Water Storage

<Grasshopper>

<Grasshopper>

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Hello:

I have finnished my grow room and have my plants going. I was wondering..if I wanted to use one of those 55 gallon food grade drums to store water in for irrigating my plants should I stearelize it somehow? It has had saltwater from a aquarium in it for months. Can I just rince it out with water from the hose real good and call it good or do I need to use bleach and scrub it out? Also...should I heat the water with a aquarium heater to 72 degrees or just room temp? I know a airstone helps.

Does anyone know a cheeper place to get PH calibration solution then a hydro shop? Home depo or something like this perhaps? Anything but 3 times what its worth like at the hydro shop.

Thanks
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Grasshopper
 
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gobbly

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I'd use bleach or vinegar to rinse it out, rinse it out from the chemicals well too.
For calibration fluid, you can look online, it's used in all sorts of applications, and I bet you can find something cheaper than the hydro stuff.
I have seen articles online about how to make your own calibration fluid (after all, you just need something with a known PH), but they require precise measurements of ingredients (something many growers can actually provide :D)
 
tyke1973

tyke1973

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Scrub the hsit out of it with a good brush use plenty of dish soap has dish soap will not harm the plants,I would give it loads of clean's before putting any nutreints in there though.I peranaly like the i grow cronic idea of useing a table in the room with the tank under it.The tank that you are talking about must be for alot of plant's if not it is well over kill and the nutreints will be in the tank for too long.Best to get a tank that will hold just enoughth nute's for that week other than that you will find that haveing too much nutrients lying around will bring it's own set of problems.You realy want a tank that can easyly be removed after each week to clean it out or you will find that it will get a nute build up and start to gain excess salt.SO what i'm trying to say is if you are only doing say 5/10 plant get a small tank and refill once a week after cleaning it this will avoid alot of problems.Use a airstone if storeing nutrients in a tank this will maintain good co2 levels.................................................tyke..............................................................................................................
 
<Grasshopper>

<Grasshopper>

Active Member
Oh yea..I will use the dish soap and 5 gallons of hot water. It is for just 10 plants but it is not for nutes. This is just to fill with fresh water so I can dip out 5 or 10 gallons to mix nutes with. I am a soil grower as this is my first grow ( everyone starts someplace right..how about age 41..my b-day yesterday ). I know you need to let the water sit and get to room temp...this is what it is for. I may even throw in a aquarium heater and air stone.

Thanks for the help Tyke1973..

Grasshopper

tyke1973 said:
Scrub the hsit out of it with a good brush use plenty of dish soap has dish soap will not harm the plants,I would give it loads of clean's before putting any nutreints in there though.I peranaly like the i grow cronic idea of useing a table in the room with the tank under it.The tank that you are talking about must be for alot of plant's if not it is well over kill and the nutreints will be in the tank for too long.Best to get a tank that will hold just enoughth nute's for that week other than that you will find that haveing too much nutrients lying around will bring it's own set of problems.You realy want a tank that can easyly be removed after each week to clean it out or you will find that it will get a nute build up and start to gain excess salt.SO what i'm trying to say is if you are only doing say 5/10 plant get a small tank and refill once a week after cleaning it this will avoid alot of problems.Use a airstone if storeing nutrients in a tank this will maintain good co2 levels.................................................tyke..............................................................................................................
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