used hardwater 1Kppm+. got harder fruit...why?

Chronicly ill said:

generally use good water at 50ppm or less but for goofs used some very hard water. 1000ppm to 1700ppm. used same nutes in both with exception of no cal-mag in hard water. the hard stuff yielded some very hard stuff in a side x side. the usual is light n not too solid, the experiment made a slightly shorter, much much more solid fruit. so tried it again with more calmag in reg h2o. seeing same result but noticing more compact branching in hard test subjects. about 1-1.5 inches tighter/closer...any ideas why? whats in that water that isnt in or is lacking in full line of flora trio?

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M.O. said:

Especially when your RO was already prefiltered by a softener which also wastes it. If I didn’t though the RO filters wouldn’t last a week.

My waste just goes back into my water table on a septic system though. You only spend electricity pumping it up and some salt.

It’s still a pain in the ass however necessary for me and I’d rather save the RO filters for drinking and cooking only.

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M.O. said:

I honestly love the history of trying to put stuff together back in the day. My first grow was in 03 and things had come around a lot by then with lighting.

I inherited a stash of seeds recently, his grow was from late 80s-early 90s and homie had built his own ballast. Definitely had a street light set up but the homemade ballast kind of blew my mind. Easily close to 50 pounds and about the size of full sized a computer tower. Had all the books for wiring and notes for it all. It was solid and no doubt still worked.

Tons of respect for all the trail blazers. I still had to sneak but didn’t have to actually build anything like that.

Yo @Chronicaly ill

Do you use any kind of enzyme for sediment building up in the media? and what kind of media, peat, coco etc. do you use if you don’t mind me askin?

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