You are planning to overdose your plants on water filled with sodium instead of calcium. What do you think will happen?
cmoked
You will have lots of salt in your water. What kind of hydro you going to do? RO is much better.
For example, im pretty sure my softener killed the microbiome of my organic run.
For my hydro tent, it raises the EC of my rockwool considerably. Lots of runoff needed.
nonamejamboree
Probably depends on what you’re growing and how sensitive the plant is to sodium. My soft water has a pretty high EC, so I still use RO for my hydroponics. All of my various house plants get soft water and they’re doing just fine.
TweakingSloth
Put potassium chloride in your water softener instead of sodium chloride. I believe it’s twice as much though.
BocaHydro
Yes, water softeners are a big joke, they add salt and chemicals on top of chemicals, if you want to grow hydro, get a RO Unit and start from scratch
Stunning_Door5949
I think your reference picture is actually a water heater, not a water softener. Don’t buy the item pictured if your water gets hot.
Alarming_Sweet9734
RO unit, 50 gal holding tank(hydro stores have them) and a float switch.
These are standards in home grows.
They should have been on your upgrade list already
JVC8bal
growmax makes a nice 3-stage low-EC RO filter with options for deionization and UV treatment
fusiole
My softener started growing biofilm this summer. It was so warm in my basement lol it contaminated everything down stream, which was fun.
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You are planning to overdose your plants on water filled with sodium instead of calcium. What do you think will happen?
You will have lots of salt in your water. What kind of hydro you going to do? RO is much better.
For example, im pretty sure my softener killed the microbiome of my organic run.
For my hydro tent, it raises the EC of my rockwool considerably. Lots of runoff needed.
Probably depends on what you’re growing and how sensitive the plant is to sodium. My soft water has a pretty high EC, so I still use RO for my hydroponics. All of my various house plants get soft water and they’re doing just fine.
Put potassium chloride in your water softener instead of sodium chloride. I believe it’s twice as much though.
Yes, water softeners are a big joke, they add salt and chemicals on top of chemicals, if you want to grow hydro, get a RO Unit and start from scratch
I think your reference picture is actually a water heater, not a water softener. Don’t buy the item pictured if your water gets hot.
RO unit, 50 gal holding tank(hydro stores have them) and a float switch.
These are standards in home grows.
They should have been on your upgrade list already
growmax makes a nice 3-stage low-EC RO filter with options for deionization and UV treatment
My softener started growing biofilm this summer. It was so warm in my basement lol it contaminated everything down stream, which was fun.