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Post by garrison on Jan 5, 2010 21:34:23 GMT -5
well, i'm planning on using dasani water for watering my plants since i don't really have a massive amount of them. the bottle says reverse osmosis and under 10 p.p.m. is it safe to use?
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Post by hal on Jan 5, 2010 22:27:56 GMT -5
I don't know - doesn't Dasani have other stuff added - and isn't it expensive? You can get 4l of pure distilled water for 99 cents at the no frills grocery stores.
Melted snow, collected from a clean area, is also OK.
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Post by garrison on Jan 5, 2010 22:43:48 GMT -5
oh really? thanks! i never knew that
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Post by petmantis on Jan 6, 2010 20:19:26 GMT -5
Yup, melted snow is great - but you'll need a LOT of it. Basically, depending on how freshly fallen it is, you'll get 10% of the volume of snow you collected in actual water you can use.
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Post by lloyd on Jan 6, 2010 20:24:16 GMT -5
Also snow collected in a clean container has a much lower TDS than clean snow shovelled off the ground.
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Post by z on Jan 7, 2010 0:56:07 GMT -5
Be careful to not get snow around salted roads as the salt would surly boost the TDS.
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Post by sherkas on Jan 7, 2010 1:51:34 GMT -5
Yellow snow is bad too...
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Post by garrison on Jan 7, 2010 15:48:11 GMT -5
haha LOL
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Post by blokeman on Jan 8, 2010 19:18:41 GMT -5
Correct me if I am wrong, but i think cp's can tolerate up to 120ppm. About dasani, they RO their water, and then add minerals and such to the RO-ified water so no good. Like the others say, you can find RO water in gallon jugs at either shoppers drug mart, or a couple other pharmacies. I know here in quebec, we have QuebecEau(brand) RO water in 10L jugs, so I'm sure you can find what you need. It's usually written in bold 0PPM.
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Post by vraev on Jan 14, 2010 19:52:13 GMT -5
i have used distilled water from the grocery store for 3yrs now. its 99cents for 4L as someone has already mentioned.
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Post by garrison on Jan 16, 2010 22:08:06 GMT -5
THANKS YA'LL I JUST BOUGHT 4L PURE DISTILLED WATER 0 PPM IN SHOPPERS DRUG MART lol
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