My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?
I thank you.
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"jammer" wrote in message
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My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?
I thank you.
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jammer
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No, boiled water is not the same as distilled water. Distilled water has the
mineral contents removed, and ordinarily that is done by boiling and
collecting the condensed steam. If you don't have commercial distilled
water, use rain water of melted snow. I use rain water on my potted house
plants and seedlings with good results.

John

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:54:26 -0600, "B & J"
wrote:

No

*sigh*........ok, thank you.
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jammer wrote:

My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?

No ... that is just boiled tap water.

but who the heck told you it needs DISTILLED water?


Tsu

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To doubt everything or to believe everything
are two equally convenient solutions; both
dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water.

I don't know why, unless you live in an area where the tap water is so
atrocious that you are drinking bottled water. Dracaenas are tough plants.

Can i boil and cool water and use it?

This would be exactly the opposite of distilled water. You would have more
dissolved salts, not less.

This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have to be cut off now as it is.


Why are you cutting off the leaves? If they are turning brown at the tips, the
cause may be something besides water quality.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 23:19:34 -0600, jammer wrote:

My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?
I thank you.
·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:-
¸.·´ .·´¨¨))
jammer
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No. Boiling removes dissolved gases in water but does not remove
salts. Your dracanea would benefit from old aquarium water or rain
water. Dracaenas like humidity, bright light, constant (somewhat
cool) temperatures, and less water in winter.

Maybe he was told that by some dude that sells distilled water?
There's big money to be made selling demineralized bottled water!!!


Tsu Dho Nimh wrote in message
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jammer wrote:

My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?

No ... that is just boiled tap water.

but who the heck told you it needs DISTILLED water?


Tsu

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To doubt everything or to believe everything
are two equally convenient solutions; both
dispense with the necessity of reflection.
- Jules Henri Poincaré

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 04:54:25 -0700, Tsu Dho Nimh
wrote:

but who the heck told you it needs DISTILLED water?
I looked up the care of this plant. It said to use distilled or rain
water.

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On 04 Mar 2003 14:18:16 GMT, (Iris Cohen) wrote:

I don't know why, unless you live in an area where the tap water is so
atrocious that you are drinking bottled water. Dracaenas are tough plants.

I looked up the care of the plant and it said to use rain or distilled
water. Do you disagree?? I watered it with tap water and it went down
hill fast. And yes, my water is atrocious and i use bottled water

Can i boil and cool water and use it?

This would be exactly the opposite of distilled water. You would have more
dissolved salts, not less.

This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have to be cut off now as it is.


Why are you cutting off the leaves? If they are turning brown at the tips, the
cause may be something besides water quality.

Because i looked up what to do. The leaves are basically black now.
And, yes of course it could be something else. It's lighting and
locationhad been changed drastically and i read they don't like that
either.
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You didn't answer the question.


You looked it up where?


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On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 04:54:25 -0700, Tsu Dho Nimh
wrote:

but who the heck told you it needs DISTILLED water?
I looked up the care of this plant. It said to use distilled or rain
water.

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In article ,
says...
My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?
You probably can buy it at the grocery store in the
area where you buy "ironing" supplies.

--
Good judgment comes from experience,
and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.


Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!!

On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 23:19:34 -0600, jammer wrote:

My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?

No, as others have pointed out. If you have an old refrigerator that
needs to be "defrosted", that frost is also essentially distilled
water -- frozen condensation.

The reason that it is recommended to water potted plants with distilled or
rain water, is to prevent the buildup of salts in the pot. In some areas,
the tap water has a lot of minerals disolved in the water, such as calcium
and magnesium. Over time this builds up in the pot, and changes the pH of
the soil.

Some plants are more sensitve then others to the changes, I'm not familar
with this plant, but I'm guessing it is sensitve the soil composition.
You'll also see that many books and websites recommend changing the potting
soil every few years, for the same reason.

In nature this isn't a problem, because rain water washes away the excess
buildup of salts. But indoor plants don't really experience much of nature.

Sameer


"jammer" wrote in message
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My striped dracaena is said to need distilled water. Can i boil and
cool water and use it? This is kind of an emergency as the leaves have
to be cut off now as it is. I want to repot it but have no water. Can
i boil and cool water and use that?
I thank you.
·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:-
¸.·´ .·´¨¨))
jammer
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Bottled water that has been processed with reverse osmosis is mineral free
unless minerals have been added back for flavor. I get RO water at the
local water store for 25 cents per gallon.

Zeuspaul

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 00:38:34 GMT, Zeuspaul
wrote:

Bottled water that has been processed with reverse osmosis is mineral free
unless minerals have been added back for flavor. I get RO water at the
local water store for 25 cents per gallon.

Is this for drinking or watering gard en?

If for drinking, and you get it from a dispenser, caveat! The filters
and general cleanliness at supermarket dispensers leave much to be
desired.




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Polar