useing filtered rain water for UR plants.

ok. so it has been raining like a mofo for days at my place and I wanted to collect some rain water.
so I collected a ice chest full of rain water.
and I am now filtering some of the rain water with a home filtering water pitcher.
and Im gunna fill the filtered rain water in some plain water bottles.

my qustion is will the filtered water be ok to use on my plants.
cus of so then it would be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying water from the store.

and I have collected enought water for almost 3-4 weeks.
thats how much rain water that filled up in the ice chest.

UR knowledge on this would great. thanks HC.:D

i dont see why not

just check the PH levels

This Rain water fell from the Sky? It must be a gift from God then. He must have sent it down to you just to grow plants with I would think.

Just make sure you did not collect it from a run off drain from a Street or parking lot.

no no. I most definitely collected the rain water from the open SKY.
and I wanted to use it.

so is it good enough to use.

lots(well maybe not lots) of people do this, because the rain is about as clean as natural water can be. no minerals and salts and things from the soil or chemicals and stuff from city water. unless you live in a terribly polluted city.

naw I live in the outer part of the city. like not far from the country.
so yah the rain water aroud here seems to be clean.

so thats cool. I am gunna use it. cuz there is a lot of it.
and thanks for all UR opinions peeps.

yea use it

I'm not a big fan of using rain water, simply because it has usually run down dirty, petroleum-based, roofing shingles, thru dirty gutters, and simply put, has been exposed to the elements, maybe TOO much (rain, is, after all, nature's way of cleaning the air) ... rotting leaves, etc., all contribute their own ingredients to the mix, some good, some not so good ... if you have a collection system that keeps it clean, I guess you would be OK ... basically, rain water is 'naturally' distilled water, which then picks up contaminants as it falls ('washing' our air for us, absorbing contaminants) ... of course, Mother Nature drinks it, so I guess it can't be TOO bad (but, rumor has it, she will drink 'anything') :D ... :smokin:

i use rain water. but why are you filtering it? i could see filtering it if little twigs and leaves got in your ice chest. j/w

I filtered it just to make sure it was as clean as possable. befor I watered my plant with it.

anyway :D:D:D yea. I now have a month or more worth of FREE water.:D

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Originally Posted by hydrocannabis

ok. so it has been raining like a mofo for days at my place and I wanted to collect some rain water.
so I collected a ice chest full of rain water.
and I am now filtering some of the rain water with a home filtering water pitcher.
and Im gunna fill the filtered rain water in some plain water bottles.

my qustion is will the filtered water be ok to use on my plants.
cus of so then it would be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying water from the store.

and I have collected enought water for almost 3-4 weeks.
thats how much rain water that filled up in the ice chest.

UR knowledge on this would great. thanks HC.:D

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rain water is best !!!

im using rain water on my indoor babys, its great :)

you bought water from a store to water plants? Is this some special grow water or just bottled drinking water? If it's the latter, why can't you use distilled tap water?

cuz I have bad tap water.

When I was in VT at my first grow house the well broke and for two plus months I collected rain water off the roof. Rain water has more negative ions produced from friction while falling and other things not found in tap water that plants love though I do not remember off hand. I never filtered it.

try googleing rain collection. there is a good amount of info on it. i would totaly build my house to include this type of system, including solar, but to dream is... one day i will have my house.

rain water is pure and is already filtered
just use it
i do