Soft water

K. Rogers (krogers@javelin.sim.es.com)
Mon, 22 Feb 1993 17:44:07 -0700 (MST)

Barry Meyers-Rice writes:

>>I guess CPs also want really soft water as well whereas most other
>>plants don't care too much.
>
>Keith, beware on this. I think you mean *pure* water. Softened water is
>high in dissolved salts and so is CP deadly. Distilled, or reverse osmosis
>water is what you want.

This is what I meant, not the water softener units which merely
substitute Na in place of Ca and Mg ions. I use water from my RO
unit.