Town water vs Tank water

[Grant Bowie]

I haven't used town water for 23 years as I lived on a rural property where I used unfiltered dam water; then have had tanks in Canberra for the last 7 years.

My trees are healthy but I am not sure how much to ascribe this to tank/dam water.

Grant

[treeman]

Only recently a good friend and I had this very discussion, he advised me that the key chemical ingredient which fresh rainfall contains is Hydrogen peroxide 2(HO), with collection tanks (tankwater) the 2(HO) is lost after a few days, I forgot the correct term he used, but it's the main reason why fresh rainfall gives a growth spurt to the garden as a whole.

We took it a step further to see the benefits of Hydrogen peroxide and another friend who has tankwater, we started to trial adding 2(HO) to a watering can of his tankwater for some plants and water others only with the tankwater, those who received the Hydrogen peroxide water are much healthier than those that didn't. It seems to also work wonders on freshly collected material.

Hi David,
I also heard of this recently. Can you tell me what concentration of H2O2 was used? Also what species were trialed?
Thanks.
Mike

[DavidWilloughby]

Hi Mike,

The percentage of Hydrogen peroxide that was added to a watering can of tankwater (rainwater) was 3mls per litre. The species that this was trialled on have been Tridents, Figs, Ash, Junipers, Cedars, Pyracanthas, collected Leptospermums and Pines. He started the trial mid last year and the results have been very promising in comparison to those who have just had water.

When I said recently, it was early last year when I had that discussion so I guess its still recently in Bonsai terms hahaha.

Cheers

David