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mcattak
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Using tap water may be a tough issue to deal with when it comes to determining what type of problem your plant may have. Tap water can have whatever it wants in it and I always struggled using it. It usually has chlorine in it for the first 24hrs plus I like a baseline of 0 ppm before going to work. For 200 bucks you can get some assurance that you are starting off right and can then diagnose problems from there. Its tough make the RO switch but get one with auto shut off and buy a float. It's nice to walk in to a tub of nothing but freshness waiting to carry your mix down the line.
I use about 400 - 500 gallons of water a week...So RO means up to 1500 per week...Dont think I want to do that....
My plants look great and I have been using city water for 10 years...
The PH issue showed up in the last weeks of flowering and could have been because I was running very low nutrient or some sort of organism infiltrated my RDWC...
I understand city water is not the best but my first run RDWC I needed to go with what I know...Next round I might actually take out the chloromines...
mc