Watering with Brita filtered water

[Crazyman1212]

Hey everyone. I have just started using a brita filtering watering jug to help reduce the amount of chloramine used by our city. My taps regularly runs somewhere between 8-9 pH. I usually bring it down some where between 6 to 7 pH. When I used the brita filter the water tested between 5-6 pH. I am using the drops so this is just rough measurements. Has anyone ever used the Brita filter or any types of activated carbon filters to filter water and what where your results and what type of growing medium did you use with those results. Thanks everyone

 

[freezeland2]

Hey everyone. I have just started using a brita filtering watering jug to help reduce the amount of chloramine used by our city. My taps regularly runs somewhere between 8-9 pH. I usually bring it down some where between 6 to 7 pH. When I used the brita filter the water tested between 5-6 pH. I am using the drops so this is just rough measurements. Has anyone ever used the Brita filter or any types of activated carbon filters to filter water and what where your results and what type of growing medium did you use with those results. Thanks everyone

Brita is a zero water filtration. Meaning it removes all the Ion's from the water. Trying to ph adjust that is a fool’s errand. Are you adding any nutrients to that filtered water?

 

[Moshmen]

What is wrong with the tap ? How do you know the clorine content ? Did you get a report ?

 

[Zill]

Sounds like Freezeland has tried to pH WFI in the past.

 

[freezeland2]

Sounds like Freezeland has tried to pH WFI in the past.

WFI? What is that?

 

[Zill]

Sorry. Water for injection. It’s what is required in the pharmaceutical industry. Essentially each production units produces it own water for injection. At the end it’s only molten hydrogen oxide. That’s it water. What a PIA. Especially since pH is a specification.

 

[Crazyman1212]

Brita is a zero water filtration. Meaning it removes all the Ion's from the water. Trying to ph adjust that is a fool’s errand. Are you adding any nutrients to that filtered water?

the pH of the water jug I left out for more then 12 hours tested at 8-9 pH from the 5-6 pH range which I found strange. I did nothing to the water other than leaving it out. I have read on other blogs that some grows use activated carbon filters to reduce impurities like lead, asbestos, chlorine and chloramine. I add no nutrients to the water. I use gaia green organic to fertilizer my soil monthly and use just plain old tap water.

 

[freezeland2]

the pH of the water jug I left out for more then 12 hours tested at 8-9 pH from the 5-6 pH range which I found strange. I did nothing to the water other than leaving it out. I have read on other blogs that some grows use activated carbon filters to reduce impurities like lead, asbestos, chlorine and chloramine. I add no nutrients to the water. I use gaia green organic to fertilizer my soil monthly and use just plain old tap water.

There is no ions in that Breta filtered water and that ph will drift all over. If you added nutrients then you could ph adjust it after adding all nutrients to the water. But you are using Gaia and your tap water is most likely just fine unfiltered.

 

[JerzeyMike]

Is this your first run with ganja green and water? I was thinking if doing the same next run. This one i am only using compost teas.

 

[Arkansas1]

I use the Brita filters to keep my coffee machine clean and for drinking water and that's about it.

Regular tap water is fine, i wouldn't use Brita just for the ease of adjusting Ph.

My taps have a higher than normal Ph also.

 

[Crazyman1212]

Is this your first run with ganja green and water? I was thinking if doing the same next run. This one i am only using compost teas.

I started out using general hydroponics but eventually switched to gaia green because it's just so much less work and on top of that you don't have to flush your plants in the last two weeks. I found growing organically has eliminated nutrient issues.