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A lot of municipalities still use regular chlorine..mine does too and breathes off every time. you have fine water , I been using the same area (7.3 ph& 0.2ec) water as you..for years and never had issues. I think your good to go with just aging it...Great question though!
 
I thank you be fine but I’m not an expert I myself like using RO even if I had good water because then I know the water is completely clean. Well mine comes out 12-15ppm. I try to make everything perfect from the start so when I screw it all up I can only smack my self in the nads
 
Please read all my posts above. Yes, all forms of monochloride will test positive for chlorine. But these forms of chlorine do not gas off when simply exposed to air. The old way of chlorinating water was by cl2 which is chlorine gas. You leave the water out and the cl2 could be gassed off. This is not the case with modern day chlorination. Leaving water out does nothing to the monochlorides I have been discussing (chloramine being one form).
It is chlorine, but bonded differently. It does not have the ability to be gassed off just by sitting. The bonds need to be broken in order for that to happen.
I have had extensive conversations with NebulaHaze about this particular subject. So if you don’t believe what I am saying, you can always confirm with her or your water treatment plant.
 
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Haha. Yes, RO gives you more control over what elements go into your plants diet. Only thing I would say to counter it that it’s very costly to run and maintain. If you are a hobby grower, probably not worth the costs running from an efficiency perspective.
 
Funny. They don’t use what exactly? Are you suggesting your municipality is still using chlorine gas to chlorinate your water? Maybe if you traveled back through time. Lmao
 
my municipality uses chlorination... not chloramination, we use calcium hypochlorite. btw ...its a solid, so please stop being a know it all every post your on.. because half the time you are wrong and just writing what you read and not what you have learned through experience. idfwy
 
Mr mud,
Your municipality using calcium hypochlorite is a perfect example of an element that doesn’t gas off from water. Thank you for proving me to be correct. This is exactly why I told you leaving your water out does absolutely nothing to remove chlorine any more. They don’t use gas, it’s a solid. Can’t gas off unless it experiences a change in phase. Bonds need to be broken. Just like I previously stated.
This information you provided doesn’t mean the bonds I speak of are incorrect. Lol. Read it for yourself. It’s a reaction that happens durring the chlorination process.
During chlorination of a water supply for disinfection, chlorine will react with any ammonia (NH3) in the water to form inorganic chloramines.
So you might want to do a bit more research on this subjust before attempting to discredit someone.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234590/
 
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Idfwy bro...your a know it all on every post. Make yourself scarce on my comments etc. I love learning new shit from people who experienced it. Not regurgitating what they read online...peace yourself out son. Your dead wrong on this subject and many others. Rest your neck
 
Lol. So glad you can block people on this app. Makes comments like yours (all ego statements with no scientific backing) easy to dismiss.
Expect radio silence from this point forward. I’m not getting paid to teach you this stuff. Go research it on your own, the information is there as you can clearly see from all my links. You will find out what I already learned working in water treatment and contracting for government municipalities like DWR and LADWP.
Don’t be butt hurt so badly and maybe you will learn something new. ✌️
 
It's all good guys, i appreciate the responses and discussion. My municipal water utility's response was that everything that's in it is in the report... lol.
Ill give the tap water a go and see what happens. If i can salvage an old water filter setup i got laying around, ill throw a chloramine/chlorine carbon filter in it and use that for the plants.
 
Lol. The report is a chemical analysis about what results are after treatment. No indication on how the water gets treated. So make sure to thank that moron for all their help (or lack there of).
When I was contracting for DWR, I learned about how gassing modern day water was not recommended for removing chlorine. If anything attempting to gas it off only leads to water vapors escaping alone. So attempting to gas off will only increase the chlorine concentration (by a very small negligible amount) due to water vapors gassing off but chlorine molecules remaining in the water. Can’t dump tap water into storm drains (after hydro testing equipment) because the chlorine won’t gas off and marine life will become affected by the monochlorine left in the water.
The positive side to this is that water that is distributed to our homes, doesn’t risk biological contamination like the water of the past did (when chlorine was able to be gassed off). This is another reason chlorine will no longer gas. That and the fact that expelling chlorine gas into the atmosphere is not safe for humans either. Let’s not forget, the exact same chlorine gas has been used in chemical war fare. Not something you want vaporizing around your home.
If you want to test this for yourself...purchase a chemical analysis before and after attempted gassing. When the amounts of chlorine remain the same before and after the attempt...then you will know for yourself that modern day water won’t gas off chlorine.
Goid luck buddy. Happy growing!
 
Years ago we got warnings our water contained a dangerous substance, chloramine, made from the leaves rotting in the water supply (ammonia) combined with chlorine.
Today they use chloramine,,,
Water wells here I dont trust, at least 2 wells have chemicals, 1 has salt another went salt so 2, 1 is sulfur heavy, 1 has great water 2 have had good water (not in use). Some of these wells are within 50 feet of each other and all are in a half mile circle, each one tests different from good to plug it! My point here is test that well water often!
 
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Years ago we got warnings our water contained a dangerous substance, chloramine, made from the leaves rotting in the water supply (ammonia) combined with chlorine.
Today they use chloramine,,,
Water wells here I dont trust, at least 2 wells have chemicals, 1 has salt another went salt so 2, 1 is sulfur heavy, 1 has great water 2 have had good water (not in use). Some of these wells are within 50 feet of each other and all are in a half mile circle, each one tests different from good to plug it! My point here is test that well water often!
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You can have two wells side by side and they may test differently due to depth.


Out here we use shallow wells 30 feet or so for irrigation and while the water stinks to high heaven, the agriculture loves it, potable wells are now required to be a minimum of 75 feet as too many people where complaining to the county, not the well driller, when their shallow wells ran out of water during the dry season.
 
LOL I remember running low on water in dry times! And the "better" water here is the shallow wells, 1 of mine is only 25 feet deep (wet years water comes over the top), and it does not deliver much water. (I also have 1-25 foot deep with bad water) Deeper wells, if they go past the second layer of lime stone, they get bad water. The good water with good delivery is between the 2 layers of lime stone (here). I also have a deep well, some 5000 feet! yes 5000 feet deep with an 8 inch casing (dry oil hole) this well has a ceder plug at 450 feet deep, it cannot be pumped dry (we tried) and it is one of the sulfur wells. A good well went down 80 feet and never hit any rock at all (I have a hard time finding a place I can dig with out TNT!!),, whats under the ground varies a lot!!
 
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