Bottled Water Good or Bad?

bottled water good for hydro or not? seedlings/germination/rez?

good question I allways start with distilled bottle water, some times I just use plain old tap water ph runs a little higher with the tap water I just adjust it.

Bottled water is very good. Just make sure if it has been run through reverse osmosis that you use CalMag or something to put back the nutrients it strips out. Maker sure to adjust PH to 5.5 or so.

Bottled water is great.... I've used both, but I actually prefer to soak my seeds in a mix of water and liquid kelp for about 12 -15 hours. As for seedlings, It's great. And for your reservoir, it's even better. It allows you to pretty much know what's going into your reservoir without unknown particles from a faucet.

Buy the large 5gal units to save money,, and listen to OY calmag is needed, dont forget, the girls wont.

You can buy a R.O. for what you will have in bottled water in probably one grow. That stuff aint cheap, plus hauling water will get old, quickly!



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That's true!

But then again, to get started, those r.o. machines are way expensive. If you've got the money now I would get one, otherwise not.

I collect rain water with my empty gal. bottles and use mother nature for most of the winter,plants seem to love it I also add my nutes and check my ph. before adding to resivior my water has a lot of clhorine in it you can smell it sometimes so I prefer not to use it only if I have to.

You might already know this, but you can get a chlorine neutralizer.

Thanks Opie never heard of that before, I will look into this item.