Bottled water can F*** up your plants?

[Moppel]

So i watered my plants with bottled water. The ppm from my tapwater is almost 1000ppm (i am used to water with ppm 200) , so i figured i give em a "fancy" watering. In 10 days they grew like an inch and are showing deff´s. Never could have thought that would be bad for them.

This happened to anyone else?

 

[real ting]

So i watered my plants with bottled water. The ppm from my tapwater is almost 1000ppm (i am used to water with ppm 200) , so i figured i give em a "fancy" watering. In 10 days they grew like an inch and are showing deff´s. Never could have thought that would be bad for them.

This happened to anyone else?

A lot of bottled water is just tap water from a different source. What's the ppm of your bottled water and the PH? Did you add any nutrients?

 

[Moppel]

ppm 560. ph 7.8. yes i added a bit of nutes.

 

[Dkgrower]

They properly removed some Fe, Mg and Ca to make the taste better or more of nothing

Is the other water so bad - i got around 800-900 ppm and i am fine pH around 8 hahaha fuck up water source i have but its working in n organic setup

 

[jaded1]

Could be that the bottled water has a high level of sodium which is messing about with your plants.

 

[Moppel]

Could be that the bottled water has a high level of sodium which is messing about with your plants.

yes thats exactly what i found out....

 

[Moppel]

ok....had RO filters installed today.....proably will have to mix that with 10-20% tapwater...

 

[OldSSSCGuy]

Also depends what kind of bottled water. Whether it was RO, spring water, distilled, or just repackaged tap water.

 

[Moppel]

yes, true. This wasnt the most expensive one.

That why i said "can fuck up" , and not "does fuck up".

 

[GF-Z]

Could someone show problems caused by sodium (chloride? Or other). Just how plants get affected.

 

[symbiote420]

spring water has a high pH and more calcium, ppm, etc

distilled, drinking/ro, & mineral water are slightly acidic but the ppms is very low ....I always bubbled my bottled water before using and I never add nutes to anything but tap or spring, the ferts lowers the pH right around 6.2 - 6.5

 

[festerous]

I have had good results with Crystal Geyser brand water.

 

[RetroGrow]

Depends on the medium too. Tap works fine in coco. Much better than RO, which needs additional calcium.