CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
Hi all! My Engilish is crap, but lets turn back to business.
Thi is my way of supplying CO2 for plants.
Dissolve 100 gramms of shugar and 1/2 table spoon of bakery yeast in 500ml of WARM (below 40 degrees celcium). Leave at least third of space in the bottle. Reaction starts almost instantly if the bottle with solution plased in the warm place and this CO2 reactor will gain full power in 12 hour time .
Connect any kind of elastic tube to the cap of the bottle of this solution and place the end of the tube above the plants.
Press play in player and start to listen to Vivaldi Concerto No. 1 (in E Major, R 2) Strongly recomended!
CO2 is havier than air or O2 so it will tend to go downwards.
Use this system on bubbler system with air compressors placed else where other than growing area supplied with CO2 otherwize your roots will receive highest consetration of CO2 and effects are unpredictable.
Wouldn't recomend for soil growers, but watering the plant with previously oxygenated water will probably will help.
Start to use it on third week of vegetative groth. If you would like to use it during blooming then make sure that during night hours your plants receive enough fresh air and CO2system must be off, on day time put it back on :)
And small question, how to switch from veg to blooming ? Any links or info on this Qestion are welcome :))
CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
This won't do much unless you can control temps to such an extent that you don't need to ventilate for a long time. The action of the yeast in creating co2 is much slower than the rising temp so what you will end up doing is evacuating most of your co2.
For co2 to work PROPERLY you need a SEALED ROOM, which means no intake or extraction fans and AIR CONDITIONING to control temps.
If you got your heart set on it don't use baker's yeast. It will die at very low levels of alcohol. Go to your local winemaking shop and get a yeast that will survive high levels of alcohol, I believe champagne yeast is the best. It's not expensive.
CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
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Originally Posted by Perp
This won't do much unless you can control temps to such an extent that you don't need to ventilate for a long time. The action of the yeast in creating co2 is much slower than the rising temp so what you will end up doing is evacuating most of your co2.
For co2 to work PROPERLY you need a SEALED ROOM, which means no intake or extraction fans and AIR CONDITIONING to control temps.
If you got your heart set on it don't use baker's yeast. It will die at very low levels of alcohol. Go to your local winemaking shop and get a yeast that will survive high levels of alcohol, I believe champagne yeast is the best. It's not expensive.
I think all yeast will die at 12 % of alcohol, and it doesn'tt matter bakeryor wine. Bakery yeast will die inbakeryproducts under tempretures above 45 celcium, usually cooking is ude 150 celcium and above. these temps kill yeast enzimes and no more reactios take place, hoever if you leve bakery yeast for a long time, the reaction will only stop at 12% of alco, this will happen in 10-14 days since start, varies a lot with tempereture the reactor is placed.
I just don't see the scientific explonation why bakery yeast worst than alco yaest, the efect i need is almost th same in both sides. However you made my mind up on making a good wine while using it's CO2 production for garden, co2 recycling is good for nature :)
CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
Co2 in air is about 0,03 % when there is good vegetative growth this could fall down to a 0.01 this is not suffiient enogh for the plant, also I had a biological eperiment which shown that temperature 36 is the best, however my planting are is about 25 (hope not for long) I'm a new to growing but have a bakground knowledge which I will try to use and play around with it. Hope I will have good results using your advises as well. :)
CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
Oh, by the way, this fall in CO2 occurs only on big fields or in small sealed ecosystem, but think that there is no problems with CO2 being in exees in the air rond the plants.
CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
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Originally Posted by cture
I just don't see the scientific explonation why bakery yeast worst than alco yaest, the efect i need is almost th same in both sides. However you made my mind up on making a good wine while using it's CO2 production for garden, co2 recycling is good for nature :)
You may be right about the bakery yeast being the same. I couldn't find much good evidence either way. I decided to make a 5gal pail of wine as well. I'm going to use a specialized wine yeast and we'll see how it goes. With any luck we'll both have some homemade wine to make the winter a bit warmer.
What are you going to use for the sugar? I heard that frozen grape juice makes a pretty good wine, but you have to get sulphate-free. Welches is the brand.
CO2 REACTOR, CARBON DIOXIDE cheap and easy DIY
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Originally Posted by Perp
You may be right about the bakery yeast being the same. I couldn't find much good evidence either way. I decided to make a 5gal pail of wine as well. I'm going to use a specialized wine yeast and we'll see how it goes. With any luck we'll both have some homemade wine to make the winter a bit warmer.
What are you going to use for the sugar? I heard that frozen grape juice makes a pretty good wine, but you have to get sulphate-free. Welches is the brand.
In fact you can use as a shugar (glucose) supply everything that contains it!
But make shure all products are natural. My granny makes wine out of various fruits and berries from her garden. Just add them in to a bottle. The consetration will affect density and the effect. Sometimes one glass of this homemade wine will knock you out. Just play around with ingredients also as with yeast amounts.
