Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Original Sensible Seeds Shop: Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds, Bulk Cannabis Seeds, Feminized Cannabis Seeds, High THC Strains

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflinePsilosopherr
A psilly goose
Other User Gallery


Registered: 02/15/12
Posts: 12,278
Last seen: 2 months, 4 days
Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work?
    #19188855 - 11/25/13 08:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

My tap water is really bad. Soil gets mineral deposits in about a month if it gets consistently watered.

So I'm thinking the easiest solution is some sort of water filter. Pretty sure they're supposed to remove a lot of that crap.

Anyone have any input on this?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibleluvdemboomers
loner with a boner

Registered: 01/11/13
Posts: 5,054
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #19188952 - 11/25/13 08:37 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I don't see why not.

Weed plants?

If so it'd prolly be better to just use distilled water if your tap is that bad... just be sure to add cal/mag. I used to use the water machine at walmart and fill up my own jugs... it's like 30 cents a gallon.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePsilosopherr
A psilly goose
Other User Gallery


Registered: 02/15/12
Posts: 12,278
Last seen: 2 months, 4 days
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19188978 - 11/25/13 08:43 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

luvdemboomers said:
I don't see why not.

Weed plants?

If so it'd prolly be better to just use distilled water if your tap is that bad... just be sure to add cal/mag. I used to use the water machine at walmart and fill up my own jugs... it's like 30 cents a gallon.



Not weed, I wish it was but nope just cacti and various ethno's for now.

I'm thinking it will be cheaper (and easier) in the longrun than buying gallons of distilled water for my plants. AND doesn't distilled have like no minerals in it? I mean, some is probably good right?

Maybe it doesn't make a big difference, I dunno. But I would think filtered tap is better than distilled. just a guess


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleFrozenHappiness
Professional Cereal Box

Registered: 03/01/01
Posts: 5,330
Loc: Nagoon Lagoon
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #19189000 - 11/25/13 08:48 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

It would help, but Brita filters don't remove all of the minerals from hard water so over time the minerals will still deposit in your soil. Reverse osmosis water would be better, but work with what ya got. My tap water is pretty hard and I use it (unfiltered) on my house plants. When the mineral deposits start getting bad I start watering them with distilled water from supermarket. Most of the deposits get dissolved and fushed out of soil, and then I stop using it. Rinse, lather, repeat.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibleunknown1123
Experimental

Registered: 05/15/08
Posts: 5,813
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #19189035 - 11/25/13 08:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

they work, I don't think your plants care tho


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblepsi
TOAST N' JAM
Male User Gallery

Registered: 09/05/99
Posts: 31,467
Loc: 613 Flag
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: unknown1123]
    #19189054 - 11/25/13 09:00 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

There's always rain water too. I'm not so sure that whatever is being deposited on the soil is necessarily bad for the plants though.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePsilosopherr
A psilly goose
Other User Gallery


Registered: 02/15/12
Posts: 12,278
Last seen: 2 months, 4 days
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: FrozenHappiness]
    #19189069 - 11/25/13 09:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

FrozenHappiness said:
It would help, but Brita filters don't remove all of the minerals from hard water so over time the minerals will still deposit in your soil. Reverse osmosis water would be better, but work with what ya got. My tap water is pretty hard and I use it (unfiltered) on my house plants. When the mineral deposits start getting bad I start watering them with distilled water from supermarket. Most of the deposits get dissolved and fushed out of soil, and then I stop using it. Rinse, lather, repeat.



Wow it really works that well at flushing it out?

That idea I like! I'm gonna try that. thank you :hatsoff:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleFrozenHappiness
Professional Cereal Box

Registered: 03/01/01
Posts: 5,330
Loc: Nagoon Lagoon
Re: Using a brita water filter to water plants. would it work? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #19189103 - 11/25/13 09:15 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Yes. The trick is to over water them a bit so the water runs through the soil and drains out the bottom. I usually do it over the sink, in the tub, or outside. Rain water also works for this but in my area buckets of rain water sitting around quickly breed mosquitos.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Original Sensible Seeds Shop: Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds, Bulk Cannabis Seeds, Feminized Cannabis Seeds, High THC Strains


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Brita jewunit 467 13 04/07/09 02:27 AM
by blewmeanie
* Brita Mello KittyS 128 0 02/15/11 09:23 PM
by Mello Kitty
* My job just double deposited my check!
( 1 2 all )
Delyrium 2,655 21 10/04/04 11:13 AM
by Silven
* Distilling alcohol from wine? Quoiyaien 1,564 3 12/06/04 11:39 PM
by sui
* 1 dirty cigarette filter for trade. shroommachine 1,995 10 03/16/05 06:06 PM
by Phluck
* | Plan | Plant | Planet |
( 1 2 3 all )
EffedS 4,863 48 10/03/03 11:32 AM
by cybrbeast
* Genetically Modified Cocoa Plants will render the drug war against Cocoa useless! blink 2,821 16 12/07/04 10:43 PM
by Jim
* Air Filter/Ionizer + smoking=??? DazedSol 1,454 5 01/03/05 08:08 PM
by baraka

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
1,825 topic views. 9 members, 24 guests and 43 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.023 seconds spending 0.005 seconds on 12 queries.