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Old 11-27-2009, 07:58 PM
KevinL KevinL is offline
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I use distilled water in my systems so far, but will be switching to rain water once I get a catchment system setup. Distilled water is PH Neutral in most cases.
I live in the boonies with well water that is very hard and you can't use softened water for hydro-systems.
When I had my NFT outside, I went through a LOT of water, and even at 69 cents a gallon bottle..it was spendy when it was all done and said.
The only problem I had with using distilled..and I don't think it would have been any better using filtered or tap...calcium definancies which cause bottom rot on tomatoes. It didn't affect the grap tomatoes, but the full size ones were awful.
And for anyone else that has that problem....I have ONE solution, One Word.....TUMS! If your doing tomatoes, Add a couple tums to your solution, it will make all the deference in the world.
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