chloramine

i dont know why some growers and mostly some new growers are obsessed with chlorine levels in tap water. chlorine in tap water is at most like 2ppm. which would not even penetrate into a cm of soil. i water all my outdoor plants with tap water and they all live happy. the reproduction rate of...

Apparently vitamin C can be used to break down and get rid of chlorine / chloramine in tap water. This sounds like a better choice for me than using R/O water. At my local drug store they had pure vitamin C powders in different forms- ascorbic acid, calcium ascorbate, and sodium ascorbate. Does...

Since I started using tap water, I have noticed the start of what I thought to be calcium/magnesium+nitrogen deficiency with the brown spots and yellowing/dying lower leaves. Luckily I was able to harvest that before too much damage was done. But as I am now seeing it happen on another plant...

So I’m running a 30 gallon rdwc system and I was wondering if my tap water would be okay to use? It has a ppm of 197 and EC of 395 which I’ve heard isn’t so terrible. The only problem is I know for a fact my hard city water contains small amounts of fluoride and of course chlorine/chloramine...

I just started to make some experiments with Calcium Hypochlorite to keep my res clean and dead (sterile). I bought ORP meter which should reveal the oxidation (killing) potential of the water. I tried different measures in different times. The goal is to find out how often and what dosage we...