Beginner Growing 5 Phals, 2 Vandas, 2 Catts, 2 Dendrobs, 3 Oncidiums -$35 shop light

[Dollythehun]

I'm sure I'll get in trouble for this. I use a pitcher water filter and I test the TDS and the pH. I take a couple kitty litter jugs and I run my tap water through that filter into the kitty litter jugs and that's what I water with. My water is very hard and there's a lot of iron in it but my orchids seem to be thriving. I know that there are more technical ways to do this but sometimes I feel that overthinking it is just unnecessary. I have over a hundred orchids and it takes me six gallons of water to water them and I use that twice a week that would be a total of 12 gallons.