RangerDanger
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I worked as a volunteer for the US Forest Service for 30 years.
One of my gigs was as a Campground Host at a backpack campground 6 miles off the road.
There was a gated dirt fireroad that I had to key to, so I could drive in and out (and haul trash out).
It was my favorite job. I would give out trail advice and nature talks, write up campfire permits, and tell scary ghost stories around the campfire. 3 times I drove injured hikers out, and once drove to the nearest phone to call for medivac for a 10-year old girl who got fishhooks in her scalp after walking into the bushes to pee, on a hike with her parents.
Near this campground there was a spring.
I would bring out a 5 gal. water bottle to fill for drinking water at home.
At the time I had 3 grow chambers at home, and 1 day I got the idea to use natural mountain spring water for my hydro set-ups.
I went out and bought 10 5-gal. water bottles.
It was a big hassle. The spring was a hundred yards or so from the nearest place I could park, a hundred yards of rough terrain. I'd take the bottles out there 1 by 1, fill them up and lug them back to my van and drive them back home.
A full water bottle weighed somthing like 50 pounds.
Once I got home I'd have to haul them down a long driveway, and I'd do this in the middle of the night so neighbors wouldn't notice and possibly wonder why I was bringing 50 gallons of water a week to my garage.
Anyway, after a few months I noticed that my plants were taking less time to grow to a certain height that before, when I was using tap water.
Less time to veg (approx 1 week less) AND less time to flower (approx. 1 week less).
I mentioned this to a friend Dr. Dan, who is a chemist.
"That's because you're using "living" water" he told me.
Say what?
He explained that living water was water that things lived in. Like insects and fish. No additives that are found in city water that, for instance, would kill fish.
I also used organic nutrients.
My friends all raved about the taste of my pot.
To my knowledge I was the only guy in my neighborhood at least that grew pot using pure mountain spring water.
But I was committed to grow the best damn pot I could.
One of my gigs was as a Campground Host at a backpack campground 6 miles off the road.
There was a gated dirt fireroad that I had to key to, so I could drive in and out (and haul trash out).
It was my favorite job. I would give out trail advice and nature talks, write up campfire permits, and tell scary ghost stories around the campfire. 3 times I drove injured hikers out, and once drove to the nearest phone to call for medivac for a 10-year old girl who got fishhooks in her scalp after walking into the bushes to pee, on a hike with her parents.
Near this campground there was a spring.
I would bring out a 5 gal. water bottle to fill for drinking water at home.
At the time I had 3 grow chambers at home, and 1 day I got the idea to use natural mountain spring water for my hydro set-ups.
I went out and bought 10 5-gal. water bottles.
It was a big hassle. The spring was a hundred yards or so from the nearest place I could park, a hundred yards of rough terrain. I'd take the bottles out there 1 by 1, fill them up and lug them back to my van and drive them back home.
A full water bottle weighed somthing like 50 pounds.
Once I got home I'd have to haul them down a long driveway, and I'd do this in the middle of the night so neighbors wouldn't notice and possibly wonder why I was bringing 50 gallons of water a week to my garage.
Anyway, after a few months I noticed that my plants were taking less time to grow to a certain height that before, when I was using tap water.
Less time to veg (approx 1 week less) AND less time to flower (approx. 1 week less).
I mentioned this to a friend Dr. Dan, who is a chemist.
"That's because you're using "living" water" he told me.
Say what?
He explained that living water was water that things lived in. Like insects and fish. No additives that are found in city water that, for instance, would kill fish.
I also used organic nutrients.
My friends all raved about the taste of my pot.
To my knowledge I was the only guy in my neighborhood at least that grew pot using pure mountain spring water.
But I was committed to grow the best damn pot I could.