Do you realize there is a stickied guide to CO2 at the top of the forum?
Grow room area: 27 cubic feet
Amount of CO2 required: 0.0324 cubic feet
On time: 1.944 minutes
At this flow rate:
If you are using a 20 pound CO2 bottle with a regulator, it will last 174.8 hours.
If you have a CO2 Generator a 5 gallon propane tank will last 540 hours.
This form will calculate how much CO2 will be needed to fill a grow room to the required level. It will also determine how long it will take to fill at the given rate.
It will not calculate how often you will need to refill the room with CO2. There is no way to calculate how much the plants will use or how much leaks out! Usually you would want to refill just after an exhaust cycle or every 3 hours.
*The air already has about 300 PPM so you only need to add 1200 PPM more to get the optimum level of 1500 PPM.
Enter the grow room length in feet Feet Enter the grow room width in feet Feet Enter the grow room height in feet Feet CO2 to add in PPM
(Parts Per Million) PPM* Flow meter setting or
generator size in CFH
(Cubic Feet per Hour) CFH
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, and non-flammable gas. It is also safe for humans in the maximum concentrations recommended for plant growth. The average level of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 300 PPM (parts per million). If the level decreases down below 200 PPM in an enclosed growing area, plant growth slows to a halt. Through the years of testing and research, the optimum enrichment level of CO2 for plant growth has been agreed to be about 1500 PPM. With CO2 enrichment, under good conditions, plant growth rates and flowering will increase 20-100%. CO2 can be used from seedling right through harvest.