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Nate3592

Nate3592

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My tap water is pretty bad. Should I boil water and let it sit if I don't want to purchase distilled?

Also, i'm a beginner. I'm trying Blue Mystic. If anyone knows exactly that would be great, but i'm trying to plan for the future here. Approximately how long does it take form sprouting till it's time to flower?

Last, is it necessary to not fertilize the plant before harvest?

Thanks guys
 
Kerovan

Kerovan

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what do you mean by "bad"? lots of disolved minerals? boiling will make it worse. Does the local grocery store have a reverse osmosis water station where you can refill cheap? Or buy an RO unit for your own use if the water really is that bad.
 
Nate3592

Nate3592

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Uh i'm not sure man. I'm at a college all I know is it probably not great. Won't boiling remove bad stuff? I mean how would it make it worse? Not familiar with an RO unit is it expensive?
 
Kerovan

Kerovan

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when you boil all that evaporates is liquid and gasses. The dissolved solids stay in and get even more concentrated since some of the liquid evaporated. you can get cheap ro units for around $100 or so I would think. But if you are not sure about what makes your water bad, then how do you know it is bad? It may be fine for watering plants.
 
Jonnyfire

Jonnyfire

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Nate3592 said:
My tap water is pretty bad. Should I boil water and let it sit if I don't want to purchase distilled?

Also, i'm a beginner. I'm trying Blue Mystic. If anyone knows exactly that would be great, but i'm trying to plan for the future here. Approximately how long does it take form sprouting till it's time to flower?

Last, is it necessary to not fertilize the plant before harvest?

Thanks guys
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For water if ur that worried u could collect rainwater nd give them that, as far as how long it will take depends on how long ur gonna veg, u could start flowering it from seedling which u would be able to harvest in around 2months min,, Lastly u should use fertilizer until i think 2 weeks before harvest @ this point u flush...
 
Jonnyfire

Jonnyfire

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Kerovan said:
when you boil all that evaporates is liquid and gasses. The dissolved solids stay in and get even more concentrated since some of the liquid evaporated. you can get cheap ro units for around $100 or so I would think. But if you are not sure about what makes your water bad, then how do you know it is bad? It may be fine for watering plants.
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Sorry bro but he said hes in COLLEGE, nd most of us college kids r pretty BROKE lol 100$ ISNT that cheap
 
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Japanfreak

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The best thing to do is just use your tap water and see if you can grow with it first, you'd be surprised how good most tap water is.
 
Nate3592

Nate3592

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Yeah i'm trying to keep the costs down my friend. $100 for clear water is a little rough. I feel like my tap water is bad because the taste, theres something in it and I think chances are it's not for growing. I may just buy distilled water because collecting rainwater may be sketchy haha.

Oh and for curing do you use an air tight container/jar?

Yeah, and anyone have advice on odor control? I have a small air purifier is there anything, you know house hold items and stuff, that can help?

Oh and Japan i'm on a pretty limited time schedule so I dont want to waste time trying the tap.
 
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peff711

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Go to a pool store near you. spend about $7 for a ph testing kit. Test the water you're gonna feed you plants....it should be between 5.6 and 7.0 PH...if it's high, add vinegar, if it's low add baking soda. The plants are weeds and will adapt to just about anything..happy smoking!!
 
FootClan

FootClan

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Jonnyfire said:
Sorry bro but he said hes in COLLEGE, nd most of us college kids r pretty BROKE lol 100$ ISNT that cheap
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Once again if you cant afford 100 bucks then you cant afford to grow duhh...lol why even try if you a broke collage kid...
 
FootClan

FootClan

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Nate3592 said:
Uh i'm not sure man. I'm at a college all I know is it probably not great. Won't boiling remove bad stuff? I mean how would it make it worse? Not familiar with an RO unit is it expensive?
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wont watering remove bad stuff?? lol and your in collage? hes been watching Bear grylls man vs wild i think
 
TaoWolf

TaoWolf

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Use tap water since it's free. You can buy cheap pH test drops or strips (~$5). Adjust the pH like recommended and if needed. The only thing that's going to be in the water are minerals that plants use with the possible exception of chloramine. However, most places are still using chlorine instead of chloramine. The chlorine at the levels used in drinking water won't harm them (plants even use trace amounts of chlorine normally). But if chlorine scares you, leave the water sitting out for a few hours and chlorine will very rapidly leave the water.
 
Desr

Desr

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you can boil the impuritites out of your water, duh thats how you would do it in the wilderness...start a fire..boil water to drink...anyone?
 
Kerovan

Kerovan

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Desr said:
you can boil the impuritites out of your water, duh thats how you would do it in the wilderness...start a fire..boil water to drink...anyone?
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that only kills the pathogens, as somebody else already pointed out. It does not remove impurities, in fact it concentrates them unless they are gaseous.
 
Nate3592

Nate3592

Member
Okay so basically boiling water will not purify your water to the point you need for your plants? I talked with TaoWolf he said all you really need to worry about is the PH balance and/or the mixture of chlorine and ammonia.
 
sparkabowl

sparkabowl

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If your water tastes bad, you are better off buying some because it is probably high in dissolved solids. Just remember that when you have pure water its pH is 7, whereas it is ideal to water eighth pH 6.5 in soil. Not too much, just something to consider.

Curing is the slow drying process. You need to first dry your buds to remove most of the moisture, 3-4 days hanging, then slow the drying process down once the stems snap when bent. Many methods can be used; put into airtight jars and open them a couple times a day for a few minutes, place them loosely in a cardboard box with the flaps loosely closed, paper bags with the tops folded over and open and stir once in a while. The main idea is to dry slowly. The quicker you dry, the more green taste you lock in, but if you throw buds that are too wet into a paper bag, they will mold.

For odor control, here's the thread: https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/90893-ultimate-odour-control-thread.html
but good luck with that one, I still haven't been able to contain the dankness come flower/harvest time.
 
sparkabowl

sparkabowl

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Whoa, I only read the first page then replied. Had no idea all this drama was going on, calm down and med up y'all.

When considering your water, you need to be concerned with the total dissolved solids and pH. If your water is "hard," it probably tastes bad because it is full of dissolved minerals. These dissolved minerals are most likely not in the correct proportion to supplement the growth of your plant, and when you add your fertilizers that the plant needs you are basically making a solution so high in solutes that your plant will choke on it and die. Same thing with pH - if the pH is out of range, certain minerals will not be available to the plant. Nute lockout = bad growth.



not my chart
 
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