What water you guys use

[edwardyeeks]

I use rainwater and my filtered water. No damaging effects so far.

Cheers

[Boris]

Water is a very important factor to make cps feel good or bad. Tap water is so different concerning hardiness depending on where you are living. Btw aged tap water has some advantage because the contained chlor can escape.
To really come to a conclusion you've to use a conductivity meter.
I mostly used rainwater which has a conductivity of 30 ppm when it is fresh. I collect it in a plastic rainwater barrel. After staying in it for some weeks the conductivity goes up to over 600 ppm. Using this water makes my cps looking unhealthy and some neps stop producing pitchers. After noticing this I used RO water. Bad thing was that my dogs had killed my conductivity meter so I didn't noticed that the filter of the RO machine wasn't working anymore. I guess it dried out. A few nep seedlings died. After getting a new conductivitiy meter I noticed that the "RO" water had a conductivity of over 400 ppm. This water was even worse than the old rainwater though it had a less hardiness than the old rainwater.
Utris reacted different to this hard water. While U. sandersonii had no problems with it U. livida (which had grown before like weed) was about to die.
My plants told me (in the way they are growing, colouring and pitchering) that they like fresh rainwater most. But also this might be depending on where you are living. If there is a sulfur cloud over your house than fresh rainwater might be also bad

[edwardyeeks]

Wow, Boris, you sure know a lot! Thanks for the infor!

Speaking about rain, now KL is in the raining mood. I barely need to water my CPs at all, it keeps raining everyday.

Cheers

[funkychips]

Yes, thanks for the info Boris. Our climate here is unpredictable in terms of temperature. Sometimes it can go without rain for days. Sometimes it will rain on one half of the day, say the afternoon, and sunny the next morning, and the cycle repeats for a week or two. When I was studying in Melbourne I also used a conductivity meter and used my aunt's plants as testers, which are actually Sarrs. They were responding well to the water quality too.

[kentosaurs]

Hi..

Eventhough it rains here it doesn't help me...The most is the rain just wet the leaves of my neps...And after all i will still have to water it..

Ken

[powersensor]

I water my CP with tap water whenever I am in a hurry. But my tap water is from storage tank so the water is probably aged. Sometimes I water my CP with left over RO from my tupperware which I take to work for drinking.

[Benjamin]

I also water my plants with rainwater from a tank. Im shareing the water from the roof of my garage no problems yet