Gatorbackbob
In Bloom
Yes, just be sure it's 100% cotton and that your pots are nice and heavy watered
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DemonTrich
In Bloom
I have the same clone king aero cloners. I opted for the 25 site, as it's less cramped for the cuttings vs the 30 site version. Tap, straight out the faucet for my aero cloner. The chlorine helps a bit for sanitizing purposes (same as adding pool shock, but tap is free, pool shock costs $$).
I use bubbled h2o for watering/feeding my plants. Bubbled water gets rid of the chlorine after 24hrs.
I don't need a RO filter for my water. My city water is pretty decent, and only 107ppm and 7.3ph. I don't even use ph meters any longer. I have lists of what each additive does to the ph, and I know how much ph down I need to get my water solution to my desired ph target.
Example
I already know my tap ph is 7.3. If I fill up a 2.5 gallon aero cloner (what the clone king aero cloners fill at), I need to add 3.5ml of ph down to get 6.0 ph cloner water.
If I add 1ml silica to my water for my plants, I need to add 1.5ml ph down per gallon of bubbled water to get 6.5ph.
I use bubbled h2o for watering/feeding my plants. Bubbled water gets rid of the chlorine after 24hrs.
I don't need a RO filter for my water. My city water is pretty decent, and only 107ppm and 7.3ph. I don't even use ph meters any longer. I have lists of what each additive does to the ph, and I know how much ph down I need to get my water solution to my desired ph target.
Example
I already know my tap ph is 7.3. If I fill up a 2.5 gallon aero cloner (what the clone king aero cloners fill at), I need to add 3.5ml of ph down to get 6.0 ph cloner water.
If I add 1ml silica to my water for my plants, I need to add 1.5ml ph down per gallon of bubbled water to get 6.5ph.
Jewels
Tilts at Tables
Your municipality can furnish you with a detailed water report.
PH will rise with GH and TDS.
200ppm would present challenges and anything above 300 PPM is almost unusable.
Over 8 Ph may present challenges.
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Temperature and light intensity drive photosynthesis.
I 'held' this male around 8-13C, 75% RH.
Tucked in the corner of the garage, with no artificial lighting. During the day there was enough light leaking into the room that I could see the plant, but not much more.
Didnt droop for three weeks.
That is not a practical or advisable in your specific situation; just an illustration.
Kind of like saying
" how long will it take a gas last ?"
Not long, if you have it matted going straight up hill.
Same car picking up the mail once a week? That gas could last for months.
Jewels
Tilts at Tables
Post in thread 'Jewels, Rocks, Papers, Scissors' Jewels, Rocks, Papers, Scissors
Had to double check.
Watered once after Mar 28th
Going 4 weeks three days now.
,,, and thanks for the reminder!
I stuck it in a warmer spot, under a clip light, he should be dumping more pollen in a couple days.
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Had to double check.
Watered once after Mar 28th
Going 4 weeks three days now.
,,, and thanks for the reminder!
I stuck it in a warmer spot, under a clip light, he should be dumping more pollen in a couple days.
🐇
UrbanHillbilly
In Bloom
Interesting stuff. I do have a cheap TDS meter, but I've usually focused on using it after adding nutes to the water. I tracked down the utility water report and it just labels it as "hardness," averaging about 150. I measured it tonight at about 120. Hmmm, perhaps I can get away with using it.
You say your garage averaged 75% humidity?!? Where in the world do you live?
Jewels
Tilts at Tables
In my lung room , as often as I can.😄
I am in Canada, just barely north of Montana. Still got frost potential for another month.
That's kind of counterintuitive, but as I understand it, colder air saturates more quickly.
Jewels
Tilts at Tables
Are there detailed parameters?
Sounds good !
Most likely usable.
The details will tell you the nuts and bolts of what is in your water. What is making up that 'hardness'
A TDS meter is essentially adding up specific parameters and displaying them as a number.
The details you are most interested in are calcium, magnesium,, and surprises.
That 120 you are measuring may well be largely made up of calcium and magnesium
What is the measurement of the stuff that you are buying in bottles?
Surprises would be any constituent that is present in levels that are toxic to plants- be it Salt, or Mineral. You may find your water has an abundance of iron.
Stuff like that.
Honestly, you could probably learn to work with it. If your neighbors have vegetable gardens, how bad can it be ?
Worth investigating , I would say.
Your tap may have alot of what your plants need.
UrbanHillbilly
In Bloom
It's probably easiest to just post the report here.
I really should check into that better on the purchased water. Right now I can't even recall the name of the brand on the machines I use at the store. We have a few gardens in the backyard. Of course they get plenty of rain as well. Especially this weekend.
It's worth noting that the report I linked above does state that calcium and magnesium are the main factors in the hardness. But it doesn't appear to get anymore specific than that.
I bought RO from walmart and safeway when I first started with dwc. it is a pain but as a new grower, it was nice to know your water isn't an issue if you have problems. something else is to blame.
then I slowly switched to 50/50 well/RO and finally all well water.
webeblzr
In Bloom
I used a couple of float valves, and extra pump, and a surgically altered dedicated plastic trash can, that I set beside my sunken reservoir, when I was Krusty Freedom Bucket grower, back in 2003-4 time frame. We got to go away for 10 days, while the system kept flying along.
The more I think about it would over kill for your needs. I have a few pics, if you have any interest in seeing it.
That was a magical time, running that system, and plants were huge.
Float valves/pump in the can, and in the float valve sunken resy.
The more I think about it would over kill for your needs. I have a few pics, if you have any interest in seeing it.
That was a magical time, running that system, and plants were huge.
Float valves/pump in the can, and in the float valve sunken resy.
UrbanHillbilly
In Bloom
Well for starters, my tents are on the second floor, not the basement, so no sump well. How necessary was that to the setup?
I just came from checking on the tents. I realized I had a brain fart on one thing. I brought some jugs of water upstairs and decided to put them in the tent to save on space, and also to keep the water at the same temp, which admittedly isn't a big difference. The problem is they've been in there several days and today I noticed they're turning green from growing algae (of course, doh!) due to the grow light. Is it still safe to use that water?
toss a little peroxide in. or bleach.
webeblzr
In Bloom
I made that to go on vacation. We were gone for 10 days, and it was empty, but the plants were just fine.
Inside a Krusty bucket is 21 pound of lava rock, LR holds an enormous amount water/fluid.
They were fine.
Yeah sorry it did not help you, the BluMats made be a way. I never used them myself.
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