Is the chlorine from tap water REALLY that bad?

[bullSnot]

Lol id imagine you dont drink/eat/cook out of aluminum or store food in tupperware huh..

No way...we load it on the butcher table, carve it up and slap it on the grill...freeze the rest in paper...just like Ted Nugent

 

[SPLFreak808]

No way...we load it on the butcher table, carve it up and slap it on the grill...freeze the rest in paper...just like Ted Nugent

Wow... You would freak out in my house lol, tropical homes are loaded with mold free (synthetic) non-degradable compounds..

 

[Richard Drysift]

chlorine is bad for soil grows as it kills helpful beneficial bacteria, also worry more about added flouride than the chlorine.

Tap water is only an issue if you grow in natural organic soil without nutrients. It's fine for hydro growers; the plants won't even know the difference. Chlorine, chloramine, and flouride contained in most city tap water systems kills the microbes & fungi that feed your plants in a natural soil food web. If you are using nutes then microbial activity doesn't really matter as the plants don't need them to break down the food in the soil.

 

[Budley Doright]

I wonder if after 8 years OP has figured this out lol

 

[bullSnot]

Tap water is only an issue if you grow in natural organic soil without nutrients. It's fine for hydro growers; the plants won't even know the difference. Chlorine, chloramine, and flouride contained in most city tap water systems kills the microbes & fungi that feed your plants in a natural soil food web. If you are using nutes then microbial activity doesn't really matter as the plants don't need them to break down the food in the soil.

That makes a lot of sense, need those fungi and microbes..gotta love science

 

[KryptoBud]

I have some dyna gro nutes and maxicrop liquid seaweed all of them have chlorine listed on the label.