HI all...may I have your opinion on watering my organic soil grow? For years, I've have an RO system with RO membrane, a sediment and carbon filter, then a re-mineralization filter. Now, I'm told forget the RO and the re-mineralization, just send it through the sediment and carbon? Thanks for your attention!...Steve
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I think that as long as your tap water is decent you can run it through an inline charcoal filter on your water hose. I'm dealing with some real bad water at the house I just bought. So I installed an ro system but I'm going to mix in filtered tap water. The ppm is over 500 here is the only reason I'm doing it
At the old house I ran my water through a boogie brand filter on my hose for years with no problemTENT 1 4x4 SF7000
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My N.AZ tap water is highly mineralized 7.9 pH with a Pur filter on faucet. Used GH Ph down to 5.5 to 6,0 for entire grow with no issue in coir. I figured remove as much chlorine/chloromine as possible and go for it. Worked for me.Grow # 3 50/50 S/I Critical Mass photo fem
Seeds drop in water 1/8/2022
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My filtered tap water runs over 7.5 pH but the soil microbes
make pH correction unnecessary
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It depends on how you are growing and what you are growing in, you're good using up/down in coco because you are constantly rinsing it out by allowing runoff, or in a soil grow that you are feeding regular salt nutes n chemicals. But if you are growing in living/super soil you will end up with a build-up of the up/down which will interfere with the production of available nutrients for your plants, it's best to allow the soil to decide the ph unless your water is way off, then I suggest using a natural or organic substitute for up/down like vitamin C vinegar baking soda etcTENT 1 4x4 SF7000
s silver haze... strawberry haze...
.. gg4 and cheese berry auto thrown from the auto hut
TENT 2 2X4 SF2000
2x Thundersuck... og Jimmy... flo.... blue cheese
TENT 3 2X4 SF2000 + 2 113w blurples
3 gallon pots all autos
Weddingcake..2 red Gorilla girl..2 cinderella jack
All growing in living soil using Earth Dust
👇my one n only journal👇
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Apologies to both of you as I misread and thought it was coco. I have read that some organic growers will use lemon juice or other organic methods to lower pH in soil to 6.5 as I understand that is optimum for soil. peacefulwar, welcome to GWE, as you see there are a lot of variables to a fun and profitable hobby. The tutorials and articles on the main site are your best asset for growing. If you don't find an answer to a question we like to help if we can. Good Growing!Last edited by TOKABIGONE; 06-23-2021, 04:33 PM.
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