I have recently started my ebb and flow hydroponics garden and I'm having having a problum with a white powdery build up I've changed the water and scrubbed everything and that helped a little, before it was so bad it was floating in the water. I have hard water and I'm using green leaves grow juice as a fertilizer. whats the problum and how can I fix it? ps I'm using lemonjuice an a ph down pic:
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I had that with my hardwater last year on seedlings, I found that if I top watered them, it washed down and out. But, if I soaked pots then they looked like that.
I think you have two choices.... rain water or distilled water.
The white deposits are calcium, or limestone if you will. If you add a ph regulator to it, you are increasing the chemicals, and the lime is still there, sure you can change it to acid... but it is still there.
You might try a reverse osmosis water cleaner that removes chemicals including lime from your water.
When I put my plants outside and only used rainwater, it all cleared up.
Can you set up a rainbarrel?
I think you have two choices.... rain water or distilled water.
The white deposits are calcium, or limestone if you will. If you add a ph regulator to it, you are increasing the chemicals, and the lime is still there, sure you can change it to acid... but it is still there.
You might try a reverse osmosis water cleaner that removes chemicals including lime from your water.
When I put my plants outside and only used rainwater, it all cleared up.
Can you set up a rainbarrel?
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firefun4everyone
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I wish I could I live in alaska and it wold only be a snow barrel thanks for the help but the problum is getting worse ant my water realy stinks I'm thinking its bacteriaOzark Lady wrote:I had that with my hardwater last year on seedlings, I found that if I top watered them, it washed down and out. But, if I soaked pots then they looked like that.
I think you have two choices.... rain water or distilled water.
The white deposits are calcium, or limestone if you will. If you add a ph regulator to it, you are increasing the chemicals, and the lime is still there, sure you can change it to acid... but it is still there.
You might try a reverse osmosis water cleaner that removes chemicals including lime from your water.
When I put my plants outside and only used rainwater, it all cleared up.
Can you set up a rain barrel?