I finally got around to experimenting with my MIG welder and I mixed up a batch vinegar and baking soda for shielding gas and it seems to work just fine, just trying to get it to where I can hold 18 PSI enough to finish hobby projects, thanks again for the video and I'm going to use it on my Greenhouse👍👍👍👍👍✌
Increasing CO2 only makes plants photosynthesise quicker, which will allow them to grow bigger, which is ideal if you are growing cannabis plants for making hemp fibres but not necessarily "richer" for most agriculture this means less nutrient dense, for you it would probably mean less of the "active ingredient". CO2 boosts growth by allowing potentially increasing photosynthesis. But photosynthesis just produces sugars like glucose which can be used to make an energy reserve (starch in potatoes) or made to grow bigger (the sugars are made into cellulose) farmers will add CO2 if the main thing they want from a crop is the substance based on sugars, so starch for growing potatoes for food, and if you're growing a plant for fibres then more CO2 will mean more cellulose so more fibres. Plant biochemistry is complicated, CO2 may be useful in the initial growing stage but once the plant is matured I'm pretty sure you're trying to get a source of THC so maybe less CO2 then. Well who am I to judge, maybe you need it for medicinal reason and even if recreational I'm a coffee drinker and I don't like decaff. But please, consider alternatives to smoking it, there's nothing special about tobacco, if you ignite ANY plant matter and inhale the smoke from it, then it'll damage your body in severe ways.
That will work, and work well. When I was working through the process, I was concerned about the air movement blowing the CO2 out of the tank (not as big of a concern) and wax being dripped into the tank (more of a concern). If you don't have a fogging machine, the candle would work well. Thanks for sharing.
In case you didn't know, citric acid is a food additive. It is sometimes referred to as "sour salt" - used in all sorts of foods to provide the tartness, and is also used on sour candies to give them that sour flavor. So, like baking soda, it is a completely food-safe ingredient.
Paul, I think it is great that you have come up with another way to do this. But with a Y tube, a one way valve and now three bottles, is it really simpler and easer for most folks around the world to do rather than just using a couple of plastic bottles and some toilet paper? I am guessing not. You still have to measure out your baking soda, you have to completely mix the with the water, etc. It does sound like you have come up with another cool way of doing it though.
I don't really know what you are asking. The CO2 dissipates after a period of time depending on how many plants you have, typically it is safe to return your frogs in 24 hours. You may need to bomb the tank a couple of times depending upon the type of critter you are trying to get rid of.
Yes, It is used for all kinds of things, canning food, soap making, Alka Seltzer, etc. The powdered is more expensive, but crystalline citric acid sounds like it may be as cheap or maybe even a little cheaper than vinegar if you buy in bulk. Because you are mixing each of the catalysts, it may be possible to control the speed of the reaction even better. I like it. It can even purchase it at the grocery store as well, but in that form I think it would be much more expensive than vinegar.
awesome video. now if i can figure out how to slow release the baking soda over the course of a week or 2 would be perfect diy c02 for indoor gardens). might use your bug killing method too. every year when i bring my tropicals in for winter (yuck) i end up bringing in some kind of pests. last season i re potted about 75 bonsai due to those red stinging milipedy things and little gnats. thankfully my soilless mix is cheap.
Good way to preserve dry beans, extend the output tube to the bottom of a five gallon pail. Fill up the pail with beans and inject the co2. No more weevils.
No, Baking Powder and Baking Soda are two different products. Baking soda contains only one ingredient, sodium bicarbonate. This is the ingredient that reacts with the acid creating the CO2. Baking powder on the other hand contains sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate and either sodium acid pyrophosphate or sodium aluminum sulfate. One time as a kid I put baking soda rather than baking powder into the chocolate chip recipe and the results were not good. Using baking powder will produce some CO2, but not nearly as much.
You might want to look into using powdered citric acid instead of vinegar. I use it to carbonate homemade soda. You use equal amounts of baking soda and citric acid. You could make charges with both and drop them into an amount of water in a jug, much the same way you do with vinegar. Citric acid is fairly cheap and can be bought online. It would save you lugging gallons and gallons of vinegar home, and save you from the smell as well.
Yes, I have been working with amphibians and reptiles since the 70s and with dart frogs since the 80's. I have had frogs live with me for 15 years plus, and have had salamanders live for 17 years, so I do know how to take care of them. Thanks for the concern.
