Deciding on water advice needed

Hello all, im about to start germinating but i got a water issue, the PPM of my current tap water is 430 a bit high, so i went and bought kroger brand spring water and that ended up having like 480 PPM.

Heres a post of whats in my tap exactly :
So with that there, i was thinking of just getting some distilled water and mixing it half and half with tap to bring the ppm down yet have enough calcium/magnesium and whatever other little nutrients they need. Does that sound good? One thing of difference i noticed is the difference between conductance and PPM aslwell

You're probably over thinking it. They don't really need nutrients at the start just distilled water, a good seed have strength to make enough roots to get at nutrients. But it depends on the medium used. In what do you plant them?
The pH is more important at this state and clean water but doing it half/half is ok too. Using distilled water + starter rooting nutrient solution at 1-0.5-1 is better.

Thanks a lot your advice is great. I'm planting them in a waterfarm in hydroton which is known to cause PH problems especially in the beginning, i got a larger resoivior 4 gallons to try and keep it more level. My tap ph is 7.5 so i have to buffer some. I was thinking about doing that with just nutrient but rooting nutrient immediately makes sense. i'll think i'll try the half and half though to keep it simple, i don't have rooting solution to begin with

Orlandocb said:

Thanks a lot your advice is great. I'm planting them in a waterfarm in hydroton which is known to cause PH problems especially in the beginning, i got a larger resoivior 4 gallons to try and keep it more level. My tap ph is 7.5 so i have to buffer some. I was thinking about doing that with just nutrient but rooting nutrient immediately makes sense. i'll think i'll try the half and half though to keep it simple, i don't have rooting solution to begin with

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OK I run tap water my is like 150 ph 6.0 i dont mess with it at all, All i do is the paper towel method and wait untill its about a inch or so tap root and put it directly into the hydroton you just have to water for the first couple of days untill she big enough and let her do her thing.

noob78 said:

OK I run tap water my is like 150 ph 6.0 i dont mess with it at all, All i do is the paper towel method and wait untill its about a inch or so tap root and put it directly into the hydroton you just have to water for the first couple of days untill she big enough and let her do her thing.

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Thanks i'll now worry less. And im actually doing SCOTTYBALLS CFW continuous flow waterfarm its like an ebb and flow drip system will cost about $20 to convert. I don't even think i think i'll need to water

Orlandocb said:

Thanks i'll now worry less. And im actually doing SCOTTYBALLS CFW continuous flow waterfarm its like an ebb and flow drip system will cost about $20 to convert. I don't even think i think i'll need to water

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Whats the upgrade you talking about.

Getting a waterpump and already got a plastic resoivior and i'll need the 1/2 tubing but thats about it. Plug the waterpump right into the drip ring, instead of having the bottom submerged in roots the water will flow on them