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liliarose
liliarosestarted grow question 5 months ago
I am planning to introduce a CO2 pad to the box at 2-3rd week of veg., should I give it a try? Has anyone used it, how safe would it be?
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 5 months ago
CO2 is only good if you run a sealed environment, if not your venting out the CO2 it produces. Living environments already have a above average CO2 levels vs outdoor air samples because of people living in them. To much CO2 in your living environment can cause issues for yourself if it gets to high. I'd ditch the idea of it and focus on everything else, once you lock that in then you should go back and reexamine the idea of supplemental CO2. Look into VPD and DLI as a start. Good Luck!
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Angus_MacGrower
Angus_MacGroweranswered grow question 5 months ago
Nah, bad idea. Bags and other such gadgets producing COβ‚‚ day and night, in small quantities, and if you don't cut your extraction, are sucked outwards before they reach the plants. You should concentrate on your growing skills before thinking about COβ‚‚ intake. ^^
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Polyphemus
Polyphemusanswered grow question 5 months ago
There's no way these can raise ambient co2 to 1300 in your tent in any common sense context. MAybe lining the entire surface of tent and misting it all could? from what i read on a user review, someone's co2 meter barely registered any change.
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BerrySweetHigh
BerrySweetHighanswered grow question 5 months ago
Co2 does not add much if you do not grow everything on full power. It increases the yield when you grow with a 600 watt or stronger lamp and got the nutritions and everything else near perfection. Next to that you can only use Co2 when your system is close. So when you exhaust your air inside the tent with a fan it does not make sense to use it.
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AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 5 months ago
The ambient air CO2 is enough. You won't see any major benefit in CO2 injection unless you up your temps and nutrients. And in order to be effective you really need to have the environment controlled via a CO2 monitor and have that be what triggers your space exhaust. Otherwise when your fan kicks on to maintain temp and humidity it will ignore the CO2 levels and render it far less effective and essentially a waste of money. The items like mushroom bags and pads have been shown to provide no benefit to any significant increase in CO2 levels in your space. Save your money. Keep your temps and humidity, and nutrient feed regiment, and you will achieve a harvest you will be pleased with.
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Wicket
Wicketanswered grow question 5 months ago
don't you use an exhaust fan? in my opinion those bags are useless, the moment it's released from the bag, it almost already out again out of the tent because the exhaust fan will move the air way too quick out of the tent again.
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