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title: "When plants need distilled water and not tap, would it be alright to…"
description: "When plants need distilled water and not tap, would it be alright to use reverse osmosis? Ex. dragon tree and heart leaf philodendron."
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author: "Oksana 🥎🍦🌱"
published: "2025-08-31T17:27:15.951247Z"
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# When plants need distilled water and not tap, would it be alright to…

_Posted by Oksana 🥎🍦🌱 on 2025-08-31_

When plants need distilled water and not tap, would it be alright to use reverse osmosis? Ex. dragon tree and heart leaf philodendron.

## 4 comments

### happysoxdonkey commented on 2025-08-31

Calathea and carnivorous plants for sure. I think all benefit from it TBH.

### Gaileen Joy commented on 2025-08-31

I use RO water for all my plants. They love it.

#### NewlyGardenObsessed replied on 2025-08-31

What kind of system do you have?

#### Gaileen Joy replied on 2025-09-02

We have had a Kinetico system for many years. Only problem is with the number of plants I have, plus all the humidifiers I use, I go through a LOT of water.  
So I bought for of those big five-gallon plastic water jugs and I fill them at a Culligan RO place down the road from us. It’s only $1.50/five gallon jug. Then I bring those big boys home and transfer the water to my one gallon jugs as needed. Kinda a pain in the backside. But…the RO filters for our system are pretty expensive. So I guess it’s cheaper.  
What we do for the love of our plants…

I keep meaning to put together a rain barrel system. But just haven’t done it. 🫣

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