i use well water,mine is 315 ppm and 7.2 ph,my system goes as follow
with seedlings and clones i buy bottle water and feed them ro water and the low number feed that is required for youth,as in 250 ppm,when i get the third set of true leaves i bump up my ec to around 300 ppm also transplant at this time,i feed them 300 ppm until they get there legs under them from the transplant,once they start to rock on,i start using my well water,i just add very little feed and let the plants enjoy the well water,thing is and your issue too i can almost garuntee is the limestone base aquifer, calcium,mine changes with the seasons too,so how i combat that with my veggie garden were i have no choice but use the well water is about every 6 weeks i add about 1/2 cup of ironite from garden center or home depot,the sulfur in it helps nutrilize some that calcium and controls the soil ph also,
for my weed i use ro water,i use cal mag with it,
i use well water i use no cal mag
for coco as i mentioned i start out with ro water and add the calmag,that said i only use 150ppm of the cal mag leaving 100 ppm of food,coco always food never plain water,i know debatable,thats just how i roll.
once i have the plant ready to transplant ,i drop both ro water and calmag
no bro to much a headache,i only use ro water when the plants are small i use the hannah feed schedule,so when i get to 3 or 400ppm i ditch the ro water and use the well,on my veggie garden i add the sulfur to balance out the high ph ,works pretty good the mangnese adjust to keep it from being toxic,hell you know the game out of question to mix nutes for a 40 x 40 bottom garden then i have the 24 container garden on top of hill here so no ph control other than the sulfur it actually works well.take in consideration i also reamend yearly and add esentail elements for my micro nutreints,then i add a touch more mangnese for the water adjustmentHave you tried mixing the well water with ro water 50/50? Almost perfect numbers like that for you.
let me ask this,the rotten egg smell is sulfur the red staining is iron,is this coming threw the pipes to the house? have you went to the well storage tank and ran it ?does it have same smell? does your well have a filter?Yea found ro water 25 cents a gallon at the local store here so that's exactly what I was thinking mixing it 50 /50 it does have a strong rotten egg smell tho an red stain on everything all ways cleaning something so was thinking just buying ro water .with this being my first grow I did change my mind on just right now so got this promix from hydro store dude said was a good choice said should maybe get to know how to grow an then start to experiment with hydro when I learn more he saved me a few bucks also that way lol anyway ty all for the info was very helpful my 4 girls just pop there heads out this morning so I'm on my way will post a grow journal also I know I'll need the helpthanks again all stay safe
Wish I had my Michigan well water back! LolI've never really heard of a well storage tank. I have an artisan well.(natural spring). It goes by pipe to a constant pressure pump that's 25gallons. It keeps the pressure the same no matter how many sources of water you have running. But by no means a well tank. My filter. Specifically designed to rid iron and bacteria. It's pulled through a Specific medium to rid iron and then h202 is added to kill bacteria. Works great for my system. Iron shield water system.
But in Michigan, I've never heard of wells having tanks or filters, just water softerns.
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