CO2 Question - rotting fruit

brnpiper

Active Member
I had an idea on 'injecting' CO2 into the room. I have a bunch of fruit bushes I grow and a ton I have frozen. I have more berries than I know what to do with...almost.

The idea is to put a good sized bowl of rippening fruit into the room, allowing the plants to take advantage of the resulting CO2 gases that are created. I think the heat from the lamps would help speed the rotting process. After the berries were spent, I'd turn them back into mulch. It'd be a cheap alternative for me.

Any thoughts?
 

brnpiper

Active Member
Me too! I have blackberries, black raspberries, red raspberries...beach plums (if that clues you in as to where I could live), red, pink and champagne currents and even gooseberries. I kinda went nuts. I 'can' most of the stuff. That is, I make jam/jelly, stuff like that. Trust me...its GOOD! I've got people a thousand miles away asking for the crap.

And hey, they let grapes rot (ferment)...I was just thinking along the same lines. Add yeast, sugar....let them eat the sugar and spew CO2. I read something about that somewhere just can't recall all the details.
 
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