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Question about max ion tek.

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CokFLHX

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I’ve been using water I get from work. They have a huge water treatment facility and I’ve access to completely pure, de-ionized water. I have been using it because I figured it was better than distilled. Not 100% sure but it sounded good to me.

After reading the max ion written by Cyb, I can’t help but wonder if that’s hurting instead of helping.

It’s sounds like you want you water ionized.

Can someone that is more knowledgeable on the subject explain if it will make a noticeable difference in yield?

If so, instead of the 100% pure de-ionized water I have, what would be the best to use? Cyb mentions filtered or spring water. I’m not familiar. Can you buy filtered water like you can a jug of distilled water?

Thanks in advance for any help. Every post I make I like to sing the praises of this forum. This is one of the most helpful, and well intentioned group of folks I’ve encountered. Just friendly advice, and non of the snark or self righteous comments you get on other forums.

Maybe that says a lot about the effect this medicine can have on people.

I look forward to learning more about this.
 
Shouldn't matter since you are going to add Salt to ionize the water. Honestly if your tap water is not hard and is relatively clean you can use that. Spring or filtered water is the common drinking water. I personally use my tap water but I have very clean tap with recent tests showing 7.03 pH and EXTREMELY low chlorine and fluorine and ppm also very low.

Distilled and deionized water sources are important for specific purposes but home extractions isn't one of them unless a very specific extraction/reaction. There was something I saw that needed ddH2O but was a specific synthesis that most wouldn't do.
 
You are going to add so many ions during the process (plant material, lye, salt) that it makes no sense to use deionized water. Just use any water you have.
 
The Max Ion Tek suggests filtered water a couple of times. The first is in the freeze/thaw step where the goal is to absorb water into the plant material’s cell structure so that expansion when frozen will damage the cell wall releasing the goods. I seem to remember a high school biology experiment. We took thin slices of onion soaked them in tap water vs. distilled water to observe under the microscope how the cell walls of the distilled water sample would burst due to osmotic pressure. The take away being don’t drink distilled water. This was long ago, but if I am remembering correctly and the results apply here, then I think at this step in the tek, distilled water may actually be better. Although this effect may well be overshadowed by the severity how freeze expansion can destroy cells (I’m thinking frostbite here), distilled water would be the better choice.

For the rest of the tek, having extra ions supplied by the water seems to be reasonable. Plus, it puts the “Max” in the title. The addition of table salt being where most of the ions come from.
 
I guess I’m asking if anyone thinks here will be a noticeable difference in yield between performing the tek with filtered spring water vs pure, de-ionized water. If not I’ll just use what I have.
 
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