Sagethisplanet
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Thank you!yes, nutrients are broken down into IONS, those are then turned into glucose and starches which happens thru photosynthesis.
Is Distilled Water Bad to Use for Watering Your Plants?
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old&stilldoinit
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bud all of the FF stuff is good just sayin, I use "age old grow" for veg. and a.o.g. bloom for flower. love it.
Steele_GreenMan
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brita filter in the pitchers and tap will filter it out yes but im notnsuree if it gets 100%
heckler73
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A lot of time? Maybe not as much as you think, but yes it needs to be given time to react, so...
Residual free chlorine can be reduced to harmless chlorides by activated carbon or
chemical reducing agents. An activated carbon bed is very effective in the dechlorination of
RO feed water according to following reaction:
C + 2Cl2 + 2H2O → 4HCl + CO2
http://www.dow.com/webapps/lit/litorder.asp?filepath=liquidseps/pdfs/noreg/609-02034.pdf
CO2? Bonus!
For free available chlorine (FAC), this takes only about fifteen minutes, which means that a small amount of carbon can achieve an acceptable steady-state condition if the flow rate is slow or intermittent. For “combined chlorine” (chloramine), the reaction is much slower, and more carbon or more contact time is needed to achieve equivalent reductions.
https://www.everpure.com/know your water/Pages/CloramineandChlorine.aspx
old&stilldoinit
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I'm sorry but I am of the "unscientific opinion" that garbage in, garbage out
Or, just add a pinch of sugar to encourage bacterial growth which will exhaust the slight disinfectant in the tap water. Tap water comes from a closed system. The amount of chlorine/chloramine is small because the system isn't expected to be unsanitary. It doesn't take much to exhaust that capacity to disinfect.
Sagethisplanet
Active Member
Sorry for the odd wording. I guess that's what the ? Is for.... Thank you. Needed a confirmation on that!
Sagethisplanet
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Right on thanks. Would a charcoal filter and the 24 hours be enough? It's not in my water just curious. Thanks Rrog.
Sagethisplanet
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Did YA see below? Dude man spelled it out real nice like?
Sagethisplanet
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Rrog actually look up Heckler spells it out nice. I guess not always right YA know
Sagethisplanet
Active Member
Awesome! Spelled out real nice like!A lot of time? Maybe not as much as you think, but yes it needs to be given time to react, so...
Residual free chlorine can be reduced to harmless chlorides by activated carbon or
chemical reducing agents. An activated carbon bed is very effective in the dechlorination of
RO feed water according to following reaction:
C + 2Cl2 + 2H2O → 4HCl + CO2
http://www.dow.com/webapps/lit/litorder.asp?filepath=liquidseps/pdfs/noreg/609-02034.pdf
CO2? Bonus!
For free available chlorine (FAC), this takes only about fifteen minutes, which means that a small amount of carbon can achieve an acceptable steady-state condition if the flow rate is slow or intermittent. For “combined chlorine” (chloramine), the reaction is much slower, and more carbon or more contact time is needed to achieve equivalent reductions.
https://www.everpure.com/know your water/Pages/CloramineandChlorine.aspx
Sagethisplanet
Active Member
That's awesome!
ShirkGoldbrick
Active Member
The misinformation...it hurts.
I've heard whackos say distilled and RO water are bad for you too, and that deionized water is really bad. It's a load of nonsense.
The water is just a carrier, you can supply all of the plants nutrients yourself. Either use dirt or use an all encompassing nutrient like dynagrow. You may have to add some calmag especially if you're using LEDs. The water isn't going to hurt the plant.
You can use tap water too, just it might be a bitch if your bicarbonates are through the roof and you have to use half a bottle of pH down and now you're getting lockout from a nutrient imbalance.
I've heard whackos say distilled and RO water are bad for you too, and that deionized water is really bad. It's a load of nonsense.
The water is just a carrier, you can supply all of the plants nutrients yourself. Either use dirt or use an all encompassing nutrient like dynagrow. You may have to add some calmag especially if you're using LEDs. The water isn't going to hurt the plant.
You can use tap water too, just it might be a bitch if your bicarbonates are through the roof and you have to use half a bottle of pH down and now you're getting lockout from a nutrient imbalance.
Budzbuddha
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You can make your own Distilled water ...
Large pot of water , bring to boil ( few minutes full boil )
Let cool down and remain open and untouched for a couple days , chlorine and other elements are now diffused and out of it. PH it before use .
My water starts @7.3 at tap ......
After boil and cool down ( 1 - 2 days )
My PH ended @6.4-6.6
Large pot of water , bring to boil ( few minutes full boil )
Let cool down and remain open and untouched for a couple days , chlorine and other elements are now diffused and out of it. PH it before use .
My water starts @7.3 at tap ......
After boil and cool down ( 1 - 2 days )
My PH ended @6.4-6.6
churchhaze
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Boiling water will not make it distilled... The steam needs to be condensed to have distilled water!
You could definitely do it at home though ... if you really wanted to.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Educational-7-302-13-Borosilicate-Condenser/dp/B005QDPR22/
Alexander Supertramp
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Its about the number of electrons each water molecule has.And distilled water molecules generally lack one dut to the distillation process.
Eyes Bleeding
Member
This guy knows what he is talking about!
I have been growing for about 10 years consistently and exclusively use distilled water. Its much easier to add what you need than try to remove what you don't....
Alexander Supertramp
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Not true.
when you distill the water you are removing vital nutrients for your plant..imho, that's the worst water.
i use tap, straight up and my weed smokes fine.