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14-Jun-2004
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Tap Vs. Purified Water
Is there any substantial benifit to using purified water?
Tap water in some areas can have a lot of chlorine in it. |
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14-Jun-2004
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Tap water will have more chemicals including chlorine and trace elements and such, depending on the hardness/softness of your water.
If all you are worried about is the chlorine, you can take a bucket and put Tap water in it and let it sit for 24hrs and the chlorine will evaporate from it. |
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...unless your municipal water contains chloramine, a chlorine + ammonia compound:
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http://sfwater.org/main.cfm/MC_ID/7/MSC_ID/67
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We get a mix of chlorinated and chloraminated water here. I haven't had big problems with water quality, though. I'd suspect acid loving plants would be more sensitive. Regards, Matt
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14-Jun-2004
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There are products at pet shops to remove the chloramines from water.....the aquarium industry depends on them. A few drops per gallon usually. Just read the directions. Some mail order catalogs sell these aquarium products in larger containers than you can find in the stores too. Check on line.
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15-Jun-2004
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Yeah I know the stuff you're talking about Susieq. I didn't know if the tap water made that big of a difference in plant growth or not. It seems to me that with feeding, and the generally close care givin' to Bonsai that watering with purified water would not be such a leap.
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15-Jun-2004
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Giving a plant purified water can actually slow growth. "Natural" water supplies available to most plants are hardly pure and contain many trace elements that plants (and animals) can use.
Tap water is also cheaper. Plants need dissolved minerals and other stuff in the water to survive (filters can place an inordinant amount of salts in the water, however, which is another reason to avoid some of them). If you're watering more than one or two trees, using filtered or bottled water is an unecessary, possibly detrimental, expense. |
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15-Jun-2004
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Treebay, do you keep many junipers? Are they affected by the chloromines
 Our water utility hasn't started using them yet, but all the other major utility companies in the area have....If a person had a lot of acid loving plants, and I have tons of junipers, what a pain it would be to treat the tap water before using it. I would be sorely tempted to put in an irregation well. Turning on the water and watering with the hose/watering wand is so much easier. Susieq Last edited by susieq : 15-Jun-2004 at 09:58 AM. |
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15-Jun-2004
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That is my general thought RockM. Maybe mineral water would be better, that or ground water from a well. Although I suppose that city water with the addatives, especially chlorine, may actually prevent some unwanted things like mold or fungi.
Then there is the question of feeding the tree. Does it get all the nutrients it needs from the suppliments you give it? Or does it still need the minerals and natural stuff that is in water? Generally I don't think it matters all that much. If it killed a plant I don't think I'd want to be drinking it.  I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but the amounts of things in the different waters today is amazing to me. mineral water purified water spring water city water ground water |
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