Questions About Ro Water Treatment.

[free country 420]

ok i have been having a prob for a long time now same thing every time and i think i have narrowed it down to my water.i think that i am having a sulfer build up in my soil and thats causing all my problums...(yellow leaves purple stems poor growing sad looking plants lol}.so i think that the sulfer is locking everyything out... so now for my question...will a RO system filter out sulpher?,will running my water softener water threw a RO filter set- up hurt help the life of the filter?, how hard are these

RO filters to maintain?

 

 

thanks in advance for any help i get....

[Beans]

Usually any well water will do in soil

 

What kind of soil are you using?

[free country 420]

pro mix soil fox farms nutes. i ph to around 6.5-7 i feed aproximatly 700-1000 ppm of nutes seems like a few weeks into flower things just startgoing down hill. it starts with a few fan leaves that are yellow between green veins...and trangresses to everything yellowing out and the new leaves start yellow with burnt blotchs..and this continues untill the large leaves start to curl down and fall off totally dries up...

 

 

my water starts out at around 180-220 ppm at a ph of around 7.5-8

[free country 420]

i have been trying diff water sources for the last few days andwaiting to see results... because now i am having same prob in the veg room too... same yelloy leaves with breen veins purple stems and dried up dieing leaves.... i found some water with a ppm of 150 and no egg smell with a ph to start of around 7.5,if this helps i think it is a water prob. what do u think?

[Mickeydee]

I think your water is too hard. Probably causing nute lockout issues. Usually takes a couple of weeks to see effects/before the nutes are locked out. Shows up looking like a nute deficiency and feeding heavy will just make it worse. IMHO

[free country 420]

ok so back to the RO ? will using my salt water softener system b4 running water to a RO system work...save on filter life? better wateror should i run raw water threw the RO filter all the time?

[Fat Freddy]

i have been trying diff water sources for the last few days andwaiting to see results... because now i am having same prob in the veg room too... same yelloy leaves with breen veins purple stems and dried up dieing leaves.... i found some water with a ppm of 150 and no egg smell with a ph to start of around 7.5,if this helps i think it is a water prob. what do u think?

 

A simple rain water collection system will solve most of your problems. Rain water's P.H is around 7.

I used it last year with great results. 55 gal drums are about 15 to 20 bucks on craigslist. And with a little research you can find a plan for making it into a collection system, I recommend the blue or black barrels.

[Beans]

You can cut your well water with rain water 50/50

 

One of the things I do is keep adding alaskan fish fertilizer right into the forth week of flower

 

force fed Nitrogen if you will

 

 

I f you go r/o you have to add back micro nutrients and calmag

 

Flush those girls well at four weeks wait a week and back on flower nutrient schedule works for me

 

It sounds like more salt lockout than anything to me

 

When in doubt flush em out

[Beans]

Btw my well water is 235ppm at 8.0 ph

[free country 420]

thin k it could be the pro mix? cause im still having probs,new water dident seem to help.....flushing dident seem to help.

 

so on my veg room i took some of the ones thgat were really bad looking put them in a top soil pro mix mix about 50/50

they seem to be coming around>...s

 

 

 

so could that be it?

[Beans]

Not sure

 

It usually takes at least a week to see the effects from a thorough flushing

 

Sounds like the soil may have been contaminated but that's the thing about using soil

 

It works as a buffer which makes any changes slower to react

 

Hopefully you got it corrected

[Nemosity]

RO water still needs mag\cal if your not adding nutes to it

[Honeyoil]

I spent about $120 and got a 5 stage system at PureWaterClub. It has been working for a year without fail. Time for me to get new filters.

[phaquetoo]

pro mix soil fox farms nutes. i ph to around 6.5-7 i feed aproximatly 700-1000 ppm of nutes seems like a few weeks into flower things just startgoing down hill. it starts with a few fan leaves that are yellow between green veins...and trangresses to everything yellowing out and the new leaves start yellow with burnt blotchs..and this continues untill the large leaves start to curl down and fall off totally dries up...

 

 

my water starts out at around 180-220 ppm at a ph of around 7.5-8

 

my well water comes out at around 151 ppm but I ph it between 5.5 and 6.5 in my plant with fox farms, I only use half the nutes it calls for, and I water it about once every 3 to 5 days aprox 3 gallons at a time, its in a big planter and was a mother plant for a yr so yea budding everywhere, im in my 4th week of bud I have a few pics i could put up, I never put the full amount of nutes in the water, if im in full bud and bloom (i use gh nutes) I use half of recomended and do it 2 times with nutes and than one time with only my well water ph'd to between 5.5 and 6.5 no higher, I am mainly doing dwc, but I didnt have anything ready for my budd room so my c.g brought me over this sweet mother plant raspberry cough! wed will be 4 wks into bud, i dont use ro, not saying there is anything wrong with it, but when its coming out of the pump at 151ppm im not doing the ro, if anything i keep a few gallons of distilled water around to lower my ppms now and than, I hope this helps!

 

Peace

Jim

 

edit = i always make up my next watering of budd and veg about 3 to 5 days before i need it, I put a bubbler in it and I test it every day, between the 3rd and 5th day the ph finaly stops jumping up and down and than when i pour it in its gonna stay stable longer! I dont have a big grow so when i fill my dwc buckets in veg tent, im in there at least 2 times a day and I have to usualy lower the ph every day for the first 3 to 5 days after that it stays put, something to think about.

[LansingAreaCaregiver]

ok so back to the RO ? will using my salt water softener system b4 running water to a RO system work...save on filter life? better wateror should i run raw water threw the RO filter all the time?

 

I use a 4 stage RO system that I, too, got from purewaterclub.com. Well I actually got it from ebay, but the purewaterclub ebay store. I have VERY hard water and the city chlorinates the snot out if it. I run my RO after my water softener with no problems. I can't really say how it impacts the life of the filter as I've always run it this way.

[Mr_Smith]

Are you using the blue bottle of Grow big?? You should be, the green bottle has less micro nutrients in it because of the amount found in most soils. Pro-mix lacks those micros so you should be using the hydroponic formula.

 

Also, when I use fox farm, the plants will need a shot of nitrogen going into flower so I would reccomend continuing the veg nutes until you get the fuzzys (as I like to call them)

[free country 420]

well changedmy soil to a 50/50 mix of pro mix and top soil,things seem to be turing around..... but they seem be recovering but the stems are still purple... so only more time will tell

[Mr_Smith]

Another good mix is the pro-mix and the FF planting mix (red bag) 1:1

[rhinoman]

Red stems is from lack of nitrogen if your using ff nutes ya need to keep giving yer plant more nitrogen to at lest the 4week of flowering.

[free country 420]

stems were purple in my 3 week old ones tooo things seem to be better without the strait pro-mix....,,,,i still have a few in flower lookin bad what u ythink lower the ph? i run it around 6.5-7