Watering with perrier

Og grumble

Og grumble

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So i was thinking about hitting my ladies with some perrier sparkling mineral water. It looks good as far as mineral content. Any objections? I saw a post on here a while back about using it for the minerals and what not but i cant find it now. I dont wanna use it if its gonna harm my soil life in any way.
 
I understand roots need o2 not co2 but i was interested in the minerals not the co2. I could let it go flat before using it and that gets us around the whole co2 thing. Whats the differencr between perrier and that gerolsteiner? Is it not carbonated?
 
Og grumble said:
I understand roots need o2 not co2 but i was interested in the minerals not the co2. I could let it go flat before using it and that gets us around the whole co2 thing. Whats the differencr between perrier and that gerolsteiner? Is it not carbonated?
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My guess is that the gerolsteiner has a price to match it's fancy name. Truth is there's probably know advantage to using it over products that are already available for the same purpose and it would probably be more expensive.
 
SchmoeJoe said:
My guess is that the gerolsteiner has a price to match it's fancy name. Truth is there's probably know advantage to using it over products that are already available for the same purpose and it would probably be more expensive.
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or tap/rain water..
 
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Maybe ill get a fish tank lol. I got the mineral water because my tap comes out super clean actually. I called the water dept and they said it averages between 50-80 ppm. Ph comes out at like 8.5 tho lol but its all good because im working towards no-till so ph wont matter soon.
 
Og grumble said:
Maybe ill get a fish tank lol. I got the mineral water because my tap comes out super clean actually. I called the water dept and they said it averages between 50-80 ppm. Ph comes out at like 8.5 tho lol but its all good because im working towards no-till so ph wont matter soon.
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Exactly good soil will buffer PH just fine. PH swing in soil is a good thing.
 
Yea i dont use any bottled nutes/synthetics. Never have, never will. I probably dont have to worry about ph but i had mad ph issues with a super soil grow so im paranoid lol. I dont ph my teas or anything but the tap water gets ph'd until im completely no till and confident i have a good soil food web. Right now im in recycled organic soil but its all from bagged commercial crap like fox farms soil and wiggle worm ewc. Once we move back to oregon in march ill have the space to do it right and start from scratch, build my own soil and have a worm farm and all that good shit.
 
Og grumble said:
Yea i dont use any bottled nutes/synthetics. Never have, never will. I probably dont have to worry about ph but i had mad ph issues with a super soil grow so im paranoid lol. I dont ph my teas or anything but the tap water gets ph'd until im completely no till and confident i have a good soil food web. Right now im in recycled organic soil but its all from bagged commercial crap like fox farms soil and wiggle worm ewc. Once we move back to oregon in march ill have the space to do it right and start from scratch, build my own soil and have a worm farm and all that good shit.
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Yea I'm paranoid bout the full super soil think I might mess up something, so I use FFOF and happy frog. And tight, I herd bout the live worms help soil but didn't wanna screw nothing up with it
 
rkymtnman said:
mine prefer Gerolsteiner deutches mineral wasser.

but seriously, why add co2 to soil? leaves use co2, roots use o2. foliar feed if you do try it and see what happens
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Actually, the roots use both o2 and co2, the leaves use co2 mostly, with fractional amounts of o2 used.

Plants roots use about equal amounts of both believe it or not, so adding co2 would provide some effect, but my guess is that the co2 levels will fade gradually over a few hours after watering, not exactly good constant source for co2, but with the added mineral content in the mineral water, I imagine it would provide some benefit.

Not exactly cheap, but if you demand purity I feel Perrier isn't a bad choice, might be worth it to you.... test it out on one plant only* and see how it goes, good advice for any new test ideas or chemicals and such.
 
I just had some perrier on hand and I'm never gonna drink it. so i just figured why not? Its clean and full of minerals so i might as well. I cant collect rainwater right now or i would for sure. I live in western colorado (for a few more months at least) and it rarely rains here. I think its rained twice since winter. And also I'm in an apartment with some really nosey neighbors so collecting rain water is a no-go. But anyway, so i tested it on one plant and she loved it. So i gave it to the other 2. It didnt seem to have any effect on one, but the other 2 loved it. It would be too expensive to become part of my regular regimen but if you already have some, or wanna just use it once per run i would definitely say its worth it.
 
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