Questions about my Water

vitamin_green_inc said:

hello all,

I am using an organic soil mix, LC Recipe #1 tweaked and customized. I currently water with 1 tablespoon horticulture molasses and 5 ml of Liquid Karma, which is a fulvic acid/humic acid source. My plants are good, 5th week now, but I have been experiencing CAl-mag defincies. I have only been watering with bottled spring water or distilled. This is becuase my tap comes out at 7.0 ph and 450 ppm! So my question is, can I use the tap water if I let it sit in a bucket for 24 hours and airate it? I have tested the ph after letting it set out before and it was over 8! It would be ideal to be able to use that water and just use pH down? I have Cal-Mag but I did not know if this would harm the micro-herd? If I can use the Cal-Mag , should I stop using it around 2 weeks out, just as I will do with the molasses and liquid Karma? Thanks so much y'all

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calicocalyx said:

I would think you'd be fine aerating the water left out and dropping that ph. Of course a proper organic soil should buffer anyway. Hard to say if you are deficient or have a lock out going on. Whats the run off ph? cal-mag shouldn't harm the micro organisms and the whole flushing/ stopping nutes at the end is up to you, lots of debate about that here. I personally have flushed, but it makes sense that it's all about the cure. I'm not going to flush this round and see what's up with that. I'm organic too. If that's your soil mix, did you let it sit and cook proper before using?

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