R/o water anybody use it for organic growing

Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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I just purchased a r/o system for my house. It can do 500 gallons a day, obviously I dont need that much. I am growing in 30 gallon pots, watering twice a week with each pot getting around 1.5 to 1.75 gallons, and about ten oz’s of recharge in between waterings. I also top dress once a month. My question is. Is using r/o water okay? as I was going to use my well water but recently found out my city water is also a supply for my well, as my house was built in 1908 and was a very common practice to hook up three way valves in side the house. Mine feeds my house with city water but also fills my well with a mix of city water and well water. Also the well is a shallow well only about forty feet deep which means it has a very high mineral and salt content. I was just going to use a r/o system and go forward but don’t want to strip my soil. should I just use a higher rock dust content and recharge to keep my microbial life happy also has earth worms in the soil.
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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Boatguy said:
How big is that thing? 500 ro gallons a day = 1000's of gallons of waste water per day
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It doesn’t use that much just rated for that much with out letting contaminates by it’s a waterdrop two filter system I only need about forty to fifty gallons a week
 
Boatguy

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Hiphophippo said:
It doesn’t use that much just rated for that much with out letting contaminates by it’s a waterdrop two filter system I only need about forty to fifty gallons a week
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Do you have the one without the storage tank, that produces 1 cup of water every 12 seconds?
 
manfredo

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Boatguy said:
How big is that thing? 500 ro gallons a day = 1000's of gallons of waste water per day
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Well only if you actually make 500 gallons.

I would say, it all depends on what's in your well/city water....That's a most strange setup that I have never heard of, mixing well water and city water.

I made the switch from RO water to well water, and TBH I am still figuring it out! My well water has a PPM of under 100, but the ph is a little high.

I used RO water with super soil for years, just because i had it, and then added cal/mag and Epson salt to it.

Probably a good step for us both is to get our well water actually tested!!
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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manfredo said:
Well only if you actually make 500 gallons.

I would say, it all depends on what's in your well/city water....That's a most strange setup that I have never heard of, mixing well water and city water.

I made the switch from RO water to well water, and TBH I am still figuring it out! My well water has a PPM of under 100, but the ph is a little high.

I used RO water with super soil for years, just because i had it, and then added cal/mag and Epson salt to it.

Probably a good step for us both is to get our well water actually tested!!
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It’s actually very common and old houses where I live when they ran the city water to our area in the 1960s they would run it like that I thought it was also very strange but is how it is lol that’s the route I was going to take with the epsom salt and some cal mag
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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manfredo said:
Well only if you actually make 500 gallons.

I would say, it all depends on what's in your well/city water....That's a most strange setup that I have never heard of, mixing well water and city water.

I made the switch from RO water to well water, and TBH I am still figuring it out! My well water has a PPM of under 100, but the ph is a little high.

I used RO water with super soil for years, just because i had it, and then added cal/mag and Epson salt to it.

Probably a good step for us both is to get our well water actually tested!!
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Yeah I need it fully tested same thing here I have high ph almost 8 then low ppms in my water which mite be due to well water being contaminated by chlorinated city water again it’s a shallow well hand dug in the early 20th century
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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Trust your instincts, use it. I'm using RO with mine, no problems. Not yet anyways, but following other growers who use it with great success. My pH is 8.3 tap with 330PPM. After the treatment the PPm are near zero. You can add "usable" minerals in after treatment. Or just add the rock dust like you mentioned above to the soil.
 
Samwell Seed Well

Samwell Seed Well

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Boatguy said:
How big is that thing? 500 ro gallons a day = 1000's of gallons of waste water per day
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If its a newer grownix then it's 1:1 when running in optimal conditions with new filters and clean membranes...

Waste is def subjective, having a measurable base to start building from is awesome. Water is at least going back into the water supply..one way or another
 
Milky Weed

Milky Weed

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manfredo said:
Well only if you actually make 500 gallons.

I would say, it all depends on what's in your well/city water....That's a most strange setup that I have never heard of, mixing well water and city water.

I made the switch from RO water to well water, and TBH I am still figuring it out! My well water has a PPM of under 100, but the ph is a little high.

I used RO water with super soil for years, just because i had it, and then added cal/mag and Epson salt to it.

Probably a good step for us both is to get our well water actually tested!!
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I really need to get mine tested, it dosent feel good guessing. Mine hangs around .6 EC and I can only hope/assume it’s just calcium and magnesium. I bet there’s some iron in it too.
 
Milky Weed

Milky Weed

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manfredo said:
It's old...2-3 years probably, but still putting out 5 ppm water though. My well water has around 100 ppm's but quite a bit of iron....and God knows what else.
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We have to change our sediment filter that’s made of string wrapped around a core 2x a year because it gets dusted up so bad.

Now I’m dying to know what’s in it lol.
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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Billytheluther said:
Can all of you fully trust ro filters to remove chlorine and chloramine??? That would save me some cash..
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If changed and thoroughly unkept to the specs on the chamber and filter then yes I’ve worked in large scale cheese house as a mill Wright changing out very large r/o machines that do up to 10000 gallons or more a day and yes you can take that water down to nothing at all no ppms no chlorine no detection of any kind as long as you maintain properly
 
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