videoman40
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone. I, as well as alot of you are appearantly interested in using co2. For my puropses, the yeast and sugar method is not for me. It is too, unpredictable, and just not enough co2 in my opinion. I'd end up with a dozen bottles in my grow room, and with my luck, I'd spill some and have an accident with my light. Getting and lugging tanks around isnt for me either. Too expensive, too heavy....Too lazy! lol
So I need something better than the yeast method, yet cheaper than the tanks. I settled on the co2boost.com method for my 1st grow...and I like this, as it does work, and it lasts too. Now my problem is PRICE, I am just too cheap to spend the $100.00 per grow, even if it is worth it.
So I have been lurking around gathering information and I think I found a solution. If you are starting out fresh, you'll need some equipment, a bucket with a lid, maybe one of those 5 gallon buckets from home depot would work fine. You'll also need a fish tank pump and some hose. This part of your expense is NOT a recurring expense, you spend it once and you own it for life. You may even have a bucket laying around, if so wash it thorougly first. Use a capful of bleach in the water when washing.
You still with me so far? Great! What I believe is inside the bucket is: Mushroom substrate innoculated with mushroom spores.
As the mycelium grows through the substrate bag it expires co2. The pump and tubes are the system to disperse the co2.
You knock up a couple bags of sterilized grain substrate and place them in a mid sized container and rig up an air pump with an exhaust system that would concentrate the co2 in the right areas. They could be inoculated with pretty much any strain, maybe even an oyster mushroom strain. This keeps it legal!
Taking it a step further:
Couple bags here and there from mushbox.com might run you 30 bucks or so.
(Not so sure yet that you'll need a couple of bags for one grow)
Making some liquid inoculant for new bags you inoculate would keep your costs down, so would making your own substrate bags.
Plenty of teks like that around this site if you're inclined to do so.
I guarantee those co2 booster things are a product that are made to order.
They probably have all these inoculated substrate bags waiting to be put inside the buckets.
I bet the buckets are sealed so you don't know the contents inside it.
You could buy one, crack it open and spawn some of the colonized substrate to some sterilized substrate.
Peace
Lots of options to replicate something comparable to this on the dime.
So I need something better than the yeast method, yet cheaper than the tanks. I settled on the co2boost.com method for my 1st grow...and I like this, as it does work, and it lasts too. Now my problem is PRICE, I am just too cheap to spend the $100.00 per grow, even if it is worth it.
So I have been lurking around gathering information and I think I found a solution. If you are starting out fresh, you'll need some equipment, a bucket with a lid, maybe one of those 5 gallon buckets from home depot would work fine. You'll also need a fish tank pump and some hose. This part of your expense is NOT a recurring expense, you spend it once and you own it for life. You may even have a bucket laying around, if so wash it thorougly first. Use a capful of bleach in the water when washing.
You still with me so far? Great! What I believe is inside the bucket is: Mushroom substrate innoculated with mushroom spores.
As the mycelium grows through the substrate bag it expires co2. The pump and tubes are the system to disperse the co2.
You knock up a couple bags of sterilized grain substrate and place them in a mid sized container and rig up an air pump with an exhaust system that would concentrate the co2 in the right areas. They could be inoculated with pretty much any strain, maybe even an oyster mushroom strain. This keeps it legal!
Taking it a step further:
Couple bags here and there from mushbox.com might run you 30 bucks or so.
(Not so sure yet that you'll need a couple of bags for one grow)
Making some liquid inoculant for new bags you inoculate would keep your costs down, so would making your own substrate bags.
Plenty of teks like that around this site if you're inclined to do so.
I guarantee those co2 booster things are a product that are made to order.
They probably have all these inoculated substrate bags waiting to be put inside the buckets.
I bet the buckets are sealed so you don't know the contents inside it.
You could buy one, crack it open and spawn some of the colonized substrate to some sterilized substrate.
Peace
Lots of options to replicate something comparable to this on the dime.