I think the more effective method is to heat baking soda and it will decompose to CO2 and water. that way CO2 can be generated on demand as much as needed. later you can regenerate sodium carbonate by passing some gas that contains CO2
Isn't that what I said? Dry ice is -109.3 F or -78.5 C. Putting dry ice in hot water does not make steam, unless you are using a very small amount of dry ice. The fog that you see is condensation not steam. When dry ice becomes a gas, it cools water vapor in the nearby air. The water vapor then condenses into a liquid, forming fog around it. There are a number of folks that have burned their plants when they didn't do it correctly. You are right that using hot water can help prevent the burning.
That is a really good idea. That is how products like alka seltzer work. It would be easy to do. I don't know if it would be cheaper than vinegar, but it would work well. Cheapest costs I could find online were from Bramble Berry soap making supplies at $3.25 for 1 lb., $22 - 10 lb. plus shipping for crystalline citric acid. Could you help us understand what kind of volume there would be in a pound of crystals so we could try and compare costs?
Eh? Dude, it's a lot more simple if you use 2 bottles. 1 bottle acid (vinegar) and water. 2nd bottle Baking soda and water. Take a pipe from UNDER the fluid in bottle 1 to under the fluid in bottle 2. Use a Y split one way valve near the neck in bottle 2 to prevent liquid from being pumped from bottle 2 to bottle 1, but to allow gas to be pumped back to equilize pressure. As you remove CO2 from bottle 2, pressure forces acid from bottle 1 to 2 creating a reaction and more CO2.
If you had read the article, you would have seen that I did just that. In the article I created at table that will allow folks to calcite the exact amount of vinegar and baking soda to complete a CO2 reaction for various sized tank enclosures.
Actually, it's the limestone in baking soda that produces the CO2. All baking soda is artificially made. All brands of baking soda are not made equal. Some have more or less limestone so yes the brand does matter, but of course so does the pocket book. But if quality matters then A&H is the best IMO and I've tested every brand found in my shopping area including the very low cost 4 for a buck at the thrifty & $ stores. BTW, loved the thunder storm effects.
I plan on running this a little different. I like the idea of the charges. Generally my idea would of been to drop a gram in at a time via straw. My vessels would be a little smaller. I dont need as much. However my big change. I will fill up a 1Ft by 2Ft bin with water. Place a tall beaker into the water upside down and hold it so that i can run the generator tube into the glass beaker. I feel this way any unwanted ingredients would just fall into the water. Leaving a rather pure produce. /im thinking of having a second hole on my generator and finding a way to make a sliding mech. So i can inject baking powder into acetic acid/vinegar and slide the door shut real quick. This should give me enough free hands to do this solo. Thank you
Hey, neat, but wouldn't it be just as easy to make your NaHCO3 charges by making a paste of it w/ H2O and freezing them in a handy shape before using? Just a suggestion.
I haven't measured to be precise, but having dealt with citric acid quite a bit, I'd say the volume of 1 pound is roughly the same as a pound of sugar. It's probably not exactly the same, as nothing ever is, but probably within a few cubic inches of being the same.
because dry ice is over 100 degrees below zero. Many folks have burned or killed their plants because of the excess cold. Also this method allows you to produce a known amount of CO2 easily without a lot of mess or expense
Dave!! nice video! Gonna try it but I have a couple of questions, How long does the vinegar last and I have a 4X4X5 grow box, What would you advise me on the amounts I would need for the plants. Thanks.
Walleye Slayer no body watched the whole video lol use water sugar and yeast I half fill a 1 gallon carboy with water 1 cup of sugar and a packet of wine yeast I’m lucky cause I have about 200 packets of yeast in my freezer that I was never going to use until now lol and that provides a small increase in co2 for about 10days I do that from day 10 to day 30 of veg and then for the first 4 weeks of flower mixing a new batch every 10days or so would highly recommend adding extra co2 for auto flowers
Walleye Slayer what are you growing? I have some strawberry dog shit a strain I got from a good friend it iproduces phenomenal flower great for extraction it is about to go into flower in about 2 weeks also just started a auto grow got some Girl Scout cookies in there some amnesia CBD and some RPK
Yes. Citric acid, a mild acid, and baking soda, mixed into water will produce CO2. Just like vinegar, a mild acid and water, mixed with baking soda will produce CO2,
That would be all of us. I'm grateful that God did send his son to die for us allowing me to have a relationship with him. As far as the video, it was fun to put together and I don't mind wiping out the heathen slugs that like to eat plants and frog eggs. ;o)
You got really close to the maximum theoretical yield of CO2. According to my calculations the maximum you should be able to get is about 11.228 gallons of CO2 per ⅝cup
That depends on what you want to do.... The yeast / sugar water works best if you are trying to generate a small amount of CO2 to help plants in an aquarium grow without killing your fish. This method generates a large amount of CO2 in a short period of time which will displace / evacuate all the air in a tank.or area. This will allow one to kill bugs and pests in a tank. But it will also kill any animals, so it could be used to euthanize small animals humanly. Snake owners do this to prevent mice and rats from injuring their animals.
