Co2 home made co2

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fivegreenlips

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hi i was on here some months ago. asking about home made co2. i got instructions about mixing water active yeast and sugar and suspending it above the plants ina container with a hole in a sealed lid to allow co2 to escape. i did this. but i have a co2 alarm in my house. like a smoke alarm but for co2. anyway i held the container just beneath the alarm and squeezed the container pushing large amounts of the air through the hole onto the alarm but nothing happened. so i am thinking this method may not be reliable

any thoughts
 
massah

massah

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What ppm does that alarm go off at? You arn't going to get a shitton of co2 production from water+yeast+sugar unless its in big containers...and lots of it :D
 
Grumpy'

Grumpy'

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Even the homemade Co2 will benefit the plant, just not on the scale that a tank would. I may have even posted on your previous thread (who knows with how often every topic gets beaten to death). It's said that the co2 amounts produced from homemade devices is abou the same as opening a can of soda (over n over), or breathing on them. The benefit is it does it constantly. Remember to take out the container, or put it on the floor during lights out, as the plants change to breathing in o2 and out co2 (co2 is heavier than o2). So as Massah said, it's your call. I trust any info from him too. I have yet to see a post where he even appears to be a bullshitter, and knows exactly what's up.
 
massah

massah

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Grumpy' said:
Even the homemade Co2 will benefit the plant, just not on the scale that a tank would. I may have even posted on your previous thread (who knows with how often every topic gets beaten to death). It's said that the co2 amounts produced from homemade devices is abou the same as opening a can of soda (over n over), or breathing on them. The benefit is it does it constantly. Remember to take out the container, or put it on the floor during lights out, as the plants change to breathing in o2 and out co2 (co2 is heavier than o2). So as Massah said, it's your call. I trust any info from him too. I have yet to see a post where he even appears to be a bullshitter, and knows exactly what's up.
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Aww ty :D I just apply my scientific knowledge where I can and I'm a google master ;)
 
Grumpy'

Grumpy'

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massah said:
Aww ty :D I just apply my scientific knowledge where I can and I'm a google master ;)
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Np man. I to use it, admittedly to much. I'm not here to often due to it, but try to help what I have learned from doing, and reading about. Hell I usually type in my posts to even research what ever help I offer, before putting it into action. I know I would want to have every. It of info on anything I was about to do, before hand.
 
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bigsteve

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I use my home-made CO2 generator when I switch from vegging to flowering and use it all through the flowering stage.

Into an empty one-gallon jug I pour 2 cups of sugar and 2 tablespoons of baker's yeast. Half fill the jug with hot as you can get it water
and swirl the contents a few seconds. Jug stopper has a hole that releases the gas, carbon dioxide, that builds up in the jug. NOTE --
CO2 is heavier than air. So I have my CO2 jug hanging from a nail near the ceiling fan. Reverse the fan direction if necessary to ensure the fan blows
the gas from the jug towards the plants. I figure my CO2 generator adds 10-15% at harvest time.

Good luck, BigSteve.
 
Filthy Phil

Filthy Phil

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You dont have a co2 alarm in your house, you have a CO (carbon monoxide, not carbonDIoxide) detector, thats why it didnt set it off. Lol
 
massah

massah

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bigsteve said:
I use my home-made CO2 generator when I switch from vegging to flowering and use it all through the flowering stage.

Into an empty one-gallon jug I pour 2 cups of sugar and 2 tablespoons of baker's yeast. Half fill the jug with hot as you can get it water
and swirl the contents a few seconds. Jug stopper has a hole that releases the gas, carbon dioxide, that builds up in the jug. NOTE --
CO2 is heavier than air. So I have my CO2 jug hanging from a nail near the ceiling fan. Reverse the fan direction if necessary to ensure the fan blows
the gas from the jug towards the plants. I figure my CO2 generator adds 10-15% at harvest time.

Good luck, BigSteve.
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AND I STILL WANT BIGSTEVE TO MAKE A GROW JOURNAL TO SHOW US HIS TECHNIQUES</yelling> :D
 
Cannabisworks

Cannabisworks

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if you dont run a sealed room and run about 1500 ppm it isnt helping. not worth the effort and stink of beer in the room. i did that method to and didnt help anything. i saw no increase at all. now i run a real co2 and it can be benneficial if set up right.
 
Cannabisworks

Cannabisworks

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youd get more co2 by just sitting in the room and from your breath. i do and shut the tank down and has hit 2000 ppm..just from me in there watering and my breath
 
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