chibae
An orchid fancier with a CP problem
Okay..let me start off by stating that I do NOT, repeat do NOT, use the softened water on my plants. Here be my question. The well water at my home is very high in iron..turns sinks, clothers, etc orange high in iron. We use a sodium based water softener with a prefilter for household water.
Okay..for fun just now I tested the water coming out of an inside tap and it was at 64 ppm. I then checked the drinking water that goes through a secondary post filter. That came out at 58 PPM.
So far not bad, but then I ran some water from our outside tap that is not filtered, pure well water and it only read 70 ppm. I was expecting well over a hundred.
Soooo, is it that my well water is not really "hard" so much as iron rich and the softener is just replacing the iron with sodium?
Curious minds need to know. Oh, BTW my collected rainwater reads at 3 ppm.
Okay..for fun just now I tested the water coming out of an inside tap and it was at 64 ppm. I then checked the drinking water that goes through a secondary post filter. That came out at 58 PPM.
So far not bad, but then I ran some water from our outside tap that is not filtered, pure well water and it only read 70 ppm. I was expecting well over a hundred.
Soooo, is it that my well water is not really "hard" so much as iron rich and the softener is just replacing the iron with sodium?
Curious minds need to know. Oh, BTW my collected rainwater reads at 3 ppm.