Tired of dechlorinating your tap water ?

[BISCUITS]

Some bacteria and fungal spores can survive long periods in space for f**ks sake. That is another myth with bacterial and fungal additives for plants is the expiration date! If they are dry and kept cool they will outlast you my friends.

 

[jeremyb616]

Some bacteria and fungal spores can survive long periods in space for f**ks sake. That is another myth with bacterial and fungal additives for plants is the expiration date! If they are dry and kept cool they will outlast you my friends.

Just a note the example about fungal spores surviving in space is a pointless example, anything is pretty much perfectly preserved in space due to lack of oxidization (no oxygen) temperature. Now if you woulda used bacterials that still exist in the polar ice caps that could contain deadly pathogens perfectly preserved, then that woulda made more sense. I know im nitpicking, im just bored

 

[noone special]

I add clorox every day to my dwc reservoirs to prevent root rot.
The plants don't even notice.

save yourself some $$ and buy a cheap ozone generator and bubble it through your reservoir in place of the clorox.
It kills all the microbes the same as Clorox but the added bonus being it rapidly breaks down from O3 to O2 in the water and is able to be used by the plants.
... works a treat .

 

[Kinezokyprios]

If you worry so much about chlorine in your water, then all you have to do is use
Tetra Aquasafe.

Weiterleitungshinweis

This what people use in aquariums and it has extra magnesium.

 

[Hypathetical Gardener]

I personally use tap water that i leave out. Its just an old practice from fish tank days. And in my situation, its easier to have a bucket there to dip into than going to the tap multiple times when im hand watering.
But also, ive heard (no source so....) That chlorine can over time cause an acidifying(??) Effect in soil. Lowering the ph.
Something to test maybe?

 

[Asgardian_Grower]

my only concern is there are organisms that we can't detect, measure or observe yet. I've heard there are organisms so small they're considered viruses for viruses - and I reckon there is much more going on than what we're all taught ranging from 3rd grade science to third year of a masters course in university...things really haven't changed much in 300 years and I don't believe it's because we know everything there is to know - but because civilian technology has a "plateau" - probably on purpose

I run "super soils" and grow ~1300 plants a year and notice when chlorine is present. growth is slowed and production is stunted.

 

[Asgardian_Grower]

save yourself some $$ and buy a cheap ozone generator and bubble it through your reservoir in place of the clorox.
It kills all the microbes the same as Clorox but the added bonus being it rapidly breaks down from O3 to O2 in the water and is able to be used by the plants.
... works a treat .

adding chlorine bleach as an oxidizer to a hydro or aero system is common - doing it to supersoil - less useful.

 

[Asgardian_Grower]

I personally use tap water that i leave out. Its just an old practice from fish tank days. And in my situation, its easier to have a bucket there to dip into than going to the tap multiple times when im hand watering.
But also, ive heard (no source so....) That chlorine can over time cause an acidifying(??) Effect in soil. Lowering the ph.
Something to test maybe?

it binds to nutes and creates salts and ends up on the sides of your pot

 

[Nacho34]

Growing in coco/perlite. Using tap water...10min later it's in the smart pot. No issues at all. MYTH BUSTED.

 

[noone special]

adding chlorine bleach as an oxidizer to a hydro or aero system is common - doing it to supersoil - less useful.

indeed ... but adding O3/ozone is a better more useful way of doing the same thing.

ns