Now that is BAAAAAADDD Karma.
Seriously, read The Secret Life of Plants - Tompkins & Bird. Full of fascinating stuff about how plants in general respond.
Yes let it sit to allow the Cl to disperse. Lemon is OK to lower pH, but do not use baking soda, that is giving your plant sodium which is toxic. Find something else.
Pollen reaches Spain from Morocco having blown hundreds of miles across the Mediterranean. They put warnings on Spanish TV for hay fever sufferers.
But luckily it does seem to have lost most of its potency by the time it arrives.
Another LOAD of BS all round thread.
Roots do NOT have light receptors of any kind - MJ, and other plants grow perfectly well in any translucent container. I ALWAYS start my girls off in ex mineral water bottles with no problem at all.
Once again we have people reading or SURMISING...