Filthy tap water for organic grow

Chlorine is poison, period. Chloramine in tap water is residual and YES, you get rid of it along with chlorine. Chlorine is a trace nutrient, so even dechlorinating, you'll have what you need in an organic medium, maybe a little different for hydro. Some tap water may contain trace amounts of ammonia or asbestos. Some locations even uranium. The World Health Organization recommends a maximum of 2 PPM of chlorine for drinking water. Lowenfels, Ingham, any decent botany or biology professional condemns the use of undechlorinated tap water. The ideal is to buy an AACT pump to leave for a few hours, between 4 and 6 at least. Want to see how chlorine in tap water kills? Place it in the aquarium, your fish will be floating in hours. For reference, I use Living Organic Soil full of micro and macro life. From thrips to earthworms and mites, fungi and microbes. (Not a single bottle of nuttrients in my home). Maybe its different for bottle organics.

fyi while you can gas off Cl2, you cannot gas off chloramine.. won't happen in any time period you can afford. Letting water stangate for 24 hours is a needless step.the amount of chorine or chloramie is extremelylow... fun fact, the plant actually needs some Cl... it's a trace element that it does use. the ppms of thise are so low... shouldn't be a big issue. helping to reduce microbes in clean drinking water is not quite the same context as inoculating your substrte with high load of beneficial bacteria. will it reduce effectiveness a bit? sure but just as watering outside doesn't kill the flora in the earth, this isn't going to wipe out your potting soil either. with high ppm hard water, you may need less Ca or Mg... or not.. depends on what is causing the hardness.

acid to drop it from 8 won't be a problem. i used to have 8.4 tap water. don't waste money on some "ph-down" product.. just buy a cheap acid. stick with something that doesn't impact your nutrient ratio and doesn't add something 'toxic. e.g. acetic acid or plain white distilled vinegar is a good option. the cheap 5% stuff you find at any store would be good.. few bucks for 3 gallons.. get a 3-5mL pipette if mixing per gallon... larger pipette/measuring tool for larger batches of water. The ppms of this should not be an issue. in soil you typically have periods of water-only irrigation and maybe even a planned 'flush' of some sort at various points. this will help prevent buildup too. virtually non-existient risk for soilless with 10% runoff each time. 380ppm could be problematic or not.. 300-500ppm is generally the range people recommend a filter of some sort. I've used 300ppm tap for 3 years before switching to softened water the last couple years. Even soft water is fine over 3-4 months. YMMV for mother plants that might sit in the same pot long enough for some buildup to occur. I am 99.99% sure you won't see a precipitate or adverse reaction with any normal fertilizer product that you wouldn't have to worry about normally. if you plants are growing well, then it is no problem... simple as that.

Are you on well water or city water? If you are in city water, a lot of time you’re going to have chlorine and chloramines in your water. You can off gas it by putting your water in a 5 gallon bucket with the lid off for 24hrs. If you have an air stone to throw in the bucket to bubble it out is better but not needed. Getting the chlorine out before adding microbes is a must. If you have well water you can always run your water though a filter system if you want, again this isn’t needed out it will clean up your water if you are looking to do that. As far as pH goes, I just use distilled vinegar to bring it down if needed. It’s more natural form of pH down and actually will add carbon to your soil since it’s roughly 40% carbon based. This will also feed the microbes. Hope this helps.