Zu - you use Klasmann Peat. My guess you are using not their raw material - but a peat based mix - or you do something to adjust Ph? Straight peat has Ph of 4-4.5 - and AVs need 6.3-6.8 range - that's why we repot them every 6-12 months - to avoid the damaging from progressively more acid aging peat soil mix. Your violets look way too healthy and green - so I suspect you mitigate the acidity someway. But if it is on a low side - it can explain more than normal sporting. You think 200 AV is a lot? I had a friend visiting - and she told me she has 3000 pots if you count all potted leaves and starters. She is a young retiree - so it seems she created another job taking care of them AVs. (I suggested to donate a good portion of them to the nursing home before she starts sleeping in her truck because of the massive AV hoard). I,

After posting this, I went to CompHelp and found that Raven had posted about making changes on the site. I use Firefox so I'm copying that one. I'm sure she won't mind if I post it here. In Firefox, go to Tools > Options > Content and click on Colors button. Select grey for the "Background", and clear the checkboxes near "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above" and "Use system colours." Click ok. I changed my background to a darker grey, and chose Comic sans for my font. I like it better now. Sue

Original poster here....again.... I have an update...but unfortunately, no solution to the spotting problem. It's been a while since I've posted, so let me give a quick summary of what I've done. Over the last couple years, I've had 3 water quality professionals come to my house to help me diagnose my water spot problem. The first guy (a Kinetico rep) had no idea what the problem was but offered a solution: install a Kinetico system and if the problem goes away, then great! If not and the spotting problem still exists, then he will uninstall his Kinetico system for $200. I passed on that offer. The second guy was unsure of what the problems is. I mentioned I had some silica in the raw water (lab tested it 15.9 mg/L) and he suggested utilizing polyphosphate/siliphos. Although he said it was food grade and harmless, my wife and I weren't so sure about adding that to our water supply, so we passed on that too. The third guy pretty much said "it is what it is"....he said they installed a whole house RO system for someone with similar problems....obviously, i declined that expensive proposal.... I contacted another water professional. He's a little far from me, but he helped me over the phone. He had me do a Langelier Saturation Index (LSI) test with a local lab. The results were a -1.5 (serious corrosion) on the LSI Index and the lab stated "Water is undersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate. Undersaturated water has a tendency to remove existing calcium carbonate protective coatings in pipelines and equipment." So, the professional had me use a blending screw on my softener to leak a little hardness into the treated water (approx 1-2gpg of hardness). Well, I still got spots unfortunately...and the water is no longer slippery/slick. I gave up on that idea. As far as the silica, does anyone have any input on that? Are the levels (15.9 mg/L) high enough to cause issues? Has anyone used any siliphos or polyphosphate treatments? Are they safe? Do they work? One other thing: I have noticed that I have some etching/pitting on the glass shower door chrome hinge and chrome screws....Not sure what would cause that....and I did have that before I tried the blending screw.... As I said previously, I've been trying to get to the bottom of this spotting issue. Up to this point, I have been merely wiping down the chrome fixtures after each shower. But, that doesn't fix the problem..........that's the same thing as just adding oil to car that's losing a quart a day. Plus, I can see where spots are starting to accumulate on the tile walls of the tub....and on the sink bowls....and bathtub.... So......fast forward to the past few months: In order to try to figure out what exactly the spots are made of, I took the lid from one of my wife's stock pots (I think it is aluminium?) and filled the lid with water.....about an 1/8" inch or so. Then i put the lid on top of my wood pellet stove. The heat caused the water to evaporate leaving only the white residue (and some wood pellet dust). I attached pictures of the lid for all to see. I did this for a few days and then I took the lid to the local lab and had him test it. Here are the results of the tests on the residue on the lid: Copper: 3.16 mg/L Iron: 10.29 mg/L Manganese: .96 mg/L Hardness: 64 mg/L Sodium: >1265 mg/L Just for reference, here are my water specs (from my original post): Here is my raw water analysis: Hardness - 21 GPG (grains per gallon) Iron - 0.05 mg/l (ferrous) Manganese - ND (not detected) pH - 7.3 standard units TDS (total dissolved solids) - 472 ppm My treated water analysis : Copper - none detected Iron - none detected Manganese - none detected Chloride - 11.9 mg/L Hardness- none detected Sodium - 110.7 mg/L Nitrate as N - none detected Nitrite as N - none detected Color - 0 Odor - 0 PH - 7.8 Turbidity - 0.3 NTU Sulfate - 40.5 mg/L TDS - 364 ppm Silica: 15.9 mg/L My existing water treatment setup: 1. Big Blue sediment cartridge filter 2. Autotrol 255/762 48K water softener (installed in 2006) 3. Big Blue RFC cartridge filter I confirmed that the treated water is at 0 gpg hardness at all fixtures using a Hach 5B Hardness Test Kit. On the stock pot lid, there is a bare spot. I was able remove some of the spotting build-up with CLR. BUT..............and here is the big BUT............the CLR will NOT clean the sink stoppers that have the spotting on them. The only thing that cleans them is my Never Dull chrome cleaner. NOTE: I was also able to clean additional sections of the stock pot lid with water, vinegar, and Clorox cleaner... I attached pictures of the sink stoppers also showing the spotting accumulation. I had nothing to do with the clean spot in the center of the stoppers....i think it's because the stoppers are slightly rounded, no water sits there, so no spotting accumulates. I also attached pictures of the chrome cover piece for the bathtub overflow. There is some slight spotting there. I usually wipe it down after each shower/bath....but some spots have still accumulated. CLR or vinegar will not remove them.....only the Never Dull chrome cleaner. So, in summary, I'm still at a loss. Thank you in advance for helping. mm

Making the text a darker bolder black color with in the actual body of the post and replies would not even be seen on the main pages so that surely can't be the logic, if so it is flawed. You would actually have to click on a topic to view the post and then see the darker font. But they are already using the perfect color on the houzz heading, the dark houzz top left beside the icon. And they changed it on the main pages for the posters name, so why the problem with doing it here in the replies where it's desperately needed. If anyone knows of any way to alter the fonts and colors for an Android browser please post your suggestions. I am currently using Boat browser which does have themes and I am using one but no browser I have tried has font color choices.