Quote Originally Posted by postmandave
exactly what im after SOIL.Im using ro water in soil just now and man is it giving me a sore head i cant seem to get it right so hope some of you can help put me at ease here i cracked the ro hydro with sensi cal mag now its soil giving me major stess.Is it possible to grow trouble free in soil with ro water?Im using sesi cal mag grow and bloom I know in coco and hydro ro water is the best option but im having mad problems getting it right.I presume ( correct me if im wrong please) that my soil has calcium and magnesium already added and my canna nutes already have added cal +mag so unless i know the pecentages of the cal mag in the soil i will never get it right?HELP LOL.My tap water run out at pH 7.2 and ppm 100 and after 24 hours getting defluorinated and airiated it comes down to 80 ppm pH 68 So what my best option people my weight has suffered trying to get this right and for the first time my plants stretched like mad.
what is the benefits of using ro in soil i know the hydro benefits but in soil i cant see that it helps with weight..any help would save me getting stresssed and keeling over with a heart attack.thank peepo.davey the postman
I use reverse-osmosis water in my soil grows - at first, I had problems, because I accepted the notion that RO water is neutral-pH, etc - WRONG :wtf: - lol, my tap water is an acidic 4.5, before AND after the RO treatment - RO also removes calcium and magnesium, that needs to be replaced - actually, the only advantage to RO filters on city tap water, is the removal of the chlorine - chlorine does NOT injure plants, but it does kill micro-organisms in the soil, some of which are beneficial to the plant - (I used chlorinated tap water on ALL of my plants for many years, not knowing any better, with no noticeable effect on the plants) - if your pH is 6.8, then just use it as is, I wouldn't bother with the RO, just aerate your water overnite, so the chlorine evaporates, and then you won't have to mess with calcium, magnesium, etc ... you should be good to go, in soil, anyway :thumbsup: (P.S. - the 'stretch' wouldn't have come from the water), either a light issue, or it just hit a growing spurt, they do that sometimes :smokin: