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Because of our drastic water restrictions last week I tossed 45Lt from my 5ft tank on to my small but good lawn.
Three days later the lawn is burnt where I tossed the water. If it will do that to a lawn what will it do garden/pot plants.

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That's very unusual. Was the water treated with anything, including and especially salt?

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I have to agree that that is unusual, and would not think that it was just from the water. I use and have used for years the water from my tanks to water household plants, my vegetable garden and have placed it on my lawn and have never had any ill effects.

I would think that it was something else that caused the damage to your lawn.

Jim

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I agree with you guys............I dump my water onto the front lawn & no problems.

That is what had me confused. The only things that go into the tank are at the water change, which is the dechlorinator which has been in the stored water for one weeek, 10ml of Sera Bio Starter and 15ml of a liquid plant food. The only thing I can think of was the water temp.

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What was the temp outside on those days? Was the sun up and blazing down? Where I live, during the summer months we water in the evening when the sun is going down. Otherwise the sun is magnified by the water and it frys th lawn. Could this be it? I would not think that there is anything in your water that could do that.

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i use my water on the plants/lawn also due to the drought so i dont waste any and ive never had that happen but likeKunzman96 said, if it is a really sunny day than it will fry your lawn. maybe try watering a shady spot rather than direct sunlight spots.

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I have been told not to water plants in the middle of the day or too late in the morning. It causes plant sunburn. Other than that I don't see how tank water with no medications added could cause a problem. I used to dump endless gallons onto one area of the yard at my mom's house. 2years later it still has greener grass than the rest of the lawn. My mom also used it for several of her indoor plants for years and now has a 12' high dracaena that is starting to bend from touching the ceiling. Most of that water also had various plant fertilizers added.

Yes the sun was out but it was 10am and not very hot. As far as watering plants our home is on the average block but all around the home is garden and trees including about 2000 orchids so as for watering I am fully aware of watering during the hot hrs of the day. After a little bit of rain one night it is starting to colour up again.

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Hmm I hadn't thought about sunburn. Terrestrial plants have an outer cuticle that protects them from UV light. I wonder if the watering affected the cuticle some way and the plants burned because of that.

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Two things come to mind that were mentioned over the radio when we had very little rain.

Dont fertilize: same reason you cant hand someone that's starving a cheeseburger, too much at once. I doubt there'd be that much nitrate in your tank water keith, you do keep up on your water changes...but it might be too much for a lawn that doest get water.

Water early in the morning: if you water during sunlit hours then yes the water will burn the grass, if you carefully pour the water around the plants you should be okay, but I'd do it only after making sure water burn was what caused the grass to burn and not the over fertilization. By watering in the evening you allow for rot to set in due to the water sitting on the ground all night.

Hope that made sense, it's 3am .

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Even if you water at 10am isn't it still a little wet by noon? My aunt never waters after 8am(unless it's directly into the soil with nothing getting on the plants) and so almost always waters in the evening after 5pm. She has huge gardens setup and most of her 20acre "yard" is landscaped. When I was younger I would get paid to weed everything. Now after all that I learned from that why is it that I can't grow anything above water except a cactus? My cactus is even looking sad and my reddish colored cactus died.

You can't cook..........you can't garden............

Hey! But at least you can keep an aquarium!

I used to able to grow plants indoors, but it took extra lighting, fertilizer, knowledge of the plant, just plain maintenance. We've moved since then......... not much room & hubby stole my shop lights anyway.

Now I have just two plants by a window & use the liquid Miracle Grow on them whenever I water them. I keep a spare milk jug filled with water & I believe about 28 drops of Miracle Grow to the gallon. They are both easy to grow & doing fine. One is a pothos & the other is called a "cast iron' plant. So called cause it supposed to be almost indestructible! That's why I bought it when I saw it!

I'd make a worthless housewife. But I can maintain aquariums and train horses(I own 8). Now I just have to find a job doing either.

Ohhhhhh I would love to have a horse again!

I had one at one time & we were best buds! I would ride in the pasture with no saddle or bridal. Out of the pasture I had a bridal for better control. Though I had a saddle, I rarely used it.

Yeah............ they say for the perfect career you should find out what you love to do & then find a way to get paid for it!

I'm reminded at this point of something I said to a woman at the supermarket checkout last year when she expressed surprise at my culinary plans for Christmas dinner, especially as I was the one cooking it ...

"I can cook ... I can sew ... someday I'll make you the perfect wife ..."

Now I can add to the list that I'm used to dealing with troublesome infants ... in the form of my baby Pandas of course.

All this and I keep fish too.

Seriously, though, terrestrial gardening is not one of my fortes either. Not because the assorted specimens that I plant don't grow, it's more a case of my efforts being subject to a veritable Mongol horde invasion of weeds the moment my back is turned. Sometimes the weeds stage such a blitzkrieg campaign that I can actually see them growing in my soil. Nettles love me for some reason - if ever Nettles become a cash crop, I'm an instant multimillionaire.


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I attempted a garden once. The crabgrass drove me nuts. It takes over the yard too. Even when you block it from growing straight into the garden it goes down into the ground and pops up. Then you go to pull the plant out and this root starts coming that ends at your barrier. Dig down to it and it goes 2' out across the yard before reaching the next plant. By the end of the year I got 2 tomatos, some lettuce, and a handful of strawberries along with grass as tall as my head. At least the guinea pigs were happy. They don't care if all I grow in my garden is grass and weeds so long as it's green and they get lots of it.