Switching from distilled water to tap, mid grow?

Anyone do it? Now that I have 9 plants vs the 4 from my last grow buying distilled water is getting expensive. So I'm thinking of switching to tap water. The water here is treated by the city... Thanks

It probably won;t be a big deal. If you want to be extra careful adjust your nutrients to account for the ppm of the tap water. I use straight tap water and it's about 250 ppms on average and my plants are fine.

tallicagolf said:

Anyone do it? Now that I have 9 plants vs the 4 from my last grow buying distilled water is getting expensive. So I'm thinking of switching to tap water. The water here is treated by the city... Thanks

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dude your better off just making one trip to the store and buying yourself a nice water filter..
better than buying bottled water every other day and using regular oild tap water!!

Boil the Tap water

OK, I'm not using bottled water, I'm using distilled water which is 72 cents a gallon around here.

I don't have a ppm meter, all I have is ph test kit.

Anyone actually have experience with switching mid grow. I know a lot of you guys just use tap water, but I'm wondering what effect it will have switching mid grow

And boiling the tap water is out of the question since boiling that much water would be very time consuming.

I have just done it with my grow. you will have no problems because of switching unless your tap water in your area is really hard.

Depends on the water provider. All tap water will have chlorine which does not help at all.

Boiling tap water will only concentrate the chem's in the water.

The water filter (Brita?) is a good idea.

You can also distill your own water using two pots and some ice. I'll explain it if that's the way you want to go. Up to you.

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Tap water in fl has a ph of 8.5 and smells like bleach! I use reverse osmosis water wich has a ph of 7 and is only 30 cents a gallon. Used with ff soil and nutes I never have to adjust my ph level useing quarter strength nutes.

thank you crackerjax for agreeing with me that using a filter is most likely the best way to grow unless
he wants to go straight to tap water

I have brita filter that I could run the water through, I haven't tested the ph of the water but it's not that big of deal since I adjust my ph anyway when I feed them.

And I don't have the time to make my own distilled water, but thanks for the help.

I guess I''ll try it out and see how it works.

Thanks guys

I use to buy distilled water b/c I thought it was better but the price was adding up. What I do now is add a chlorine, chloramine and ammonia remover to my tap water. I bubble it for an hour then put my plants in. It works just fine. Lowes has some good stuff in the pond section.

o yea for $10-15 dollars the bottle treats almost 600 gallons.

tallicagolf said:

I have brita filter that I could run the water through, I haven't tested the ph of the water but it's not that big of deal since I adjust my ph anyway when I feed them.

And I don't have the time to make my own distilled water, but thanks for the help.

I guess I''ll try it out and see how it works.

Thanks guys

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so then why make this dumb as post in the first place if all we tell you to do you have a damn excuse for it!!!
if you adjust the ph levels on the water why the hell not just use tap water and stop posting these dumb ass post!!

jare86cmp said:

so then why make this dumb as post in the first place if all we tell you to do you have a damn excuse for it!!!
if you adjust the ph levels on the water why the hell not just use tap water and stop posting these dumb ass post!!

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The ph was the least of my worries, I was worried about the chlorine and whatever else is found in tap water. I'm sorry that a grower of your caliber got offended by my question. Instead off replying with your useless post you could have added something beneficial to thread . Thanks anyway

you worry to fucking much!!!
how about that for a beneficial!!!
tap water is commonly used to grow all the time aint shit going to happen!!!

It will not probably kill his plant you are right, but if he is striving to make the best grow possible clap tap water will hinder the results.

If you do not believe me then grow one side by side with distilled+nutes and a tap+nutes. You will see. If you use nothing but tap in your grow, you can't tell....

Plants ... ALL plants are geared on an evolutionary scale for RAIN water. Tap is a far far cry from that.



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jare86cmp said:

you worry to fucking much!!!
how about that for a beneficial!!!
tap water is commonly used to grow all the time aint shit going to happen!!!

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if people like you are gonna just post to talk shit or run your mouth just get off the forum. or stick to lurking. im sure no one needs to read your bullshit. thanks.

Ouch! That had to hurt!


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i think jare86cunt bitched out

It's okay to rant now and again, just be ACCURATE when you do it...

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