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The water softener is your problem. Tap the line before it goes to the softener and run it thru a basic carbon water filter, That will take care of it.
The filter will help clean anything that is in the water that can hurt the plants, but it does nothing else except give you peace of mind.
You can’t avoid the brine tank with an RO system. He said it’s unusable due to radon.The water softener is your problem. Tap the line before it goes to the softener and run it thru a basic carbon water filter, That will take care of it.
The filter will help clean anything that is in the water that can hurt the plants, but it does nothing else except give you peace of mind.
Where is this radon coming from? Had it tested? I mean this gas is produced from the breakdown of uranium its not just present everywhere.You can’t avoid the brine tank with an RO system. He said it’s unusable due to radon.
Time to start hauling water.
He has well water.Where is this radon coming from? Had it tested? I mean this gas is produced from the breakdown of uranium its not just present everywhere.
Aeration and a good activated carbon filer will remove it.
I highly doubt this is an issue and if it's a municipal water supply I'd say it's almost impossible that it would contain any.
Yeah bit that doesn't mean it has radon.... and its been used in the past without issue?He has well water.
Read this, specifically the RO portion. Ph is a result of alkaline to acidic ratios.Wow everyone thanks for the quick responses! So to answer a few questions. The ppms prior to softener are 450 and is not a good plant friendly mix. Calcium and magnesium are the least of our worries there as it's mostly "other minerals" according to a quick water test I did with a kit. Currently I'm running from the softener through an ro system to remove the crazy ppms of basically salt from the softener so I'm starting with 0ppm water. I can try blending with tap water but the first grow I did in the new house I did with just the tap but had basically the same issue but worse as the ph of my tap water is 7 to 7.2 but once I add nutes and it hits the res sites for a few hours the ph would start rising so I would ph down. Then halfway through the week it would flip and start plummeting for the rest of the week hence the reason I bought an ro system.
One question that I have after doing more research this morning was the fact that everywhere I read it says that as plants eat generally the ph of the water will rise. (not always but generally) Now my thought is that would be due to the natural water ph usually being 7ish so as plants eat the ph should begin to return closer to the natural ph of the water. One thing I noticed last night is the ph of the ro water stays at 4.5 to 5 after going through the ro system due to not having a buffer. It's climbs up to 6 after adding just the cal MG then balances out at about 6.3 with all nutrients added no ph up or down needed. Could it be that as they take up nutrients and the water settles over a day or so in the system that the ph is just going to lower?
Your PH problem is not a PH problem... its an alkalinity problem creating an unstable PH problem.Ok so let me clarify a few things. The house I'm in now is new to us this spring. The water is from our well which has been tested yearly and has the presence of radon on top of being hard. We received the annual tests from the water company that maintains the system and I purchased and did an at home test to verify results. Could I tap and bypass just softener sure but I already tried water directly out of the well and the ph is 8.2 so I was dealing with exactly the opposite issue im trying to solve with ro water. I certainly don't want anyone on here as frustrated as I've been lol. I may just have to bite the bullet on a ph controller for up only to mitigate the crazy cost of the dual pump option and continue on. I'm certainly not "hauling" 75 gallons of water each week when it should be free minus electricity for the well pump.
I mean as of writing this post the ph has finally stabilized at 6.2 after 48 hours and a tiny bottle worth of ph up. Ppms are dropping as they should slowly and they are drinking a ton. I definitely am going to try buffering the ro water with tap to get the starting ppm between 100 and 200 and hope for the best.
Thanks for the directions to follow and I'll keep an eye on here. Now that things are widely excepted and my employer no longer cares I may finally start doing grow journals on here because I definitely enjoy reading and learning from yours!
Cheers and happy growing!
You can but there is no guarantee that the ppm add will contain adequate alkalinity.@Aqua Man
Lol I posted my reply then read your post and that entire thread. Thanks so much. That finally makes sense but a quick question to that would be should I buffer the ro water slowly with well water until ppms are in that range as the well water is more alkaline and high mineral content vs my softened tap? I know for a fact after my water tests that the tap has ppms but it's just the salts used for stripping the minerals out of the water.
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