Like the title we finally got rain and my plants only 2 months old but after she was so perkey and healthy looking…she is always healthy looking just was expectantly happier…,I wonder is it maybe I’m not watering enough? Something in rain water that my plants not getting from nutrients ? It down-poured for almost 24 hours
After my plants first rain storm leaves are “praying”
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5 gallon jug using happy frog potting soil…I read rainwater has a lot of nitrogen so maybe she’s lacking in that?? I just don’t get why she was so happy would like to figure it out so she can always look like that …online says the praying means you found the sweat spot in lighting but I’m growing outdoors so I don’t get that
VincenzioVonHook
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my outdoors would always go crazy after rain as well. A few of my indoors always stoop up like crazy when I left them outside in the rain for an hour or two. I'd like to know as well. Bring them inside and within an hour they'd be well past 45 degrees.
Seriously!! So weird no matter how much I water/feed them they never looked as happy as after that first rain storm it was like they were saying ty lol…Maybe just nothing tops Mother Nature …wish it would rain more damn
I’m assuming obviously they’re something in the rain water
manfredo
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I believe it is because rain water is so clean and pure from ozone. That's partly why so many people collect it from rain gutters to use on plants.
ProPheT 216
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I beleive its because the plants basicly got a nature's tea feed. Leaves tend to look perky after good microb feeding
manfredo
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It's strange, they say rain water can have microbes and bacteria....The rainwater I have tested was super clean, with less than 5 ppm's. I'm in NY where we get tons of rain so not sure if that is a factor or not.
I have noticed growing grass seed for lawn repair, nothing makes it grow faster than rainwater.
I have noticed growing grass seed for lawn repair, nothing makes it grow faster than rainwater.
ProPheT 216
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Plus pooling and pudding in the soil letting everything blend and exchange
Yea I think I’m about to do that
So more humidity will turn the leaves into the praying position?
Smart! I thought this also ….like all the nutrients I’ve fed in it’s 2 months of life must of got washed deep down or something probably saturated it ? Idk
Jjgrow420
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Possibly?
waterproof808
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If you tested your rainwater with a EC/TDS meter, it just means you have low Electrical Conductivity in your rain water. TDS meters do not actually measure "total dissolved solids" they only measure EC. Bacteria, microbes, and many other compounds will not be detected by a TDS meter.
calvin.m16
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Hydration makes them happy.
Kassiopeija
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Dissolved Oxygen - old atmosphere in soil gets depleted of that and is enriched by CO2
cobshopgrow
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yep, its knowen that there H2O2 in rainater and it have some effect on plants.
"Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), occurs naturally in rainwater and acts as nature's cleanser. It oxygenates soil and bodies of water"
"Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), occurs naturally in rainwater and acts as nature's cleanser. It oxygenates soil and bodies of water"
Your in ny?! I’m on li n even tho I planted my girl late she’s alil over 2 months we just got a decent back to back days of rain but since then we been in a drought lol idk where you live in ny….first rain storm she blew up and I’m talking she grew atleast a inch but her sides just exploded rain roids in ny