2023 our new gardening adventure

[jjannie]

The only thing about watching the movie at home is that you will miss it in 3D but it will be great seeing it at home too.
That is amazing that there is that much swing in the Ph. Sounds like you would be better off just using that reverse osmosis water, do you have one there at your home? Good to hear the seeds have sprouted all ready.

Good to know. We do have 3D capability (and glasses) in our theater. So, when it does come out on video, we'll be sure to get that option. 

Yes, there is a lot of swing so we're hoping the stuff we want to order might help with that. Guess we'll see.... because at this rate of use we'll be needing to order something. It'll be worth trying anyway. Hopefully we get this figured out before our plants have very many roots to benefit more from it. We have seen where some with this super hard water have just quit trying, and they still get produce from theirs. Remember how even our garden didn't produce as nicely as yours has - maybe it was all in the difference between our water?  We do not have secondary water only our community artisan well water which is super hard. Tastes great though, just not great for gardening or hydroponic gardening! We keep trying but a lot of folks out here don't even try any more.

What about the rain water, have you ever tested it to see how high the Ph is in it? Isn't that what you mainly use to water your garden in the Summer?

Good point we haven't ever checked it, but we will once we collect some. I do have some bottled up left over so I can check on that tomorrow when we do the retesting.

How much water does that hydroponic system hold?

20-21 gallons. To use our RO system we'd only get about 1 gal of water to 4 gallons wasted water - so its not efficient that way. So far though we've not had to add any water to it. Sunday will be our maintenance day on ours since its a day we are usually home at least for part of the day. So we'll check the water level and top it off a little while adding some of the nutrients and most likely more phdown into it. I will say our house more humid than usual so it must be using some of it.