Using Distilled Water in Hydroponics?
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2017
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? So here's a question. Water is everywhere. So it must all be the same, right? |
| 0:08.0 | Wrong. You might be using tap water for your garden and wondering if there's a better option or |
| 0:14.8 | maybe you're already using some other type of water distilled water reverse osmosis |
| 0:19.2 | water etc. Regardless as a gardener you can know a lot about plants a lot about nutrients a lot about |
| 0:26.6 | plant growth cycles and you can miss out on one of the most important ingredients and that |
| 0:32.4 | ingredient is the water you are using to nurture your plants. Not all water is created equal. In fact, some water isn't even good to use in the garden at all. |
| 0:42.5 | So it's time to drop some knowledge about the essential ingredient. |
| 0:46.2 | And I figured we'd start with a commonly discussed topic |
| 0:49.0 | and that would be using distilled water. |
| 0:51.2 | So the first question then of course would be what is |
| 0:53.4 | distillation? Distillation is the process of separating a liquid into the |
| 0:58.9 | substances that make up that liquid by using the processes of evaporation and condensation, it is |
| 1:06.2 | possible to separate a liquid almost perfectly into its component parts. So this |
| 1:11.2 | is called steam distilled water. So this type of water is put through a heating and |
| 1:16.2 | evaporation process which removes the following from your water. Bacteria, parasites, |
| 1:21.6 | viruses, organic chemicals, |
| 1:24.4 | heavy metals, volatile gases, and any other type of contaminant. |
| 1:28.9 | So you are left with something that is very close to pure water, which means pure H2O, a clean, natural, healthy water. Water that |
| 1:39.4 | is distilled via the steam method is the benchmark that all other types of water purification |
| 1:45.8 | are measured by. So if you wanted to make distilled water how would you do it? |
| 1:50.0 | Well the easiest way would be to buy a home distiller. That is the simplest way. |
| 1:55.4 | There's one called the Waterwise 8800 that is expensive as all get out, but it does |
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