Greetings all and hope you are well
As anyone who has followed my posts will tell you they are often nothing short of cataclysmic disasters on an apocalyptic scale. Granted, most are down to basic rookie mistakes but you learn and get better but this season I thought I had it sorted. Okay, I`d just gone over to LED`s and that takes some figuring but I had overhauled my organic nutes after further research, sorted out soil mix that I`m happy with and the training I was doing. In fact, everything looked fine and dandy on paper. The weed I grow is teeth rattling but the yields still fall short and I seem to get this creeping, overall yellowness of leaves with very burnt tips and I always have. Now, I `ve chased everything down to over watering/ over feeding/ under feeding, etc and still I`d get these pesky leaves until I wondered what hardness my water was. In hindsight, an obvious question-I`d assumed that as treated water it would be soft to just above. Nope it was hard with 26mg/litre of calcium. This level of calcium (Coupled with high Mag)gave me an excess problem which I`d treated as a difficiency adding items like CalMag to address. To be honest, it was mainly my indicas that really didn`t handle this well but it made sense once I`d finally cottoned on.
So, I`m not set up to bring an RO kit into this house and lugging bottled water back from the supermarket seems unappealing at the very least so I`ve decided to try the following and wondered on folks` thoughts:
I will collect dehumidified water and add it to a much smaller amount of chlorinated tap water and let sit overnight before making a compost tea for the waterings. This reduction in tap water will mean much less calcium (though some will still be there as well as in the molasses added, etc) and the chlorine will kill off any bacteria in the dehumid water before evaporating. The microbes will then do the rest during brewing.
My question: Has anyone tried this? I appreciate you`re not meant to drink dehumid water but I`ve seen quite a few threads on other sites where folk have used it to water cannabis and nought bad has happened. The only thing I`m unsure of is metals in the water. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers
As anyone who has followed my posts will tell you they are often nothing short of cataclysmic disasters on an apocalyptic scale. Granted, most are down to basic rookie mistakes but you learn and get better but this season I thought I had it sorted. Okay, I`d just gone over to LED`s and that takes some figuring but I had overhauled my organic nutes after further research, sorted out soil mix that I`m happy with and the training I was doing. In fact, everything looked fine and dandy on paper. The weed I grow is teeth rattling but the yields still fall short and I seem to get this creeping, overall yellowness of leaves with very burnt tips and I always have. Now, I `ve chased everything down to over watering/ over feeding/ under feeding, etc and still I`d get these pesky leaves until I wondered what hardness my water was. In hindsight, an obvious question-I`d assumed that as treated water it would be soft to just above. Nope it was hard with 26mg/litre of calcium. This level of calcium (Coupled with high Mag)gave me an excess problem which I`d treated as a difficiency adding items like CalMag to address. To be honest, it was mainly my indicas that really didn`t handle this well but it made sense once I`d finally cottoned on.
So, I`m not set up to bring an RO kit into this house and lugging bottled water back from the supermarket seems unappealing at the very least so I`ve decided to try the following and wondered on folks` thoughts:
I will collect dehumidified water and add it to a much smaller amount of chlorinated tap water and let sit overnight before making a compost tea for the waterings. This reduction in tap water will mean much less calcium (though some will still be there as well as in the molasses added, etc) and the chlorine will kill off any bacteria in the dehumid water before evaporating. The microbes will then do the rest during brewing.
My question: Has anyone tried this? I appreciate you`re not meant to drink dehumid water but I`ve seen quite a few threads on other sites where folk have used it to water cannabis and nought bad has happened. The only thing I`m unsure of is metals in the water. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers
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