Can I use distilled water in balancing water EC ?

Hi, my tap water has an high EC and PH.

When I add the fertilizers and the PH- solution, then the EC increases.

To balance it toward an accetable EC for my plant's growing state, I use distilled water (about 50% of tap and distilled water).

There is something wrong in using distilled water for this purpose or I can continue using it ?

Thx a lot.

Marco

The only downside I see in this situation is that you don’t know what is in the high EC tap to start with. So then you add nutes and “balance” the EC and you end up with a completely unknown random mix of ingredients in you water.

I’ve used tap water for years to grow, but it needs to be decent tap water. I had one house I lived at that the water was terrible and I had to go fill 20 gallons at a time at a different location for the whole grow.

I think is quite bad, right ?

what is the EC of the water? is it the 978 conducibitlia? 0.978EC?

the Na is pretty high too Sodio of 98.

yes, conducibilità is EC.
So I've to start with about 1 EC.
and yes NA (sodio) is pretty high

Jalbit said:

yes, conducibilità is EC.
So I've to start with about 1 EC.
and yes NA (sodio) is pretty high

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i would not use any of that water.
distilled or reverse osmosis only

Yeah 1 EC to start with is pretty damn high

The question is: there is any adverse effect in using distilled water to balance this water ?

Or I can even use ONLY distilled water ?

You can totally use only distilled water that would work just fine.

Jalbit said:

I think is quite bad, right ?

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Your chloride is through the roof. That and sodium has me suggesting that you use distilled or get an RO unit, then add back cal-mag.

Great, thx for the advice !
Another thing : should I use distilled water also for the flush ? (with the flash kleen solution of course)

Ola jalbit, si puedes usar solamente agua distilada pero es mejor todavía invertir en un systema ro buscate uno en amazon, yo acabo de instalar uno de la marca express water.... tambien la linea de nutrientes de la marca general hydroponics flora series son súper fácil para usar. También ocuparias su producto calimagic. Con esos nutrientes solo ocuparias 4 botes de nutrientes y el agua y son bien faciles de usar, si gustas te puedo hasta ayudar para darte información en como mesclar

Hi @Billytheluther thx a lot for your answer and your proposal: you are very welcome in helping me, thx a lot.
As I saw a bad growing (see picture here ) just tonight I've completely changed my water mixture.
I don't have a RO system so I started with distilled water and added these nutrients:
The final result is:
PH: Now the PH is 5,7 and I hope it won't change a lot.
EC: The EC is 1.38 a little bit higher than desidered, but I hope is ok.

Maybe this will solve the Phosphorus Deficiency that I guess is the problem...

Any advice will be welcome

Thx in advance

J.

Jalbit said:

Hi @Billytheluther thx a lot for your answer and your proposal: you are very welcome in helping me, thx a lot.
As I saw a bad growing (see picture here ) just tonight I've completely changed my water mixture.
I don't have a RO system so I started with distilled water and added these nutrients:
The final result is:
PH: Now the PH is 5,7 and I hope it won't change a lot.
EC: The EC is 1.38 a little bit higher than desidered, but I hope is ok.

Maybe this will solve the Phosphorus Deficiency that I guess is the problem...

Any advice will be welcome

Thx in advance

J.

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Sounds good, just be sure you plant can handle that high an ec otherwise you’ll end up causing more deficiencies