Hello! :) Nice tut. Can we use this method to generate co2 for tropical fish tanks? Which vinegar are you using (made with grape, apple, ...?) And how long it lasts?
+SonnyBurnett2008 No, you don't want to do that. This produces way too much CO2 in a short period of time. It will kill all of your fish. If you have just plants in you tank with no animals, (fish, etc,) Then this would work and your plants would love it. Lots of growth, but for your typical aquarium with fish you want to do the yeast method for aquariums.
+Dave Calkins what if we use a lever that turns to adjust how much air flows out of the tube if we manage to not let more then needed can we use this methode to have co2 for like 24 hours or even 48 hours if we use something to limite how much co2 comes out of the bottle and into the tank ? for aquarium fishes ?
+daoust mathieux No, this method would not be good for an aquarium that has fish in it. The amount of CO2 produced would block all oxygen exposed to the tank which would end up killing all of the fish in the tank. This method is similar to massive algae blooms that can end up depleting all of the oxygen, which thus kill off all of the fish.
+daoust mathieux In order to do something like this, you would need a container that can handle the pressure, that will not blow up when all of the CO2 is released. You would also need a pressure regulator that would slowly release the gas at a given rate. That way you wouldn't be creating a CO2 bottle rocket. It would be doable, just a lot more expensive. To watch the result of others doing this the wrong way, do a youtube search on CO2 bottle rockets, and CO2 bombs.
heads up on that forum link: you have to do a valid registration to see the pics.....and even then, they don't let you see them. I registered a while ago, & I still don't have permission to see the pics. You CAN read the article w/o registering though, & it's really well-written. In short, just watch the video here & don't bother signing up, because you're not going to see the pics there. (Seems like a sad way to get traffic to a site, IMHO)
If you click show more button and then click on the link to Dendroboard., it will take you to the article I wrote which documents everything . In the article there is a table that will show you the ratios and the exact amounts of baking soda and vinegar that will allow you to generate the exact amount of CO2, from one gallon, up to a hundred gallons or more of CO2. That why there is no waisted chemicals.
is dry ice expensive? because at my college we literally waste everything i dont have a clue how much it costs, because its all about cost benefit, btw try warm vinegar
Each charge of baking soda, takes about 1 to 2 minutes to react and generate it's CO2. When the vinegar stops bubbling, the CO2 reaction / production is done. Adding more baking soda charges will continue the reaction until all of the acid in the vinegar is used up. There are a number of variables that determine how long the reaction will take to complete. These variable include how much vinegar is used, the percentage of the acid of the vinegar, the age of the baking soda, etc. All of these influence how fast the reaction time is. With the addition of each new baking soda charge the reaction will continue the CO2 production until either the acid is used up or the baking soda is used up. All totaled it took me about 10 to 15 minutes to produce about 15 gallons of CO2. How long the CO2 sits in the tank depends upon many things like how many plants you have in the tank. Plants love CO2, they use it in conjunction with sunlight to photosynthesize oxygen and energy.
I should do this for a small indoor grow box (cardboard box covered in mylar with two led light bulbs). It should flush out the fungas gnats I've been having trouble with.. Right now I'm using a small open bottle with baking soda and vinegar. It's messy and the bottle overflows sometimes....
+Dave Calkins I've set up already, and I didn't have a fogger, so I grabbed an e-cig and an aquarium pump and some tubing to improvise. Works well, and I saw that my entire grow box was full! :D
+astrangeone That is a good improvisation. It would do the same thing. The e-cig is a little more toxic than a fogging machine but not greatly so with the single time exposure.
I know about the fish.But what if i move my fish to a bare tank and I use this method for some time ,lets say 2 weeks ?How mutch grow will i have in the tank?
If you remove the fish and any other oxygen breathing critters, yes, you could use this method to help your plants. As far as how much growth you will experience, will depend on how much light you have, how many plants you have, how many times you dose the tank CO2, etc. Please let me know what your results are. Thanks for watching.
