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All great tips! I'll be using the clear cups and likely transplant after a week or atleast 1 1/2 inch tall. I'm still stuck on the water a bit, i would really like to just use tap water for convenience sake. I thought 0160 ppm was rather low compared to other people's post's ? Cant i still use it and just subtract that from my range of ppm i want to get with the nutes? (So for seedlings say im shooting for 200ppm and it reads 360, thats 200 from nutes and 160 from water, correct?)
If i must, i can use the distilled water i purchased from the store. A 1 gallon jug of it and it reads 0001 ppm. Or maybe even a mix? Like for the first 2 weeks of its life, i use distilled water with nutes if the soil water runoff reads less than 201, and after its 2 weeks i use tapwater as well as a new reading for low veg state for ppm. ?
Finally, my seeds have been sitting in water for 25 hours and 21 minutes as of right now. i noticed a couple of the 5 seeds total have cracked open so thats good, but the rest have not cracked open yet. What do i do, leave them all be for a while longer? Take out just the cracked open ones and begin wet paper towel transfer?
Once i have all the little details down, i can begin recording my steps! and make a post about my journey! haha
Actually, I'm not entirely sure. My tapwater is 28 PPM so I never needed it. But I think so.
Let's say I do use tap water with 160 PPM
Ok, I should be able to figure things out from here. Let's say I do use tap water with 160ppm, I just add that ppm to my target range ppm right? Like if I'm shooting for 200 ppm, I actually want it to read 360ppm. Safe enough? And past that, if I do use tap then when do I actually start using calmag?
I know if I use ro water I'll always mix in calmag with feedings, but tap has cal in it I guess so that throws me off. I don't want to nutrient burn.
Sorry for so many questions! I'm a specific details kinda guy haha. Especially when doing something completely new to me! Thanks for all the help up to this point everyone!
The question is, "160 PPM of *WHAT*?" Calcium carbonate? Sodium chloride? Something else? What you're actually measuring is how much electricity the water conducts. The pen reports that as though it was PPM of NaCl, but that's just for the sake of convenience. You don't actually know what is conducting the electricity. (Adding molasses to my flush water doubled the PPMs, for example.)
If you don't know, and can't/won't look it up at your water utility, them it's best to start with pure H2O.
Dark, warm, moist, best environment for seeds popping.
Scientific, i was able to find this!
EWG Tap Water Database | City of Porterville
but im not entirely sure how to read it, not sure what im looking for in terms of value's and such. Care to take a look and tell me if that means my tap is definitely not usable or is?
Also thanks guys! All the info helps, especially when i want to read back on these!
so essentially any water closest to 0 ppm is best to use to water my plants as i can take the guesswork out of the equation. Seems im gonna go with filtered water 1 gallon jugs from walmart! haha. I'm gonna buy 4 1 gallon jugs tomorrow and test the ppm.