First Time grower quick question

i have well water at home and i was wondering if that would be okay to feed my plant with or if i should stick with distilled

I personally go with distilled water ( I have well water also), but if your well water isn't too bad (mine is really hard and has a very high ppm to start), then you can use it if you leave it out overnight to let any chlorine evaporate out of it.

do you know how hard your water is? what is the ph of the well water? I use well water and every other watering I use distilled.

you sould not have chlorine in well water. If you do humm. don't know

when we had someone come out and test ours, it was over 1000 ppm (i don't know much about it, but i know that is really high).we've also got a lot of iron in our water.... turns everything orange within a couple weeks, even with adding shit to lower the iron levels. the ph wasn't too bad though, i think it was around 7. I'm using a hydro system though, so I don't want to be adding anything into the rez, and not know it. so thats why I stick with the distilled.

stumpsx2@hotmail.com said:

you sould not have chlorine in well water. If you do humm. don't know

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like I said, I don't know much about the well water, other than it's not very clean...... just wanted to add the thing about chlorine just in case.

well the reason i was asking as i have been helping my grandma lately for money and i have been using her for supplies (she runs a flower store and sells mass flowers) and she uses a mixture of well water (that has sat out) and a some nutes for her seedlings. i can take a ph reading next time i go over and "help" her out
i <3 my grandma

You can get an RO filter and probably be fine.

Letting well water sit out? don't see much of a reason. Let the radon flash off?

Water softeners add salt to the water.


Distilled might be best, but could get pricey in the long run.

The RO is probably the best route. Will help with your health too! use that water for all food related stuff (even dishwasher)

my well has great water ph right at 6.9-7.1 was tested last year and the calcium is high for everything including plants. guess I could go to my old job and get some di water that stuff is clean. would need to test ph. mix 50/50 with well water. I used that water to clean the hard water build up on the shower head. cleaned it up good.