What is it in bottle water that causes plants to grow faster?

Question

What is it in bottle water that causes plants to grow faster?

Answer 1

If you are comparing it to your tap water and plants grow faster with the bottled and slower with the tap, don't drink your tap water. It has too much of something (like chlorine or fluoridation chems. or buffers for pH) or not enough of something, like minerals. It's the minerals in water that make it taste, good or bad. When in the Mid East I drank a HUGE amount of water in the heat and found that different brands all had their own flavors. Minerals are very important for plants also, and it is possible that some trace element is in the bottled and not in your tap (and consequently not in your soil also as your soil and deep rock add the mineral component). PS, if your water is a bit bubbly then the CO2 is what is making the bottled water better as it is released to be picked up by the leaf. It isn't that good for the roots though.

Answer 2

Considering that bottled water is basically just plain water (but in a bottle with a fancy label), I'd have to say nothing.

Bottled water is such a scam, and an environmentally unfriendly one at that...