Is Well water Good For Cannabis?

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I know how important the whole Ph thing is but I'm just sick of drowning these hundreds of dollars on the Plant.So I was wondering that does well water do pretty good for cannabis being that I stay in a rural area with a outside well pump.I once had a Ph tester but it was the cheap yellow one and was just very inaccurate depending on tips and I ended up throwing the calibration off and said screw it.So anyone think my plant will be okay until like 5-6 weeks till harvest?
 
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LordRalh3

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Screw the testers and strips. Get a pool pH drops kit. Add one drop of indicator to a little vial and that's all.

No one knows what's in your well water. You can get it tested and find out what's in it to know, could be absolutely shit or the best plant water on earth.... (they can tell you ppm, Cal hardness, mag hardness, chlorine content, conductivity, iron, blah blah blah
 
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LordRalh3 said:
Screw the testers and strips. Get a pool pH drops kit. Add one drop of indicator to a little vial and that's all.

No one knows what's in your well water. You can get it tested and find out what's in it to know, could be absolutely shit or the best plant water on earth.... (they can tell you ppm, Cal hardness, mag hardness, chlorine content, conductivity, iron, blah blah blah
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And I should be aiming for 6.5-7.0 right?
 
420monster

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Ph is important but ppms are important aswell in well water as it tends to vary hard and if is going threw a salt filter it's even worse ask me how i learned this ;)

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... I would hope you learned it through common sense... Salt softened water will fry your plants with guess what...salt. And yes ppm was covered In the tests above. Tends to vary hard... I think your saying well water has a tendency to have a high hardness and that's far from the truth, well water is typically refreshed mostly by rain which is very soft, so well is generally softer than municipal tap.

Op, a ph of 6.5 that drifts up over a few days to about a 6.9 is about ideal in dirt (a little dolomite lime in your dirt will accomplish the drift)
 
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My well water comes out with an EC of 1.2 and ph of 8 :shock: so I've switched to bottled water with an ec 0.2 and ph 7 (70cent 8ltrs) It seems to be doing the trick for now until I can Get out this weekend and find a reverse osmosis system hopping this will fix my water permanently :peace:
 
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ExpertRookie said:
I know how important the whole Ph thing is but I'm just sick of drowning these hundreds of dollars on the Plant.So I was wondering that does well water do pretty good for cannabis being that I stay in a rural area with a outside well pump.I once had a Ph tester but it was the cheap yellow one and was just very inaccurate depending on tips and I ended up throwing the calibration off and said screw it.So anyone think my plant will be okay until like 5-6 weeks till harvest?
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if u can just collect rain water,cant go wrong ,just not for hydro:bigjoint:
 
Toaster D

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I need to test my well water. It smells like eggs though, but my yard and tropical plants and palms are about as green as they could be.
 

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420monster said:
Ph is important but ppms are important aswell in well water as it tends to vary hard and if is going threw a salt filter it's even worse ask me how i learned this ;)
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That's why I would love to use well water. I have to bypass my softener and run the water a bit before I can set up my PPM'd feed.
 
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