I have water also ranging above 500ppm. My cheap $150 ebay ro unit has kept ppms below 20 for 2 years. Is your ro water that you make coming out at 70ppms? sounds high.480 out of the tap here in SoCal... It will kill any plant that it touches.. It took me a while to figure out why my plants were always F'd upOver 500 ppm and the EPA says not to drink it... Now I have RO and it's around 70 ppm.
Yea, I bout an undersink unit from Costco for $120... I can't complain... It was at 50 ppm 2 years ago and now at 70.. If it removes 80% of the contaminates I'm still pretty happy.
I would check to see I'm almost certain if it's city water they treat it with chorine of some sort simple pool kit should do it
chloramine is not the same as chlorine, they treat with one or the other or both
Right. That's why I was saying that I wasn't seeing it listed. Chlorine breaks down and dissipates quickly, where chloramine takes much longer and is more difficult to remove.
That's cool! I'm going to get 2 or 3 rain barrels for the Oregon rain season and try to go the whole winter without having to use the tap.
I'm not sure if every city uses chloramine. I do know that they are required by law in my state to list anything they find in the water, so if there was something in there it's on the report.
I'm not sure if it makes much of a difference as my wife uses the tap water for her plants and they seem to do fine but I have the option to not use tap water so I take advantage of that.
I'd find it foolish to pass up "free"
As soon as I thought of this I had to find this thread.
Hot water tends to have more minerals in it, like iron. I'm not sure if that's from the pipes or the water heater.
