CO2 Enrichment Methods for Indoor Growers
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- Get all the details: university.upstartfarmers.com... -- As an indoor grower there are many ways to increase crop production. One method is to enrich CO2 into your indoor growing environment. There are three ways of doing this. Burning fuel, implementing CO2 through CO2 tanks, and using fungi to produce CO2. No matter the case, it is always a good thing to supplement CO2 when growing indoors.
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Timestamps/What's Covered:
0:18 You need to supplement CO2
0:41 Three methods of CO2 Enrichment
1:54 Expensive to cheap methods
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thank you for every video you do. ive used baking soda/vinegar in small enclosed grows but moving to a greenhouse in zone 10 where heat can not be added and the air quality is bad. mushrooms are cheap as you can make all you need from your first purchase (factor in time)but like vinegar hard to control the output. please bring in someone to do a how-to video on closing this end of the loop. mushrooms are a sustainable pain in the neck. propane is easy but not sustainable. you rock. also more on worms.
A couple of years ago I made a small, but very effective, Co2 plant in a small greenhouse! Simply get a large demijohn and start yeast fermenting (see online) it worked 100% and cost very little!
Hi Venena, that sounds great! Thanks for sharing.
I've only ever heard it pronounced two ways but this is definitely new, funj-eye
fun-gee
Funj-eye is the real pronounciation
Hi nice unit, if i grow at 75F should i rise temp when using this or what temp is better with co2?
this video was great, couldn't have been clearer. Can i just enquire that are people really using burners in a tight space like a 4x4 grow tent or are these burners meant for small rooms upwards?
How many burners would you recommend for a grow room 18'x20'? Will 8 burner create too much heat?
Did the cost of using mushrooms to generate CO2 get offset by the savings in getting fresh mushrooms or the profit from selling them?
I wonder how much it would help to have one's compost heap inside the greenhouse? I suspect it's difficult to predict the CO2 output of compost piles because of the number of variables. Does anyone know of anyone with a CO2 meter that has done experiments?
Would the fungi infect the plant?
Thank you!
Hi James, you're welcome!
Are co2 generators safe for in home use?
So you burn hydrocarbon. That's fine. My concern has to do with incomplete burn of hydrocarbon with production of CO (not CO2). I have CO detector in my greenhouse.
I can't seem to find peer reviewed paper on toxicity of CO on plants. What's your take? Should one use catalytic converter to eat the CO that is produced. And what about the workers inside the greenhouse? CO affinity to hemoglobin is much much higher than oxygen thus the toxicity to mammals (humans). I don't think there is LD50 for CO. But OSHA standard places upper limit of around 50PPM of CO. Are these CO2 generator able to maintain less than 50PPM of CO (co-)generation?
What if you’re venting from another room? Wouldn’t people breathing in the house be enough C02?
So the propane burner produces more humidity ?
Hey Nate! awsome video as always. I hae a small aquaponics system (40 gallon) in my home. Would it be viable to disolve CO2 into the solution/water like you would in an aquarium? please let me know! thanks again!
Tim
I wouldn't recommend it. Your fish should be producing more than you need for your nitrifying bacteria, and your microbes are really all you should be concerned about in regards to dissolved CO2 in your solution.
roots dont need Co2 they need oxygen
can i use vinegar and baking soda
Do you have a video with a burning unit?
Hi Steve, not specifically, but I'll give the idea to our media director. Thanks for watching!
would you recommend a clone tent of 2'x2'x3' to place this burner within. then use a duct and an inline exhaust fan; to pull the air out and into your main grow tent?? would this be wise to do in order to keep the heat in a separate area?
How effective would these be in a ventilated room??
Sean Carman slightly but not very effective! Also depends on how ventilated
If I add co2 (in the air) to my aquaponic system. Obviously in an in closed area like a green house. Would the co2 harm me or the fishes oxygen levels?
Hi Dylan, not unless you’re over 15000 ppm, which is unlikely. You should be just fine.
@@ZipGrowInc 4000+ ppm co2 in the air is toxic to humans 40000 is deadly
HELLO MATE, propane or butane gas to use on generators or it doesnt matter?
