chlorine?

[jj2ss3o2s]

I was wondering how many of you use 1)tap water, or 2)some other prepared water?

I've been using tap for years, but reading a little of Rev's stuff latly seems to indicate chlorine will ruin you soils microbes, and thus make your plant more susceptalble to disease, and PH fluctuations, and maybe more I'm unaware of.

let me know what you think please.
JJ

[vernonsupreme]

if you let the water sit out for a day or so the chlorine evaporates.

[jj2ss3o2s]

so I've heard. I magaged a pet store so I know a little about chlorine. In tap water you have 2 types of chlorine, regular chlorine, and chlorimine, which is Nitrate-chlorine. It can be dissolved by boiling, but all that is kinda a pain in the ass.

I got a sheet on whats in my water and it said there was enough calcium to be a factor in my diet. I also wonder about flouride in my water as well.

Interestingly enough the sheet also said the city would not reccomend infants, the sick, or the elderly drink the water at all. All at the very bottom of course.

[Elephunt man]

I started with tap, mines not too bad (320ppm) but I use RO now. Seems there can be almost as much prep involved though, everything thrives very fast in RO water. Seems alot of nutes are light on traces, as though they were designed for tap.

[gorilla]

I've only ever used tap, but always had a feeling like the plants could use much better. I'll drink tap water... you know, whatever. But bottled water really does taste better.

In the back of my head I blame all of the problems on the water... that way, it's not my fault. :rolleyes:

[vernonsupreme]

i'm on a private well so i dont' have to worry abotu all that chlorine and mind controlling flouride in my water :D

[SpanglyBoovus]

I learned the tap water lesson. My lastest grow shows it too.

My tap water tests at only about 180 PPM on average. i used to let the tap water sit out 24 hours for the chlorine to evap, and use that but after converting to strictly reverse osmosis water 100% of the time I have seen incredible improvements in everything.

I won't even drink tap water myself, it's full of all sorts of stuff that isn't good for you or your plants.

RO water is also unstable pH level and is easily adjusted to whatever its poured into or is poured into it, at first i hated this because i'd spend a good 25 minutes trying to get the pH level of my water in the proper range before watering my plants... then I realized that if I just didnt bother worrying about the pH level at all with the RO water, and just gave it to the plants, it adjusts itself to the medium, which is in range for plant happiness thanks to the microbes!

[jj2ss3o2s]

RO water is also unstable pH level and is easily adjusted to whatever its poured into or is poured into it, at first i hated this because i'd spend a good 25 minutes trying to get the pH level of my water in the proper range before watering my plants... then I realized that if I just didnt bother worrying about the pH level at all with the RO water, and just gave it to the plants, it adjusts itself to the medium, which is in range for plant happiness thanks to the microbes!

This I did not know.:D

Years ago in soil-less mediums I had PH probs (overfertalizing), and I changed to R/O water, and problems went away. I went back to the city water after I went soil, but now that I'm doing Organics...anyway thanks for the info, even if it does mean trips to the store for plant water;)

[jj2ss3o2s]

In the back of my head I blame all of the problems on the water... that way, it's not my fault. :rolleyes:

I do the same thing:p

[rolanterroy]

Alkalinity is the word for that very thing, the waters ability to hold pH against influences. Distilled water has even less alkalinity than R/O water. I preferr R/O water for the most part because it retains trace amounts of various elements that plants dig on.

Chlorine is the anti-organics element and if you are an organics grower, even using chlorinated water once will kill all the micro-life, snafu, then the plant must process nutes on it's own and it is way less effecient at this than the micro-life is capable of providing.

I would always just bubble water (tap) with an airstone for 24hrs before I would use it when I grew synthetics indoor soilless to remove all chlorine, but I have read many times that total Chlorine removal by bubbling actually happens in like 4 or 5 hrs. But to be safe I would go 24 just for the hell of it heh heh.

- REvster :smoke1: