CHLORINE OVERDOSE

[Mrsinn]

Thats some good information there man!

Thanks

[canniwhatsis]

I use tap,... straight out of the tap and PH adjusted. The only plants that ever really give me any grief are my moms. And most of the time when they start getting pissy with me it's because they're ready for a root pruning!


I know using tap that hasn't been set out to allow off gassing isn't accepted practice. But I simply don't have the space to keep a bunch of buckets of water sitting out.

[Rusty Trichome]

You can check online for your local Water Quality Report for your local municipality. It will tell you what's in the water that's coming out of your tap. Info like...what it's ph is, it's alkalinity and carbonate hardness, as well as what they use to kill bacteria. (yes, higher levels of chlorine and chlorine compounds can and will kill the beneficials in your soil) And assuming all water reports are guilty of misrepresentation just because a few were caught cooking the books...is a fairly paranoid approach.

Paying attention to what is in your drinking water is likely a good practice...but I'm not all that certain the fears of a little chlorine justify an all-anal approach, nor does it justify hefting gallons of water (more costly than gasoline in some cases) home for plants and self every week. Most bottled water(s) are from local tapwater, and their filtering techniques have been put into doubt just the same as the occational fudging of numbers for muni water. Same with those kiosks, where you insert a quarter and cross your fingers that the filters have been changed in the past couple of years. Nothing more than a false sense of security. If you can afford a quality R/O set-up, and if you can actually afford the replacement cartridges every year, perhaps it's at that time you'll find out...it wasn't the chlorine 'mishandling' your ladies after all. :wtf:

[WashougalWonder]

I use tap,... straight out of the tap and PH adjusted. The only plants that ever really give me any grief are my moms. And most of the time when they start getting pissy with me it's because they're ready for a root pruning!


I know using tap that hasn't been set out to allow off gassing isn't accepted practice. But I simply don't have the space to keep a bunch of buckets of water sitting out.

I hear ya, and also have quit worrying about the chlorine and chloramines in tap water. I find that I get less crap growing in the water bucket. Sometimes the bucket sits 24 hours so it outgasses. Weezard was the one who encouraged me to try and forget about it. Also, letting the water sit looses oxygen that dissolved in the filling of the container. I do not keep 'old mothers', just a constant clone process so nobody gets stuck in old soil for a long time.

Now, you will hold minerals, solids, and what-not in a pot of soil over time. A salts buildup and flushing may be necessary to prevent lockout if the plant is not repotted on a schedule.

So I disagree with you. I see no harm nor any difference by using the water straight out of the tap and pH'ing it. Been doing this for 6 months now. Only issue is a single plant that is over 100 days old......getting old sucks.....

Like Cannawhatsis, I know this is an unpopular procedure, but it works for me.

[canniwhatsis]

Only issue is a single plant that is over 100 days old......getting old sucks.....

My current oldest mom that's still alive is Durban Poison and was plugged into soil in early July last year (2 gallons FFOF cut with CoCo),... Next is my GraftoMum. My Durban mom started freaking out on me late last month, but with the proof I've seen from the grafted mother I had already decided to move the durban mom to flower, so she got moved into 5 gallons of FFOF. And the up pot cured the nute issues and root bound issues in one fell swoop!...... Now I have to deal with her growing like a weed until I have room to flower her!!!!!!

My Grafted mom was about 1.5 months old in a 1 gallon square pot when she got her first graft in October...... After several successes I decided I wanted to let her get a bit bigger and generate more space for grafting more strains, and she got moved from a 1 gallon square to a 3 gallon in January or late December.... Didn't mark the exact date of the up pot.... but after 4 months in that little bit of soil I hadn't had any problems! Root pruned her once during that time, and JUST pruned her roots after the up pot for the first time last night..... She's greening up already!