Yeah, Mines great it has a slight chlorine smell, but the ph is right and it’s got less stuff dissolved in it than most bottled waters. A couple ppm of chlorine isn’t gonna hurt anything really I’ve run sterile reseviors in hydro with 1/4ml bleach/gallon water to prevent and treat root rot.
Edit: I’m in soil now, but use the same tap water and my plants don’t mind at all.
Unfiltered tap here, 90 ppm and 7.3-7.4 ph.
If I’m lucky enough to get some rain I’ll mix 50/50 from my rain barrel that normally comes out 0ppm and 6.3 ph.
I try to leave it out for 24 hours but usually end up bubbling it overnight.
In my opinion, you gotta play around with the nutrient inputs until they level out to 6.5. That way you are only giving the plant what it needs and not ph up or down…half the nutes raise it and half the nutes lower it…just gotta find that GOLDILOCKS zone
I only use tap
Ph is 7.5 I add jacks and at 550 ppm my ph drops to 6 .2 ish
Waters ppm normally is 190
At one time I only used distilled water until I ran out one day I found out the plant lived OMG
Looks like you might have a municipal water supply. Many municipal supplies treat the water such that it’s more alkaline like you see because the risk of bad things growing in it is much smaller.
My city water water quality report looks very similar to yours (though mine is in english), though my water pH is generally 7.9-8.1 from the tap and my water is a touch harder.
That’s interesting, did not know this. Thanks for sharing.
Are you confusing the RO rejection vs the RO permeate? The RO rejection (waste) likely contains large amounts of salts but the permeate (the usable RO output) should be significantly less than the input. The RO permeate is why RO exists.
I am pretty sure the author was not speaking of the waste water and in my experience with running RO through organic mixes is that you will eventually see build ups and deposits after a while (depending on how much water actually goes through it over the course of time)
EDIT Never seen the detriment though, and i still use RO in my garden though, btw… I just alternate.
Dolomite is fine… RO is fine… if you have chloramines in your water and are worried it’s going to negatively impact the rhizosphere then use RO or just drop the Vitamin C in your tap