Dumping A Reservoir Outside

How environmentally unfriendly is it to empty your reservoirs outside on the ground. I am guessing very but hoping not at all. Right now I grow in soil, so I don't have a lot of excess liquid that needs dumping. Maybe 10-15 gallons of waste liquid gets dumped outside a week. If I switch to hydro that 10-15 is going to go to 100-150 gallons. I am not trying to leave a trail of death and destruction in the wake of my growing. My indoor grow room has no water hook up which means no drain either. I have to pump water in there, but I have no drain that's accessible to pump water out.

So can I get away with emptying my reservoir out side, I mean it is plant food, or will it make Mother Earth cry?

my lawn and flowers love my used nutes i even use it in the garden why waste the money use it for other thinks like a garden or flower, my lawn is as green as bud

Better to dump it outside then down the drain the salt build may kill your grass but at least your not drinking it.........good luck

I think unless you us organic water solubles, you shouldn't be dumping it into the ground.

If you use synthetic nutrients, you should balance the PH and use it on your typical house plants. Assuming you do grow other plants. If you don't get some. Put them on the window sills and recycle the fertilizer.

But the synthetic fertilizer could work its way down into the water table if I'm not correctly paranoid. I might just be ill-informed, but mythbusters should start showing up and save the day.

highsiden said:

Better to dump it outside then down the drain the salt build may kill your grass but at least your not drinking it.........good luck

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not even close to enough salt to hurt the grass, how does dumping down the drain mean he is going to drink it, im sure he is on city water which means it would go trrough a treatment plant before being put back in to the ground water system, and if the systems will filter out shit, im sure fertilizers are nothing, i will drink a bottle of nutes before i ate a dirty diaper

if you are a noob please quit giving addvice about things you know nothing about really

ive been dumping my nute water on my rose bushes and man they are beasty

ClosetSafe said:

Organic nutrients smell and likely taste exactly the same. Thank god nobody is putting you up to it.

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how the hell you know if you dont use organic nutes, beside he is not using organic nutes, once again we have a rocket scientist comparing apples and oranges

so your saying the the birthcontrol pills and all that shit that in water is not in the water come on man read a book look at the news sometime eating a dirty diaper is the same as eating nuti its all shit...Lol and if the salt build up and the plant waste will not kill your grass then why change your water just keep using the same water over and over....

Noob thats funny I've been growing for the last 22yrs off and on............Lol good luck on your grow

Smurf, I don't waste it either and I don't dump it into a storm drain either. If you spread this out over your yard all of your green things will love you for it. Lawn irrigation heads are rated in gallons per minute, if you run 3-4 GPM heads for 30 minutes there is your 100 gallons. Just move it around the yard.

LT1RX7 Drifter said:

how the hell you know if you dont use organic nutes, beside he is not using organic nutes, once again we have a rocket scientist comparing apples and oranges

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Not exactly sure what you were trying to say there bro. Grammar isn't that important on the internet, but i'm pretty sure you were trying to offend me.

No big deal. I actually do use organic nutrients. I just opened up a bottle a moment ago to start brewing a solution. It smelt like absolute shit. Worse than any diaper I have ever changed.

Chill out with the name calling. It's not good for the karma.

i use my waste water/nutes to water/feed my other plants around the house. and ive used it in my past gardens. i dont see a reason to waste the little bit of nutes that are left in the water.

My Cactus loves the res water.

$50 to the person that gets drifter to munch a dirty diaper.

Couple points for consideration...

Water treatment plants do not take out all the chemcials in the water before it outfalls to streams, ponds, and surface waters. So yeah, like highsided said, that is why we have transvestite fish and all kinds of nasty unnatural shit because of prescription drugs getting flushed and women on the pill using the restroom.

Pouring your nutes on the lawn is not going to create a salt problem. The rain will flush the salts out of the topsoil layer. The only problem is that if you dump your nutes in the summer, that patch of lawn is going to grow gangbusters and be much greener than the rest of the lawn. (But you could put them in a spray bottle, drive to drifters house and spray "cock sucker" on his lawn at night. Then despite his best efforts, his lawn will have a big green cock sucker stamp on it that grows twice as fast as the rest of the lawn. The gag is actually better with time release fertilizer, but you get the jist.

Lastly, your nutes will not make it into the ground water table unless you have a really close groundwater table or you live next to a stream. If you ahve a basement then your safe. The majority of nutrients are actually not that mobile in the soil meaning that rain or watering will not actually cause the nutrients to move through the soil column. Nitrogen is the most mobile of the elements but again, that nitrogen is going to filter down a foot or so and then be fixed by denitrifying bacteria in the soil. Any chemical can and will readily run off even the slightest slopes if the ground is saturated so if you have surface waters downslope from your house then it may be best to dispose when its dry.

BoomerBloomer57 said:

My Cactus loves the res water.

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Thats funny Bloomer I dump my res water on my cacti too!

LT1RX7 Drifter said:

not even close to enough salt to hurt the grass, how does dumping down the drain mean he is going to drink it, im sure he is on city water which means it would go trrough a treatment plant before being put back in to the ground water system, and if the systems will filter out shit, im sure fertilizers are nothing, i will drink a bottle of nutes before i ate a dirty diaper

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That' funny that your such an arrogant asshole. Telling other people not to post when you yourself have no clue. Dumping down the drain means it ends up back in our water you fucking idiot, not that he is literally drinking his reservoir. Chemical fertilizer is poison so I wouldn't recommend drinking or eating it I think I'll choose the organic turds and live to see another day.

I feed all of my runoff water to my garden year round..

Even if we get snow (which doesn't happen very often..) (BC)

It makes for a great nutrient addition to your garden come spring time..

Your plants will love it when you place them into the garden come spring time..

I don't dump it on my lawn either.. Thats seems like a waste to me (personal preference).

Peace And Happy Growing !!

Just use it on your lawn or whatever, it's fine. Better to reuse than just dump it down a drain. You gotta figure people use all types of ferts on their lawn/garden/shrubs/trees every single day. Peace. =)