Reverse Osmosis RO water advantages?
Hello all,
I have been working on other aspects of indoor growing and told myself RO can wait.
In my trial and error I found a little bit of distilled water does late flowering plants really well.
I understand the science; I would like to know if it makes a difference in practice.
Is an RO Reverse Osmosis machine worth it and does it make sense to do DI Deionization?
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You add a Ca/Mg to it in hydro applications as a "buffer".
In soil (properly built soils) you do
not "need" to add a buffer.
The use of RO water gives you a base of 0 ppm! YOU add what you want and know exactly what your dealing with.
THE best way to run hydro I might say.
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Deionized water is water that is stripped of ion (electrically charged [ionized] dissolved substances) "salts" but still contains bacteria, virus's and organic compounds.....Used mainly in some lab work but, mostly by industry to remove chemical "salt" residue from various processes (plating is a
big user of deionized water). pH of about 7.
Distilled water is "pure" (as the distilling process used to make it vs. the contents of the source water can allow it) No organic compounds, no ion "salts" and no dissolved 02. I have never liked distilled for growing anything....Not the best choice. This the water most used in chemical labs for cleaning equipment. pH should be 5.8 It gets lower if there is C02 that has "contaminated" the water - pH readings in the 4.5 to 5.0 range.
Ultra Pure Water is Highly-treated water of high resistivity and no organics; usually used in the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries. (borrowed this line from the net.)
RO machine worth it? The simple answer is YES!
Is it required = NO... BUT, you
SHOULD use an RO if the source ppm is over 150!
Is it worth adding a deionization system to any growing end use water...
NO.
