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Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:36 am
by Fly Trap Hunter
is there any benefits to bottled rain water? or are the benefits realized when it rains. Meaning: would rain water remain nitrogen rich water if bottled?

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:17 pm
by Smooter80
Rain water has zero nitrogen. The "benefit" would be that it's pure water and rain is also great for helping to flush the media.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:24 pm
by Fly Trap Hunter
Smooter80 wrote:Rain water has zero nitrogen. The "benefit" would be that it's pure water and rain is also great for helping to flush the media.
of course rain water has nitrogen in it. https://sciencing.com/rainwater-contain ... -8461.html

lightening helps produce the nitrogen but its in rain water otherwise.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:43 am
by Smooter80
If it's .0001 PPM, I'm going to stick to there is essentially zero nitrogen in rainwater, generally speaking.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 12:04 pm
by Fly Trap Hunter
Smooter80 wrote:If it's .0001 PPM, I'm going to stick to there is essentially zero nitrogen in rainwater, generally speaking.
you didn't read the article did you?
I disagree strongly but its your right to be wrong. so I agree to disagree.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:49 pm
by Huntsmanshorn
Now I'm not a chemist and it has been awhile since I took a chemistry class but I believe the nitrogen compounds usually remain in the water until used by plants/animals.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:02 am
by Fly Trap Hunter
Huntsmanshorn wrote:Now I'm not a chemist and it has been awhile since I took a chemistry class but I believe the nitrogen compounds usually remain in the water until used by plants/animals.
I think you are right. I read an article where they took the water out of rain and ended up with ammonium and nitrogen and other solids.
my fly traps are noticeably different if I give them rain water over distilled water. I just wondor why don't people bottle and sell rainwater. ? maybe because it rains. lol

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:31 am
by Smooter80
Yes I read the article, it's only a few paragraphs. Those amounts are minuscule, less than 1 part per 10 million or even 100 million of actual nitrogen in many cases. To find the actual nitrate equivalent of nitrogen, you have to multiply by something like .225. It's not zero, but it's essentially zero. ;)

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:05 pm
by Fly Trap Hunter
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/lib/brochures/nitrogen.pdf
http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/ Why have government agencies monitor nitrogen in rain if it doesn't exist?
new brochure Nitrogen from the Atmosphere http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/lib/brochures/ ... nAtmos.pdf

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:01 pm
by Hungry Plants
I think the point he is trying to make is that there is such a trace amount therefor is it is a moot point. It is so minimal that in our case we would say zero.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 11:22 am
by PiranhaPlanter1
Interesting. Perhaps that miniscule amount is enough for Carnivorous plants since they don't like alot of nutrients.

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Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 7:12 pm
by Fly Trap Hunter
PiranhaPlanter1 wrote:Interesting. Perhaps that miniscule amount is enough for Carnivorous plants since they don't like alot of nutrients.

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http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/lib/brochures/nitrogen.pdf i posted this link a few posts back. if you look on page 3, there is a map of the nitrogen that fell from rainwater in 1978. (im sure there is much more nitrogen in rain today.) if you look at the article, a few paragraphs up on the right, it says Ohio got 7 kilograms per hectare or 6.2 pounds of nitogen per acre. In fly trap country, according to this map, there are some of the highest concentrations of nitrogen in rain.

Re: Does Nitrogen stay in recovered rainwater?

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:14 pm
by PiranhaPlanter1
Fly Trap Hunter wrote:
PiranhaPlanter1 wrote:Interesting. Perhaps that miniscule amount is enough for Carnivorous plants since they don't like alot of nutrients.

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http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/lib/brochures/nitrogen.pdf i posted this link a few posts back. if you look on page 3, there is a map of the nitrogen that fell from rainwater in 1978. (im sure there is much more nitrogen in rain today.) if you look at the article, a few paragraphs up on the right, it says Ohio got 7 kilograms per hectare or 6.2 pounds of nitogen per acre. In fly trap country, according to this map, there are some of the highest concentrations of nitrogen in rain.
Awesome, now if spring could hurry up!

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