What Cannabis Growers Should Know About Tap Water and Soil Microbes

1. Chlorine is a micro nutrient so plants need it. 2. The concentration is so low it won't hurt the microbes for long. (Microbes multiply rapidly.) 3. You can bubble the water to increase chlorine diffusion.

Gotta love living in the mountains with your own private well system 😎🍍

I let tap water sit out for 24hr and give it to all my plants and never had an issues thanks again scotty reals cheers ✌️ ☮️

I use Brondo. It has electrolytes

Scotty , I’ve just found your channel. I’ve subscribed. You are my cannabis god. Thank you sir. You are very knowledgeable.👊😇

Here locally... I talked to my water guy Big Sandy water he told me that I should not drink the tap water. He told me he would definitely boil the water before he drank it. Not that they're under a boil water advisory but he said I would always boil the water unless you put it through a Brita or something. You know he's a big week they say they bust that water line open every day. They have to turn off the water to this whole Halo and I'm very fortunate that I'm on the main line and the cutoff is right past my line so I don't ever have problems with water pressure or having my water turned off if they're having to work on the water of the road.

Hey Gromie, I have been using Gaia green and recharge, I recently bought some grow dots and using recharge in an organic soil mix. The grow dots and recharge combination is a sweet treat for my plants. I added some azomite for more trace and secondary minerals along with some mycrohyza grains on the transplant. Keep up the great content. Cheers!!!!

I rinse and save clear milk jugs and fill them with tap water to dechlorinate it, then use them days later to pour into a bucket 4 gallons at a time and mix in measured nutrients for watering.

Scotty, thanks for all your videos, they helped me get through my 1st grow, seed to harvest. Of all the "variety pack" of plants, who would have thought my Black Diamond would finish first? Well, since I'm a noob, I accidentally stunted her. Early grow light issue, had bloom lights on for 3 nights when they were all about 3 weeks old? 2 hermed and had to be tossed, and Black Diamond got dwarfed into a little "budsai" tree. And smaller size meant she could get to maturity quicker. But, hey, a chop is a chop. Used my clip on cellphone loupe, I saw when 65 - 70% of the trichs were showing tans or coffee browns in the heads... Chop, hang upside down like Scotty... Oh and THEN, dissecting the pot and checking the contents out afterwards, also learning stuff. I could SEE where I had overwatered, and how the roots reacted to it. From now on, I'm adding even more perlite lol. Dried her, did the trim out, went smooth. Got a lil curious though, I couldn't resist the temptation to KNOW! Man I couldn't stand it and I went ahead and tried to vape some in my V3 pro, and what I can tell you is you DO NOT wanna try weed that's still uncured. This morning, I tried some... and after some time has passed now, and some CURING has happened, omg day and night difference! You HAVE to cure. OMG. When it was fresh and green (after the time in the drying tent) I tried it, because I was curious, and it tasted like the inside of an oven that needs to be cleaned. Or.. Laundry Hamper, yeah that would a good name for it if it was a strain lol. But, Now a few days have passed and I think CURING is taking place. Dear Lord. the DIFFERENCE. I mean, it's like... there's like berries, definite grape tones, and on occasion a split second of Christmas-Time-Douglas-Fir ! And THEN... the amazing happiness and warm feelings. omg the laughter. I have been told BD is... well Black Diamond can be pretty strong. i have no way of knowing exactly how strong my stuff is, but if I had to guess, based on how I feel... I think it's gotta be 24% or maybe more. If someone told me "This is 27!" I wouldn't be surprised. Scotty, you're a hero, man. But I'm not done yet, there's still a million things I need to learn.

rain water is the best answer! it's free and has the goodies in it your plants need! 30 gal. tapped into downspout and aerated with aquarium air pump.

I've used tapwater on the edge of brackish and grow with no hassle. Hello from the Northern Cape South Africa. plants grown on tap on my channel. we don't drink the water I should mention as sometimes the water does smell so probability of microbes are high but the plants thrive. never PHd the water but PPM is high. As a grower tapwater never bothered me.

Did a test my last watering with straight tap on some ladies in veg. I typically dechlorinate with an air pump, but decided lets see what happens. They look just a good as they do without dechlorinating the water. This saves me 12-24 hours of off gasing, however part of me does like the ritual aspect of prepping my water a day in advance.

I'm not talking down on grow dots but been watching a guy that's been talking about using grow dots he said that the girl dots you got to have a neutral grow medium about the size of your hand your fist. Even then it says 3 table spoons to his container now he put a little extra you know it was a heaping scoop and he was having to back off because it was burning his plants and one bag of that wouldn't even last the whole cycle on an auto so he said it was a little too expensive for him. He also said you cannot use no type of other top dressing like juanos or anything. He said instead of three scoops for whatever the container was saying he said to back it up to two and he said that it was even given a little bit of nutrient burn then but he said it was super expensive. I would love to try some. He also said like the pH was off whenever you would try to test the runoff for the pH on the pots. He said he liked it but he said for the money $50 a bag he didn't know if he could afford it. He was using cocoa and perlite. He said the macronutrients were the best that he had ever used but when it comes to the grow dots he said it would burn plants if you're not careful. He also said he didn't like the fact that he couldn't check the pH the runoff out of the plants because it would throw funny numbers. He could have had a bad pH pen but who knows.

Happy 4th Scotty. I use a RV water filter from Camco. It's like $30 to replace it every year and it filters out any chlorine or other nasties I don't wanna put on my soil. The one thing I wish it could do is remove some of the minerals as my tap water is like liquid rock @400+ppm.

I have 2 wells, the city ordered me to close them off, as they put in city water. so now I have 2 wells and one city water tap ins. I am only using well water for mine! Thanks so much for the info about that chlorine, I am sure theres other crap in that city water too that will hinder any plants. Mine is really smelling great when I walk into my room!

I got a rain barrel and use rain water. It seems like the natural solution. I've used gallon jugs of store bought spring water when I don't have anything in the rain barrel. The plants are huge and healthy and I've never checked the pH. I do have a compost pile and I add that and earthworm castings and bone and blood meal, that probably helps keep the soil levels pretty decent.

I use tap. It's about 230 ppm. Most municipalities will post their water testing online if you do some digging. You can actually see what's in there and the percentage. I use a hose filter that claims it removes 99% of chloramine but who knows? It does lower the PPM by about 15 so that's good enough for me. Leave it in a 5 gallon bucket or whatever and use a bubbler and let it bubble for at least 24 hours and you're good

I use 2 thirds r/o and one third tap . My ppm out of the tap is 380

Chloramine doesn't burn off, chlorine will. Vitamin C neutralizes chloramine and chlorine. 20mg per 5 gallons.

I fill 42 ltr buckets with tap water and it can sit their for a couple of weeks , never had any issues with my plant's. I'm in the UK.