I was going to say except for well water but I would think you can run that through a dual carbon filter to remove most of the bad stuff without all of that waste that RO makes. But then again, if it's your well and you aren't paying for city water, then it's no waste.well, the reason I use RO water is because i'm on well water and the ppm is at about 520. I don't know if there is to much of a certain minerals in it so why not just start off with a clean slate by using RO water.
Yeah that q was weird. RO water is the cleanest way to start, but you do have to add in calmag. I use it at 10ml/gallon and it seems to work great.Why would anyone need to use RO water in an organic soil grow?
When I used to do saltwater tanks, we would treat the water with this chemical to remove the chlorine and chloramines. It was pretty common stuff and we used it to treat very bad tap water, and I never had a problem with some very sensitive animals. Anyone ever tried this?I was going to say except for well water but I would think you can run that through a dual carbon filter to remove most of the bad stuff without all of that waste that RO makes. But then again, if it's your well and you aren't paying for city water, then it's no waste.
I just hate paying for cal-mag when my tap water has sufficient amounts. I do let the chlorine off-gas and I don't think I have chloramine but even if I do, it doesn't have enough to kill many microbes especially if you supplement with benies as that will overwhelm any of the tap water antimicrobials, and additionally since you're adding it to a large amount of organic material
Its the most popular grocery list in America.4 bags Organic Base Soil
12.5-25 lbs. Worm Castings
2.5 lbs Fish Bone Meal
2.5 lbs Bat Guano
2.5 lbs Blood Meal
3/8 cup (1/4 cup + 1/8 cup) Epsom Salts
1/2 cup Sweet (dolomite) Lime
1/4 cup Azomite
1 Tbs Powdered Humic Acid
oh ya here is the link if it helpshey i just recieved my soluble powdered humic acid ordered online from keep it simple inc. product is called teravita sp-90 soluble humate powder
its a black grainy powdery substance.
please let me know if this is the right stuff for the ss soil recipe. think it costed about 10-12 buks for like 2 pounds
any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks chewbert over and out
you got it bro, that stuff should work great! my humic looks exactly the same