Chloramine?

[Ninjadogma]

I have it in my tap water with everything else. I use zero water filters and they are rated for removing chloramine in their 5-stage models. I get about 40 gals of filter water per filter. It was much cheaper than buying Pure water 5 gallon jugs. RV filters suck and are almost all made in china. I have a 32 cup water jug and it works out well for my few plants. RO systems are extremely expensive, The "affordable" RO systems don't last close at all too what the very expensive pro models. The zero filters are pricy but it removes a lot of other junk beside that chloramine, still have to PH my water but is a lot better than nasty city water.

An activated charcoal filter installed inline on the faucet you use for watering your plants is all you need to neutralize chloramines. It will set you back about $20.You only need RO if you're aiming for "rainwater" specs, ie 0 ppm and 6.5 ph. I don't even bother, but the way I value the assistance of microbes and mycos, I probably should.

 

[zack991]

True but almost all tap water has other contaminates like alcohols, diols, and most inorganics, such as lithium, sodium, iron, lead, arsenic, fluorine, and boric acid that it struggles with by itself. I rather have the water filtered for at much as I can, cannabis plants are extremely effective of pulling that nastiness into the product you plan to smoke into your body. Plus my ppm for tap water is almost 300 ppm its nice taking it close to zero as possible for more head room when feeding nutes to my plants. Also prevents me adding nasty ass chemicals to my soil. It also takes out other variables that WILL EFFECT THE PLANT.

If a person is going to buy US made high end RO filters are insanely expensive, I get 40 gallons per filter. If i go buy 5 gallon of pure water jugs because our tap water is horrible at 12 dollars a pop is over 100 bucks. I can get a filter for 15 buck each or if i buy a 4 pack for 10 bucks per. I can do 160-180 gallons for 40-55 plus tax bucks

 

[Ninjadogma]

True but almost all tap water has other contaminates like alcohols, diols, and most inorganics, such as lithium, sodium, iron, lead, arsenic, fluorine, and boric acid that it struggles with by itself. I rather have the water filtered for at much as I can, cannabis plants are extremely effective of pulling that nastiness into the product you plan to smoke into your body. Plus my ppm for tap water is almost 300 ppm its nice taking it close to zero as possible for more head room when feeding nutes to my plants. Also prevents me adding nasty ass chemicals to my soil. It also takes out other variables that WILL EFFECT THE PLANT.

If a person is going to buy US made high end RO filters are insanely expensive, I get 40 gallons per filter. If i go buy 5 gallon of pure water jugs because our tap water is horrible at 12 dollars a pop is over 100 bucks. I can get a filter for 15 buck each or if i buy a 4 pack for 10 bucks per. I can do 160-180 gallons for 40-55 plus tax bucks

Do you ever take a peek at your municipal water supply, annual report? We've got 400 ppm here and while we don't get a percentage list, the main ppm ingredients in order of concentration are cal and mag, sodium, bicarbonates, chlorides/chloramines and sulfates. The bicarbonates are what drives the pH up later after you adjust down. The main bummer is when doing a feeding, having to write off 0.8 of feeding potential because of all the other shit. It's totally okay for plants, it's just far from ideal.

 

[zack991]

Our water here is horrible our pH is 9.48

We have a lot of heavy metals and chemicals that i definitely dont want to be smoking in our water.

 

[zack991]

 

[zack991]

 

[Ninjadogma]

Our water here is horrible our pH is 9.48

We have a lot of heavy metals and chemicals that i definitely dont want to be smoking in our water.

The purest water I ever drank was refined from sewage.

I was at an ASCE meeting and folks from the OC municipal water district who were members showed up with brown jugs of pure water for people to sample that originated from the sewage treatment plant. No taste, no smell, just pure water, and the condensation forming on the jugs made them look even more thirst quenching.

But because of the psychological "ick" factor, they don't deliver that pure water to people's taps. Instead, they pump it into the ground to stabilize the aquifer. Being situated by the ocean, when they take water out of the ground it causes salt water from the ocean to leech into the aquifer. So they create a pressurized zone to hold that salt water at bay. It's actually really cool science.

 

[Vick_Vinegar]

We have 400ppm/0.8 EC tap water at pH 8.8 here. Plants dont really care at the end of the day. Waters full of additives. I don't add any feed or lower pH, just straight into the potting mix every morning.

The biggest issue with it is the carbonate buffers. Why I don't bother adjusting pH. I'll add phosphoric acid down to 6.5 and it'll be back at 8 within a day anyway.

I figured with what gets pumped Into our food supply, the tap water is the least of my worries health wise.

 

[Hossgrows]

The purest water I ever drank was refined from sewage.

I was at an ASCE meeting and folks from the OC municipal water district who were members showed up with brown jugs of pure water for people to sample that originated from the sewage treatment plant. No taste, no smell, just pure water, and the condensation forming on the jugs made them look even more thirst quenching.

But because of the psychological "ick" factor, they don't deliver that pure water to people's taps. Instead, they pump it into the ground to stabilize the aquifer. Being situated by the ocean, when they take water out of the ground it causes salt water from the ocean to leech into the aquifer. So they create a pressurized zone to hold that salt water at bay. It's actually really cool science.

I used to haul sludge from a waste water treatment plant. Shit can grow some serious plants, but I'd never trust it in my garden . Did spread it on a 300 acre farm field. The ears of corn were twice their normal size, and had to drive the semi along side the combine that was constantly unloading, to keep the grain hopper from over filling every hundred feet of so.

 

[Putthataway]

I don’t really like to chime in 8 year old dead threads, but this one kind of makes sense to me. When I first started growing I was using r.o and dudes here told me tap is better. I had high chlorine but the evaporation method worked. Fast forward to two or three years later I just started having random issues and the city ph was just all over the place every time. I ended up switching to spring water. Expensive and for some reason it is coming from California who is short on water. Later it turns out my city water company had to admit that they were over 3x the allowed limit for something in the water and I don’t recall what it was. Recently around the aquifers people have been complaining about a gas like smell.

 

[capone304]

My water from the tap says 116ppm sits out for weeks and stays 116ppm yet the local water says they use chlorine in calling bullshit bc nothing evaporated out of it

 

[Ninjadogma]

My water from the tap says 116ppm sits out for weeks and stays 116ppm yet the local water says they use chlorine in calling bullshit bc nothing evaporated out of it

Want to hear something funny? Some nerd will probably correct me on a technicality, but it works something like this: The chlorine either gasses off or the chlorine binds back to hydrogen atoms in the water and turns into sodium chloride (salt). So you still have 116 ppm, only it's salt instead of chlorine.

Introduce some electrolysis and you can even change it back to chlorine

 

[Ninjadogma]

Want to hear something funny? Some nerd will probably correct me on a technicality, but it works something like this: The chlorine either gasses off or the chlorine binds back to hydrogen atoms in the water and turns into sodium chloride (salt). So you still have 116 ppm, only it's salt instead of chlorine.

Introduce some electrolysis and you can even change it back to chlorine

Sorry, got lost in a moment cracking myself up over the absurdity of salt and forgot to make a point. That 116 you are seeing may only have a small ppm of chlorine. The rest of it, who knows. Regardless, it's pretty low considering most people have an average 300 ppm or so tap. Anyways super old thread I gotta stop enabling this time travel stuff on my end.