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Misting Plants with Brackish Water

04/02/2009 10:25 PM

is it possible to use brackish water in an arizona misting system?

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Re: using brackish water in an arizona misting system

04/02/2009 10:42 PM

Not advisable unless you don't mind getting salt deposits everywhere as the water evaporates.

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Re: using brackish water in an arizona misting system

04/02/2009 11:15 PM

What are you misting? People or plants?

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Re: using brackish water in an arizona misting system

04/02/2009 11:37 PM

I am misting plants

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Re: using brackish water in an arizona misting system

04/02/2009 11:44 PM

Why would you want to mist your plants with swamp water?

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Re: using brackish water in an arizona misting system

04/03/2009 1:35 AM

You're trying to kill the plants then??

Concentrated salt and mineral deposits will not be good for most plants.

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Re: Misting Plants with Brackish Water

04/03/2009 9:39 AM

Brackish really isn't enough to go on, but:

You'll need to filter for a couple of things - sediment/organic trash otherwise you'll clog nozzles.

Chemicals - Arizona Misting Systems has available a calcium filter that prevents hard water clogging of nozzles with mineral deposits. But they are strictly for hard water.

But - why would you mist when a plant really likes a drip system? Most don't much like the leaves wetted other than infrequently.

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Re: Misting Plants with Brackish Water

04/03/2009 11:13 PM

Brackish water, yes. Misting system, no. The only way to safely use brackish water to grow plants is outlined in the book "Saline Irrigation for Agrculture" by Hugo Boyko, where he grew Tomatoes and Watermelons in the Negev desert using sea water for irrigation. In my work with USDA with sugarcane, we irrigated test plots with saline well water, and found some interesting results. The plots receiving the highest level of salt treatments had the highest yield of millable cane and percent sucrose. Only try this with coarse sandy/gravel soils with good drainage, or you will salt out the land. Reference:

Title: Use of saline water for supplemental irrigation of sugarcane. Author: Thomas, J.R. Other Author(s): Salinas, F.G. Oerther, G.F. Source Info: Agronomy journal. Agron J Nov/Dec 1981. v. 73 (6) p. 1011-1017.

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Re: Misting Plants with Brackish Water

04/04/2009 6:04 AM

is it possible

yes, for a while.

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Re: Misting Plants with Brackish Water

04/04/2009 4:14 PM

why do you want to use brackish water? Your plants won't like it, and your misting system will rapidly get clogged by salt and mineral deposits accumulating at the nozzles If you're trying to make use of an existing water supply you should be able to do so but you'll probably have to spend money on filtration or be plagued with problems including a garden of dead plants...

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