phdtje
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From what i've heard it's better not to use plain water like reversed osmose or distilled water, because it lacks a lot of salts, no water is entirely pure, it's property of water not to stay pure.
I would only use it when you exactly know what you are doing or when you've experimented or are experimenting a bit in nutrient requirements of plants.
There can be a big difference between the two kinds of water, tap or distilled. Depends on area of living and thus growing. Some areas/companies use a lot of chelate ions to bind the calcium for example. So it might not taste like calcium carbonated water but it still contains a lot of Ca.
Too get rid of the chlorine I usually let the water rest for a couple of hours till a couple of days at the most, after that i refresh the water.
One or two hours is often enough i think, I can also recommend this when water is used for drinking, too much Cl is just bad for ya.
Some periods the water contains more chlorine than in other periods during the year, smell it when just tapped.
Pouring the water over from container to container couple of times helps dissolving more oxygen temporarily, which in return seems to get rid of the chlorine faster. It also dissolves more oxygen in water which can be good or bad. Too much can cause ions to bind with the oxygen coming from your fertilizer. Letting the water rest for a while will help getting rid of the extra O. Just let the water stabilize with the gasses in the room.
Dissolving extra oxygen just before watering is uber, as much as possible, roots love it, and a lot of helpful bacteria love it.
Just think of a waterfall (water naturally falling into water dissolves O, like oxygen rich water is essential to life in those waterfall lakes ). There are of course other methods to dissolve more O into water, some techniques come from ancient Brazil for instance. If farmers created such oxygenated watering they would yield more.
Oxygen in water also is a self cleaning agent, seems to bind dirt.
With every pour watch the color and shininess of the water.
I would only use it when you exactly know what you are doing or when you've experimented or are experimenting a bit in nutrient requirements of plants.
There can be a big difference between the two kinds of water, tap or distilled. Depends on area of living and thus growing. Some areas/companies use a lot of chelate ions to bind the calcium for example. So it might not taste like calcium carbonated water but it still contains a lot of Ca.
Too get rid of the chlorine I usually let the water rest for a couple of hours till a couple of days at the most, after that i refresh the water.
One or two hours is often enough i think, I can also recommend this when water is used for drinking, too much Cl is just bad for ya.
Some periods the water contains more chlorine than in other periods during the year, smell it when just tapped.
Pouring the water over from container to container couple of times helps dissolving more oxygen temporarily, which in return seems to get rid of the chlorine faster. It also dissolves more oxygen in water which can be good or bad. Too much can cause ions to bind with the oxygen coming from your fertilizer. Letting the water rest for a while will help getting rid of the extra O. Just let the water stabilize with the gasses in the room.
Dissolving extra oxygen just before watering is uber, as much as possible, roots love it, and a lot of helpful bacteria love it.
Just think of a waterfall (water naturally falling into water dissolves O, like oxygen rich water is essential to life in those waterfall lakes ). There are of course other methods to dissolve more O into water, some techniques come from ancient Brazil for instance. If farmers created such oxygenated watering they would yield more.
Oxygen in water also is a self cleaning agent, seems to bind dirt.
With every pour watch the color and shininess of the water.
)-06/03/12
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