Hardwater

[Willis59]

Hi..Has anyone ever come across hardwater with ec 1.1
this is after being left in an open top bucket for 48hrs...my ec meter is brand new & has been calibrated. It works perfectly!!(blue lab)

[alltatup]

No, I've got real soft water where I live. You are prolly gonna have to buy water for your garden...

[jimicloudstuff]

I've got pretty hard tap water, pushing week 7 of flower and its never been an issue in soil. Never EC 'd but was coming in at 8.6 pH out of the tap. I bring that down to 6.8 ish, but don't filter it. The minerals that make water hard vary from place to place but for me it's like free cal / mg.

[9fingerleafs]

my tap water is 700ppms or 1.4EC straight from the deep well, i dilute 1:1 with RO water to get a 350ppm starting water and then add nutrients to 900-1000ppm or 2ec

[Willis59]

Thx guys..gonna mix it 1:1 with ro bring down the ec..thx for the advise 9fingerleafs

[Toker1]

Just an FYI, leaving tap water in an open bucket top does not remove the chlorine by gassing it off. Modern day water uses a different process then gassing chlorine into it.
I am just assuming that’s why it was left out for 48 hours.

[jimicloudstuff]

Yea, lots of places use cloramine these days. Never gases off but can be neutralized with ascorbic acid or filtered. My town switched over a month or two ago, one of many things got me thinking about a well.