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New To Dwc And Need A Little Help Please.

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New To Dwc And Need A Little Help Please.

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CannaBlaster said:
I add ph'd water when they use about a half gallon, roughly every other day. So they use about a qt a day.
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ok kool, needed to be sure you had that covered. Some peeps dont know that.
 
#22
RO water is what i use I have well water which is hard water so RO is the only way for me without buying water
 
#23
MI Jesse said:
RO water is what i use I have well water which is hard water so RO is the only way for me without buying water
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Get yourself a still like I have and you can make distilled water from tap water, rain water, creek water, even toilet water and just pour it through a bunch of glass marbles to restructure the water and BAM! free water and NO RO waste!
 
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CannaBlaster said:
Get yourself a still like I have and you can make distilled water from tap water, rain water, creek water, even toilet water and just pour it through a bunch of glass marbles to restructure the water and BAM! free water and NO RO waste!
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Chance of a picture of your still pal.im really interested in something like this.I was planning on making a filtration tank of sorts,with carbon,sediment,marbles..to take out some of the nastier chemicals,but not while out all the calcium and other trace minerals wich would end up being put bk again.i read somewhere that all you need is vitamin c to while out chloramine?thanks..
 
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keiksweat said:
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Chance of a picture of your still pal.im really interested in something like this.I was planning on making a filtration tank of sorts,with carbon,sediment,marbles..to take out some of the nastier chemicals,but not while out all the calcium and other trace minerals wich would end up being put bk again.i read somewhere that all you need is vitamin c to while out chloramine?thanks..
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In these pictures im distilling quality liquor lol, but water is done the same way. I have two stills, a 15gal for stripping mash and a 5 gal for running cuts. The pictured still is the small 5gal, its the one I use for water because it runs on my electric stove top. The 15gal still runs on propane. If you distill water it removes "EVERYTHING!"
 

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First pic, boiler/pot and doubler/thumper. Second pic, condenser/worm.
 
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Fuck it man, my phone is garbage. Ill have to try and post another pic later. There is is, holy fuck! The stuff dripping into the mason jar is the good shit! Lol
 

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CannaBlaster said:
Fuck it man, my phone is garbage. Ill have to try and post another pic later. There is is, holy fuck! The stuff dripping into the mason jar is the good shit! Lol
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Shine,shine, shiny boots of leather..haha.I'm to old singing shit like that.loving the moon juice,bye the way
 
#30
CannaBlaster said:
Get yourself a still like I have and you can make distilled water from tap water, rain water, creek water, even toilet water and just pour it through a bunch of glass marbles to restructure the water and BAM! free water and NO RO waste!
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Nice how hard is it to do
 
#31
MI Jesse said:
Nice how hard is it to do
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How hard is it to distill water, or distill whiskey? The distillation process is the same except running alcohol can be very dangerous if you dont know what your doing and 90% of the old timers and hillbillys that make shine skip many critical steps. Water is simple but liquor you better know your shit. If you learn properly and take precautions its perfectly safe and its not hard. Neglect is what causes accidents in distilling, alcohol vapor is HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE. Much more than just flamable. When it ignites there is zero reaction time! Distilling water there is no danger. It runs below 5psi. Saftey vavles on stills are 5psi. Its the highly explosive alcohol vapor is what can make it dangerous.
 
#32
How often do you have to make water and has it made a difference in your plants?
 
#33
It just depends on how much I make each time. When my plants are mature each DWC bucket holds 2.5gal and I change my solution every 10 days. I can make 4.5 gal each run in my small still and 14 in my large still but my large still runs on propane. It uses 1/5 of a grill tank per run. My small still is electric so it virtually costs nothing. Am I saving money? Probably but I dont know how much. I basically do it because I can, because I can use any water source, and I dont always have the money to run out and buy gallons of water at $1gal everytime I do a nute change. When I use the small still I know im saving a dollar a gallon but it takes several hours to run.

As far as any difference, I don't know if this has anything to do with the water but when I was using local spring water(266ppm alone) my plants wasnt using much nutes but in the past 24hrs my plants have used over 200ppm per plant. The high calcium in my spring water probably was locking up some of my nutes. Calcium is critical in nute absorbtion but too much can cause problems. Happy medium Main, happy medium!
 
#34
CannaBlaster said:
It just depends on how much I make each time. When my plants are mature each DWC bucket holds 2.5gal and I change my solution every 10 days. I can make 4.5 gal each run in my small still and 14 in my large still but my large still runs on propane. It uses 1/5 of a grill tank per run. My small still is electric so it virtually costs nothing. Am I saving money? Probably but I dont know how much. I basically do it because I can, because I can use any water source, and I dont always have the money to run out and buy gallons of water at $1gal everytime I do a nute change. When I use the small still I know im saving a dollar a gallon but it takes several hours to run.

As far as any difference, I don't know if this has anything to do with the water but when I was using local spring water(266ppm alone) my plants wasnt using much nutes but in the past 24hrs my plants have used over 200ppm per plant. The high calcium in my spring water probably was locking up some of my nutes. Calcium is critical in nute absorbtion but too much can cause problems. Happy medium Main, happy medium!
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I don't have a ppm meter maybe i should have it checked i have well water if I use ro system does it take that out of the equation? I have never check ppm of ro or straight well water. But some of my plants are locked up bad. My ph was to high in my soil which i fixed way to late i use tlo from buildasoil.com but my ph was at 8 so i started PHing my water down to 5.5 or 6 and got it back to 6.5 in the soil this week after flushing with 5.5. Not sure if they will recover so far along.
 
#36
CannaBlaster said:
It just depends on how much I make each time. When my plants are mature each DWC bucket holds 2.5gal and I change my solution every 10 days. I can make 4.5 gal each run in my small still and 14 in my large still but my large still runs on propane. It uses 1/5 of a grill tank per run. My small still is electric so it virtually costs nothing. Am I saving money? Probably but I dont know how much. I basically do it because I can, because I can use any water source, and I dont always have the money to run out and buy gallons of water at $1gal everytime I do a nute change. When I use the small still I know im saving a dollar a gallon but it takes several hours to run.

As far as any difference, I don't know if this has anything to do with the water but when I was using local spring water(266ppm alone) my plants wasnt using much nutes but in the past 24hrs my plants have used over 200ppm per plant. The high calcium in my spring water probably was locking up some of my nutes. Calcium is critical in nute absorbtion but too much can cause problems. Happy medium Main, happy medium!
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I love the show moonshiners i assume your from the south as for stills are not big in my parts I'm a Yankee
 
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