Do you mean Ascorbic Acid?
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Well water out of the tap, it is run through a 3 stage whole house filter for indoor grows.
Rain, River, or pond water for outdoor grows.
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yes stupid autocorrect. Had a terrible headache all day so wasn’t paying attention much I guess.
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I am curious about this. Could you please point to documentation of this effect?
I have used chloramine treated water to grow cannabis and have not noticed any effects at all. I grew 7 foot tall Kush plants outside that seemed perfectly normal so if there is evidence of some negative effects I would like to know for my future grows. Thank you in advance
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Google it. Many hits and it is bad for us as well. Skin and eye irritation like swimming in a highly chlorinated pool. There are tablets you drop in the water to get rid of the chloramine.
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Done some reading about it. Guess it’s 50/50 depending on who you ask. Wondering if perhaps the medium being used (soil/coco/DWC) also plays into that
Here’s a couple references if you’re interested:
1 - https://floraflex.com/default/blog/post/optimizing-water-quality-in-cannabis-reservoirs
I use the Boogie-Blue+.Boogie Water Filters | Boogie Brew Supposed to take care of the chloramine issue or at least the majority of it. Ther’s no way I’m paying for a RO system of distilled water. Weeds will grow no matter what you throw at it
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OK, so I followed those links but I only found anecdotal information. I do see that activated carbon filtration removes chlorine but not chloramine. To remove chloramine you must use catalytic carbon filtration which is a different type of filter, but available.
I guess to really design an experiment you would need something like a big field with 100 plants. 10 plants in 10 rows and give chloramine treated water to every other row to get a good feel for whether it does damage or affects yield. Otherwise your can’t account for individual plant differences. I haven’t found tests or results like that.
I read on the CDC website that they consider chloramine safe for plants and animals growing on land but not in the water because the water growing plants roots have very thin skins and chloramine can enter easily while land based plants have thicker cell walls. So maybe hydro growing suffers from that issue, but you would have to run an experiment with a control group to check that for real.
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I get what you are saying but I grow quality weed. I dont just throw stuff at my girls. I have good water just not out of the tap. Great lights, cannabis friendly soils and good water. That will grow some good weed.
Stay lit GroBro!!
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OK, that’s beautiful flower right there, good job! But if you look at the leaves, they are yellow. I’m not saying that is bad or any kind of issue on this plant. It’s at the end of its cycle and has been putting everything into flowering, but many of the anecdotal reports and warnings that folks post, point to yellow and brown leaves as evidence of chloramine’s effects and I don’t think you can make a determination based on the way one or a small group of plants look.
So I’m all for using clean, safe water and soil. But I don’t want to go spend time and money if I don’t have to so I’m just looking to see if there is actual experimental evidence one way or the other. So far, I haven’t found any.
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I dont use chloramine or my city water that has chloramine in it. The yellowing is normal fade at the end of her life cycle as you pointed out, not cuz of my water. She was chopped a few day after that pic. I think you are confusing me with another person in this thread.
Personally i refuse to use ro water. Ive used tap for years and my weed is all a+. It is not needed, only for those who have a very high tds tap. Not a fan of wasting 4x the water of whatever is produced. If your tap is high, screw on a rv filter or something along those lines. Believe me it does not need to be ro
All tap. The one in the back right was in the flush stage. Green to the flush.
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No, I was just using your plant as an example. Sorry. I was trying to express how often people use anecdotal evidence presented as experimental evidence. I guess I didn’t do that very well. No offense intended.
The link from above to the youtube video was a presenter talking about his friend’s grow and how changing one thing made all the difference. So that was anecdotal. He didn’t even perform the grow himself and there were no control group.
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so your city uses chlorine and not chloramine. chlorine will dissipate out of the water if left uncovered overnight.
Also notice the TTHM and HAAS by-products. these are hazardous compounds produced during chlorine disinfection that were only discovered to be in our water fairly recently.
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Know this too well. Especially as you get older. Sometimes even in this culture we latch on to something that sounds good or confirms what we want to hear. I am not that guy. I research and use the best info based on multiple hits. I will read 4 articles on the same topic and digest and make a decision based on all info received.
Other factors play into an answer as well. I use RO water for more than one reason. City of Denver supplies residents with Brita pitchers and sends a new filter every so often as recommended because our pipes are old and sometimes we have issues. I also do not use nutes in my grows until 3rd week of flower as I am a transplanter which alot of folks do not believe in. 4 homes from seed to harvest so until she is in her final 10 gallon pot, it is only RO with enough ppm’s to hold the pH at 6.8. An occasional Cal/Mag or some mykos/Azos and silica at each transplant.
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Being a new grower I’m doing trial and error. It seems the RO water I use is missing some elements. I’m on a dirt poor budget and doing the best with what I have to work with. My soil is decent and I have decent plant food, 5-2-2 , and blood meal 12-0-0. Both are solid so I need to water the plants to get them the nutes. I am having some coloring issue, I had the light too close earlier in the grow and just learning as I go. I am having red stems, very bright. I don’t know if it’s genetics or not but did notice after 3 days of blood meal and feed they look a little better and the new growth is darker and looks good.
Any help is good help. Thank you
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Go to pet store in fish aquarium section there are drops for Chloramine FYI
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As far as I see it living things need to avoid this stuff not just plants but things like pets and you and I just like the cavity preventing ( marketing…grooming efforts by Alcoa etc) toxic shit fluoride a byproduct from aluminum production etc.
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That’s cool. But I wouldn’t want to drink municipal water that was left untreated either. People died by the thousands of typhoid before the use chlorine disinfection in water systems 100 years ago.
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