City Water

I would appreciate some advice here. This is my second year, last year was a large learning curve. My concern is that I will be leaving home and having a caregiver freind come and stay with my mom. She has no problem in watering my lovely ladies, my concern is it okay to use city water for 3 waterings. Currently I am using rain water, 20 gal smart pots, they are taking about 2 gallons every other day. I add nutes, growing in fox farm ocean. I want to make this easy for her, will city water harm the plants for those 3 waterings. I am in Southern Oregon and we are just know heating up and I grow in a greenhouse. Please be gentle, I'm fragile

City water is usually fine...You could check out your city water and see if they use chlorine or chloramine. If they use chlorine, you can let the water sit out for 24-48 hours...If they use chloramine, your beneficial bacteria could suffer a tad bit, but I wouldn't even worry about it if it's only for 3 waterings. pH might be different than what you've been using though. The pH of my tap is the low to mid 8 range.

If you can drink it, you can use it. Make sure the ph is right and have at it

Cities usually have a website with all their water info..minerals, chemicals, etc.

yea sumthing like this:


RESULT FOR test 78800/11

Parameter

Temperatur 11.0 °C -


oxygen 10.53 mg/l
Kimtal ved 22 °C 3 Pr. ml DS/EN ISO 6222 50
Kimtal ved 37 °C <1 Pr. ml DS/EN ISO 6222 5
Coliforme bakterier <1 Pr. 100 ml DS/EN ISO 9308-1 <1
Escherichia coli <1 Pr. 100 ml DS/EN ISO 9308-1 <1
Farvetal, Pt <1 mg/l DS 289,MOD AK 165 5
Turbiditet 0.05 FTU DS 290 0.3

71 mS/m DS 288
pH 7.5 pH

Ammonium, NH4+ <0.004 mg/l
Nitrit, NO2- <0.0016 mg/l
Nitrat, NO3- 0.81 mg/l
Fluorid, F- 0.36 mg/l
Fe 0.02 mg/l
Mangan, Mn <0.001 mg/l
Natrium, Na+ 14 mg/l
Kalium, K+ 2.4 mg/l
Calcium, Ca++ 107 mg/l
Magnesium, Mg++ 19 mg/l
Hydrogencarbonat, HCO3- 282 mg/l
Sulfat, SO4-- 62 mg/l
Aggressiv kuldioxid, CO2 <2 mg/l
Hydrogensulfid, H2S <0.01 mg/l
NVOC 3.0 mg/l
Total phosphor, P 0.004 mg/l
Chlorid, Cl- 47 mg/l
Nikkel, Ni 0.05 &#956;g/l
Methan, CH4 <0.01 mg/l



thats a copy from my watherplant ..

just google it .. found mine in 2 minuts .. a lot of details .. and seems like I got nice water