 Tap water VS R/O water | |
I’m sure that you have often heard it said that unless you keep your pH between 5.5 to 6.5 that some of the nutrients will not be available for the plants to use, well that may be true in the ordinary hydro system but it’s not true in the Bio-System……..
you can think of the Beneficial Bacterium as hooking up your nutrients …..thus the explosive massive growth of the Bio-Buckets, the Beneficial Bacterium makes your nutrients very mobile/highly active. So as time goes on the 7.0 ph tap-water is constantly toping the reservoir with a high ph of 7.0 {for this a float valve is a must have to add a little at a time} which helps the system level it’s self out to were it wants to be.
Also over time because of the non-change-outs of the system, some of the very small trace elements may come in short supply if using R/O.
If tap-water is used, zinc sulfate and copper sulfate will be added back to the system. The small amounts of zinc and sulfur needed are usually present in the tap-water but would not be there if you used R/O.
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