![]() ![]() ![]() a large, clear container, preferably glass.This method gets you a lot of distilled water, quickly DIY Passive Solar Distiller a smaller heat-proof vessel that fits nicely inside the pot.There are a few basic methods you can do easily at home with equipment you already have. To distill water, you need to heat water into a vapor, and then collect that vapor when it condenses back into water. Distilling can turn the dirtiest of liquids into clean, drinkable water, and that may be important if any kind of disaster strikes. When I was researching how to best achieve it, most of the videos I found were from doomsday preppers and survivalists. Water distillation is actually very simple, and understanding it is great not just for getting water for carnivorous plants: it’s also a survival skill. So, I decided to go for distilling water myself. ![]() Nor do we plan to buy a filtration system that uses a reverse osmosis method, since they are expensive. And, in our home, buying bottled distilled water is not something we plan to start doing: too much waste and travel go into bottled water, distilled or otherwise. Rainwater is great, when it’s raining, or, if you have a good system for storing it, but I know that when the rains stop in late spring, I’m going to need a new way to get water for my sundew. My plant was starting to flower–a LOT–and look a little sickly, so I deduced the water was to blame and started using rainwater instead. What we didn’t know then, was that the water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (which supplies Brisbane as well as San Francisco with drinking water) contains lime, and lime is bad for bog plants. Our cool little plant monster happily enjoyed some fruit flies and ants as snacks, and we kept the dish below the plant full of water to resemble a sundew’s naturally swampy lifestyle. When I wrote a while back about the Carnivourous Plants Store in Half Moon Bay, I mentioned that we took home a sundew for ourselves. ![]()
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