GROWING IN COCO COIR FOR THE FIRST TIME

I leave this link a lot but it's good info for those in Coco

1212ham said:

Sure, but op said excess chlorine / heavy metals, not hard water.

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I know but those things can be present in potable water in low quantities that can still have a negative effect on plants. We did a lot of water quality study when I went back to school in my 30s for a diploma in environmental chemistry. I only drink RO water now.

OldMedUser said:

I know but those things can be present in potable water in low quantities that can still have a negative effect on plants. We did a lot of water quality study when I went back to school in my 30s for a diploma in environmental chemistry. I only drink RO water now.

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Sorry for off topic but What are the main pollutants that made you nope off the tap?

MannyPacs said:

Sorry for off topic but What are the main pollutants that made you nope off the tap?

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Back in BC before moving to northern Alberta in '01 the well on my parent's propery was high in manganese that gave the water a rotten egg smell and taste tho it was very soft water from a deep well. Running it through a Brita filter removed the smell and taste so we drank that.

When we first moved up here I bought a mobile in town but the tap water was not improved by a new Brita filter at all. The tap water there is from surface water that runs from a large lake 30km away and is processed at the town water plant. Comes out of the tap there at 300ppm and pH 7.5. It's very high in sodium, iron and barely passes as potable so we started buying RO water for drinking and the coffee maker.

20 years ago we bought the acreage we live on now and our tap water comes from a large dugout on the property. It's 400+ppm and pH8+ depending on the season. Very similar to town water but only gets filtered down to 5µ in the basement and is far from potable so we've been buying RO all along. Would destroy my BUNN coffee maker in no time. I bought all the parts needed to set up my own RO unit in the basement complete with a UV filter so once I get around to installing it all I won't have to lug the jugs back and forth from the store in town. It will go thru a total of 3 carbon filters and one of them is 0.5µ so much better filtering.

Just have to get off my keester and set it all up.

Personally, I won't drink tap water. It tastes disgusting to me, and I can always tell if it's out of the tap even in my coffee. I have a hydrologic stealth 150, with a prefilter and kdf85 carbon filter. My plants all get the first 2 stages but skip the ro membrane. My tap water is ~.2ec. But I drink the ro water.