You must be either dyslexic or outright stupid.
Never once did I say it would HURT ANYTHING.
I'm simply stating that it's a waste of time, energy, resources, and money to PURIFY water to it's PUREST state possible, and then INJECT CONTAMINATED ATMOSPHERE RIGHT BACK INTO IT INTENTIONALLY.
Are you listening to what you're saying??? Now for the sake of argument I'll argee that the moment that RO water comes out of the filter, it may indeed be pure, or as you put it, "surgical grade", whatever THAT is, lol, but really, why on God's green earth do you think it needs to STAY that way in order to use it to WATER PLANTS???
Your plants, and every hydro/watering systems I've seen or heard of, DO NOT REQUIRE this level of purity in the H2o supplied to them, and I defy you to tell me otherwise. While one part of your statement is indeed true, the rest of it is nothing put a logical fallacy based on some strange idea that perfect water makes a perfect system.
1) The FACT is that absolutely pure water is not in any way a requirement in growing cannabis (caveat MIGHT be if you were working at some experimental facility testing the affects of individual nutrients in a tightly controlled environment, but that is not germane to this discussion, unless you are, lol).
2) Generally speaking, RO systems are used in situations where the existing water supply is contaminated or has too high a TDS - the system is there to provide CLEAN water, and THAT is the operative word, and NOT "surgical grade" or 100% PURE H2o. Thinking otherwise is simply wrong-headed, and constantly defending this untenable stance just pushes you more into the camp of the
Zoroastrians, lol (maybe you're an Aquarian ;?). Either way it's becoming practically a religious belief complete with unreasonable dogma.
3) Your ideas about maintaining the purity of said surgical grade H2o are flawed - from the very moment it leaves the system it begins to absorb elements from it's surroundings. Unless you keep it stored in a glass carboy, it will begin leaching elements from the container, and if it's not air tight, then from said atmosphere.
Btw, you and your plants absorb them as well, but unless it's seriously polluted, you're worrying needlessly and just making mountains out of mole hills. YES, you paid good money for a system that makes "pure" water, but WHY do you insist on believing that it absolutely has to remain in that state in order to be useful?
Bottom line, RO systems are only necessary to remove HARMFUL elements, THAT IS ALL that is required where agriculture or cannaculture, for that matter, are concerned. Any thinking otherwise is most likely due to your anthropomorphizing in treating your plants as if they were little human babies, lol. Sorry, but SERIOUSLY, there is absolutely ZERO NECESSITY for absolutely pure water. Rant done, lol, I won't beat this dead and decaying horse any further ;?D
