Minty - AutoPot Grow - Assisted by 2-Scoops

[bigbadbillybob]

the white stuff is salts, which have built up in the medium as you are watering from below. just rinse out the coco it will be fine

Dexs are most likely calcium deposits from his mega hard bastid water

[Labs Dexter]

the white stuff is salts, which have built up in the medium as you are watering from below. just rinse out the coco it will be fine

Dexs are most likely calcium deposits from his mega hard bastid water

Its bad water buddy we av always buying kettles and cannot make ice from tap water you get same shit as whats no top of the coco :( .... 7.6 is the ph off tap and smells like local swimming pool water

[MrNice]

the white stuff is salts, which have built up in the medium as you are watering from below. just rinse out the coco it will be fine

Dexs are most likely calcium deposits from his mega hard bastid water

Its bad water buddy we av always buying kettles and cannot make ice from tap water you get same shit as whats no top of the coco :( .... 7.6 is the ph off tap and smells like local swimming pool water

You tryed water filters ?.................. at work I use to add large 20kg bags of salt i think to soften the water many years ago now was like a massive bear barrel thing been toking too many years now LOL

[bigbadbillybob]

dont think you want to add salt to plants water.
Have you thought about using a reverse osmosis filter Dex?

[Labs Dexter]

the white stuff is salts, which have built up in the medium as you are watering from below. just rinse out the coco it will be fine

Dexs are most likely calcium deposits from his mega hard bastid water

Its bad water buddy we av always buying kettles and cannot make ice from tap water you get same shit as whats no top of the coco :( .... 7.6 is the ph off tap and smells like local swimming pool water

You tryed water filters ?.................. at work I use to add large 20kg bags of salt i think to soften the water many years ago now was like a massive bear barrel thing been toking too many years now LOL

I use it for us to drink not salts tho just normal filters for jugs

[Labs Dexter]

dont think you want to add salt to plants water.
Have you thought about using a reverse osmosis filter Dex?

I haven't considered that buddy but fir my ladies what I have to do is leave water for at least 24hrs standing then I put about 2 ml of pH down which drops water to pH of about 3 then put feed in and coco somehow sorts it out to a proper pH lol its crazy but I worked this 2ml pH down a few years ago by accident lmao and plants were not yellow so it stuck

[bigbadbillybob]

i would be giving it some thought, because it sounds like your water is pretty grim mate.
A basic system isnt all that expensive, but it would help massively i reckon.
it will bring it down to ec of 0.0, so you would have to add trace nutrient and/or cal mag to bring it up to 0.,2 before adding in your normal A and B etc.

SAying that, your plants always look on point anyway, so i suppose if it aint broke, why fix it eh?

[Labs Dexter]

i would be giving it some thought, because it sounds like your water is pretty grim mate.
A basic system isnt all that expensive, but it would help massively i reckon.
it will bring it down to ec of 0.0, so you would have to add trace nutrient and/or cal mag to bring it up to 0.,2 before adding in your normal A and B etc.

SAying that, your plants always look on point anyway, so i suppose if it aint broke, why fix it eh?

Yeah I use same method for past 3 years I think now or 4 and plants been banging so far thank God.. sorry minty for rambling on your diary buddy

[MrNice]

dont think you want to add salt to plants water.
Have you thought about using a reverse osmosis filter Dex?

Yh i hear you billybob was just and idea

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bwt-10tab-wa ... 10kg/1824h

this was the stuff says

"Ideal for regeneration of domestic and smaller commercial water softeners. Rapidly dissolves to produce premium quality brine. Manufactured from pure dried vacuum salt to ensure purity. "

but reverse osmosis would be much better tho

[Minty]

I use an RO Filter and it probably needs the filter part replacing as the EC is about 0.04 rather than 0.0 but that could just be caused by me storing a tanks worth of it (as it takes so long to filter etc).