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What water to use when cultivating?
    #26867050 - 08/06/20 06:56 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Could not find any solid resources using the search engine.

Has anyone done the work to see what water is best and when to use it?
It seems like its up to personal preference, but recently I encountered a thread where someone narrowed down a tub going bad to using "bad" well water in their substrate.

Tap water, spring water, distilled water, reverse osmosis water, filtered water, well water.
What are the differences when it comes to mushroom cultivation?

Does anything in the water survive past a PC cycle? Pasteurization?


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: AlsetAlokin]
    #26867060 - 08/06/20 07:01 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I use tap water for everything. Grains, bulk sub, LC and agar. Lately I've been hydrating coir with warm tap water (no boil). Might be different where you live. Not sure how "bad" your water source would have to be to ruin a grow.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: AlsetAlokin]
    #26867070 - 08/06/20 07:06 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

obviously ur not gnna go suck up water from a stagnate pond or puddle somewhere that has dead animals and garbage in it. but then again with some ppl here thats just fine cuz u can always just use peroxide to fix itπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚  but seriously if its good enough for you to drink then its more than good enuff for your mushrooms. i use tap water all day long and i wont drink our tap water even. its not really an issue. clean spawn is the key thing you need for a good grow.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: jcm4620]
    #26867088 - 08/06/20 07:13 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I would only use distilled for making spore syringes.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #26867096 - 08/06/20 07:20 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

well ya thats prolly good for sureπŸ‘. i wasnt thinkn about that i was just thinkin about prep and misting when needed.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: jcm4620]
    #26867126 - 08/06/20 07:33 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Lol it would be such a pain in the ass if distilled water was required for everything.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: The Fresh Prints]
    #26867299 - 08/06/20 08:39 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I use RO water in the PC just to keep it clean and either RO or distilled for bucket tek/misting because my tap water isn't chlorinated, has lots of iron bacteria, and might as well be a calcium slurry it's so full of minerals. I use it for hydrating grains though.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: Sir Pentinite]
    #26867468 - 08/06/20 10:44 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Got it.
I've been a bit overzealous with the distilled using it for almost everything that goes in the PC (aside from grain).
I see now that it's overkill and fine to use tap.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: AlsetAlokin]
    #26867552 - 08/07/20 12:52 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I don't have running water save for a shallow surface well I can plug in/drop in to pump and a (very clean) creek on the property- and have noticed ZERO difference between either of those options or the ever precious potable water I truck in from town.  I do use- as Pasty mentioned- distilled for spore syringes (an obvious choice there...); but other than that I just don't see any difference... I pre-boil creek water to kill microorganisms and use it for most everything. When I started experimenting with different sources I thought for sure I was going to run into some qualitative hurdle (especially given the content of iron and sulfur in the surface well water/PH issues), but so far,  I just am not seeing it...


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: AlsetAlokin]
    #26867575 - 08/07/20 01:50 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I would use tap water. In the past I lived in two places where the tap was undrinkable (to most), St Paul MN with brown water from the Mississippi and an unincorporated urban are where the well water wasn't very good. So if I had been growing there I would have used the bottled water I was drinking.

And like Pastywhyte said, use distilled for making syringes. It requires so little so why take a chance. I still use boiling tap water for the preliminary stages of cleaning and flushing out old syringes. But once you go past PF tek, you're only making syringes every couple years.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26867592 - 08/07/20 02:48 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Distilled is used in syringes to prevent the spores from germinating.


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #26867601 - 08/07/20 03:04 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

i have distilled water in my fcs only cuz our tap water has a shitload of sediment in it and its a pain in the ass to get clean but i use the tap water for all my prep work and misting and it works just fine


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: Pastywhyte]
    #26867604 - 08/07/20 03:13 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Pastywhyte said:
Distilled is used in syringes to prevent the spores from germinating.




Is that because of no minerals?


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Re: What water to use when cultivating? [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26867906 - 08/07/20 08:51 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Brian Jones said:
Quote:

Pastywhyte said:
Distilled is used in syringes to prevent the spores from germinating.




Is that because of no minerals?




Yes


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