🤢 Are Water Contaminants Ruining Your Grow? Forever Chemicals, Heavy Metals, and More- Ft. Nik
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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(00:00) Intro & Why Not All Water is Equal
(05:48) Tap Water Database &
(06:33) Heavy Metals & Forever Chemicals
(13:28) Haloacetic Acids
(17:28) Proper RO Filter Usage
(21:23) Water: The Polar Molecule
(26:28) Sugar Phosphate Teaser
Nik from Rooted Leaf returns to the show to talk about the nasty things that can come along with our water when we saturate our gardens. Nik discusses heavy metal water contaminants, and how you need specific types of filtration to eradicate heavy metals and forever chemicals. We share an amazing tool to check your local water contaminants online easily. Then Nik gives his thoughts on RO filtration, and how many growers are utilizing their filters in a way that is ineffective and damaging.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode features Nick from Rooted Leaf Nutrients. |
| 0:03.4 | He's back on the program to talk about water contaminants that could not only just be |
| 0:07.5 | harming you, but could be harming your plants and your soil life. |
| 0:11.3 | On this episode, we give you an incredible tool that lets you check what's in your water |
| 0:15.5 | remotely online. |
| 0:16.9 | I know you're going to love that. |
| 0:18.0 | Plus, Nick gives a breakdown on how you're probably using your RO filter incorrectly, |
| 0:23.2 | and he gives tips on how to make it more efficient and increase the durability. |
| 0:27.5 | This episode is brought to you by ACInfinity.com for all the best grow gear, tents, |
| 0:32.1 | the whole grow kit, fans, filters, pots, whatever you need. |
| 0:35.6 | It's at ACInfinity.com. |
| 0:37.0 | Use code Growcast15 to get the biggest savings always. And of course, rootedleaf.com for the best nutrients in the game, code Growcast gets you 20% off. Thank you for listening, everybody, and enjoy the show. Hello podcast listeners, you are now listening to and watching Growcast. I'm your host Jordan River and I want to thank you for |
| 0:54.3 | tuning in again today. Before we get started, go to Growcast.com. There you will find all the archives of all the episodes. Now on video plus membership, the seeds, the classes. It's all there at Procast.com. Hit like, hit subscribe. If you learn anything in this episode, drop a comment below, share it with a friend. And it really helps us out of the show, and it costs nothing. |
| 1:12.3 | So we appreciate it. |
| 1:13.4 | Special thank you to the Growcast members. Today, we've got a return guest. You know them, you love him. I'm so excited to talk to him again today about water constituents. We're going to talk about reverse osmosis water. We're going to talk about forever chemicals and contaminants it's going to be a |
| 1:28.0 | good one folks back from rooted leaf we have none other than nick himself what's up nick how you |
| 1:33.2 | doing hey jordan i'm doing pretty well man how are you doing excellent thank you for coming back on |
| 1:38.4 | the show i'm super excited for this one uh me too your last episode on the Oxygen Evolution Complex was excellent. |
| 1:45.0 | If you have not seen that episode, be sure to go back and watch that one right after this |
| 1:49.0 | one. |
| 1:50.0 | But Nick, let's just jump right into it today. |
| 1:53.0 | Of course, rootedleaf.com code growcast for all your lovely offerings, but I want to talk about |
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