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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 3:16:48 GMT
okay so i have been looking for purified water to give to my plants because thats what everyone says...but i have been going to the store to buy some and i noticed there are several different types of water there there is water labeled purified, distilled, mineral enhanced for flavor, mineral water, mountain water, and spring water...okay so im pretty sure im supposed to use purified water for my plants but i was reading that distilled water has no minerals in it at all like purified water so which one should i use...or are both just fine?
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Post by ICPS-bob on Jul 30, 2007 4:12:43 GMT
Look for deionized or distilled. I don't know what "purified" water is. Mineral enhanced for flavor, mineral water, mountain water, and spring water should be avoided.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 4:23:23 GMT
omg okay thank you so much....i was worried that i had just killed my plants by putting them in distilled water...lol this is such a relief.
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Post by bttrfly777 on Jul 31, 2007 0:52:42 GMT
I've always used distilled and it DOES seem to be the best. However when I read "The Savage Garden," one suggestion was to buy a no frills Reverse Osmosis machine which takes out all the chlorine, salts and minerals. It's not "distilled" but it's also water that's good for CP's. I bought my No Frills RO machine from a store that sells aquarium RO units. The same thing really.
I was nervous at first, but my plants are super happy and I've been using it for about two months now. It's less expensive than distilled and a lot less plastic waste let a lone gas prices and driving to the store all the time.
Sarah
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2007 7:57:38 GMT
i will look into an ro system but at the moment i have found a relatively easy way of getting distilled water... you see i dont drive i ride the bus every where so i already have a yearly bus pass and when i need water i take the bus down to target and purchase a 69cent 1 gallon just of purified water...... this way i get inexpiensice water and cut down on polluting the air with my own car...lol i do wish that more people would ride buses however a car is needed to get places fast.
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Post by kitkor on Jul 31, 2007 12:10:15 GMT
...lol i do wish that more people would ride buses however a car is needed to get places fast. Or it's needed in places that don't have bus systems like out where I live. Would be nice to have, but there's a small grocery store within walking distance from my house. Unfortunately, most people pass that one up to go for the big chain stores out on the other side of town in the land of sprawl and *shudder* Walmart. I also use distilled water from the grocery store, but it worries me that it doesn't specifically state that it was treated with the RO process. The water I used to buy from the store where I used to live in Washington specifically stated that it was Distilled and Deionized by RO and other processes. Plants don't seem to mind the new water, though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2007 23:08:01 GMT
i actually like stores like walmart and target however they can get very dirty and nasty...lol the worst one i have ever seen is actually the one where i live here in redlands california..heck even the walmart near compton is nicer then ours...
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wadave
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Post by wadave on Aug 20, 2007 15:05:50 GMT
What a lot of people don't realise is spring water, and other types of water that are bottled for human consumption actually have a fair bit of salt added to make it tase nicer. So this makes them bad for our CP's.
The only store bought water safe to use is distilled or reverse osmosis.
Distilled water is essentially condensed water vapour which contains next to no salts or contaminants. In fact by distilling you remove the water from the contamination not the other way round and you do this by boiling the water out of the contaminated solution.
The hot air full of water vapor created by the action of boiling is then cooled, cool air cannot hold as much vapor as the hot air so the vapor reforms or condenses into water which is collected.
Disolved salts boil at far higher temperatures so they do not form a vapor and thus stay behind. In fact the boiling point of pure salt is 1,465°C (2,669° F)
Reverse osmosis is simply a matter of putting water under pressure and forcing the small water molecules through a membrane.
The membrane has holes that are small enough to block the larger molecules of disolved salts. The amount of water that can be obtained this way depends upon how much pressure you can apply. Pressure needs to increase as the concentration of salts increases. This is why RO units can use up to 20 liters of water to produce 1 liter of clean water depending on the salt concentration of your water and how much pressure your pump can produce. The point being you may not be aware how much water is going down the drain to produce your tank of RO water. You might think about redirecting the overflow on to the back garden, depending on how salty the output is.
I hope that helps
Dave.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2007 20:47:47 GMT
thanks dave...yeah for a while i was using bottled water not knowing that i was once again killing my plants until they died and when i went to investigate what happed i looked at the bottles and they said sodium added for flavor....so yeah now i use only distilled 69cent water from target......
edit: change suing to suing ...lol yeah i was suing bottled water
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Post by waldobrits on Oct 11, 2007 13:15:38 GMT
One Question> Is the water coming out of the air conditioner ok to use .....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2007 16:49:51 GMT
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Post by kby on Oct 11, 2007 22:27:51 GMT
Look for deionized or distilled. I don't know what "purified" water is. Mineral enhanced for flavor, mineral water, mountain water, and spring water should be avoided. That's because no one knows what "purified" means. It's more of a marketing term than anything else. All other things being equal, distilled should be the purest. It's also the most expensive, usually, and it is energy intensive. "Condensed" water (from A/C or refrigerator coils) is distilled water, except there's a greater contamination of post-distillation contamination (as a gross exaggeration, like throwing a handful of salt into water you just distilled--it isn't distilled water any more!) "Deionized" or RO water (I believe these are synonymous at least in practice) waste water, but (ignoring the energy cosst to get the tap water to you) should not use as much energy-wise. The water dispensers in the markets I've seen (in southern California) are RO. As Barry points out RO depends on the quality (including condtion) of the membrane and any other filters used. For our purposes the UV sterilization lamp in some isn't that important. Trouble with the dispense machines you have no way to know they are good, other than to buy some and measure it yourself.-kby
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Post by waldobrits on Oct 12, 2007 7:10:31 GMT
mmm Thank you all for the reply !! Well i will try it on one of my plants and if i see no problems i will use it on all my Cp's
Thanks Waldo Brits
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Post by maureenbasden on Feb 20, 2008 21:24:29 GMT
Waldobrits. I don't see why you cannot use air conditioning water since that is only condensation off the coils. But keep in mind if you have someone professionally clean the A/C coils they may have some chemicals that could be left behind in the process and can kill plants. Best thing is to stick with distilled.
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Post by fredg on Feb 20, 2008 21:49:58 GMT
I just have to ask.
Doesn't it rain over there?
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