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Hi Iris: Thanks for your input. I had
the collected rain water tested for EC and it was only 10ppm -much better than
our tap water at 200ppm. Our hot water is attached to a water softener, so that
nixes the idea of using hot water! A dehumidifier in Calgary is wish -the air
here is so dry that when people move here from the east they often get nose
bleeds!! The water that I was originally posting about had run off of my
cedar shake roof and was brownish. I was trying to find out if anyone knew if
the tannins from the cedar (which I expect are making the water brown)
would harm the orchids. I understand that vanda baskets are made of cedar, so
perhaps it is not an issue worth worrying about. Short of asking neighbours to
collect their runoff for me, I will have to settle for the brown runoff from my
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