.........first i'll force you to read a verbose, boring introduction.........then i will get to the topic subject.
I do a lot of experimenting in scores of subjects, growing things is something i just grew up with being raised on a farm, 5 other siblings to contend for food with, we grew a lot of own food. This i hated as i was a 7 year old kid who would have sooner been in the house watching cartoons on 1 of 3 or 4 TV stations we could get on bunny ears depending on which way the winds were blowing.
About an acre of land had to be row planted, peas, bush beans(green & yellow), carrots, cabbage etc., in spring, then weeding all summer to finally picking the produce in the fall. Then, while mom blanched the produce, once cooled we had to freezer bag it and put the stuff into our large freezer. (though we grew some tomatoes it was just for slicing to put on sandwiches, my parents would go to the farmers market and purchase bushels of tomatoes to make what they called chili sauce, we made our own relish as well(green and red pepper).
.........anyways, forty years later, back to my experimenting story in my urban home in freezing snow covered midst of winter. Got an idea, listening to my dwc bubble away with super enriched oxygen from the pump, i got to thinking...."why would oxygen enriched water be of so much benefit when plants absorb carbon dioxide"?
So, i set off on a CO2 knowledge search, i didn't want to interfere with my dwc as it's working fine, so i targeted my germination mini greenhouse(it's full of super hotties). at first i just put a straw under the dome and everyonce and a while just blew a breath of air threw the straw into the dome. I think, it made a small improvement as the barrackpore's leaves look larger, then last week i decided to purchase some club soda, dilute it and water with it. Today, i decided to make a CO2 generator, after an hour, it started to work!
The first picture, is just to show the overview environment, the mini greenhouse germinator is self explanatory, in the old cranberry bottle is a mixture of sugar, quick rise baking yeast and water, a siphon hose was inserted into the top of the juice bottle and the hose then travels under the dome into a small jar of water that also has a small air stone attached(this way i can watch the bubbles).. The second is a close up of it working.
So as i was sitting here at my computer, reading up on the health benefits of baking soda, i hear a hissing sound, what the heck is that? after a quick look around i noticed bubbles coming out of the airstone.
Not all my experiments work, i had to do some thinking, what if i got the sugar,yeast,water mix incorrect and the jug blows, so in the first picture you see a tote, that is actually where to bottle resides. I can only guess at how long the mix will work, so i put an airstone at the other end of the hose and put it into a jar of water, so i can watch when the CO2 stops producing, plus the water jar is sitting on top of a heat pad, so i bet humidity levels will be on the rise. Also, the yeast expired in 1997. Oh, i used a twist tie to control how fast co2 is being released to the airstone.
Well, now to watch photosynthesis at work.......... thanks for reading.
I do a lot of experimenting in scores of subjects, growing things is something i just grew up with being raised on a farm, 5 other siblings to contend for food with, we grew a lot of own food. This i hated as i was a 7 year old kid who would have sooner been in the house watching cartoons on 1 of 3 or 4 TV stations we could get on bunny ears depending on which way the winds were blowing.
About an acre of land had to be row planted, peas, bush beans(green & yellow), carrots, cabbage etc., in spring, then weeding all summer to finally picking the produce in the fall. Then, while mom blanched the produce, once cooled we had to freezer bag it and put the stuff into our large freezer. (though we grew some tomatoes it was just for slicing to put on sandwiches, my parents would go to the farmers market and purchase bushels of tomatoes to make what they called chili sauce, we made our own relish as well(green and red pepper).
.........anyways, forty years later, back to my experimenting story in my urban home in freezing snow covered midst of winter. Got an idea, listening to my dwc bubble away with super enriched oxygen from the pump, i got to thinking...."why would oxygen enriched water be of so much benefit when plants absorb carbon dioxide"?
So, i set off on a CO2 knowledge search, i didn't want to interfere with my dwc as it's working fine, so i targeted my germination mini greenhouse(it's full of super hotties). at first i just put a straw under the dome and everyonce and a while just blew a breath of air threw the straw into the dome. I think, it made a small improvement as the barrackpore's leaves look larger, then last week i decided to purchase some club soda, dilute it and water with it. Today, i decided to make a CO2 generator, after an hour, it started to work!
The first picture, is just to show the overview environment, the mini greenhouse germinator is self explanatory, in the old cranberry bottle is a mixture of sugar, quick rise baking yeast and water, a siphon hose was inserted into the top of the juice bottle and the hose then travels under the dome into a small jar of water that also has a small air stone attached(this way i can watch the bubbles).. The second is a close up of it working.
So as i was sitting here at my computer, reading up on the health benefits of baking soda, i hear a hissing sound, what the heck is that? after a quick look around i noticed bubbles coming out of the airstone.
Not all my experiments work, i had to do some thinking, what if i got the sugar,yeast,water mix incorrect and the jug blows, so in the first picture you see a tote, that is actually where to bottle resides. I can only guess at how long the mix will work, so i put an airstone at the other end of the hose and put it into a jar of water, so i can watch when the CO2 stops producing, plus the water jar is sitting on top of a heat pad, so i bet humidity levels will be on the rise. Also, the yeast expired in 1997. Oh, i used a twist tie to control how fast co2 is being released to the airstone.
Well, now to watch photosynthesis at work.......... thanks for reading.
