turn your humidifier into a carbon dioxide generator

just an idea, as i do not have the 400 ish dollars to buy a cheep carbon dioxide generator. and i do not have natural gas going to the grow room so i would have to do that too.

so i want to generate co2 without the generator. now there are some products that mix sugar and yeast i think. and they last for a month, or i guess you could just do it yourself? but that seems too messy for me.

so here's the idea, and any comments are welcome as i haven't done it yet and am trying to think of ways that it won't work. but it seems like it should? take a humidifier and use club soda in it. the club soda gets misted into the air as humidity and whala. carbon dioxide air?

i think? now the humidifier might do something to it? not sure what because all it does is heat it up and mist it around. that shouldn't kill the co2 in the club soda? bit it might. i need to get me a co2 tester before i try this one out to see if it works, and also to see in what quantities i can produce it.

if it works then my little crappy humidifier at home goes through about 1 gallon in 2 or 3 days. now if it does work i don't think it will put high amounts in the air.

and the other thing. i am putting humidity into the air now! so best i figure is to put the humidifier directly behind the oscilating fan. so to deliver the co2 imediately. and off in the corner away a little bit have the dehumidifier running to take the moisture back out. which in turn makes me think i might be able to reuse the water from the dehumidifier in the humidifier as the water in the dehumidifier is bound to have some co2 left in it. but you also have to think of the other stuff in the air that the dehumidifier collects. probably best to get rid of it.

any ideas or suggestions? besides this sucks, or i'm a retarded. while i would have to agree on both points, i still would like to hear other's thought processes about this way of generating co2.

l8r

It may work, although not efficiently it is bound to add co2 in the air. The water that the dehumidifier collects isn't gonna have much co2 in it though, I'd just use it to water the plants.

Conoclast said:

It may work, although not efficiently it is bound to add co2 in the air. The water that the dehumidifier collects isn't gonna have much co2 in it though, I'd just use it to water the plants.

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He's going to be using a humidifier, it will basically put water/whatever it is fed into the air. Personally I think it will work but not to the CO2 levels which are deemed beneficial to growing.

yeah i think i'll just use a paintball co2 can so that way people don't get suspicious of me having a huge co2 can like the ones they use with helium at the stores.

the paintball ones come in like a few pounds. i could get the bigest one they have and then when i fill it up at the recharge store it won't look suspicious. i wonder how many i need to keep me going for a month or so? i have to google that, i remember there is a cal for the amount of co2 by sq ft (or cubed i don't remember) by the number of minutes/hours of each interval that could help me know how many paintball co2 cans to buy. i know they come in like 24 ounces (1.25 pounds) but i don't know if they make like a 3 or 4 pound one would be nice. seems that should last a while, they only need a squirt every hour or so right? and if the 24 ounces have over 1000 shots for paintball guns it should give me at least 500 uses for quick snipits. if thats true i could get away with one 24 ounce for as long as 20 days but probably more around 10. so i could just buy around 3 or 4 cans and then fill three up each month.

that may work, i still have to look up the exact calculations to make sure i am getting the right amount per plant etc etc. but my quick math is usually a good estimate i would think. but i have never done this so i could be way off.

l8r

I think the key word here is Humid, do you really want to add humidity? Anything over 60% is not good!
I use co2 in a sealed space and humidity is one of the issues I fight.
There is more too co2 enrichment then just co2: temps, sealed enviro, humidity, venting, backdraft dampers etc....

Good luck,
Unity

ReinventinBudz said:

yeah i think i'll just use a paintball co2 can so that way people don't get suspicious of me having a huge co2 can like the ones they use with helium at the stores.

the paintball ones come in like a few pounds. i could get the bigest one they have and then when i fill it up at the recharge store it won't look suspicious. i wonder how many i need to keep me going for a month or so? i have to google that, i remember there is a cal for the amount of co2 by sq ft (or cubed i don't remember) by the number of minutes/hours of each interval that could help me know how many paintball co2 cans to buy. i know they come in like 24 ounces (1.25 pounds) but i don't know if they make like a 3 or 4 pound one would be nice. seems that should last a while, they only need a squirt every hour or so right? and if the 24 ounces have over 1000 shots for paintball guns it should give me at least 500 uses for quick snipits. if thats true i could get away with one 24 ounce for as long as 20 days but probably more around 10. so i could just buy around 3 or 4 cans and then fill three up each month.

that may work, i still have to look up the exact calculations to make sure i am getting the right amount per plant etc etc. but my quick math is usually a good estimate i would think. but i have never done this so i could be way off.

l8r

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Mate, I'm sorry, but you are way off in your calculations. You need a 100% sealed room in order to use the calculators, next you need to deal with all the issues that come from a sealed room, the you will need a co2 regulator as well as a co2 counter....

Don't waste your money on this stuff until you are prepared to go all the way with it

I extract only about 30 cfm out of my 72 cf space and I use up a 20# tank in under 6 days at 1300 ppm. It goes without saying that I'm in the progress of rebuilding my grow space.

Don't get me wrong I love the co2, way tighter nugs etc, but put some thought into it before you dive in!

Good luck,
Unity

a humidifier is used in this process to add moisture and co2 to the atmosphere but this can only be used during the grow stage as it can over moisten the growing flowers causeing rot.