co2 enrichment

how well would this product work in a small cabinet growing setup?
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how would i control the output to maintain optimum levels without those 300-400$ monitors? can it hook up to a 20 or 40 ounce co2 tank like those used for paintball? i'm interested in buying one but dont know if it is feasible for me. also, how would it affect what i would use for ventilation in the cabinet? would i want to keep it more enclosed to hold in co2 or keep the air circulation?

I was just contemplating buying this myself, anyone ever tried it out?

I was just asking the same thing... I dont know where to get the CO2 from, except a beer distributer... Dry ice seems to be a good alternative... check this link out...

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/9021-co2-answered.html

that explains the different ways to do it.. Im going with dry ice... its cheap, readily available, and works

CO2 is probably THE most used industrial gas in existence. Welding supply shops, hospitals, food services, all use CO2. There are different grades of it tho so you'll want to get the food grade (like they use in soda fountains). That would be a lot better investment than the boost bucket I soaked $150 in - works 90 days and then you need a $100 refil. It's definitely worth the investment if you have a few plants but for a couple of plants it's a waste.

whats a boost bucket? and why the $100 refill? thats alot...

i dont know exactly what the bucket does but it probably ferments sugar to make co2..... may as well just brew beer in the same room.

ah.. screw that.. dry ice still seems like the cost effective solution to co2 introduction... but obviously if you had a burner in the room (for $400-500) that would for sure pay for itself with a few oz's easily..

i looked at that co2 answered! thread and it looks like dry ice is the way for me to go too they said it would cost 60 cents a day for 516 cubic feet at 1300ppm. my cabinet will only be about 20 cubic feet so thats cheap as hell

hell yeah.. just make sure you dont go over 2000PPM, because it will kill the plants... 13-1500 is all you need

just break off what you need and put the rest in your sock drawer, LOL.

o yeah.. it wont evaporate in the sock drawer.. haha

DJYoshaBYD said:

hell yeah.. just make sure you dont go over 2000PPM, because it will kill the plants... 13-1500 is all you need

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Actually, anything above 1300 ppm becomes detrimental to growing.

well.. I know that... if you read what I said, 2000 will kill them... I love when people dont read the whole post before responding...

so yeah... just dont go above 1300 (right jcommerce?) to 1500 (depending on where you look and read, jcommerce).. you know.. its fabulous when others spout info that was already spat.. haha

im such a dick

Don't get huffy there Yosha, I think you need to re-read what you posted. I was just adding to the comments and trying to be helpful. In the May/June issue of Maximum Yield, there was a very detailed article about CO2 enrichment, and I was simply stating a fact I pulled from this article. By you saying that 2000 ppm will kill them doesn't imply that anything above 1300 is detrimental (as you claim you already said). You said that 1300 - 1500 ppm is ok, which is simply not true. 1200 is optimal, yet it's also at or near the maximum a plant can handle, and it requires higher temps to be able to handle it. Again, as stated before, 1300 ppm and more begins to negatively impact the plant.

and all I said was that 2000 would kill it

I dont spend money on mags except racing ones.... Ive never heard of the 1200 perfect zone... that just what I have been taught... well... I guess you cant rely on every expert you run across...

more like the freezer