ButterflyEffect
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Looks like between the Iron bacteria and less than ideal fertigation, you've likely found your answers.
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Potassium def, or...???
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Looks like between the Iron bacteria and less than ideal fertigation, you've likely found your answers.
little-soldier
Active member
Maybe but besides that article which I cannot find anymore, I can't find anywhere on the internet which mentions that it can cause issues with plants. Everywhere I go it says its harmless. Also that article came from a website which sells water filtration systems so it could have been a scare tactic to sell more filtration systems.
ButterflyEffect
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Same here. I have it in my house(not the grow as it uses rain water exclusively) and there are a ton of places selling hype wrt to water. Big business.
I'm not sure what you have going on. It's definitely something, maybe not the iron, but something quantifiable. Gonna be hard to know until you can knowingly remove any given variable.
As you research iron bacteria removal, you'll see that chlorine (either dosed occasionally or continuously injected) are the promary methods of elimination. It wouldn't hurt to have additional filters to back it that up either. If I were you, I'd put an RO system at the end of it all filling up a decent size pressure tank.
