Guy Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 Using my super cheapy TDS meter has shown me the rainwater in my 250l water butt has a TDS reading of just under 70. However, the rainwater which collects in the trays outdoors which have plants in reads 10. Quite a difference! This tells me my roof is really mucky. Or the water butt is leaking solids from the plastic. Or perhaps both? Thoughts would be welcome. And is water with a TDS reading of 70 OK for CPs? I've read it should be less than 100, but I've also read it should be less than 50. In a few weeks we're getting a shed put up. This will give me about 15ft of guttering to collect rain water from. Can it be collected as soon as the shed's up, or would it be best to let it go through a few hours of rain first to clean anything off the roofing felt? Thanks in advance for any comments and advice. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ahrens Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 To be honest, I don't think that I would worry about rainwater from the roof. Most people don't bother testing it. You probably have a bit of bird poo in it. Our TDS fr our tapwater is far more worrying. That is over 200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carambola Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 Worth mentioning that you can water Nepenthes and at least the Mexican species of Pinguicula (I'm not sure about the temperate species) with tap water, TDS doesn't really matter for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Anderson Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 I'm really lucky as the tap water in Edinburgh is only 33ppmMark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommyr Posted August 5, 2017 Report Share Posted August 5, 2017 My rainwater off my roof is typically around 1-3 ppm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted August 7, 2017 Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 Posted these results elsewhere but also relevant here. My water butt off my house roof is around 40 ppm. The roof is concrete tiles, probably the most common roofing. The water off my greenhouse read lower at around 15 ppm (glass roof). RO I can get down to 1 to 5 ppm whilst tap water here in North Hants can go over 300 ppm! All with calibrated and temperature compensated water meter. Really notice the water change when I head North..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. GreenThumb Posted August 7, 2017 Report Share Posted August 7, 2017 On 7/31/2017 at 9:48 PM, Mark Anderson said: I'm really lucky as the tap water in Edinburgh is only 33ppm Mark Wow you lucky bugger! Ours is about 200+ its well water so theirs no addatives, still wa too high for my Cps though.. shame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Bunn Posted August 8, 2017 Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 9 hours ago, Dr. GreenThumb said: Wow you lucky bugger! Ours is about 200+ its well water so theirs no addatives, still wa too high for my Cps though.. shame My well water is 80ppm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billynomates666 Posted August 8, 2017 Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 My unwell water is 230 p.p.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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