Now that is something I did not know! Ya learn something new every day. We bubble our water for 24hr before using, hopefully combined with this we will have minimal levels of that nasty chlorine and chloramine crap. Thanks for the input bro!
You don’t need to bubble your water for 24 hours or let it set 24 hours. Get a five gallon bucket of tap water, add a little vitamin c powder and stir it, use one of those pool chlorine testing kits and see for yourself. Neutralized almost instantly. In Chemistry, this is well known. I get mine from Sprouts Whole Foods store. Make sure it says pure vitamin C.
No problem.
Doesn't neutralize chloramine.
This is a great question, thank you for pointing this out. Based on the symptoms, I would believe K or mn def, yet the below chart shows that mg does well with low pH. So maybe it's a K lockout due to pH?
In absence of Vitamin C, 24hr bubble yield same results, no?
Would love to now more about this in reference to bubbling off vs vitamin c. Does bubbling off help with chloramine?
Yeah nevermind, ignore me. I was probably thinking of bubbling it out with air stones. Which will still get rid of it but takes a long time.
So you guys don’t use molasses at all, I use it flowering
Only a little bit and only when brewing teas. The plants benefit little to none giving them molasses. It’s only for feeding microbes.
Flora one can't be neutralized it have to be removed via a Kdf filter/ carbon filter. Chlorine is different it can be neutralized to a degree. but to be honest chlorine has never hurt my plants and for home use if I didn’t have all the shit I have now I’d be using chlorinated water and run with it like I did in the past.
Hey bro, in any case, it gives people an option with tap water. I've went this route my entire last grow and it went really well with no sign of degradation of beneficial microbes in my super soil. Now I don't have a microscope but I had no ph problems associated with low microbial populations.
What part of California bro?
well I learned from hippies that if you use molasses in soil. the micro organisms in the soil the feeds off of the nutrients in the soil, So the molasses from what I’ve understood from the hippies feeds a micro organisms in the soil that way they won’t be feeding on the plants if that makes sense
Sacramento
Actually that question was Budz. I live in Sac for 7 years in the 90s
It's not to keep them from feeding on the plant, it's to provide a food source and environment for them to proliferate.
That’s perfect I couldn’t said it any better the only thing I want to add was if the micro organisms in the soil take up a lot of the nutrients in the soil then it will affect the plants basically taking away from the plant
Not correct sir. Their job is break down organic matter in the soil and through digestion or predator microbes eating them, it becomes available in a form the plant can use.