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Post by Rymah on Jan 15, 2009 15:18:15 GMT -5
i was at costco and they were onsale for really cheap, can i use them to watter my Cp's it says its RO and <35ppm for all you pros is that good or bad?
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Post by Rymah on Jan 15, 2009 15:24:02 GMT -5
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Post by carnivoure12 on Jan 15, 2009 15:52:19 GMT -5
I would not use it, because of the Mineralization in which minerals are added to give dasani its taste. It would be best if you buy the 4 L Distilled water bottle which are common and about $2 or less.
The minerals would eventually dry and start accumilating in the soil.
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Post by Rymah on Jan 15, 2009 15:54:50 GMT -5
ight sounds good i jsut wanted to check casue it was sooo cheap, im just using snow from my B/y rite now.
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Post by hackerberry on Jan 15, 2009 16:06:32 GMT -5
I tested Dasani with my TDS meter and it gives me at least 25 ppm. Plus I notice that it has a high PH. Snow is awesome and I'm using it also. Gives me 0 reading.
hb
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Post by dvg on Jan 15, 2009 16:29:02 GMT -5
The thing that bothers me about Dasani water is that it is remineralized. They run it through a reverse osmosis membrane to get RO water. Then they add magnesium sulphate, potassium chloride and salt.(These might even be part of the RO process) They claim it is less than 35 ppm, but if you could use melted snow this time of year, you will probably be much better off, especially if it was freshly collected snow.
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Post by lloyd on Jan 15, 2009 21:00:10 GMT -5
Rain or snow that falls right into your bucket is ~4PPM. Off the roof or ground is ~ 20PPM. Pricechopper distilled 0PPM for 99 cents for 4 litres. I distill mine myself.
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Post by sherkas on Jan 15, 2009 23:14:47 GMT -5
My snow (under some pine trees) registered at roughly 10 ppm with a 5.4 PH level. I filled up 220L worth of water. (Melted the containers 3 times to get them really full). Now im set for a while! WEEEEEE 4 free.
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Post by tael on Jan 15, 2009 23:16:39 GMT -5
That's the way! I need to get a huge container as well.. I just have four small ones...
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Post by lloyd on Jan 15, 2009 23:40:32 GMT -5
Plastic garbage bins are good. Leave them out in a big snowstorm.
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Post by tael on Jan 15, 2009 23:49:34 GMT -5
Yeah I'll bet! It's hard to catch a lot of snow on my balcony though, but I do get some in sometimes... also my roommate doesn't want lots of stuff on the balcony ARGH and there's hardly storage places in the apartment... but maybe I can convince him...somehow!
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Post by hackerberry on Jan 16, 2009 0:00:40 GMT -5
Snow is very useful for now, I use Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Tap Water Filter in the summer. Gives me 0-3 ppm. Faster that RO systems. I fill up a gallon in 3 minutes.
hb
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Post by dvg on Jan 16, 2009 0:12:53 GMT -5
Snow is very useful for now, I use Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Tap Water Filter in the summer. Gives me 0-3 ppm. Faster that RO systems. I fill up a gallon in 3 minutes. hb I like the sounds of that idea HB. Did you just pick it up at your local tropical fish store or did you buy it online? I might have to look into one of those for summer.
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Post by sherkas on Jan 16, 2009 0:24:03 GMT -5
You could always buy what I did, I went to walmart and bought some storage bin things... they said on the label they could hold 70 some litres of liquid, and with those I packed the snow in, and let it melt then added more, let it melt then added the last bit. They are also short enough you could keep it in a closest or under your bed. One huge container of that will last a LONG time. But if you got any space in your room to "hold" a big storage thing you should definitely use the free snow right now that everyone has. Its really good stuff (as long as the PH is good) but you could always get some pine needles to fix that.
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Post by tael on Jan 16, 2009 0:26:28 GMT -5
Oh, good idea! Yeah the snow here seems alright, it's usually around .008 or .013 or something... Which isn't too bad I don't think. What do pine needles do?
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