Get the DIY co2 kit on eBay for $12, and then a diffuser to go along with it. I can vouch and say that it makes a night and day difference. So far 3 weeks in and looks great.
hi may I just ask if is it accurate that in 14 grams of baking soda 10 gal of CO2 will be produce? just for reference in my research.. thanks for the response :)
Rade Mihajlovic I am using the CO2 Generator to create enough CO2 to fill the tank which will remove all the oxygen from the tank. This will eradicate pests, slugs and and bugs that came in on plants that were purchased and put into the tank. The pests probably came in as eggs laid either in the soil or on the foliage. The slugs were eating plants and frog eggs in the tank. If you watch the entire video, this was explained. Hope this helps.
I wrote an article which described multiple ways to produce CO2. I included how to use Dry Ice, CO2 tanks, & this CO2 generator which you could use baking soda or Sodium Bicarbonate. There really is no mess with this method, but you choose the method that makes the most sense to you. See the link above.
If im goin to use this for plants, does my plant still need to be watered every single day? a friend told me that if the plant is inside this generator, it doesnt need to be watered anyomore, is it true? can you explain why sir?
marcos22571 Yes, the fog machine will and does help create an artificial rain forest. The CO2 production will not create a rain forest. It will kill any critters you may have in the tank. If you do not have any animals, critters, insects, etc. in the tank, this technique does produce an environment that plants will love.
Dave Calkins Thinking about it, putting CO2 into the tank and then injecting the fog on top of the CO2 does give the impression of rain within the tank, i.e. rain forest. The only draw back is not being able to do this and have living animals or creatures within the tank. If your desire is to only have plants, this would work well to give the impression of rain within the tank.
I finally got around to experimenting with my MIG welder and I mixed up a batch vinegar and baking soda for shielding gas and it seems to work just fine, just trying to get it to where I can hold 18 PSI enough to finish hobby projects, thanks again for the video and I'm going to use it on my Greenhouse👍👍👍👍👍✌
Good video I learned how to feed my canabis plants co2
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Increasing CO2 only makes plants photosynthesise quicker, which will allow them to grow bigger, which is ideal if you are growing cannabis plants for making hemp fibres but not necessarily "richer" for most agriculture this means less nutrient dense, for you it would probably mean less of the "active ingredient".
CO2 boosts growth by allowing potentially increasing photosynthesis. But photosynthesis just produces sugars like glucose which can be used to make an energy reserve (starch in potatoes) or made to grow bigger (the sugars are made into cellulose) farmers will add CO2 if the main thing they want from a crop is the substance based on sugars, so starch for growing potatoes for food, and if you're growing a plant for fibres then more CO2 will mean more cellulose so more fibres.
Plant biochemistry is complicated, CO2 may be useful in the initial growing stage but once the plant is matured I'm pretty sure you're trying to get a source of THC so maybe less CO2 then. Well who am I to judge, maybe you need it for medicinal reason and even if recreational I'm a coffee drinker and I don't like decaff. But please, consider alternatives to smoking it, there's nothing special about tobacco, if you ignite ANY plant matter and inhale the smoke from it, then it'll damage your body in severe ways.
Treblaine no co2 is good for pot growing
Treblaine good thing cannabis does A LOT of photosynthesis lol. Thanks for enforcing the CO2 idea.
Fantastic video! I loved how you used the fogged to see how much CO2 is in the tank...that was so cool!
Thanks for your kindness.
That will work, and work well. When I was working through the process, I was concerned about the air movement blowing the CO2 out of the tank (not as big of a concern) and wax being dripped into the tank (more of a concern). If you don't have a fogging machine, the candle would work well. Thanks for sharing.
In case you didn't know, citric acid is a food additive. It is sometimes referred to as "sour salt" - used in all sorts of foods to provide the tartness, and is also used on sour candies to give them that sour flavor. So, like baking soda, it is a completely food-safe ingredient.
It’s made with gmo black mould
thanks a lot dude i was trying to quit weed whit my acuarium and now i can't stop thinking about bongs and rolling paper
Paul, I think it is great that you have come up with another way to do this. But with a Y tube, a one way valve and now three bottles, is it really simpler and easer for most folks around the world to do rather than just using a couple of plastic bottles and some toilet paper? I am guessing not. You still have to measure out your baking soda, you have to completely mix the with the water, etc. It does sound like you have come up with another cool way of doing it though.
