Use oxygen4roots,like CO2?

has anybody ever tried enriching the roots with oxygen the way we enrich the air with carbon dioxide?

i think its pretty common - most people just use air stones

i dont know if using pure oxygen from a tank would help or not... i would imagine there is only so much oxygen that the water can hold, and the oxygen in the atmosphere is enough to get it there..

you could also say that there is enough co2 in the air to support a plant, but if you enrich it with more you get a big yield increas.

balance is important. yin yang.

but there is only 300 ppm of co2 in the air, (about 3%?) but at least 20% O2...

BloodShot420 said:

but there is only 300 ppm of co2 in the air, (about 3%?) but at least 20% O2...

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hmm...interesting.

ima find me an oxygen bottle and see if it helps...id be down to try this experiment...why not.....

more food for thought not that I know much of this at all but they give people fresh oxygen to breathe better etc...

TOKEMASTERFLEX said:

ima find me an oxygen bottle and see if it helps...id be down to try this experiment...why not.....

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Im sorry to sound like a d!ck, but pure oxygen is the dumbest thing Ive heard of people using. Its flameable as all hell, you cant see it, or smell it so you wont know there is a leak. Since you grow mj Im gunna say you smoke it...pure O2+ burning blunt=homeless...or dead! Dumb idea. Use an air stone, and stay alive, or if you want more O2 use an airstone, and add 3%H2O2 to you water. Now you have more O2, and root protection.

BloodShot420 said:

but there is only 300 ppm of co2 in the air, (about 3%?) but at least 20% O2...

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Your close....its not 3%, but more like .03%(roughly 385 PPM), Nitrogen is around 78%, O2 at 20.x%, and Argon at .93%, the rest is very small amounts of randomness.

Dude,
Oxygen is not flammable! It is however a accelerator if there is a fire!
I think it is a good idea but do not use a huge bottle to due it unless you have alot of hose to run it to your room.It would be safe to keep it away from all the light and electrical wires.

sUpA nOvA D9 said:

Im sorry to sound like a d!ck, but pure oxygen is the dumbest thing Ive heard of people using. Its flameable as all hell, you cant see it, or smell it so you wont know there is a leak. Since you grow mj Im gunna say you smoke it...pure O2+ burning blunt=homeless...or dead! Dumb idea. Use an air stone, and stay alive, or if you want more O2 use an airstone, and add 3%H2O2 to you water. Now you have more O2, and root protection.

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technically not flammable, its an oxydizer making fuel burn faster. to burn something you require 4 things. 1. fuel, 2. heat 3. oxidyzer, 4. chain reaction between first 3. without any one no fire. this is why magnezium burns underwater, it burns so hot it splits the h20 to produce oxygen to help oxidize. any how the myth comes from compressed oxygen tanks rupturing in a fire due to heat then enriching the environment causing it to burn faster. but in no way flammable thats why it has a green inert hazmat lable on the bottles. the point in o2 is it is volastile enough it prevents anaerobic bacteria from screwing up your nutes and in turn your root system. probably cheaper to run a large air disk and big air pump though.

btw how many times did i mispell oxidizer? first one to guess wins.

metric007 said:

Dude,
Oxygen is not flammable! It is however a accelerator if there is a fire!
I think it is a good idea but do not use a huge bottle to due it unless you have alot of hose to run it to your room.It would be safe to keep it away from all the light and electrical wires.

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an accelerant is a flammable or explosive material. burning faster than a preset rate which i dont care to look but another classification for fuel i thought?

I have an o2 tank handy, but I don't know if its worth trying.

I'm actually going to be trying this. I'm going to use 5G "Home Brew" kegs for beer making or Soda Kegs. I will fill the kegs with water and nute solution and then put under about 20 PSI of pure oxygen until it goes into solution. Almost exactly like in beer making except I won't be using CO2 to carbonate. Then I can use the air pressure to pump the oxygenated nute solution through misters in an aeroponics system. The solution will then collect in a reservoir and be pumped back into an un-pressurized keg until full, then re-pressurized. Would be a cycle of switching kegs every day or two when empty.

It would be expensive and inefficient, but fun to see if pumping super-oxygenated nute solution to the plants would make a difference. Plus I have everything I need already from Beermaking, including about 15 beer/soda kegs.

I have a little more reading to do but I will start a journal if I do it.

sounds well thought out, i'm sure if anything it will at least promote beneficial bacteria in the roots and prevent anaerobic bacteria ensuring healthy roots.