rain water??? anyone use it?

[burjzyntski]

I grow outdoors, so I love it when it rains. I even leave a bucket out near my plants to collect rainwater so that if we don't get any rain for a couple of days, at least I have some backup water that I don't have to carry all the way out there.

N of WPB here, and, yeah, it's raining

 

[doobiedo]

yeah, buying water sucks and our tap water (city water) is real hard, comes out in chunks lol

 

[superskunkxnl]

where i live I wont drink the tap water so ill be fucked if my ladies will i have a small rain water tak 1,000 ltres for me and my hydro res' beautiful and clean not recycled piss and shit fuck its basically distilled cos thats how rain works evaporation, condensation thats also how distilation works happy smokin n keep it green
skunk

 

[Seamaiden]

http://earth.esa.int/satelliteimages/1679/no2scia_world2006_H_or.jpg

if you're in the blue...you're good...hell even green.

i would be cautious about the yellow and red areas!

That is VERY cool, LB, I live in the very blue.

 

[BlessAmerica]

I thought that you want your H20 pH between 5.5 and 6.5?? If FL rain water is 6.0 then were set!

 

[bongsurf]

has anyone taken a ppm reading of rain water?

 

[doobiedo]

yeah skunk i've gone thru 3 coffee makers cus of the hard water. even w/ regular vinager wash.

 

[Bobster]

has anyone taken a ppm reading of rain water?

I dont have a meter. I believe that rainwater is natural reverse osmoisis. However, most rainwater has picked up hydrocarbons from the atmosphere therefore lowering the PH.

 

[bongsurf]

hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, someone should give you a degree. but yea that makes a lot of sense.

 

[KAOSOWNER]

i think ppm's and ph will be different depending where you live. unless your in hydro you dont want your ph that low 6.2 - 6.8 for soil, and 5.2 - 5.8 for hydro. My rain is to acidic but i will check ppm's next time it rains and let yall know

 

[joebuck]

I use rainwater - that's all we have for the whole house and garden. It's great. Check my grow journal & you'll see the plants have no problem w/ it.

 

[bongsurf]

i think ppm's and ph will be different depending where you live. unless your in hydro you dont want your ph that low 6.2 - 6.8 for soil, and 5.2 - 5.8 for hydro. My rain is to acidic but i will check ppm's next time it rains and let yall know

much appreciated. cause i'm growing hydroponically and i want to make sure if i do use rain water that i could use it on clones or seedlings.