I don't really know what you are asking. The CO2 dissipates after a period of time depending on how many plants you have, typically it is safe to return your frogs in 24 hours. You may need to bomb the tank a couple of times depending upon the type of critter you are trying to get rid of.
you can also light a match or wooden skewer and dip it into the tank, it will go out at the level of the CO2.
How long does it last before you charge it again
Loved this,thanks for sharing
Yes, It is used for all kinds of things, canning food, soap making, Alka Seltzer, etc. The powdered is more expensive, but crystalline citric acid sounds like it may be as cheap or maybe even a little cheaper than vinegar if you buy in bulk. Because you are mixing each of the catalysts, it may be possible to control the speed of the reaction even better. I like it. It can even purchase it at the grocery store as well, but in that form I think it would be much more expensive than vinegar.
Nice video Dave, Iam going to try this on my CP plants--Sundews, In a dis-guarded 12x12 plastic fish tank with home made LED grow lighting..
So how did it go with the sundews and the small tank?
It amazes me that people still make and respond to these kind of jokes.
really cool frog tank
I just got a strange desire to watch the MacGyver series all over again...
Thanks,
It works really well.
this is fantastic and very helpful in the battle against bed bugs as well
awesome video. now if i can figure out how to slow release the baking soda over the course of a week or 2 would be perfect diy c02 for indoor gardens). might use your bug killing method too. every year when i bring my tropicals in for winter (yuck) i end up bringing in some kind of pests. last season i re potted about 75 bonsai due to those red stinging milipedy things and little gnats. thankfully my soilless mix is cheap.
Good way to preserve dry beans, extend the output tube to the bottom of a five gallon pail. Fill up the pail with beans and inject the co2. No more weevils.
i came back to this video 10 years later just noticed i have already left a like
You are kind. Thank You!
Can we use baking powder
No, Baking Powder and Baking Soda are two different products. Baking soda contains only one ingredient, sodium bicarbonate. This is the ingredient that reacts with the acid creating the CO2. Baking powder on the other hand contains sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate and either sodium acid pyrophosphate or sodium aluminum sulfate. One time as a kid I put baking soda rather than baking powder into the chocolate chip recipe and the results were not good. Using baking powder will produce some CO2, but not nearly as much.
You might want to look into using powdered citric acid instead of vinegar. I use it to carbonate homemade soda. You use equal amounts of baking soda and citric acid. You could make charges with both and drop them into an amount of water in a jug, much the same way you do with vinegar. Citric acid is fairly cheap and can be bought online. It would save you lugging gallons and gallons of vinegar home, and save you from the smell as well.
very cool, wish i would have known this when i work at the aquarium/reptile store.
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Yes, I have been working with amphibians and reptiles since the 70s and with dart frogs since the 80's. I have had frogs live with me for 15 years plus, and have had salamanders live for 17 years, so I do know how to take care of them. Thanks for the concern.
I think the more effective method is to heat baking soda and it will decompose to CO2 and water. that way CO2 can be generated on demand as much as needed.
later you can regenerate sodium carbonate by passing some gas that contains CO2
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Isn't that what I said? Dry ice is -109.3 F or -78.5 C. Putting dry ice in hot water does not make steam, unless you are using a very small amount of dry ice. The fog that you see is condensation not steam. When dry ice becomes a gas, it cools water vapor in the nearby air. The water vapor then condenses into a liquid, forming fog around it. There are a number of folks that have burned their plants when they didn't do it correctly. You are right that using hot water can help prevent the burning.
that fog test was great
That is a really good idea. That is how products like alka seltzer work. It would be easy to do. I don't know if it would be cheaper than vinegar, but it would work well. Cheapest costs I could find online were from Bramble Berry soap making supplies at $3.25 for 1 lb., $22 - 10 lb. plus shipping for crystalline citric acid. Could you help us understand what kind of volume there would be in a pound of crystals so we could try and compare costs?
Eh? Dude, it's a lot more simple if you use 2 bottles. 1 bottle acid (vinegar) and water. 2nd bottle Baking soda and water. Take a pipe from UNDER the fluid in bottle 1 to under the fluid in bottle 2. Use a Y split one way valve near the neck in bottle 2 to prevent liquid from being pumped from bottle 2 to bottle 1, but to allow gas to be pumped back to equilize pressure. As you remove CO2 from bottle 2, pressure forces acid from bottle 1 to 2 creating a reaction and more CO2.
If you had read the article, you would have seen that I did just that. In the article I created at table that will allow folks to calcite the exact amount of vinegar and baking soda to complete a CO2 reaction for various sized tank enclosures.
