Sub Carbonated water for CO2?

I had a friend who was telling me that instead of using CO2 gas you could spray it with seltzer water and the carbon from that would be absorbed through the leaves. Is this true? It seems that the fine nozzel on the sprayer would burst the carbonation bubbles. Any help?

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Nug Nut said:

I had a friend who was telling me that instead of using CO2 gas you could spray it with seltzer water and the carbon from that would be absorbed through the leaves. Is this true? It seems that the fine nozzel on the sprayer would burst the carbonation bubbles. Any help?

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It won't help you one bit. to be effective you need to keep CO2 levels at 1500-1600 ppm the whole time the lights are on. Seltzer water will probably give a boost for all of 1 minute and at that i doubt would affect the already small current levels of 300-400 PPM. So unless you plan on spending a small fortune on seltzer water and somehow mitigating all that waters damage on the plants you going to be way better off doing nothing. If you are serious about CO2, then you either go bottle/regulator or go with CO2 generator. Either will set you back a few hundred dollars for a cheap setup. Thousands for pro level equipment.