What's your tap water ppm?

[Eastownclan]

About 115 out of the tap

 

[Samwell Seed Well]

PPM's? What about this?
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Doesn't a TDS meter tell you those PPMs, oh wait it definitely doesnt.

Tap has been super high as of late, like 280

 

[lusidghost]

180, but what's weird is it was 100ppm lower up until a few months ago. I checked my neighbor's water and it was the same. If anything you would think it would be lower because the water is colder now that it's winter. So something is going on.

 

[Autodoctor]

Guess me and Vince are on the same street

 

[Budzbuddha]

Cali water - 255 ppm / 7.1 ph

Meh

Plants outside do not give a shit .

 

[Jjgrow420]

279 ppm = 0.558 EC

Your tap water exceeds the EPAs recommended limit.

I'd avoid drinking it.

Or that pen is shit

 

[Milky Weed]

My well water comes out 7.4 ph + lol

i actually used it as ph up sometimes when I was using RO.

 

[catdaddy516]

Less than 50 ppms

 

[Nutty sKunK]

Usually it’s around 38ppm but my wee one was messing with it and now it’s stuck on x10 and reading 97ppm..

Either way it’s soft as shit and need to add calmag from beginning of stretch up until the last week

 

[twentyeight.threefive]

Usually it’s around 38ppm but my wee one was messing with it and now it’s stuck on x10 and reading 97ppm..

Either way it’s soft as shit and need to add calmag from beginning of stretch up until the last weekView attachment 5051615

Oh no CalMag here with 33ppm water. I have calcium and magnesium in my nutrients.

 

[bam0813]

Right now I’m reading .1 EC 0ppm 7.9ph 75*f

 

[Horselover fat]

 

[Astral22]

My PPM is 450 but i'm using a cheap 3€ meter and no calibration, so i can't say for sure.
But i do know that the water is hard, limescale everywhere all the time so i wouldn't be surprised if 450 ppm was correct.
I used pH color strips and it was above 8, almost 9.

I know pH should be around 6, but do you think this high PPM is bad for autoflowers?

 

[bam0813]

Imo tap between 7 -8 are common. Mine varies between 7.4-8.1. Hopefully that meter is trash 450 is very high

 

[Nutty sKunK]

Oh no CalMag here with 33ppm water. I have calcium and magnesium in my nutrients.

Since it’s coco they’ve probably upped the cal and Mag to compensate compared to some others. What brand are you using?

My nutrients schedule from the company calls for added Epsom salts in flower and probably doesn’t account for soft water area.

If I don’t use calmag deficiencies always appear mid flower

 

[LeastExpectedGrower]

Well water at 220ppm (usually). We do have a softening system, but I bypass that to fill my watering containers.

I've come to note that our pH shifts downwards in the winter though. During the summer it's right around 7.1 and now it's hitting closer to 5.8-6.2.

 

[blueberrymilkshake]

115. I switched from RO to tap when I ran out of RO and found out I didn't have to fuck with the pH at all with tap.

Hundreds of dollars later

 

[LeastExpectedGrower]

115. I switched from RO to tap when I ran out of RO and found out I didn't have to fuck with the pH at all with tap.
Hundreds of dollars later

I bought a big bottle of cal/mag before I tested my water for ppm/ec...and it's a damn good doorstop.

Also, after I realized my water was a bit over 200ppm, I switched my GH Trio micro out for the hardwater micro and it was an excellent move. I pretty much never cal/mag my water.

 

[Bucsfan80]

Mine is 40-50ppm so .80-1.0 ec.

 

[LeastExpectedGrower]

Mine is 40-50ppm so .80-1.0 ec.

If you're truly at 50ppm you're off a decimal point on your EC counts. 500ppm is 1.0ec (depending on scale).