Actually, it's the limestone in baking soda that produces the CO2. All baking soda is artificially made. All brands of baking soda are not made equal. Some have more or less limestone so yes the brand does matter, but of course so does the pocket book. But if quality matters then A&H is the best IMO and I've tested every brand found in my shopping area including the very low cost 4 for a buck at the thrifty & $ stores.
BTW, loved the thunder storm effects.
Nice vid
Your a mad scientist . but i love it . thumbs up .
David - My maiden name is Calkins. Good to run into you!
neat stuff
You think this method would work for making soda water?
Thank you! I will use this!
THANK YOU! This is exactly what I was trying to think of, I just kept having a brain fart when it came to the separation of the foam.
+Jordan Daniel Hey Jordan, I'm glad that it was helpful.
How long will the Co2 last for? I am wanting to try this to add Co2 to a large room 12x18ft.
What are you wrapping your charges with? Paper towel? And how long between charges?
Informative and entertaining. Thanks!
Hmmm, I wonder if CO2 will kill spider mites? I assume, yes. But the eggs might be protected.
I plan on running this a little different.
I like the idea of the charges.
Generally my idea would of been to drop a gram in at a time via straw. My vessels would be a little smaller. I dont need as much.
However my big change.
I will fill up a 1Ft by 2Ft bin with water.
Place a tall beaker into the water upside down and hold it so that i can run the generator tube into the glass beaker.
I feel this way any unwanted ingredients would just fall into the water. Leaving a rather pure produce.
/im thinking of having a second hole on my generator and finding a way to make a sliding mech. So i can inject baking powder into acetic acid/vinegar and slide the door shut real quick. This should give me enough free hands to do this solo.
Thank you
Hey, neat, but wouldn't it be just as easy to make your NaHCO3 charges by making a paste of it w/ H2O and freezing them in a handy shape before using? Just a suggestion.
very clever!
I haven't measured to be precise, but having dealt with citric acid quite a bit, I'd say the volume of 1 pound is roughly the same as a pound of sugar. It's probably not exactly the same, as nothing ever is, but probably within a few cubic inches of being the same.
Is this a better method for a fish aquarium than the Yeast method?
because dry ice is over 100 degrees below zero. Many folks have burned or killed their plants because of the excess cold. Also this method allows you to produce a known amount of CO2 easily without a lot of mess or expense
looking to do something like this but design a little chamber to put potted plants within to wipe out mites n things like that.
Awesome men..
Dave!! nice video! Gonna try it but I have a couple of questions, How long does the vinegar last and I have a 4X4X5 grow box, What would you advise me on the amounts I would need for the plants. Thanks.
titearsedmurican video isn’t made for plants. It’s to rid bugs
Walleye Slayer no body watched the whole video lol use water sugar and yeast I half fill a 1 gallon carboy with water 1 cup of sugar and a packet of wine yeast I’m lucky cause I have about 200 packets of yeast in my freezer that I was never going to use until now lol and that provides a small increase in co2 for about 10days I do that from day 10 to day 30 of veg and then for the first 4 weeks of flower mixing a new batch every 10days or so would highly recommend adding extra co2 for auto flowers
OUTDOORSASK306 Saskatchewan? Where about? I’m in Regina. I need help with my garden lol
Walleye Slayer nice I’m literally just leaving Regina right now lol I live about a hour west of Saskatoon
Walleye Slayer what are you growing? I have some strawberry dog shit a strain I got from a good friend it iproduces phenomenal flower great for extraction it is about to go into flower in about 2 weeks also just started a auto grow got some Girl Scout cookies in there some amnesia CBD and some RPK
Can we use this formula for planted tank ?
I think about it to use baking soda for making CO2 for my Grow room and I found your video,Thank you for Learned us🙏🙏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽
Yes. Citric acid, a mild acid, and baking soda, mixed into water will produce CO2. Just like vinegar, a mild acid and water, mixed with baking soda will produce CO2,
When I heard the lightning and rain I felt like you were playing an angry God. Wiping the Earth of the heathens and sinners. LOL
That would be all of us. I'm grateful that God did send his son to die for us allowing me to have a relationship with him.
As far as the video, it was fun to put together and I don't mind wiping out the heathen slugs that like to eat plants and frog eggs. ;o)
I have a question, how long the gas occurs? How many hours or minutes is working? Thanks in advance
HORRAY, now I can buy a moss without worrying about the flatworms.... Thanks Dave, greetings from Jakarta!.
@metaspherz how long does it last for?
