Where do you get your water from?

GrowUrOwnDank

Well-Known Member
Tap now. Used to pay .30 a gallon for filtered water in a 5 gal water bottle at the super market. I have great low ppm tap tho.
 

green217

Well-Known Member
Tap and a little pH down for me. Mine runs just under 200 ppm most days.and pH around 8. I drop the pH before adding any nutes, half a teaspoon gets me right around 5.8 or so. And just fertilize as needed. I used to cart RO water around, then city water. Got tired of toting all those gallons of water, and the occasional 5gallon spill in the car suck too. so I gave the well water a go, been working fine for about a year now.
 
Last edited:

WeedFreak78

Well-Known Member
I use RO. Town water fluctuates too much, .3ec one day, .8 the next. I'm pretty sure it all comes from the oceans. ..eventually.
 

bravedave

Well-Known Member
I have a well whose water is conditioned without a bypass currently so I used to use RO from Walmart ($.37 per) but now use spring water from an artesian well thats been flowing drinkable for 100 years. PH is a bit high but it works.

Very little oxygen in distilled...not the best choice.
 

Scaccia450

Well-Known Member
Cause plants get nutrition lock with a ph of 7.0 which is bad you can add a lot of nutrition it won't absorb it . And most tap water has cholorine and a ph of 7.0-7.7, to get rid of chlorine make it sit for 24 hours. To lower ph use oranges or lemon or ph down. Bring it to 6.0-6.8
 

MeJuana

Well-Known Member
Why do I use RO, that's a great question. Because I had my water analyzed and it has a lot of Calcium Carbonate which in the past has caused me lockout problems in flower. For veg I could use tap water but it doesn't filter out of the soil so again I end up locking out in flower. But if I use RO water with a little Ca Mg w/traces I never ever have lockout problems in flower. It isn't expensive to have your water tested but as noted above tap water isn't consistent. Where I live water quality is about 60 on the index where air quality is in the high 90's on the index. So even before I sent it in for analysis I expected Calcium Carbonate, a.k.a. hardwater. (Or the underlying components of insoluble solids that form Calcium Carbonate)

An RO filter lasts years in a grow and also I have a trash can with a float valve so I have it on tap, 'so to speak'. I run it from that trash can into my feed reservoir manually, adjust pH and I water with a hose by hand. My only problem with hand watering is I am a stoner so I forget to water one of them sometimes then I find her falling over. But I grow several different ways so I don't feel like building a watering system.
 
Top