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I am using distilled water for my plants because the tap water is too warm and I suspect I have calcium defiency in my plants. Can someone take a look at this pic and let me know if that's what it is?
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I used cal max went through 10 liters in 2 weeks. Switched to canna calcium 3 days ago, it's 4x stronger. Still yet to see an improvementDefinitely a deficiency.
Start with a low dose of cal / mag if that makes them better awesome!
It not move onto some of the other micro nutrients.
I used cal max went through 10 liters in 2 weeks. Switched to canna calcium 3 days ago, it's 4x stronger. Still yet to see an improvement
I am using 500 liters of water each time I irrigate them. I cannot cool down a 500 liter reservoir.
Unfortunately my tap water is 30c.
Would it be too risky to use the warm tap water? im worried about fungus and root rot.
Most cal mag supplements do not alkalize your water to help buffer....cal mag nutrients/supplements do not buffer your water... putting cal mag in distilled water isnt going to do any good...im sure disstilled water pulls nutrients out of living things..i could be wrong though
Man, thats going to be a lot of ice cubes to cool down 500 liters.Excellent point about alkalinity that is easily overlooked by most growers. Some calmag brands do use calcium carbonate that will buffer but most seem to use calcium nitrate that doesnt. Easiest way around this is to add some tap water to the distilled, mix it 60/40 distilled/tap or something like that to hit around 0.2ec. That should buffer the water adequately. As for temperature, if it's too high put ice cubes in it before you water. Gotta do what ya gotta do...
Sorry I missed that part. What you could do is make an immersion chiller to put inline on the hose that fills your res. Get about 25' of 1/2" copper tubing and coil it around a bucket, then attach a garden hose to each end. Fill a big bucket with ice water and put the copper coil in it and flow the tap water through the chiller, the water will come out the other end much colder.Man, thats going to be a lot of ice cubes to cool down 500 liters.
Ah great, ill give it a try. ill see if i combine the distilled water with the tap water if it will lower it sufficiently as well.Sorry I missed that part. What you could do is make an immersion chiller to put inline on the hose that fills your res. Get about 25' of 1/2" copper tubing and coil it around a bucket, then attach a garden hose to each end. Fill a big bucket with ice water and put the copper coil in it and flow the tap water through the chiller, the water will come out the other end much colder.
I used cal max went through 10 liters in 2 weeks. Switched to canna calcium 3 days ago, it's 4x stronger. Still yet to see an improvement
AlsoAh great, ill give it a try. ill see if i combine the distilled water with the tap water if it will lower it sufficiently as well.
this is such a headache, i never used to have this kind of problem before in canada
He's rightI'll also put it out there, that to my eyes those buds look like they are full of seeds.. You may have caused stress hermies, or missed a hermaphrodite plant somewhere in the garden. I'd break one of those buds apart and have a peek.
Ah great, ill give it a try. ill see if i combine the distilled water with the tap water if it will lower it sufficiently as well.
this is such a headache, i never used to have this kind of problem before in canada