Sea water - chloride and chlorine build up
When using sea water.. does one need to be concerned with toxicity build up of unwanted elements like chlorine and sodium chloride which top the constituents list? thanks!
From the KNF library
From the KNF library
Drafted by Claude from Office Hours and the books
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Sep 2026
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7 sources
Seawater is sodium chloride plus trace minerals. (Office Hours Ep. 48, 55:36) Drake recommends diluting it to one part seawater in 30 parts fresh water. (Office Hours Ep. 72, 52:55) That ratio gives perfectly diluted seawater for agricultural water. (Office Hours Ep. 72, 53:03) The aim is the salinity of your blood. (Cho's Solutions, p. 1)
- Gathered seawater: dilute 1:30 with fresh water. (Cho's Solutions, p. 15)
- Sea salt instead: 1 gram per liter of fresh water. (Cho's Solutions, p. 15)
- Salt water on onion, leek, or garlic seedlings: dilute to 0.2%. (Cho, Recipe, p. 82)
On boron, plants show toxicity above 1.8 ppm, and seawater already supplies enough. (Office Hours Ep. 99, 48:52)
The library says nothing about chlorine, and nothing about chloride or sodium building up in soil over repeated use.
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- 48:52 Office Hours Ep. 99 (Oct 2023) — Frost Protection with KNF Medicine, Worm Castings, Boron · “plants show toxicity above 1.8 ppm, so dilute borax lightly — seawater already supplies enough.”
- 53:03 Office Hours Ep. 72 (Apr 2023) — Fermented Seawater, IMO3 Contamination, Papaya for Gout · “as long as it's a one part of your seawater to 30 parts of your freshwater and you will get perfectly diluted seawater”
- 52:55 Office Hours Ep. 72 (Apr 2023) — Fermented Seawater, IMO3 Contamination, Papaya for Gout · “Mix one part seawater to 30 parts fresh water for general agricultural use.”
- 55:36 Office Hours Ep. 48 (Sep 2022) — Seawater Dilution Ratio, Sea Salt Substitute, Soil Compaction · “Sodium chloride plus trace minerals — silver, gold, boron, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and more.”
- p. 15 Cho's Solutions · “Dilute seawater 1:30 with fresh water Make from sea salt: 1 gram of sea salt per liter of fresh water”
- p. 1 Cho's Solutions · “by diluting it to the same salinity as your blood, they can be absorbed by plants to fill trace mineral requirements”
- p. 82 Cho, Recipe · “If salt water is used, dilute to 0.2%.”
