Where do you get your water from?

Where does everyone get water from? I purchase distilled water. Was wondering if any good filters that anyone recommends.

I use cheap 140 dollar RO filter from ebay it works really well for a long time

Edit: I want to mention I add 5ml or 1 tsp of Cal Mag Plus by Botanicare. Anything similar is good but don't use 0 ppm water.

Tap

Tap water here comes out about 50ppm

Tap now. Used to pay .30 a gallon for filtered water in a 5 gal water bottle at the super market. I have great low ppm tap tho.

Tap and a little pH down for me. Mine runs just under 200 ppm most days.and pH around 8. I drop the pH before adding any nutes, half a teaspoon gets me right around 5.8 or so. And just fertilize as needed. I used to cart RO water around, then city water. Got tired of toting all those gallons of water, and the occasional 5gallon spill in the car suck too. so I gave the well water a go, been working fine for about a year now.

.1 ec tap

Tap water but I add few drops of oranges to make ph level 6.4

Since tap water ph is 7.0 neutral not good for plants

Not sure the ppm though

I use RO. Town water fluctuates too much, .3ec one day, .8 the next. I'm pretty sure it all comes from the oceans. ..eventually.

I have a well whose water is conditioned without a bypass currently so I used to use RO from Walmart ($.37 per) but now use spring water from an artesian well thats been flowing drinkable for 100 years. PH is a bit high but it works.

Very little oxygen in distilled...not the best choice.

Scaccia450 said:

Since tap water ph is 7.0 neutral not good for plants

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Not all tap water is the same it can vary a lot. As for 7.0 ph not being good for plants that's what distilled water is ph7.0 / 0ppm pure water.

Mateuszpl said:

Where does everyone get water from? I purchase distilled water. Was wondering if any good filters that anyone recommends.

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Why not use tap water, seems like a waste of money to me for no good reason

Tap Water with a high ph of 7.7 so I lower with PH down

R/O

Distilled is good too. My plants like either far more than reg tap water

Cause plants get nutrition lock with a ph of 7.0 which is bad you can add a lot of nutrition it won't absorb it . And most tap water has cholorine and a ph of 7.0-7.7, to get rid of chlorine make it sit for 24 hours. To lower ph use oranges or lemon or ph down. Bring it to 6.0-6.8

I understand this.

Somewhere around here is a nice chart documenting the optimum PH levels for different nutes.

Why do I use RO, that's a great question. Because I had my water analyzed and it has a lot of Calcium Carbonate which in the past has caused me lockout problems in flower. For veg I could use tap water but it doesn't filter out of the soil so again I end up locking out in flower. But if I use RO water with a little Ca Mg w/traces I never ever have lockout problems in flower. It isn't expensive to have your water tested but as noted above tap water isn't consistent. Where I live water quality is about 60 on the index where air quality is in the high 90's on the index. So even before I sent it in for analysis I expected Calcium Carbonate, a.k.a. hardwater. (Or the underlying components of insoluble solids that form Calcium Carbonate)

An RO filter lasts years in a grow and also I have a trash can with a float valve so I have it on tap, 'so to speak'. I run it from that trash can into my feed reservoir manually, adjust pH and I water with a hose by hand. My only problem with hand watering is I am a stoner so I forget to water one of them sometimes then I find her falling over. But I grow several different ways so I don't feel like building a watering system.