curious to know if anyone knows how to make tap water safe for watering my plants...i tried using my tap water in the past but all it did was negatively effect my plants because of either the ph level of the water or the flouride they put in the tap water here...will boiling water make it safe for watering my plants with? all your help is greatly appreciated
anyone know how to make water safe for plants?
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infinitihigh
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ph reader ph up and down, let the water stand for about 48 hours b4 watering
Howard Stern
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Go buy distilled water! It is less than $1.00 a gallon! Or you will spend more money on ways or chemicals to un-fuck your plants. You are growing a plant that is worth so much money and spend so much on your grow room/lights why would you try and save money on water?
Howard Stern
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Yeah I know what you are saying but like said above, get PH tester, ph up, ph down, A good ph tester is around $100.00 you can get the cheap ones liquid for around ten bucks. Then ph up and ph down is around 20.00 a bottle. So you are looking at spending over $50 to have water that isn't as good as distilled! JMHO. GL brotha I would go with distilled. Or go with filtered, not good but better than tap. You can refill your jugs for like 30 cents!
Howard Stern
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How many are you growing? I have 6 in flowering right now and they only take about 5-6 gal a week. Not too bad $5-6.00 bucks a week! You probably spend more than that on fast food in a week! I want the best for my girls, if you give them the best you will avoid problems, stressing them and you out, and get a better return. Just remember how stressed you were when you were using tap water and killing your other plants. I think it is worth 5 bucks a week not to stress out about my girls. next grow I plan on haveing 18 plants at least going at a time so I can harvest 6 a month, so I am going go be possibly be buying 15 gal a week! LOL that wont look weird.
But if you can harvest 6 plants get 2 oz each and sell for $250 that is $3000.00 so spending 60 on water doesn't seem to bother me so much!
But if you can harvest 6 plants get 2 oz each and sell for $250 that is $3000.00 so spending 60 on water doesn't seem to bother me so much!
i had at one point 5 going...but disaster happened, long story short...theyre gone now 
but ive just started 2 new ones..i guess your right, i didnt really stop and think that even if i spend 5 bucks a week on water...thats only 20 bucks a month lol, and thats nothing compared to what i can get from the plants...especially considering where i live the oz go far between 350 and 400 
but ive just started 2 new ones..i guess your right, i didnt really stop and think that even if i spend 5 bucks a week on water...thats only 20 bucks a month lol, and thats nothing compared to what i can get from the plants...especially considering where i live the oz go far between 350 and 400
Howard Stern
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Yeah dude this is my first grow but I spend around 3-4 hrs a day reading about these ladies. Just spend the little extra money and you will see it in the end! Yeah I could sell it for 280-290 but once he 8th's it up he is only looking at 320, I am going to sell to medical paitients also so I would feel bad taking advantage of their disability. Wshat strain are you growing?i had at one point 5 going...but disaster happened, long story short...theyre gone now
Spanishfly
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My plants need 2 gallons a day each !!!!! Soon gets expensive.
My only real option is tap water in the summer - leave it for a day to let the CHLORINE (NOT Fluoride) evaporate.
Howard Stern
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How big/old are they? What size planters are they in?
Commander Rainbow Veins
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Just leave water out for 24 hours or more most of the chlorine will have left the water... or at least that is what i have been told by some very wise people
Dirtfree
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I have six plants going right now and they drink about a gallon a peice a day. Thats 6 gallons a day! The size plant makes a difference in your equation. Thats 42 gallons a week! Even at a dollar a gallon, thats 336 dollars just for flowering. So ya that ph meter is lookin a lil more affordable.
DawgMountain
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Boiling water does not get rid of disolved solids, only bacteria. Filtering the water with RO will lower your PPM of TDS. Then the pH may need to be adjusted. And then there is CalMag... not sure about the details on that but I just bought some...
Howard Stern
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what size plants do you have? what size planters?
Oh and I think filtered water is better than tap so if you are that straped for cash wouldn't it be better to just get a water filter?
as mentioned, get an RO/DI (reverse osmosis / deionized) filter. I get 0 tds for roughly 3-5 cents per gallon. Last jug of distilled I got was 5 tds, and a trace copper test was positive (probably from the distillation equipment). If your budget is tight, take a look at http://www.purewaterclub.com/. They don't have inline meters, but hard to beat a <$100 5-6 stage ro/di unit. Comparing the cost of this to distilled, and factoring in your usage, it might pay for itself pretty fast. Also many aquarium stores sell RO/DI water for around 20 cents a gallon, which is still cheaper than distilled (but you usually have to provide your own containers).
satire
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Thank you DawgMountain for clearing that up. For a second I was starting to think they didn't teach chemistry class in high school anymore. Boiling water will turn H20 into a gas, so any dissolved solids in the pot will remain.