When it comes to watering does anyone else let their water sit for at least 48 hours so all the chlorine and other stuff the city puts in there can evaporate before using. Just curious. Other than that, everythin g is go’in good. The girls seem pretty happy and look fantastic…smell even better. I’ll try to get some pics up before long…I’m pretty lazy this time of year.
Happy grow’in ya’ll!
Gilly
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Ill let mine sit out at least 24 hours to allow some degassing.
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I aerate and warm the water between waterings. By the time I flip to flower they are getting water everyday so it is only 24 hrs of aeration.
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I do 72 hours cap off with a minimum ph down solution.
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I add a half gram of ascorbic acid to my 5 gallon bucket of tap water and it sits overnite next to the tent to warm to room temp. Ascorbic is supposed to neutralize the chloramine and chlorine. Probably unnecessary but cheap and easy.
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I use a liquid dechlorinator, aeration and a mixing pump. Still try to let sit 24 hours when I can but in flower I’m feeding almost an entire batch daily soooo… lol
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I just do 24 hours here as well.
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I water every third day so at least 48hrs
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No here the technique of using gas is outdated most forms of chlorine are now solids that don’t decompose quickly so leaving water out has no advantage or difference.
The amount of chlorine should be under 5ppm normally 3. Whilst it dosent kill contamination it does inhibit it’s growth in clean water so this gives you an idea that any healthy established life in your soil will not be hurt in any way from it. It could also aid a healthy colony stay healthy against the evil bad stuff as soil is a war zone not some harmonious utopia
For example if I cultured some soil bacteria and poured tap water on it nothing would happen it would keep on multiplying, the stuff it inhibits in water is much weaker than soil bacteria anyway.
You should be able to get a breakdown of the ppms for everything in it from the suppliers website as well as contams because if we look at tap water under a microscope it’s rarely fully devoid of life.
Generally tap water is safe to use out of the tap, I’m lucky my tap water flows from hard rock sources it’s under 70ppm and pH 8 but when I say it’s pH that’s just based on those 70ppms so really such a weak amount it’s pretty much irrelevant won’t change anything with 70ppm of weak stuff so no change needed.
Check your tap water sometimes pointless leaving out.
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Thanks for all the replies,
Gilly
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