SOIL Ac water?! Ppm 40!

[joeman098]

Guys,

Is it jsut me or is your AC water have an insanely low PPM. I would LOVE to use this as my tap is near 500ppm (almost 400 after britta). I saw some lab reports it was so clean it was safe for drinking. I just have never seen anything at 40ppm and would save me a lot of water!

[Rwise]

I have read that the water from them and dehydrators can be used (kinda like RO or distilled water), however many are afraid it may contain heavy metals from them.

[OldManGrower]

AC runoff ought to be a fine source of H2O for your grow, especially if you grow outdoors. If you grow indoors it might have outdoor spoors or undesirable seeds that could contaminate your grow.

[GroBuddy]

4 to 500 is good that's added minerals like calcium available from tap you dont have to supply to plants. I used to run into calmag deficiencies using RO water that stopped when I started using tap. My tap is 7 to 800ppms all I use is a boogie blue water hose filter or I'll get a 2 pack of cheaper ones and use both so I don't have to let tap sit for 24 hours. Using those you can water directly from water hose or fill up jugs/buckets for indoor plants

The only time I use RO anymore is when I use worm juice or fish poo etc., something that needs to be diluted. I'll do that so I dont have an extra 700 ppms to consider when mixing.

[DW2]

Howdy GroBuddy. My sentiments about using just plain tap water for my hydroponic grows. I have been using the city tap water, with all of its minerals, for over eleven grows and have not had any problems with it. I do have reservations about using the condensate from an A/C unit because of the chance of introducing spores and/or bacteria into the grow.

[GroBuddy]

Yea but my tap isn't consumable my dogs dont even get it. I live in alamogordo New Mexico theres zero bodies of water around desert climate. Lots of lime. I watered a plant a long time ago with plain tap and it almost died from watering without being filtered. We have water dispensaries scattered across town 25 cents a gallon. I'd rather not risk it if I can simply filter. Also doesn't water bubble and become oxygenated in reservoirs in turn airing out chloramine or chlorine? Appreciate the feed back. Never ran a reservoir