Boiling water?

[Bloom]

Hello, Does boiling water lower ppm/soften water? if not, what would?

 

[Bloom]

C'mon you late night floater stoners, will this help with high ppm or not?

 

[Iron_Lion]

ppm = parts per million

If you boil water you will evaporate pure water vapor the parts per million will be left in the pot.

Think of distilling liquor, you heat the mash and and collect the vapor, then condense it to turn it back into liquid.

Distilled water is water that had been distilled like liquor. If you boil it and keep whats in the pot my guess is it would have a higher ppm as the solids are left in the pot with less total h2o.

 

[electric_oj]

I was wondering this exact question the other day but in terms of acidity/alkalinity. I googled it and I found that boiling water raises the pH and even after it cools it still remains somewhat above neutral. This sheds a little more light onto how that works, so thanks for the info guys!! First post woot woot!

Personally, I'd stick with the Brita filter I use to drink faucet water or let it sit for a few days- both seemed to have worked so far for my grow.

 

[wilbur]

why do you need to soften (pH down) your water?

 

[SeaMaiden]

Hello, Does boiling water lower ppm/soften water? if not, what would?

Depends on the type of hardness. In some cases yes, it can soften by almost half. I've done the experiments myself.

I was wondering this exact question the other day but in terms of acidity/alkalinity. I googled it and I found that boiling water raises the pH and even after it cools it still remains somewhat above neutral. This sheds a little more light onto how that works, so thanks for the info guys!! First post woot woot!

Personally, I'd stick with the Brita filter I use to drink faucet water or let it sit for a few days- both seemed to have worked so far for my grow.

Usually once the mulm that's pulled out by boiling (aka temporary hardness) has been pulled, the water's alkalinity (hardness) drops significantly, and the pH then becomes a more a function of other factors, such as O2 saturation vs CO2 saturation (O2 raises pH, CO2 lowers it) play a larger role in pH levels and how well they stay within a particular range.

why do you need to soften (pH down) your water?

So the plant's can use the nutrients offered.

 

[Bloom]

Yea I think it helped, it was just a one time emergency thing, thank you