Calcium Ascorbate question.

So ive decided to go with calcium ascorbate as dechlorinating agent. Yet im not able to find any consistent material on how long it takes once added. Would anyone have any info on that? Would anyone know if it causes any damage to the bonds in my feed aswell? This is what i do. Slap in the CA, mix and wait like five minutes, slap in calmag, mix and wait a bit, then feed, mix and wait.

How about you just fill jugs' etc. And let them sit for 24 hrs. The chlorine will evaporate out.
Even better. Fill a container and drop an air stone in. Same result with better dissolved O2 in it.

Dr. Who said:

How about you just fill jugs' etc. And let them sit for 24 hrs. The chlorine will evaporate out.
Even better. Fill a container and drop an air stone in. Same result with better dissolved O2 in it.

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I have chloramine contaminated water and not chlorine unfortunately. Dechlorinated sounds better than dechloraminated XD and i believe it is applicable to the ammonium chlorine compound as well (may be wrong).

I just use plain old ascorbic acid powder and it works very quickly, within a minute if you mix it in well. It's great stuff for removing chlorine/chloramine and might even benefit the plant in other ways. Plus a lb of it will last you forever, or rather, until the stuff goes bad. I stick a few desiccant packs in the bag.

Rurumo said:

I just use plain old ascorbic acid powder and it works very quickly, within a minute if you mix it in well. It's great stuff for removing chlorine/chloramine and might even benefit the plant in other ways. Plus a lb of it will last you forever, or rather, until the stuff goes bad. I stick a few desiccant packs in the bag.

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Ok so within a minute, provided proper mixing, the bonds will be broken? And it wont affect any of the other compounds I add in after? Even though the amount is incredibly small, I went with the buffered ascorbic acid instead. Just to be on the safe side XD

Apocalyptical said:

Ok so within a minute, provided proper mixing, the bonds will be broken? And it wont affect any of the other compounds I add in after? Even though the amount is incredibly small, I went with the buffered ascorbic acid instead. Just to be on the safe side XD

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If you plan on doing this for a long time, you may want to consider a good 3 stage under sink carbon filter. WIth enough contact time the amonia bonds are broken and the chloramine can be removed. That or an RO system.

dbz said:

If you plan on doing this for a long time, you may want to consider a good 3 stage under sink carbon filter. WIth enough contact time the amonia bonds are broken and the chloramine can be removed. That or an RO system.

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In time. Until then, I just needed info on this lol but thank you brother. We'll see what plays out.

dbz said:

If you plan on doing this for a long time, you may want to consider a good 3 stage under sink carbon filter. WIth enough contact time the amonia bonds are broken and the chloramine can be removed. That or an RO system.

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Agreed but, just go to an RO system and add Ca/Mg if running any soilless style.