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fertilizer-nutrients Is this fertilizer residue?

Confirmed - It is the water. To prove it, I took the same water that I use for my plants and boiled it out in a pot. Look at the bottom of the pot now:



 
The odd thing is that this residue tastes salty, where the film on the clay pots had almost no taste, except a drop of sweetness. Maybe the clay "absorbs" the saltiness?
 
Likely Na is washed out since it more soluble leaving Ca, Mg behind as a carbinate and/or sulfate depending on the water. The sweatness, well who knows what other compounds are left in the residual. You're not dead so it;s not to bad. ;)
 
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