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Can I use tap water?
    #7938877 - 01/27/08 01:47 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

So I would like to grow some mushrooms with BRF and verm substrate. I was wondering if I could use tap water for my substrate. If not, what would you suggest, bottled or distilled water? Thanks in advance!


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Event]
    #7938885 - 01/27/08 01:51 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

use distilled water for the cakes. i use tap for everything else, including grains.


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: hazey]
    #7938895 - 01/27/08 01:55 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

I guess I'll go pick some up from the store then, thanks. Also, to change the direction of this thread a bit, about how many grams will 3 cakes yield. I know this will vary a lot, but approximately?


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Event]
    #7938965 - 01/27/08 02:36 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

what size jars are you using? 3 half pints will produce enough for 2 people at least, with no certainties.


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: hazey]
    #7939024 - 01/27/08 03:19 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

i use bottled mineral water. comes sterile :smile:


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Event]
    #7939025 - 01/27/08 03:20 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

Yeah, they're half-pints. Thanks for speculating!


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Event]
    #7939046 - 01/27/08 03:41 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

Avoid tap. It have chlorine and cloride. Both a low ph.

Higher is soft right?
I may be backwards lol


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Cubie]
    #7939135 - 01/27/08 05:23 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

Don't use distilled water for cakes, for all the same reasons you shouldn't drink it. Google it if you don't know what I mean. They contaminate much easier. Tap water is fine. For crying out loud, we've had lots of threads where people have dunked cakes in ten percent bleach, so the very small amount in tap water isn't going to hurt anything. Use tap, river, lake, spring, etc., but not distilled. Save your distilled water for making agar.
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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7939143 - 01/27/08 05:33 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

You should always check the ph though


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Cubie]
    #7939202 - 01/27/08 06:33 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

I have never had any problem using tap water in my area. If its clean drinkable water then it should be fine. Ph checking could be a good idea but for most people not nessesary.


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: veda_sticks]
    #7940217 - 01/27/08 01:00 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

I don't even drink tap water. I don't trust chloride
Or floride or chlorine


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Cubie]
    #7940520 - 01/27/08 02:23 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

I don't trust all the plastic bottles polluting our planet everytime someone needs a drink.
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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #7940575 - 01/27/08 02:37 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

Me either.

I drink water from a water fall by my house. The water comes out the side of the cliff and runs down the rock. I also give it to my shroomies


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Cubie]
    #7940880 - 01/27/08 03:28 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

yeah !!!


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: tonyshroom]
    #7941240 - 01/27/08 04:36 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

I'm a fan of natural spring water. Anything natural always sounds good to me.


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Event]
    #7941323 - 01/27/08 04:57 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

i've heard that if you use the water from a local stream, river, or creek it is beneficial for mycelium growth

i think i read it somewhere on mycotopia

but i have no personal experience in this


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: meatcakeman]
    #7942111 - 01/27/08 07:12 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

To play the Devil's Advocate, one would at least have to reference this: It may well depend on what is in your water!

Well water from northern Minnesota has so much iron it cannot be used straight, but if you run it through a water conditioner it becomes too salty and also shouldn't be used either.

Not that it fails 100%, but it will diminish your yield.

Buy Spring Water if you must, but no distilled for grain or BRF.


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Day Tripper]
    #8745683 - 08/08/08 06:55 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

On the subject of tap water... I made 12 1/2 pint BRFs using tap water on 7/26/08.
Made another 12 using distilled water on 7/27/08.

As of 8/08/08, all 24 jars are about halfway colonized, but the mycelium in the tap water jars is visibly stronger and thicker than the distilled.
Any thoughts ?


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: Deep Ellum LSD]
    #8745926 - 08/08/08 07:53 PM (15 years, 5 months ago)

minerals in the tap water?


or varibles its impossible to get everything exactly the same anyways


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Re: Can I use tap water? [Re: willowmp]
    #8748147 - 08/09/08 10:06 AM (15 years, 5 months ago)

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but the mycelium in the tap water jars is visibly stronger and thicker than the distilled.
Any thoughts ?




My thoughts were as stated above, don't use distilled water for substrates.  This has been well known and documented for many years.
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