HELP HELP I NEED WATER

[Aphofisman]

In South Aust the tap water is crapp as far as I know, and Im all out of rain water right in the mid of my veg grow period

 

Can anyone tell me what is a good filtration system which i can use for tap water?

something not real expencive

 

or can you use tap water? Remember SA tho!

[bufo marinus]

Can't remember what they're worth but check out the 10 litre spring/filtered waters etc at Woolworths

[pipeman]

whats the ec and ph of your tap water?

 

will probably be fine, you just might need to lower your nute levels a bit and do a water change on your system a bit more frequently if its bad.

Edited December 5, 2006 by pipeman

[tony2wheelsgood]

did you think about buying a reverse osmosis system?

[Stoney]

hey there apho

 

i would not worry about going to extra expence of a filtration system all i would do is get a cheap ppm tester off of ebay and then just lesson your nutes a little and all will be good i hear in some parts of SA the ppm can be 200-300ppm to start with where as here in vic mines around 100ppm so not a huge amount of differance

 

cheerz :Dj:

[Luke Skywalker]

SA is pretty good in comparison to WA. We have water quality in my catchment of about 560-700ppm and most of that is sodium and chlorides, with a fair chunk of bicarbonates too.

 

Get a good ec meter, like a truncheon if you're going to get one, they're far and away superior and will last a lot longer than a crap one. Your local water supply company/authority should have figures available for the makeup of the tap water in your area, and won't bat an eyelid at giving out that info as it's a common request.

 

Most tap water is suitable, even here in Perth. It doesn't do you any favours, certainly, and it reduces the amount of fertiliser you can give the plants, which can cause problems with yeild, but MJ is fairly tolerant of these kinds of conditions and usually does okay with a bit of care. Using a nutrient designed for Hard water, if that's what you actually have, is useful, as this takes into account the nutrition, (such as it is) that is available in the tap water and helps to minimise nutritional problems inherent in poor quality waters.

[Shithappens]

I actually have a friend that gets buy with an analog multimeter and a probe that is 2 pins through a piece of plastic.

 

Not calibrated but hey it is marked to where he wants hes nutrients from experience.

 

No matter how i phrase it he thinks its excellant ...