Can water go bad?

Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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So I have this rain butt I’ve been using all season but I started a couple of seedlings a few weeks ago and they had this mottled effect on the leaves. Looks like tobacco mosaic virus.

So germinated couple more - one was butt water other one tap water.

Now the tap one is just fine. But the water butt on has this mottling affect on it. Just like the others.

So my question is can water go bad for plants?
 
Kronicle420

Kronicle420

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Nutty sKunK said:
So I have this rain butt I’ve been using all season but I started a couple of seedlings a few weeks ago and they had this mottled effect on the leaves. Looks like tobacco mosaic virus.

So germinated couple more - one was butt water other one tap water.

Now the tap one is just fine. But the water butt on has this mottling affect on it. Just like the others.

So my question is can water go bad for plants?
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any standing water will go bad. How long has it been standing? Did you ph the water before watering?
 
Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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Kronicle420 said:
any standing water will go bad. How long has it been standing? Did you ph the water before watering?
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Well it rains here almost every bloody day. It’s rain water with a pH of 5. Been installed there for about a year now and had no problems over the summer or with my plants started a couple months ago.

Just seems to be recently it’s causing this mottled effect.

Doesn't smell and is 9ppm. Live in the country so no pollution nearby.
 
raggyb

raggyb

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Nutty sKunK said:
Well it rains here almost every bloody day. It’s rain water with a pH of 5. Been installed there for about a year now and had no problems over the summer or with my plants started a couple months ago.

Just seems to be recently it’s causing this mottled effect.

Doesn't smell and is 9ppm. Live in the country so no pollution nearby.
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why does your rain have pH5? (mine is 7). and the obvious Q - wtf is a rain BUTT?
 
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bsett

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Back in my outdoor grow days we had a 66k gallon cistern that filled entirely from rain water during the winter months. By mid-summer it would look pretty funky with lots of algae and bacteria growing in it.

You defiantly wouldn't want to go swimming in it but the pants seemed to like it. In all my years of outdoor growing I never ounce checked the water PH but I can see where seedlings and indoor grows require more attention.
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I'm guessing a bad strain of bacteria got introduced recently. Maybe a bird shit something funky on your roof and the bacteria already living there couldn't deal with it.
If you're getting enough rain to refill it quickly, you may want to dump the water in there, clean it out, and refill.
 
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