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what if you were to put an airstone and have an airpump pumping air through it to get rid of chlorine, chlorine is a gas and should dissapate naturaly if left a few days.

Can you remove chlorine from water?
You can remove chlorine from your tap water by using a Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) filter that will absorb and trap most natural organic compounds, tastes, odors and synthetic organic chemicals
 
Tbomb35 said:
Thanks for the heads up should I use that muck away pellets or w.e they’re called?
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Better to brew up some bacillus bacteria in a pail and just dump it in. Works much faster than pellets. The clear water is fine I just wanted to warn you about the muck.
 
go go kid said:
what if you were to put an airstone and have an airpump pumping air through it to get rid of chlorine, chlorine is a gas and should dissapate naturaly if left a few days.

Can you remove chlorine from water?
You can remove chlorine from your tap water by using a Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) filter that will absorb and trap most natural organic compounds, tastes, odors and synthetic organic chemicals
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Yes. If it is chloramine there are products at the pet store that contain the reducer sodium thiosulphate. This will break the bond between the chlorine and ammonia, and allow natural processes to remove it. I don’t like adding sodium.

Your municipal water report should tell you what they added and what the sodium content is.

Btw limestone reacts with flouride to form insoluble calcium flouride.

Been a really dry year for me, I’m watering like crazy in my vegetable beds. When you have to water alot, your water matters. Any salts that are not plant food are building up in the soil. Sodium shows as heat stress even though the roots have access to water. It plugs up the plants respiration and they just can’t drink fast enough.
 
My water sourced from EBMUD uses chloramine per the water report. I use the boogie blue+ filter which is a carbon activated filter, which removes up to 87% of chloramine compounds. If i have time i try to let the water sit for a while and aerate it for a few hours. I read an great article online which i can't find, someone had done some experiments and found showing half-life of the chloramines to be about 7-10 days, and also stated aerating the water causes the chloramine compounds to break down faster, though that was not part of the experiment.

The filter is also probably taking out the other minerals. I only use organic inputs and amendments, and aerated compost tea and seed sprouted tea, so micro-life is important to me, which is why i try to remove as much chloramine as possible.

Ive heard of using vitamin C powder to remove chloramine, though im not sure if that would be organic, but it is mostly derived from corn as ascorbic acid. I know there are organic sources for vitamin C but i have no idea if they react the same way ascorbic acid does with the chloramine compounds.

I also think you need to re-PH your water if you use ascorbic acid, though im not sure how far off it brings the PH down and obviously whatever PH fix would hopefully not harm micro-life either. Though PH is not that big a deal when growing organic living soil techniques but i wouldn't think you'd want PH to be way off.
 
Tbomb35 said:
Lol total weight or per plant?
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Sorry it's a running joke around here anytime somebody asks about yield. So many factors it's hard to say. Put em in ground, if that's not feasible the biggest container you can use. I bought a garden hose filter online pretty cheap removes everything bad and is easy. Roots before shutes, take care of that rhiosphere and good things will happen
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4 blue cookies clone
1 Black Jack clone
1 Lemongrass seedling
 

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Can you remove chloramine from tap water by boiling?
If desired, chloramine and ammonia can be completely removed from the water by boiling; however, it will take 20 minutes of gentle boil to do that. Just a short boil of water to prepare tea or coffee removed about 30% of chloramine.

i keep coming up with the same information concerning chloramines/chlorine/ammonia.

The simplest solution to this problem is to buy three-in-one chlorine, chloramines, and ammonia treatment tap water conditioner. Install and filter the tap water through an RO (Reverse Osmosis) unit, but make sure it is a quality model that is designed to remove chlorine, chloramines, and ammonia.
 
i never knew how lucky i was , rain water on tap. have 10 ICBs full of it for the garden. all this crap in the water is concerning
 
how long do chloramines last in water not sure how much help this is , but here it is anyway. loving that inline hosepipe filter
Evaporation times – overview chart
Water treatmentQuantity in Gallons / Liters1 ppm of Chloramine
Undisturbed10 gal / 37.85 litersup to 173.4 hrs
Circulated10 gal / 37.85 litersup to 70 hrs
Circulated, Aerated10 gal / 37.85 litersup to 67.6 hrs
Boiling10 gal / 37.85 litersup to 64.8 minutes
 
Tbomb35 said:
I have hydroguard which I believe is mostly bacillus should I just use that?
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Never tried hydroguard. If it has an organic base like Septobac then you can brew it with aeration for 12 to 18 hours. It should smell like a grainery. If you use enough you will see the muck go away.
 
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) also has chloramine neutralizing properties. I use it in tablet form and crush it up with my fingers before I add it in (1000mg/30-40gal water), but powder would be even easier. From what I understand its a very quick process in terms of how it neutralizes the chloramines, I usually mix it in the water (32 gal trash can brewer) and let the air run for 10 mins to be sure. I grow in organic SS and I've never ph'd once, never had any issues.
 
mattypacks said:
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) also has chloramine neutralizing properties. I use it in tablet form and crush it up with my fingers before I add it in (1000mg/30-40gal water), but powder would be even easier. From what I understand its a very quick process in terms of how it neutralizes the chloramines, I usually mix it in the water (32 gal trash can brewer) and let the air run for 10 mins to be sure. I grow in organic SS and I've never ph'd once, never had any issues.
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Get it from weight lifting suppliers in kilogram bags under suppliments. cheap as
 

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No one can guess your yield. You still have nature, rippers, drying, and curing to go. Don't focus on weight and work on finishing your grow. :)
 
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