How long dose the co2 generate?
You got really close to the maximum theoretical yield of CO2. According to my calculations the maximum you should be able to get is about 11.228 gallons of CO2 per ⅝cup
This is about 42.5 liters per ⅝cup
Correction: It's 8.35 gal per ⅝cup
Is this better than the yeast sugar water one. Thanks.
That depends on what you want to do.... The yeast / sugar water works best if you are trying to generate a small amount of CO2 to help plants in an aquarium grow without killing your fish. This method generates a large amount of CO2 in a short period of time which will displace / evacuate all the air in a tank.or area. This will allow one to kill bugs and pests in a tank. But it will also kill any animals, so it could be used to euthanize small animals humanly. Snake owners do this to prevent mice and rats from injuring their animals.
Thanks for the information. I made the 2 liter soda pop ones.
can you use this for plants
Hello! :) Nice tut. Can we use this method to generate co2 for tropical fish tanks? Which vinegar are you using (made with grape, apple, ...?) And how long it lasts?
+SonnyBurnett2008 No, you don't want to do that. This produces way too much CO2 in a short period of time. It will kill all of your fish. If you have just plants in you tank with no animals, (fish, etc,) Then this would work and your plants would love it. Lots of growth, but for your typical aquarium with fish you want to do the yeast method for aquariums.
+Dave Calkins what if we use a lever that turns to adjust how much air flows out of the tube if we manage to not let more then needed can we use this methode to have co2 for like 24 hours or even 48 hours if we use something to limite how much co2 comes out of the bottle and into the tank ? for aquarium fishes ?
+Dave Calkins +daoust mathieux of cours this is for the plants in the aquarium with the fish just to make then be happy and thrive better ?
+daoust mathieux No, this method would not be good for an aquarium that has fish in it. The amount of CO2 produced would block all oxygen exposed to the tank which would end up killing all of the fish in the tank. This method is similar to massive algae blooms that can end up depleting all of the oxygen, which thus kill off all of the fish.
+daoust mathieux In order to do something like this, you would need a container that can handle the pressure, that will not blow up when all of the CO2 is released. You would also need a pressure regulator that would slowly release the gas at a given rate. That way you wouldn't be creating a CO2 bottle rocket. It would be doable, just a lot more expensive. To watch the result of others doing this the wrong way, do a youtube search on CO2 bottle rockets, and CO2 bombs.
why do you have slugs and millipedes in a frog tank how do they get in there?
heads up on that forum link:
you have to do a valid registration to see the pics.....and even then, they don't let you see them.
I registered a while ago, & I still don't have permission to see the pics. You CAN read the article w/o registering though, & it's really well-written.
In short, just watch the video here & don't bother signing up, because you're not going to see the pics there. (Seems like a sad way to get traffic to a site, IMHO)
wow you could have just done the stoichiometry to get the perfect amount so that there is no excess so you can maximize co2 output
If you click show more button and then click on the link to Dendroboard., it will take you to the article I wrote which documents everything . In the article there is a table that will show you the ratios and the exact amounts of baking soda and vinegar that will allow you to generate the exact amount of CO2, from one gallon, up to a hundred gallons or more of CO2. That why there is no waisted chemicals.
You sound like winnie the pooh
Oh my god we are crying laughing after reading this, 0:50 is the perfect example hahaha
lol
lol had to youtube winnie the pooh
is dry ice expensive? because at my college we literally waste everything i dont have a clue how much it costs, because its all about cost benefit, btw try warm vinegar
Can it be used against arson?
Verry nice i want to make it to but how long wil it give co2 i got no meters to check how can i see wen it stops giving co2
Each charge of baking soda, takes about 1 to 2 minutes to react and generate it's CO2. When the vinegar stops bubbling, the CO2 reaction / production is done. Adding more baking soda charges will continue the reaction until all of the acid in the vinegar is used up. There are a number of variables that determine how long the reaction will take to complete. These variable include how much vinegar is used, the percentage of the acid of the vinegar, the age of the baking soda, etc. All of these influence how fast the reaction time is. With the addition of each new baking soda charge the reaction will continue the CO2 production until either the acid is used up or the baking soda is used up. All totaled it took me about 10 to 15 minutes to produce about 15 gallons of CO2. How long the CO2 sits in the tank depends upon many things like how many plants you have in the tank. Plants love CO2, they use it in conjunction with sunlight to photosynthesize oxygen and energy.
