rkymtnman
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i'd love to know how long RO filters would last trying to filter out 1 to 2EC nutrient water compared to tap or well water?
Deep water culture - Easiest way to change water without hurting roots/ making a mess
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rkymtnman
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i spent about $75 on a semi-decent one and once i saw how much grey water it made, i threw that POS in the trash. maybe i've been in colorado too long?? lol
Hollatchaboy
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Mine does about 1:1. A permeate pump and storage tank help.
rkymtnman
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what did the whole setup run roughly?
Sickofitall420247
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You can do that and deal with the endless leaks or you can do it right with bulk heads the first time. I suggest 3in pvc with bulkheads to avoid your lines getting clogged up and it flooding your growspace.
Hollatchaboy
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Shit, it's hard to say because I bought them all separately, years apart. I believe the stealth ro 150 was around 200. The permeate was like 50, along with the storage tank.
rkymtnman
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thanks! 1:1 wouldn't have been bad. but like fangthane said, seeing 4 parts go down the drain sucked.
luckily my well water is still pretty awesome
Fangthane
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Never would have thought I'd come to miss something as simple as having a well. Not many of them around here, and a good percentage of the ones there are have uranium contamination. Can't wait to never see this place again.
rkymtnman
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where the hell are you if you dont mind me asking?
sadly enough just south of us in canon city was the cotter mill (made yellow cake uranium back in the day). the whole place is a superfund disaster. holding ponds overflowing in heavy rain, wells contaminated, etc. )
rkymtnman
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oh shit! if it's anything like Shiprock NM , that is bad. when we drove home from grand canyon, that might have been some of the poorest areas of teh US i've ever seen.
Hollatchaboy
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I find other uses for some of the grey water, like the washing machine,
Hollatchaboy
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Do you guys use humidifiers?
rkymtnman
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i do in the veg tent (2x2). a humid day here is above 30% . lol. once they get some biomass, then i'll eventually swithc to a dehuey
Fangthane
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I'm less than 150 miles from Shiprock. If you took I 40, you passed within a mile or so of my house. This region is all kinds of fucked, on so many levels. If anything, I'm underselling just how much I despise this area.
I'd bought a little cheapie from Amazon a few years back, but it only lasted maybe 18 months. I've pretty much accepted defeat in the humidity battle.
Hollatchaboy
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Do you just use tap water in it?
rkymtnman
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IIRC, on the way home , we kinda went the backroads . i remember following the navajo coal plant railroad tracks for miles and miles. and then we stopped at a burger king and that might have been the saddest place i've ever seen in this country. dirt poor doenst even begin to describe
Hollatchaboy
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I got this one on Amazon about 4 years ago. Still works great, but in the winter, I have to fill it twice a day. Kinda blows... lol
I'm waiting for ac infinity to work out the bugs on the cloudforge t7, so I can get one of those.
@Laughing Grass looking at you!! LOL