How do I find out if my tap water is good

Hey guys Ive been using ro water for a while now but sometimes I do use my tap water I'm completely organic, tlo. How do I find out if my water from the tap is good enough to use permanently for my girls. Ive had issues with cal mag in the past from using ro water fixed it by adding cal mag but I don't want to use cal mag with my organics!

Can I use a simple test kit found online or do I have to send samples off to some lab or something? And I have no idea what I'm even supposed to be looking for in my water that makes it good or not?

If you are the one who pays the water bill you should get an annual report that lists everything in your water. They use a gas chromatic mass spectrometer for this which breaks down any liquid into its components by percentage. You could also send it off to a lab to have it done but that won't be free. RO water is so wasteful I stopped using it for the most part.
I grow TLO also. The solution I found is to use water collected from a dehumidifier which is basically like using distilled. Low ppms; my dehuey water is like 3ppms. So you will still need to use a soluble cal mag at low doses but if you keep on adding forms of calcium to the soil globally eventually in time you can get away with adding very little to zero soluble calmag without detriment. Gen Organics cal-mag plus is safe for the micro herd and OMRI listed; I use it at 6-10 drops per gal & have been for years now.
I augment my dehuey water with rain which needs nothing at all added in. Only trouble is remembering to put buckets under the awning to collect it before it rains. In the dead of winter I may still need to get RO from the machine at Walmart only if it's too dry to collect moisture or it's too frozen/dry to collect any snow runoff or rain.

Btw the only reason tap water sucks for organics is simply the presence of chloramine. It dries out the bodies of the soil microbes which you rely on to feed your plant indirectly in a living soil grow. In the old days you could leave out your tap water and the chlorine would dissipate. Now most municipal water systems use an ammonia based compound called chloramine which cannot be leached off through evaporating. The plants don't even care about a little chlorine and giving chlorinated tap water does not spell certain or instantaneous death. It's a slow downhill spiral that can be reversed by adding new populations of soil microbes in the form of AACTs or fresh EWC. Chlorinated water diminishes the numbers of microbes resulting in a less active mix. What you want is your soil to reach supernatural status.

So how do I find out if chloramine is in my water I live in the country and far from the city.

Edit: never mind I found a way thanks buddy

Greenthumbs256 said:

So how do I find out if chloramine is in my water I live in the country and far from the city.

Edit: never mind I found a way thanks buddy

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No country i know puts enough chloramines in to injure land loving plants, you'd kind of notice your countries eco system dying around you at that point

Richard Drysift said:

Btw the only reason tap water sucks for organics is simply the presence of chloramine. It dries out the bodies of the soil microbes which you rely on to feed your plant indirectly in a living soil grow. In the old days you could leave out your tap water and the chlorine would dissipate. Now most municipal water systems use an ammonia based compound called chloramine which cannot be leached off through evaporating. The plants don't even care about a little chlorine and giving chlorinated tap water does not spell certain or instantaneous death. It's a slow downhill spiral that can be reversed by adding new populations of soil microbes in the form of AACTs or fresh EWC. Chlorinated water diminishes the numbers of microbes resulting in a less active mix. What you want is your soil to reach supernatural status.

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Impossible to wipe out that much micro life with tap water, that chlorine bs works in pipes but not on organic soil. You wont even dent the populations of all that lives within.

Did you get your info from a guy who sells soil additives by chance?

Kingrow1 said:

Impossible to wipe out that much micro life with tap water, that chlorine bs works in pipes but not on organic soil. You wont even dent the populations of all that lives within.

Did you get your info from a guy who sells soil additives by chance?

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Well what about using it for compost tea? I always bubble my water by itself for a few hours but still.

I always use tap water and would guess if your water comes from a treatment plant vs. well you will be fine.

https://www.albertaurbangarden.ca/2015/06/05/does-the-chlorine-in-tap-water-harm-beneficial-bacteria/

Greenthumbs256 said:

Well what about using it for compost tea? I always bubble my water by itself for a few hours but still.

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The chlorine added to tap water works well in pipes that have low oxygen and no light plus but it is uesless on soil microherds flora and fauna and the levels so low they dont have hardly even any effect on the microbes that live in tap water already, take a microscope to some fresh tap water, shit is full of moving living stuff.

Mostly they use chloramides which have a long breakdown period and endothermic breakdown reaction based on chemistry, it dosent evaporate from the soil or water.

Add some organic nutes to tap water and come back in a month, it wont be a sterile product. This shit has had millions of years to evolve in hostile soil conditions and now only on weed sites it gets its arse kicked by tapwater, wouldnt need sterile reses in hydro if tap water was as some say it is.

Ignore most of the bs that goes round these boards, people grow in soil and hydro with highly chlorinated water companies, fuck all happens, bacteria and fungi lap that shit up and increase in population.

The guy above is just wasting his money on benies because of some redundant theory, the actual science to it is way different. Like i can sterilise soil with tap water, do i look like MICKEY MOUSE to you guys!

buyyouabeer said:

I always use tap water and would guess if your water comes from a treatment plant vs. well you will be fine.

https://www.albertaurbangarden.ca/2015/06/05/does-the-chlorine-in-tap-water-harm-beneficial-bacteria/

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Wow this is awesome local info thanks!

Attached is hopefully my water analysis, literally fuck all chlorine whatsoever.

Max values on the list are what all your waters should fall under for reference in case people need some kind of standard.

Edit - Whaen i said max values i meant the Limit coloum for safe standards...

Kingrow1 said:

Impossible to wipe out that much micro life with tap water, that chlorine bs works in pipes but not on organic soil. You wont even dent the populations of all that lives within.

Did you get your info from a guy who sells soil additives by chance?

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No I read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/True-Living-Organics-All-Natural-Marijuana/dp/1937866092


For the record we are talking about growing in a living soil without nutrients. I read the study from Alberta and still not convinced as they do not study any long term effects. Each local tap water system has different levels of chemical additives depending upon how it is managed and how diluted the aquifers become in relation to local rainfall amounts. I know what's in my water which is why I don't use it.