I'm actually going to try that through a MIG welder, hold my beer
Really? If yes then do post the updates cause I'm here for that too.
how long does it last
I should do this for a small indoor grow box (cardboard box covered in mylar with two led light bulbs). It should flush out the fungas gnats I've been having trouble with..
Right now I'm using a small open bottle with baking soda and vinegar. It's messy and the bottle overflows sometimes....
+astrangeone This definitely would help with both of those issues.
+Dave Calkins I've set up already, and I didn't have a fogger, so I grabbed an e-cig and an aquarium pump and some tubing to improvise. Works well, and I saw that my entire grow box was full! :D
+astrangeone That is a good improvisation. It would do the same thing. The e-cig is a little more toxic than a fogging machine but not greatly so with the single time exposure.
Can I use that method for aquariums?
No not really. This will produce way too much CO2. This amount of CO2 of will suffocate your fish.
I know about the fish.But what if i move my fish to a bare tank and I use this method for some time ,lets say 2 weeks ?How mutch grow will i have in the tank?
If you remove the fish and any other oxygen breathing critters, yes, you could use this method to help your plants. As far as how much growth you will experience, will depend on how much light you have, how many plants you have, how many times you dose the tank CO2, etc. Please let me know what your results are. Thanks for watching.
Allright mate.Thanks for the answer :) Will do.
Get the DIY co2 kit on eBay for $12, and then a diffuser to go along with it. I can vouch and say that it makes a night and day difference. So far 3 weeks in and looks great.
hi may I just ask if is it accurate that in 14 grams of baking soda 10 gal of CO2 will be produce? just for reference in my research.. thanks for the response :)
14 gr = 3 tea spoons.of Baking soda…combined with 200 ml or 7/8 c.vinegar or 6.76 fl oz……produces 1 Gallon of CO2.
how long does application last?
cool, thanks for sharing =)
5:24 makes me miss my college days.
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Way on earth ,you are using that much of co2 ? Would you give me an explanation please.
Rade Mihajlovic I am using the CO2 Generator to create enough CO2 to fill the tank which will remove all the oxygen from the tank. This will eradicate pests, slugs and and bugs that came in on plants that were purchased and put into the tank. The pests probably came in as eggs laid either in the soil or on the foliage. The slugs were eating plants and frog eggs in the tank. If you watch the entire video, this was explained. Hope this helps.
Dave Calkins
I am aquarist, and I am not familiar with the hobby that you do. thanks for the explanation :)
Rade Mihajlovic You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Excellent video. I am looking for a way to kill weevils in the chickens food that leaves no toxic residue. Thanks!
How long will that last?
Where in the world did you get that? The design of the system prevents that possibility. Don't use quite so much of the home grown.
You make it sound like a warzone: charges and chambers...
What's better? Yeast or Baking Soda ?!
can i make dry ice this way?
I wrote an article which described multiple ways to produce CO2. I included how to use Dry Ice, CO2 tanks, & this CO2 generator which you could use baking soda or Sodium Bicarbonate. There really is no mess with this method, but you choose the method that makes the most sense to you. See the link above.
Elon Musk just offered 100 million dollars to whoever comes up with the most efficient way of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere
What did you use as a diffuser
The large bottle, that generates the CO2 is a milk jug. The small bottle is just a small pop bottle.
This method doesn't use a diffuser.
why are ppl liking this video? didnt you know that that causes CO2? easier to use dry ice
i know this is a old video, but with the vinegar in the product, won't the acid harm the plants?
No, the vinegar & baking soda combines and creates Carbon Dioxide.
You make them ahead of time and store them.
Succeed! Thank you!
Haha! Nice Rainy Simulation
If im goin to use this for plants, does my plant still need to be watered every single day? a friend told me that if the plant is inside this generator, it doesnt need to be watered anyomore, is it true? can you explain why sir?
This uses vinegar, not water. This idea would not be a good idea.
Can you make an Artificial Rain Forest?
marcos22571 Yes, the fog machine will and does help create an artificial rain forest. The CO2 production will not create a rain forest. It will kill any critters you may have in the tank. If you do not have any animals, critters, insects, etc. in the tank, this technique does produce an environment that plants will love.
Dave Calkins Thinking about it, putting CO2 into the tank and then injecting the fog on top of the CO2 does give the impression of rain within the tank, i.e. rain forest. The only draw back is not being able to do this and have living animals or creatures within the tank. If your desire is to only have plants, this would work well to give the impression of rain within the tank.
so if you add citric acid to baking soda, it will react and produce CO2 ?