Is using distilled water better to use for household common plants like a spider plant?
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ABSOLUTELY NOT.. Distilled water has no minerals.. nothing and plants need minerals, etc that it gets from water...normal water
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Some water is essential for all plant growth, though necessary amounts vary for individual species. Too little water will cause the plant to wither and die, and too much water will waterlog the roots and rot them, killing the plant.
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Plants take in oxygen, carbon dioxide and water, and produce sugar which contains carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms from all three. So they use more water than they put out. In fact, I don't believe they "exhale" water the way we do at all,
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Use as much as you want.  The best way to grow these crystals is to disolve sugar into about a cup of water over low heat.  keep adding sugar until no more will dissolve (this can go on for a while so be prepared).  You could just do a cup of sugar if you like.  \n\nThen let it cool and set the water somewhere it will not be disturbed but has indoor temps to sit in. \n\nWait for a while to all of the fluid is gone and you will have your crystals.
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no. Cooled steam is distilled water
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No.\nDeinonised water is water that has had mineral ions removed by ion exchange resin treatment. The water is almost as pure as distilled water, which causes no harm from drinking it.\nNo harm, providing you get the trace minerals from other sources. Such required mineralsas calcium, potassium, some sodium, magneium , some iron, trace amounts of copper, zinc, minute amounts of selenium etc.\nOther sources, of required dietary minerals, are a balanced diet, and vitamin plus minerals tablets. The latter supplemnt is highly recommended because the trace minerals in the tablet are balanced and all are present. The government R.D.I. (recommended daily intake), levels were never high enough (& were raised 2 or 3 years ago.) Also our efficiency of mineral absorption drops off after age 40 and we need more minerals in our diet to make up for it. \nSome "spring waters" have so little dissolved mineral ions in them that they are close to being deinonised water.\nIn fact, many spring water bottles contain water that does not come from springs, at all, but are deionised ground water or even tap water.\nDrinking distilled water which is purer than even deionised water causes no harm, therefor the similar,deionised water would not cause harm either.\nDan the Answers-Man.\nextra points never refused.
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I did a demonstration on the affects of acid rain on plants once.  I used 5 identical, healthy house plants and watered them everyday with varying ratios of a water:vinegar mixture.  Pure water, 5 parts water:1 part vinegar, 5:2, 5:3, 5:4 and so on.  I recorded my observations each day for 10 days.  The impact that the acidity had on the plants with high vinegar ratios was pretty neat to watch and document.  You of course would have to explain how the vinegar acted like acid rain would but there are plenty of resources for this on the net.
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"Plant's Best Water"\n"Healthy Plants"\n"What Water Do Your Plants Want?"\n"Big Plants Come From the Best Water"\n"Are Your Plants Growing to their Full Potentail?"
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Distillation involves boiling water and then collecting only the vapor that condenses. The condensed vapor will not include salt or most other impurities. To distill, fill a pot halfway with water. Tie a cup to the handle on the pot's lid so that the cup will hang right-side-up when the lid is upside-down (make sure the cup is not dangling into the water) and boil the water for 20 minutes. The water that drips from the lid into the cup is distilled.
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Yes, actually if you water the plants too much the roots gets rotten and die, on the other hand if you don't water the plants they also die, so it has to be a balance, water moderate once a day and plenty of sunlight, that's the idea..☺
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I think the best thing to do would be to raise flies and feed them these diets exclusively, then when the spiders eat the flies they will be taking in certian amounts of the chemical. However spiders do drink water droplets also, so maybe the best way to do it would be do slightly dilute the concentration with water and just leave these impregnated droplets in the terrarium. Or you could even remove the spider and place it in a small clear bottomed container, and administer the drops, then you can actually observe it drinking the drop.\n\nAs an entomologist and spider lover, I would love to know what you come up with, although Im not sure whether the spider's metabloic pathways will allow the caffein and other substances to really change thier behaviour, but good luck!
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Water the plants with heavy water (D2O, using deuterium isotopes instead of hydrogen) - put some in the dark and some in the light - and then compare the deuterium content in the starch for light vs. dark
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Try this website, it has some good explanations of things like total dissolved solids, dissolved carbonates, boron, and other things often found in water used for growing plants. There's even a little information that is specific to grasses. \nhttp://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/ageng/irrigate/eb66w.htm#plants\n\nBy the way, I found this using the search terms:\nirrigation water\nSo if you want to duplicate my search and see other results this should get you going.
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water consumption varies with the type of fixture
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there are bio-organisms that feed your plant in the street water that are cleaned from tap water and not drawn up with evaporation. what seems unhealthy to us is wonderful for the plant life
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u want an EASY solution, yeah. so get a little bit of oxalic acid crystals. i believe it is used for removing stains. make a stock solution of this. put a few drops in a bottle of your tap water. white precipitate will occur so let it sit overnight. then add more of the acid and see if some more precipitate occurs. if not u should have used less, if yes, u should have used more. you can also experiment with several bottles with different ammounts of it. this way you will find the just right amount of the acid to remove the undesirable ionts (it is not good if there is surplus oxalic acid left in the watering water so u just have to try it out). and you can use this way to prepare water for watering - u just let it sit to remove the precipitate. far more efficient than boiling - u can try the oxalic acid for boiled water and u will see that there is still something left in the water. if u dont have that large water consumption to go into this hassle i suggest u rather buy some distilled water that is put in cars for cooling. but when i had some 17 tanks stuffed by carnivorous plants it would ruin my budget. but when i was lazy to do it, i ruined my plants over one years time- so the people who say that it is safe if u drink it probably dont know much about carnivorous plants. .. AND it is not just about the chlorine, as u probably know
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Distilled water is pure with out minerals, where as tap water contains all the minerals. Meaning tap water probably gave a higher reading because of the minerals it contains. \nhttp://www.k12science.org/curriculum/boilproj/S00reports.html