COCO COIR Reverse Osmosis Water

[golfnrl]

I am switching from tap water to RO. I've looked at GWE, the info is a little sparse. The system I bought is from the brand shown in the article I read. A search on the forum yielded 54 pages of info. After about 10 pages, and not finding anything specific, I gave up.

Using RO water as a base seems strait forward. I am trying to get the starting EC as close to zero as possible. The starting EC of the tap water where I live seems to fluctuate a bit from about .2 - .4 which limits the space within the EC range for nutrients.

Does anyone have any advice or tips that I need to know? I'll be using the RO in a 12 gallon reservoir. Grow medium is 50/50 blend coco/perlite.

[Allenpro]

Maybe there isnt much about it because it doesnt make a difference?

[DabberDog]

I'm just a simple farmer who don't know 'bout EC and junk.
What I know is the couple times I used RO, adjusting pH was crazy difficult. I recall a drop of pH Down in a gallon of RO caused a 2-point pH drop.

[2ShedsJackson]

I read this. This dude seems to know EVERYTHING about Coco grow. Annoyingly I can't subscribe to his site, something about a Wordpress problem but I'm a computer luddite so can't figure out the problem.

[2ShedsJackson]

I read this. This dude seems to know EVERYTHING about Coco grow. Annoyingly I can't subscribe to his site, something about a Wordpress problem but I'm a computer luddite so can't figure out the problem.

https://www.cocoforcannabis.com/

[Gator]

So experiment with soil ,I haven't tried coco, but I am experimenting with bubbleponics

[SWFL]

Using RO water as a base seems strait forward. I am trying to get the starting EC as close to zero as possible. The starting EC of the tap water where I live seems to fluctuate a bit from about .2 - .4 which limits the space within the EC range for nutrients.

RO should be as close to distilled water as possible providing you with a bank canvas to build up from.

Get the PH corrected to where you want it to be.

Add nutrients and go forth.

After that monitor conditions and correct as needed.

[Allenpro]

What is your tap water EC or PPM. My well water is 50 ppm so maybe I dont understand your reasoning for the switch.

[Allenpro]

A few years ago I filled a gallon jug and checked the PPM before and after I added the nutrients at the amounts I was using and write down the change then dump the gallon and move on the next nutrient, The results gave me a base line for controlling the PPM and PH before I measured the total mixed results. Pain the ass? yes but it helped me think I was in control .