CO2
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Weedvin
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No , 1/2 way in light cycle, 8 hours in.
Weedvin
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I'm a Master Organic Grower . The growing mediums contains My own loam, Silica Sand,band Earthworm Castings. The Organic Fertilizer (5-10-10) is truly state of the art
All I do is water (AUTO FLOWERS). This Fertilizer is emmiting large quantities of CO2. ✓✓
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kratos015
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What is the 5-10-10 fert you're using? While the decomposition process, in conjunction with simply being in my own sealed room has produced enough CO2 to reach 700-850ppm, I've never seen 1000+ ppm without a generator of some sort. Certainly not 1625 ppm.
Fertilizer itself is incapable of emitting CO2, CO2 is just a byproduct of the decomposition process. But I've never heard nor experienced over 1000ppm of CO2 as a result of this from just 6 plants. I've seen this from people with multiple raised beds in multiple light grows, but not like this.
Care to enlighten us good sir?
Weedvin
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Damn! And here I thought you must have been cheating. lol
I'm currently venting straight outdoors through a window, so sadly any CO2 the biology produces in my soil gets sucked outside. It's like you have your own closed biosphere going on there.
Weedvin
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I've two 4" duct fans, each rated at 100 CFM. NY 360° GROW TENT is 100 cubic feet. Every minute My tents revived/ atmosphere.
Okay now I'm confused. Are you venting your air so that it can be recirculated via a proper HVAC system for cooling and dehumidification before being reintroduced into your tent? Or are you like me and sucking all the air in your tent straight outdoors and just depending on ambient house air taking its place? In other words, are you running a closed-loop system where you just control temperature and humidity of the returned air?
Weedvin
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Exhaust goes directly outside. The intake is from inside/controlled environment
GreenhouseGreen
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So, your whole house sits at 1150ppm? Or is it in a lung room with CO2 generation?
Weedvin
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Your really over thinking this. There's NO GENERATOR.. Natural ppm for co2 outside is around 400 ppm. The organic fertilizer 5-10-10 is indeed producing The CO2.✓✓
swedsteven
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Links of that product please
Weedvin
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BUILD A SOIL.COM, EVERYTHING IS OMRI LISTED.
THIS ALL OPEN UP A NEW WORLD/ORGANICS
Your ambient CO2 level is only 400 ppm in your house? Heck, at the top of Mauna Loa it's higher than that today. In any case, it's biological respiration that creates the CO2 from organic material, not fertilizer. With your air exchange rate, I still don't understand how you keep the CO2 in there. That being said, I've never measured my CO2 levels, but I suspect they're not much higher than ambient house levels because of the 6" fan in my 5X5 tent at full speed. Considering my house isn't on Mauna Loa, I do suspect that the levels are considerably above 412 ppm inside the house though. I just don't know. But my plants seem to do okay.
GreenhouseGreen
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I don't think I am overthinking this.. It just doesn't add up to me. I sounds like something is missing or misleading.
Do you know what the CO2 level is in your controlled environment? Because, if you're exchanging all your air every minute and you're not sending that CO2 enriched air to be recycled in a lung room, you're not running a generator, not bleeding a bottle, not even hanging those mushroom bags.. I mean.. Let's say you're pulling 500ppm air in, you're still more than doubling the enrichment continuously and rapidly.. You might be a millionaire very soon..
If you can tell me how to get >1000ppm in my greenhouse that is getting its air recycled at half the rate of your tent just by changing my amendments/ferts, I'd love to hear it.
Weedvin
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Sorry but it is just what it is.
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It's not a particular fertilizer that produces CO2. CO2 levels are increasing because of the breaking down process by fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms. Their actions produce CO2, much of it. Sorry for putting it that way, but for anyone who is interested type in Google search: malted barley fresh mixed soil crazy co2 rates.
I put a new batch of soil mix in my room which has no exhaust fan - just oscilating fans inside the room and a 20 pound CO2 bottle connected to a controller. In 12 hours CO2 levels increased from 700 to 2300 PPM. I have to open the door more regularly to vent the room and drop the PPM. I have been using the same CO2 pound bottle for ~1 year growing autoflowers. Organic soil mixes + CGE for the win. Naturally as the plants are growing and consuming more CO2 the levels will be dropping. If I could I would install an exhaust fan in my room, the first few weeks levels of the gas are too high and I have to open the door regularly.
I put a new batch of soil mix in my room which has no exhaust fan - just oscilating fans inside the room and a 20 pound CO2 bottle connected to a controller. In 12 hours CO2 levels increased from 700 to 2300 PPM. I have to open the door more regularly to vent the room and drop the PPM. I have been using the same CO2 pound bottle for ~1 year growing autoflowers. Organic soil mixes + CGE for the win. Naturally as the plants are growing and consuming more CO2 the levels will be dropping. If I could I would install an exhaust fan in my room, the first few weeks levels of the gas are too high and I have to open the door regularly.