Hello! We like to use Natural Gas or Propane, though some people use bottled C02 with regulators. Natural gas is most often the most cost effective approach
Thanks for watching!
Have you ever experienced issues with the burner creating ethylene?
No, that shouldn't ever be happening. Clean burners only produce CO2, although CO is a concern and you should have a CO sensor in your growing environment.
Exactly, Normal range for growing is a max of 1500...Excessive amounts in to thousands of ppm can kill...
There is another method especially useful in hot climate: *dry ice* .
Most people growing magic mushrooms just eat the mycelium at some point. Same thing. one less step! agar and a spore print is all you need.
What about Just Formenting sugar water
Exactly imma make mead in my grow room
Joseph DuPont yeast and sugar
I have exact co2 burner that you have in your show, was new when I bought them, not sure my natural gas was not clean enough or both units didn't burn clean, I found out they produce Ethylene year later, flower was really bad, wasted me lots time and money. If you planning use co2 burner, you need be careful
thank you sharing.
Instead of generating CO2 with a burner, can we get the CO2 from a power plant if one is available nearby
How will you bring it to your base?
I know fungi is expensive, but in the interest of sustainability, let's at least give it some bonus points over burning propane and natural gasses. Unless these gasses are created via bio-gas generated from waste produced on-site.
Yeah, I think we can definitely give it some credit, however remember that a lot of those mushroom bags are shipped in a truck from a few different locations. . . so definitely not carbon neutral!
So baking soda and vinegar generate carbon dioxide
1/2 a tablespoon of baking soda mixed in 1/2 cup of vinegar generates approximately 1.7 litres of 100% cabon dioxide over 3 minutes or so .... yay science 😀
Just ferment juice into wine 🍷... within the grow environment or near inlet for ventilation , instant co2
thanks for your comments
What effects does this have on workers working under high levels of CO2!
4% is the maximum co2 level plant needs, and that does no harm to human or animal at all.
Some people use it to intensify orgasm. For workers max CO2 level is 0,5%.(8 hours) We breath out 5%. At very high levels human losses consciousness as CO2 displace oxygen. CO2 is not poisonous.
Able.eg? What is that adress he is talking about? Am I missing something?
guiguspi able.ag
organicgardenerpodcast.com/bright-agrotech-able-ag-software/ This is what I found
Doesn't burning propane create carbon monoxide too? Is that safe?
it does
its not
Yes, but only when you don't have complete combustion. A blue flame is a sign of complete combustion and produces very minute by products (methane, monoxide)
No Nate, it is not expensive to grow mycelium. You can actually sell mushrooms that fruit off of hay and a laundry basket. I disagree with you.
You say i have to do this i have been growing indoors 25 years very sucsesfull every year. high grade quaility weed never have i used co2 ever ?
Its a proven fact co2 increases yields and also allows faster growing time. An indoor grower on average veg for 60 days, on 02 you can veg in 30...
@@smokehaze2313 bollocks
just cause you've been doing something for 25 years doesn't mean you've been doing it the most efficient way possible. it's been scientifically proven that a higher level of co2 than ambient boosts growth
Awww the old man is scared of modern technology and methods. Your shitty hobby lights probably dont warrant co2 supplementation. For ultra high end ppfd LEDs with efficiency levels approaching 3.0 umol/j, co2 of 1500ppm+ is basically a must. It also means you get 2.5-3g/w yields. But im sure how youve been doing it since the 90s works just as well lmao
Troy would you use co2 for PPF: 1,800 µmol
Efficacy: 2.5 µmol/J? I got this light for my tent but I thought you can run co2 in a tent?
There is no need for co2 in richest if you have proper intake of fresh outdoor air and filtered exaust
I think that depends on the local climate. If you have long and cold winter, you definitely don't want over ventilation.
Plants can survive from good ventilation but it's benefial for the flowering stage to have more then what nature provides. It's like humans juicing and taking supplemental vitamins
LMAO and you thought you were worried about fires in your garden with the lights.
Yeast in sugar water?