Ro System with or without alkaline filter

Hi,

i would like to buy a ro system for dwc and can’t decide which one to buy.

there is waterdrop g2 that produces pure ro water and frizzlife pd600-tam3 with an alkaline filter with (>7.5ph) and remineralizes the water with calmg but not much. Still under 100ppm.

I know that with pure ro water I get ph swings specially in bloom.

so what makes more sense pure water mixed with tap for ph stability or the frizzlife life system ?

thanks

kenmastazz said:

Hi,

i would like to buy a ro system for dwc and can’t decide which one to buy.

there is waterdrop g2 that produces pure ro water and frizzlife pd600-tam3 with an alkaline filter with (>7.5ph) and remineralizes the water with calmg but not much. Still under 100ppm.

I know that with pure ro water I get ph swings specially in bloom.

so what makes more sense pure water mixed with tap for ph stability or the frizzlife life system ?

thanks

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Any RO system can have an alkaline filter added to it and the system I'm building will have a take-off before the UV filter for the plants then another take-off after the UV for our coffee maker so it doesn't plug up then the last one after a 'polishing' calcite filter for drinking after extra minerals are added back.

I use straight RO or distilled water for my plants and add a little CalMag once in a while but not as much as most people say to do.

Our water comes from a big dugout on the property and is untreated other than filtering down to 5µ. The RO system will filter 10X better with a 0.5µ carbon filter right after a 1µ filter and standard carbon filter.

I just have to get off my ass and hook it all up one of these days. Getting to be too much of a chore going to town to buy RO at $3.49/19L jug.