Grow Mediums Tshirt's Hydro Expo

[TshirtNinja]

here is the explanation of the dip method.

[video=youtube;soUBkeHIY4o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soUBkeHIY4o&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[lykaboss]

very nice now i understand what you are talking about, Tshirt with Hydro is it good to use RO water as your base then add nutes to increase the PPM? I don't know for sure but isn't RO water 0 ppm? I am well water and don't have a PPM meter just yet i will be getting one, I am just thinking that starting a hydro grow with well water could be a disaster dunno

 

[BuddyLove]

lyka, you can take a glass of your well water to any water treatment place, they usually test it for free. if you have any kind of grow store they test too. alot of the time well water is all you need. i have city, and mine starts out at 350ppm...too high, plus the chlorine.

very nice now i understand what you are talking about, Tshirt with Hydro is it good to use RO water as your base then add nutes to increase the PPM? I don't know for sure but isn't RO water 0 ppm? I am well water and don't have a PPM meter just yet i will be getting one, I am just thinking that starting a hydro grow with well water could be a disaster dunno

 

[TshirtNinja]

well water should be fine. test the ppm one time and it will tell you whats up. my starting ppm is between 100-200 so its safe to say your will be lower. ro is always better but im not spending money on water when i have nutes and supplies to buy.

 

[The Medicine Man]

Well water can be OK, or it can be awful. I know my water straight from my well will test around 600ppm. Loads of iron, too, in it. After all of my house filtration and PRE RO/DI filter, I'm at around 170ppm. Then I run it through an RO/DI filter to get it to 0ppm. RO by itself can bring it down from 1-10ppm, but to get 0ppm you want to deionize the water.

 

[roadsidevendor1]

when the tech who serviced my water softener
checked the ppm on the r/o spigot ,it read 380 ppm
so he installed a new membrane along with the filters.
now it reads 70 ppm again.

 

[TshirtNinja]

your water is fine then roadside. if i had the ability to hook into the plumbing i would but again its not my place to tear up. ro is the way to go if you can do it at home but buying ro water is stupid imho its far too much for little returns vs money spent towards nutrients or other equipment.

 

[The Medicine Man]

h2o is the first most important nutrient, IMO. It's the one that's often overlooked. If you've got 100ppm of sodium cations, say buh bye to your yields.

 

[JM]

lookin great tshirt! bangin job mate! :smokebuds:

 

[TshirtNinja]

with the right nutes you can perk up decent water like in my municipality. the ladies seem to be responding well to it.