Does anyone use unfiltered tap water?

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.

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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.

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our tap is about like @anon98660487 between 8.7 and 9.4 between 300 -450 ppm

Our tap water is 9.5 ph; and according to our city water report up to 300ppm just manganese.

I’m surprised I kept plants alive with that.

High pH water with low ppm isn’t nearly as tough for soil life to self-regulate as high pH water with medium/high ppm.

I use tap water. Mine has an 8.0 ph and when I add my nutes it brings the PH down it bring it down to a 6.2-6.6 range

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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

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here is mine


I think the PH is too high

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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 :scream:

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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.

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I contacted my water supplier and they said i could use Vitamin c to neutralize chlorine instantly

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Vitamin C is also known as Ascorbic Acid I am pretty sure, mentioned earlier in the thread.

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That is correct.
Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) nutralizes chloramines and plays an important role in mostly all aspects of plant life.

a) It takes about 1,000 mg of vitamin C (ascorbic acid form) to remove chloramines from 40 gallons of water. Reverse osmosis units do remove chloramines as they generally have a couple carbon filters but they often produce large amounts of salt (sodium) in the water which can also cause problems if used to water plants.

b) In plants, vitamin C can control the division, elongation, and differentiation of cells , as well as programmed cell death (PCD)…

…Vitamin C, regulating the abovementioned processes at molecular and cellular levels, is therefore involved in different phases of plant growth and development, such as seed maturation and germination, flowering, fruit ripening, and senescence…

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Calcium does the same thing…

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.

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Don’t mention it!

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 it water works just fine, also added into soil and you should never have an issue

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And I mostly use RO. Unless I don’t have access at the time and then bang. secret sauce right there son lol

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

So add this to my tap water & no need to worry :thinking: