Everyone can effectively boost their grow's CO2, no charge.

[Enuff4All2Share]

I know that I'm not going to shake the world with this, but...


Did you ever stop to realize that while you stand hypnotized by your plants, you could be wasting valuable, bud-nourishing carbon dioxide? If you direct your breath in a controlled manner on your plants in a still room (fans off) for 15 minutes, then allow them some time to digest it, you can give a large dose of CO2 without tanks or burners. If you can do it a couple times a day, you've got a carbon dioxide enrichment program implemented. Congrats!!

Now I won't spend a fantastic amount of time on figures, and I won't bother listing sources... you can do your own searches and calculations if you don't like mine.

I found that we exhale around 1 kg of CO2 a day.
44 grams (g) of CO2 is 22.4 litres (standardized)
1000g / 44g = 22.7
22.7 x 22.4L = 508L/day

43200 exhales/day x 1.2 litres (avg. exhale vol.) = 51840L, 508 of which are CO2

508 / 57840 = 0.0097 or 970 ppm of CO2.

I've also heard a general 3-5% of every waking exhalation is CO2, which would be 3000-5000 PPM of CO2.


No matter which way you slice it, we've got a resource here that it would be silly not to use, if at all possible. I know some of us can't make the time to get out to wherever we grow every day, but I also know that a lot of us spend a ridiculous amount of time getting our noses burnt by HID's. I used to practice deep breathing exercises with my face almost buried in the canopy...

Talk about a relaxing place to medicate... err, meditate.

E4A2S

[Enuff4All2Share]

And - just for a twist - why not have a scrumptious beer while doing so. I can't say for sure that it increases the CO2 content of your breath, but I think it does. Even if it doesn't, it's a beer... who needs a reason?

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[RichardDean]

I always talked to my plants and spent time with them alot and I really think the plants respond well to the co2 you give off from just your breathing. Good post for sure and definitely something that takes really no time or effort to do.

[TiCkEr]

Lol quite the number crunch you got worked out there, great post dude.

TiCkEr

[Enuff4All2Share]

Originally Posted by TiCkEr

Lol quite the number crunch you got worked out there, great post dude.

TiCkEr

Yeah... I kinda take the scenic route with math sometimes.

E4A2S

[covertntrovert]

Originally Posted by Enuff4All2Share

And - just for a twist - why not have a scrumptious beer while doing so. I can't say for sure that it increases the CO2 content of your breath, but I think it does. Even if it doesn't, it's a beer... who needs a reason?

E

well put ... i prefer a luke warm sierra nevada pale ale ... i've always wondered if breathing on them would help ... but i was too stoned to do the math ... thanks!

[INS the Rebel]

i used to sing to my plantos
and tell them how great they were
and read them childrens books til they got close to being ready to get smoked, then i stepped it up to some of my heavy shit. i think they enjoyed it.

no, you arent moving mountains, pal, but you are doing some natural thinking in an art that is awash with convention

[limbick]

who knew one could smoke herb and still do math? :P you get props just for working all the numbers!!

[amnesiac]

Originally Posted by INS the Rebel

i used to sing to my plantos
and tell them how great they were
and read them childrens books

me and you both

[Davy Jones]

You could store it in ballons, get a shit load full & release a few every now & then, & with the beer, you'll get an turbo boost of c02 with every burp.

I wonder what Helium would do?

[Enuff4All2Share]

It makes your plants talk funny...

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[Davy Jones]

lol....

[Enuff4All2Share]

I have heard of a lot of makeshift CO2 sources, but I don't honestly believe they are as effective as this... maybe spraying seltzer water, but if you can do that, breath at the same time (you may wanna anyways...)


Enuff4All2Share

[montaze18]

what about givin em a lil carbonated water from time to time?

[marygoround]

Originally Posted by montaze18

what about givin em a lil carbonated water from time to time?

That's basically Seltzer. Not a problem with that. I put 8 OZ's of Seltzer per gallon bucket of water. My plants are growing a tad faster, it probably helps. I breathe on them all the time and admire them too . Good post!