You will need:
An air pump
Some airline
As many bottles with caps as you are needing to fill
This is what you will end up with, if you look carefully you can see the bubbles
Edited by Vador, 22 January 2015 - 09:03 PM.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 08:55 PM
You will need:
An air pump
Some airline
As many bottles with caps as you are needing to fill
This is what you will end up with, if you look carefully you can see the bubbles
Edited by Vador, 22 January 2015 - 09:03 PM.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:21 PM
cool @Vador, you do like to get in there
I had a lot of the same concerns being mostly organic with my grows in the past, and guess what I found out? UK Water Co's (and lots of others) don't use chlorine any more, but chloramine. This isn't (*allegedly*) as harmful as chlorine and last longer in the water without evaporating away.
Now you'd think that may be a bad thing as its still in the water, but I also found out that it is neutralized by humic acid. A good organic medium should have plenty of humics in there anyway, and even more importantly it only takes a few g of humic acid to neutralise thousands of gallons of chloraminated water. The Humics in the soil (and usually in any follow up organic feeds) can cope fine with the amount of chloramine in the water so it turns out that this is a bit of a red-herring re:killing off the microbes in the soil as it gets neutralized too quick to make much difference. There will be a slight loss of the 'herd' as they say but its not fukushima stylee
p.s. Check your PH after you've bubbled as passing co2 through the water impacts the PH, sometimes quite drastically! And if you have to start adding non organic ph-up/down then the chemicals in that will play havoc with the organic balance we're trying to maintain. (ditto chemical nutes)
Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:38 PM
Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:45 PM
Posted 22 January 2015 - 10:00 PM
if you use RO machines then you'll have to add back in any goodies/minerals that are taken out, but, RO does not remove chloramine.
As long as you've got half decent potable (drinkable) water then no need unless you want to have complete control over what goes to your plants. It is different if you're off-grid using wells, springs etc,often get 'browny' water coming through your pipes or in a different country. It always seems to be the US that champion the use of RO machines but then again, they don't have the same water co set ups as we do in a lot of places which gives more reason to use them.
That Great White is good stuff, I won a kilo tub a few years back and still got some left as you don't need to use much of it and only occasionally.
Posted 22 January 2015 - 11:01 PM
Posted 23 January 2015 - 12:40 PM
Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:10 PM
Do you know who supply's your water @GoodBudgie
I've been reading on our local website and they say they use chlorine and there is no mention of chloramine.
I'm wondering if different treatment plants might use different processes.
Either that or they don't want us to know exactly what they are using so they just say chlorine, not sure
Southern water
you are very near me vador and our water is ok during dry weather but during heavy wet periods like atm it goes really dodgy and has ph of4.5 and ec nearly 1 before doing anything with it,by the time ive added nutes its at 2.5ph!i use bicarb for bringing back to 5.8 which normaly i would not have had to use,the southern water man came and did ph test and ec check as they didnt believe mine was right but typical it was a dry period when they tested it so was ok,now its fecked again and im giving the dogs and plants bottled water.ps having a forum get together in march as your near if you are free you are welcome to come,peace
Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:11 PM
Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:14 PM
you are very near me vador and our water is ok during dry weather but during heavy wet periods like atm it goes really dodgy and has ph of4.5 and ec nearly 1 before doing anything with it,by the time ive added nutes its at 2.5ph!i use bicarb for bringing back to 5.8 which normaly i would not have had to use,the southern water man came and did ph test and ec check as they didnt believe mine was right but typical it was a dry period when they tested it so was ok,now its fecked again and im giving the dogs and plants bottled water.ps having a forum get together in march as your near if you are free you are welcome to come,peace