need help. don't know what is wrong.
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MrGreen23
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Well yeah I mean naturally if your in the desert your not getting anything but I mean here in the U.K. You can smell the chlorine in the tap water here it's vile Smells like a swimming pool ....and I suppose In those states in the US that have made it illegal to collect rain water..
GiveMeKnowledge
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Nothing wrong with chlorine... in fact tests and research suggests it's beneficial to plants at around 4ppm . Plus all the big greenhouses use chlorine as a way of sterilising there water system/res .. as it's so cheap and has no ill effects on plants or final product. Have a little search "bleach in dwc"
GiveMeKnowledge
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Also nothing wrong with swimming pools lol perfectly clean and safe for human consumption. No nasties in there other than piss lol
MrGreen23
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I didn't know that cheers dude! Have to say I've learnt more since joining this site talking to people for a few days than just searching the internet for ages
MrGreen23
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That's my point when you can smell the chlorine at pools it's because it has chronic amounts of piss in it And then you see people squirting it out o their mouth...like you nasty motherfuckers
MrGreen23
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Seems I'm too baked to think logically
Dynamo626
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Lol
As for city tap water its more than chlorine you need to worry abought. Chlorine chloride florine floride iron lead copper even arsnic. The reason chlorine is added it to kill bacteria. If all you have in your city water is chlorine and your in hydro your good organic soil needs that bacteria. Even if they take out the 4ppm of chlorine there is still 320ppm of crap. This varies from city to city but here in lancaster the ppm ranges from 280 to 350 ppm
GiveMeKnowledge
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Pools are 10s of thousands of gallons mate and run huge filters and residual amounts of calcium hypochlorite.there's hardly any piss in a swimming pool really but you're not watering your plants with swimmingpool water are you lol so all that's irrelevant. there's no piss in your tap water and chlorine ain't gonna do shit to you're plant at the levels used in drinking water. I run an rdwc system and fill straight from the tap also add cal-hypo at 4ppm.
GiveMeKnowledge
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Hear what you're saying about squirting it out you're mouth though fuck that lol I fucking hate swimming pools anyway I'm shit at swimming.
Huckster79
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I like strips more than meter... thers some nice dual color onesvyou can find on amazon they are for health freaks that ph their spit n piss and the dual color gives more incrimental readings than the basic strips. Nice thing is u dont have to worry about calibration and such...
Huckster79
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Nurse hatty is the brand i use
I wish I saw your second point 3 days ago
; thanks for the info
Dynamo626
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Actually i was wrong. Been doing more research ph perfect works with water from ph4.2 to ph 8.5. Still if my water was ph 4 i would still change sources
MrGreen23
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I just got one of those electric ph readers for about £15 bargain
HE4VY
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I used miracle grow for a little while and had some similar problems, but when my plants were young. My local hydro store guy said that miracle grow potting soil was bad for the plants. I picked up some sunshine #4 and switched them over. Within a few days I was seeing improvements. Surely it isn't the root of your issue, but hope it helps.