Grow Room spring water good or bad?

[seedlingstarter]

Hi all I started my plants a few days ago they popped Monday and Tuesday above soil. The first few days they were growing pretty quick. At day 6 and 5 they seem to come a hault. I fed with bottled spring water almost daily in Styrofoam paper cups an were dry the next day. I usually ph my tap water but just starting again I'm waiting on the supplies. Now is bottled spring water bad, did it throw off the soils pH? I haven't fed bites or anything so why is the growth slowing at this moment?

 

[ruinthere]

Hi all I started my plants a few days ago they popped Monday and Tuesday above soil. The first few days they were growing pretty quick. At day 6 and 5 they seem to come a hault. I fed with bottled spring water almost daily in Styrofoam paper cups an were dry the next day. I usually ph my tap water but just starting again I'm waiting on the supplies. Now is bottled spring water bad, did it throw off the soils pH? I haven't fed bites or anything so why is the growth slowing at this moment?

Hey seedling starter. I have the same question regarding spring water. We'll see what this thread does.

Do you have a way to test the ph of the spring water now?
Also - what's your lighting?
got pics?

 

[seedlingstarter]

I do have a pH meter I just finished calibrating it a few hrs ago and I didnt test the spring water but I will once I get home. As for lighting I'm using led screw in bulbs with the domes Off. I have about 36w in my PC case. Strains will be purple kush an blue himalaya. I can get pics In a few hrs. But my growth has definitely stopped I'm thinking pH from the water. The soil is organic from Lowes I use all the time with no issues when I pH my tap water

 

[BII]

I'd presume that the seeding at less than a week, or even longer than this, is initially living off what's stored in the seed, and that this is not affected by pH, or certainly not by drinking or rain water pH. All seedlings need to do is soak up water - their roots don't yet need to actively transport diverse nutrients. pH of the soil/medium affects that, not simple diffusion of water into the seed and its roots.

 

[seedlingstarter]

Something is off only thing I can rule out at this time would be the pH of the spring water. Otherwise there is nothing different. They only receive water in the soil, the soil is organic with no time released nutes in it. I used this soil a few times successfully with ph'd water. I guess we will see how they act in a few days if they start to grow again or not. If no growth in the next week I'll probably just start over.

 

[Hippy_BiotabsF70]

Not sure about your particular issue here mate, but I got a few problems on a grow and eventually put it down to using bottled water. Thought I was doing them a favour but seems not. Reverted to tap water and problems ceased.

 

[seedlingstarter]

Hey hippy thats kind of how I figured it, like give them some decent bottled water they will be okay rather then non ph'd tap. Instead it seems as this has cause me some trouble. I do have my pH pen about to test some of this water now

 

[seedlingstarter]

OK so checked the bottle spring water pH was 7.3. The pH on the distilled was 6.3 and I checked my tap which was 8.1. In the pic from left to right is 2 purple kush and blue Himalaya. The far left purple kush is 6 days old and the other 2 are 5 days old. The middle purple kush I think got burned by the light first day above soil other than that idk. I might pull it if the growth doesn't increase within a week.

 

[KonopCh]

Iif using spring/rain water, don't forget to add Ca/Mg.

 

[BigD1128]

When I was actively growing I used a few different water sources. Tap, spring, and distilled/RO. I found that my results were most consistent using distilled water. The ph was exactly where I needed it for growing in coco. After adding nutes, ph up/down were not needed.