Baking soda/vinegar, I mixed some

I used a spoon and put a few spoon fulls of baking soda in the bottom of a plastic milk jug. Stood over my plants and then poured some white vinegar in the jug. That stuff went to bubbling and fizzing, and I mean really fizzing, like seltzer or something. Was this co2 being released? Seems using these two ingredients would be a lot cheaper than the sugar option. Those gallon jugs of white Vinegar are dirt cheap, and so is baking soda, you can even get them at the dollar store. What If i put an entire box of soda in and poured a quart of vinegar in, would it unleash a death cloud on the neighborhood? Just a couple spoon fulls and about a half cup of vinegar made a buch of frothy fizz and kept fizzing for many minutes. if this was co2, would it help to do this once a day over the plants?

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yeah i was also curious about this for my plants. i was thinking of putting both the vinegar & baking soda in a coke bottle and poking a small hole in the lid so it released the gas somewhat slowly rather than 1 big cloud.

I guess I have to be the test since no one has come back to post any results. From what I've read on the net it does produce CO2 and plants love it.
The Coke bottle idea sounds good, I'll try it for a week. Here's the current condition:

PS I just recently learned that changing the light cycle too quickly causes plants to stretch. ;( booo

If you use yeast, sugar and water it will last much longer.

another method i read was to have a tray of baking soda and have the vinegar slow drip into it dragging the process and release of co2 for a longer period of time..

i use the yeast /sugar method with a small hole drilled in coke bottle lid. costs virtually nuthin.

What you are describing is a reaction between an acid and a base. This is very 3rd grade. When you combine and acid and a base the nutralized each other (the ph balances) and the fizzing is the reaction which produces salt solids and CO2 gas. Once the initial reaction is over, no more gas is being produced. Its like blowing up a balloon and releasing it on your plants.

Vinegar and baking soda are not cheaper per yeild than water, sugar, and yeast.

Since the yeast is alive and multiplies, it will continueoulsy be producing CO2 and more yeast until the alcohol concentration gets to be around 14% or the yeast eats all the sugar. The yeast then dies. How long it takes depends on how much yeast, water, and sugar are used. A 3 liter bottle, filled 2/3 way with warm water, 1/2 cup of sugar, and a tbs of yeast lasts way, way longer than a quick puff of vinegar and baking soda in any reasonable and/or comperable amount. Also plants can only take in so much CO2 at a time, a quick blast does nothing compared to a slow, steady release.

A small jar of dry activated yeast is a few bucks as is a 5 lb bag of sugar. 1 gallon of vinegar is a couple of bucks and box of baking soda is a buck or so. 5 pounds of sugar is more than enough food for the whole jar of yeast to enjoy for several months in a 55 gallon drum producing CO2 within minutes of being combined.

I know Mr Wizard is dead, but arent there reruns of Bill Nye on TV somewhere? People, science is your friend.