RO Water?

What's going on everyone? I'm looking to change over to RO water just because it's cheaper than buying purified water from the store. I can get 5 gallons for $1.50 rather than $1 a gallon. Anyway, what are the pro's and con's of RO H2O? Do I need to add anything, or just continue with the same nutes as always. Thanks for the feed back.

Mostly what you miss out on with RO is calcium and magnesium, and various other trace minerals. As long as you use nutes (and/or additional supplements) that have trace minerals (like calcium and magnesium, iron, etc.) you should be set. I've been using RO and Flora Nova 1-part for bloom and have had no deficieny issues so far. Do a search for deficiencies - find out all the minerals you "could" be missing, and make sure they are in your nutes / additives.

I would also look for cheaper RO. Where I get mine, if you pay $20 up front, you get a punch card for 140 gallons. 14 cents a gallon - and comes out 1ppm.

Plants are looking great so far, by the way.

If your in the market to buy your own system:
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/store/products/reverse-osmosis-filters-and-systems/reverses-osmosis-deionization-systems/standard-ro-di-systems/75-gpd-ro-di-5-stage-standard-system.html

Mr.Bob Saget said:

If your in the market to buy your own system:
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/store/products/reverse-osmosis-filters-and-systems/reverses-osmosis-deionization-systems/standard-ro-di-systems/75-gpd-ro-di-5-stage-standard-system.html

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thats a sweet setup for the money, i just got one for almost the same cash but mine only does 50 gpd. wish i saw this sooner

What is wrong with your tap water?

Most tap water is fine. Mine is PH 6.7 and the water doesn't even show up on my truncheon. Once you age it its fine. I have been growing pounds from tap water for years. Fuck paying for it.

If you don't want an RO system try finding a place that refills your empties. A place near me is $1.50 per 5 gals of water. Still have to cart it to and fro, but you're doing that already.

Mine is shit. EC is0.8, pH7.5+ I buy it [RO] for $.37 a gallon around here, I use Cal-Mag (botnicare) at 1tsp/gal. I didnt use it at first but after my WhiteWidow went threw all of it in my soil it started to show sever cal deficiency about 3 weeks into flowering and I already had the Cal-Mag so in soon as I started using it it stopped getting worse.

Rusty Crutch said:

Most tap water is fine. Mine is PH 6.7 and the water doesn't even show up on my truncheon. Once you age it its fine. I have been growing pounds from tap water for years. Fuck paying for it.

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And your talking about hydro??

Yep.

what is RO? and where can i buy some??

RO is Reverse Osmosis. From what I hear it is the cleanest water around. I'm using purified water now and doing fine, but I was just wondering if it was worth the time to go fill up the gallons and what I needed to get as far as more nutes for it.

cuervoman13 said:

RO is Reverse Osmosis. From what I hear it is the cleanest water around. I'm using purified water now and doing fine, but I was just wondering if it was worth the time to go fill up the gallons and what I needed to get as far as more nutes for it.

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