Toilet water for Bristle Berries hydroponics

[zOldBulldog]

1) Can I supply a Bristle Blossom hydroponic farm polluted water?

2) If I supply it polluted or clean but germy water, can the germs transfer to the food?

 

Why do I ask?  It was pointed out to me that in the early game there are better uses for the polluted toilet water (and dupe time) than to put it through a sieve.

[sktzofreak101]

Polluted water, no. Bristle Blossoms require water as irrigation. As far as germs go, germs input into crops don't translate to the product. apparently they do, but as beowulf2010 mentioned there are ways to resolve that. Cooking in either grill kills germs. If you have a sink either leaving the farm, into the kitchen, or both then the germs on their hands should be washed off on the way and shouldn't be put back on the food after cooked though dupes will be dupes and may dodge the sinks. Chlorine storage is definitely the best germ mitigation.

As far as the "better use for toilet water" goes, generally the consensus is to put your bathroom on a loop. Once supplied with the water for operation, the bathroom will not need any more input but the water does still need sieved. Water > Bathroom > PWater > Sieve > Bathroom. The toilet generating more than it uses means you can tap that extra and have it go somewhere else, like your blossoms for example.

[beowulf2010]

4 minutes ago, zOldBulldog said:

1) Can I supply a Bristle Blossom hydroponic farm polluted water?

2) If I supply it polluted or clean but germy water, can the germs transfer to the food?

 

Why do I ask?  It was pointed out to me that in the early game there are better uses for the polluted toilet water (and dupe time) than to put it through a sieve.

1) No,  bristle blossoms need regular "water" and cannot grow in polluted, salt, or brine varieties. 

2)  Clean but germy water works fine if you cook the bristle berries to gristle berries as cooking them will kill the food poisoning. If you eat them raw, you will get food poisoning exposure. 

Note: handling the cooked gristle berry might put food poisoning back on the food, but in a much lower dosage than eating bristle berry raw. 

Note: Chlorine storage solves both the raw and handles food poisoning issue. 

As for uses of polluted water, yes there are better uses but if you need to sieve it for food production, go for it. 

[zOldBulldog]

Thanks to all.  

I think I will play it both ways this run-through.  I am not going to send the toilet water to a tank tucked in an isolated corner of the base, with a deodorizer on top.  That way it should stay reasonably cool.  Then if I managed to get cool water from my cool steam vent soon enough I will use the toilet water for appropriate in-base uses.  If not... I will plug it to a sieve and chlorine purification before I run out of clean water.  That way no matter what happens I should be good

[TLW]

Does anyone know how many conveyor tiles in chlorine are necessary to kill all germs on bristle berries?

[Promethien]

The two best uses for pwater, reeds and peppers, are better done as wild planting now anyways. Plus it was always better to do dreckos with lillies for fiber before anyways. Reeds suck too much water IMO. 

[CannedSmeef]

Keep in mind a bristle needs 20kg of water a day, meaning you're going to need a minimum of 4 toilet uses every night (4 dupes essentially) to supply just one bristle.

[RonEmpire]

I have my kitchen and food storage inside a chlorine room.   Access is waterlocked with suit.    So using clean germy water is fine.