Free CO2 with Living Soil

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MynameisSolo

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you would soon see a difference i growth rates if you did a side by side same stain same light one side pumping c02 other side co2 coming from soil just saying ..
If you think it makes a diffeence then by all mean have fun.
Personally i would think you would need like 20 yards of soil to see a difference :) but then again pending on temperature you might see nothing in c02 gains

Its just another fucking area a person would need to worry about soil temps blah blah instead of a easy controller giving you C02
 
NaturalFarmer

NaturalFarmer

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Rrog said:
Something doesn't smell right here... I can't imagine the soil volume required to achieve this, even if the soil did that some CO2 fixing bacteria.

Keep in mind that like 95% of the dry mass of a plant is CO2 converted to cellulose. That is one ass-ton of CO2 from the 5 gallon pail of soil
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Could you clarify this please? I told you the amount needed.
 
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MynameisSolo

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No sir i use natural amendments not store bought i am 100 percent self sustaining organic i make my own soils from scratch top soil is all i buy when i need to .
Other then that i let nature take care of the composting at her speed .
I let microbes establish them self's at there stage of carbon cycle least interference the better i just throw my waste in that pile ):IMG5186.jpg IMG5188.jpg IMG5198.jpg
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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NaturalFarmer said:
Why would the lights matter at all considering it is a sealed room?


Have you seen a sealed room that doesn't require CO2?
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I read your explanation and I didn't see anything that contradicts well known plant and soil science.

I have also seen people fuck up with an ebb n flood table and decompose their roots- while wondering why they have high co2 levels in the room!

This seems highly plausible to me, and well worth further investigation.
 
Rasta Roy

Rasta Roy

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Rasta Roy

Rasta Roy

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NaturalFarmer said:
Why would the lights matter at all considering it is a sealed room?


Have you seen a sealed room that doesn't require CO2?
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Forgive me for not knowing the specifics, I'm a stoner who likes to experiment not a scientist. Plants require a certain amount of lumens to absorb higher levels of co2. So if the lights are too far above the canopy than higher co2 levels can be wasted. More or less that's the gist.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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NaturalFarmer said:
Why would the lights matter at all considering it is a sealed room?


Have you seen a sealed room that doesn't require CO2?
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no need to get confrontational, I wasn't attacking you, I just said I was a skeptic.

think about it.
A normally ventilated room will grow plants rapidly, the only time you want co2 is when you have intense lights that have enough light to exceed what the ambient ppms allows for.
So in other words, high levels of co2 don't do anything if you don't have high lights.

the lights ALWAYS matter, almost always the law of the minimum is with the lights, and when you do in fact have enough lights to warrant the enriched co2, but that's where heat becomes an issue.
so I ask again, what type of lights are you using that produce enough PAR to warrant the needed co2?

I used co2 for almost four yrs and I found it to be superfluous when compared to a normal grow using ambient ventilation
I'm not attacking you, i'm asking you
 
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NaturalFarmer

NaturalFarmer

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Rasta Roy said:
Forgive me for not knowing the specifics, I'm a stoner who likes to experiment not a scientist. Plants require a certain amount of lumens to absorb higher levels of co2. So if the lights are too far above the canopy than higher co2 levels can be wasted. More or less that's the gist.
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No question! You are right. Stoma only open consistently under ideal conditions but in a sealed room it is a moot point because without it you starve the plant.
 
NaturalFarmer

NaturalFarmer

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Night cycle 1432 ppm and you can notice the regulator isn't plugged in nor has it for weeks. Some may be accounted for plant respiration for sure but not nearly as much as bacterial and fungal decomposition of SOM.

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