Nursery Water?

[ForgetClassC]

I was at Wal-Mart today and was wondering what the difference between Nursery water, Drinking water, and Spring water is, and what I should use rather than my buddies city water, which is pretty gross and hard as shit. It said the NUrsery water was steam distilled. The spring I didnt actually read, its sort of self explainatory. And the drinking water said it was filtered. What should I use. I have botanicare pro grow blend and am using a 5 gallon DWC. I think my buddies water might be a buzz kill on the seed cuz it still hasn't sprouted. Was wondering if I should invest in some calmag.

-C

ForgetClassC Reviewed by ForgetClassC on 06-29-2009. Nursery Water? I was at Wal-Mart today and was wondering what the difference between Nursery water, Drinking water, and Spring water is, and what I should use rather than my buddies city water, which is pretty gross and hard as shit. It said the NUrsery water was steam distilled. The spring I didnt actually read, its sort of self explainatory. And the drinking water said it was filtered. What should I use. I have botanicare pro grow blend and am using a 5 gallon DWC. I think my buddies water might be a buzz Rating: 5

[headshake]

nursery water is steam distilled and purified and then has flouride added. it's made for toddlers and infants.

distilled is water that's had the majority of it's impurities removed through distillation. this also get's rid of most of the beneficial elements as well.

drinking water is water that's of sufficiently high quality and safe for consumption without risk of any short or long term harm. usually this will be bottled from some other city's municipal water supply (at least what i've seen).

go with spring or drinking. but if you're gonna pay for water you mine as well get spring as opposed to drinking. don't go with the distilled as the majority if not all of the trace elements are gone and you will need to add calmag.


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[ForgetClassC]

thank you sir, I got some new pix of my ladies in my thread, I'm pretty sure I've seen you in there once or twice, just posted updates today.

Thanks

-C

[dejayou30]

I would personally use distilled/RO water. It is nice to know exactly what is in your water, no guessing. I used to use 350 PPM tap water and I think my plants grow a lot better and easier with the RO water. You will have to use CalMag but I bought a bottle of it about 3 months ago and its not even half gone, you only use 1 tsp per gallon.