I’m working on my second indoor crop right now and I decided to fill one half of my 2000 Watt grow using organic soil and nutrients. I’m using Fox Farm ocean forest as my soil. I also repotted three mothers in fox farm soil and I started using Earth Juice Grow + Earth Juice micro + an old powder mix of bat guano & earthworm castings + Great White advanced mycorrhizal. With my current batch of seedlings I’m not using any nutrients or adding beneficials yet but I am using the organic soil containing beneficials.

I also used the Great White advanced mycorrhizal with my DWC buckets and synthetic nutrients on my last crop. I used distilled water when possible, but with no car I don’t always have a ride to the grocery store for 2.5 gallon containers of distilled water for every rez change. That means I often had to top off my rez with city water.

The problem is that my city doesn’t use chlorine in the water supply, they use chloramine. Unlike chlorine, chloramine takes weeks to evaporate from water so that’s not an option. The water isn’t hard or high in salts (~200 ppm) and it doesn’t seem heavily chlorinated. It’s some of the cleanest municipal water I have ever tasted and I’ve smoked many a bud grown with the local tap water.

I thought I was seeing the benefits from the Great White advanced mycorrhizal during my DWC grow (rapid root growth/healthy roots/enhanced uptake/big beautiful buds) but was I actually killing off my population of beneficials by topping off the rez with city water?

When I watered my seedlings a couple days ago with city water did I kill all the beneficials in the Fox Farm soil?

When I put Great White advanced mycorrhizal in my organic nutrient mix containing city water did I basically sterilize it?

Would some beneficials survive and repopulate the nutrient/soil mix if I quit using chlorinated water or do I need to add more Great White to get them started again?

I have copied your post to a thread of it's own so people will see it and answer you. Now you have 2 chances for answers and this is a great question to ask.

Peace

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OK..thanks a bunch. Thing is that all my plans are a little F'd up right now.

I was away from my house last night for two hours. I didnt think I would be gone for long so I locked the door and left all the lights on (all windows coverd with blinds) but made the increadibly stupid mistake of not locking the door to my grow room.So I come home to my house and soon notice that my Plasma tv is gone.

"Holly F'n sh!t" I said about three or four times before running to my grow room in a panic.

"Thank God" I said when I see that all my equipment, including 7 HID ballasts and over sixty HID bulbs and all the rest was still there. The only thing miissing was a mother plant, snapped off at the stem.

Considering that this person took a dead plant with no bud on it and left all the equipment, but took my $20 DVD player, I'm thinking crack head rather that jack move.

needless to say this opertation is seriously comprimised. I moved everything last night to a place of safe keeping. My mothers are going to be donated to a friend. I'm moving in with the rents and looking for a new spot, so untill then everything is on hold.

you sir are playing it smart and kudos to you for that

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Holy ****! That sucks... Like Moonbiscuit said... you are making the smart move.

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Thanks guys. I hope I'm in the clear.

It just really freaks me out that someone out there is talking about this, maybe planning to return, or even trying to make some quick easy cash by calling crime stoppers.

BTW...I'd still like to know the answer to my question about adding chlorinated water to my organic soil and nute mixes if anyone can help.

oh sorry man, clorinated water will kill it all off, it would be wise to add more, and in the future set aside the water for at least 12-24 hours, making sure the cap is off the bottle so the chlorine evaporates

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Ok..thanks allot dude. Thats kinda what I figured.

Problem is that my municipal water company adds choramine not chlorine to the water. It takes weeks to evaporate from standing water. Everyone who thinks they are evaporating the chorine from their water should make shure their city isnt using chloramine, because if they are your wasting time and effort.

My plan now is to buy a R/O filter ASAP.

ah thats a good plan! and also something no one mentions to much.

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