Jeffrey Jaime pumped CO2 into a 6,000 sq ft room to boost plant growth, but the gas pooled in 200-gallon troughs and suffocated the roots. All plants died within 48 hours, two weeks before harvest, a costly lesson about where CO2 actually goes.
I was growing in these massive horse troughs that were like 200 gallons and I was growing like six plants in a horse trough. It was very archaic compared to how we grow today. But you know, this was 14 years ago, so cut me a little slack. CO2 is heavier than our atmospheric air. Well, I figured this out the hard way in the most very expensive way. But in this room was big, it was like 6,000ft. And I didn't know this but the plants root zone breathes oxygen, the plant's canopy breathes CO2. So I was pumping CO2 into these rooms, getting ready for a harvest, trying to make as much money as possible. That CO2 sank into those big horse troughs where it had nowhere to go and it literally suffocated those roots. Every single plant in their died in 48 hours and I was like two weeks away from harvesting. Wow. Yeah. Did you lose it all or were you able to fix the plants?
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