PHing tap water... need advice.

k so i know you should leave tap water out for at least 24 hours to evaporate the chlorine, but what if i just ph it right out of the tap? will the eventual chlorine evaporation change the ph?

oh and another question, what ph should the water for a bubble cloner be?

You should and could just runt he water out of the faucet, onto the warm palm of your hand, and the chlorine will disapate immediately.

I like 5.8 to 6.2 for my grows, but trying for a perfect pH will drive ya nuts. I beleive mine do well, with any pH from 5.6 to 6.5. Matter a fact, it is good or better to let it be between 5.6 and 6.5 in different levels, that to stay constantly at the same pH level.

Roseman said:

You should and could just runt he water out of the faucet, onto the warm palm of your hand, and the chlorine will disapate immediately.

I like 5.8 to 6.2 for my grows, but trying for a perfect pH will drive ya nuts. I beleive mine do well, with any pH from 5.6 to 6.5. Matter a fact, it is good or better to let it be between 5.6 and 6.5 in different levels, that to stay constantly at the same pH level.

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Sound advice here. You're on fire today, Rose.
Unless you have really hard water (over ~200ppm) from the faucet it will be fine

k sweed thanks for the info!

I use tap water and my ppm is 305 out of the tap. I have a fish pond and chlorine kills fish. I add my pond water detox and use my tap water right away. I here 305ppm is too hard but my tap has been checked for water quality and its fine. I have no water issues with my tap water. My plants like a ph of 5.2-5.8 for hydro and 5.8-6.5 for soil but everyone is different. I use ph buffered nutes for flower so I have no ph issues when in flower only veg!