disregard for actual science than I have in the cannabis growing community.
xtsho
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It's amazing how much money is being made by putting cheap ingredients in a fancy bottle and then targeting cannabis growers that refuse to accept that science and results from actual peer reviewed scientific studies is real. And they don't just disbelieve actual science, they're willing to pay 1000% plus markups for something they can get at any supermarket or drugstore for pennies compared to the products they buy.
"The active ingredient in Neutralise is concentrated Vitamin C"
All it takes is a couple pallets of empty bottles, a shiny label, cool sounding name, and a few dollars of ingredients to make tens of thousands of dollars. A pinch of epsom salts and it's a flushing product for $19.95. Crush up a vitamin C tablet, add water, and it's a chlorine remover for $14.95. As long as there are cannabis growers there will always be a steady supply of gullible customers to fleece.