Minimum PPM Level of Starting Water

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darqeds

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• Nov 22, 2020

• #1

Hi, i did search but there is no information about that. I bought RO system and its about at 12 ppm as pure water.

Is there any evidence about ideal unfertilized/starting water ppm level?

Note: I had a few grow with 70 ppm water and had no sign any deficiency like cal/mag.

 

Creeperpark

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• Nov 22, 2020

• #2

(50 to 250) ppm, different strains like different ppm. RO has to be stabilized with cal mag or dolomite lime.

 

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asher1er

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• Nov 22, 2020

• #3

Probably no info because you can start with 0 if you’d like... just need to make sure whatever nutrients you use will make up for the lack for minerals and such..

 

f-e

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• Nov 22, 2020

• #4

Many like to take their RO to ec0.4 with calcium and magnesium. Lots of feeds expect something like that so are balanced accordingly

 

Fixer

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• Nov 23, 2020

• #5

For what we're doing there's not much difference between 0 and 12. By the time you add silica, mg/cal and whatever cocktail of nutrients you decide on a few ppm are going to be a really small percentage of what's in the water. So it won't matter. I look at filtering the water as a way to insure you're mixing the same formula every time.