Yea, I know! Haha. That’s the process from the product page of the commercial compressed stuff though. Right on the hydrofarm site, and other sites.
It’ll come to me some time tonight. I just remember being surprised because I was expecting maybe 0.1 - 0.2 ec (I don’t know why; because they’re bragging I guess). I think it was 0.5 - 0.6 ec, actually, now that I’m thinking. Because I remember switching into “tds mode”, which I’ve set to .5 (500ppm scale) and it read 250 or 255 ish (“ppm”).
Our tap water is about 0.1 ec / 50 “ppm”.
It probably felt worse/saltier just visually because you see all this brown/red water coming out and think “You want me to put plants directly into this!?”…