h a l f b a k e r yA dish best served not.
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It would be fun to see if you could get a given houseplant to grow faster with a high-CO2 atmosphere, but you'd probably need to put a bag or container over it to keep the gas from dissipating before it can have any effect. For fun you could put a teaspoon of baking soda and a little vinegar in a glass and put it by your plant--the fizz that comes off this mixture is CO2. |
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A typical airgun gas cartridge contains 12 grams of CO2. While this equates to about 500 liters (enough for about 50-80 shots from a typical airgun), it will only provide about 3.3 grams of carbon. Probably not enough to be very useful. |
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An easy (and less expencive) way to increase the amount of CO2 available to a plant in an isolated atmosphere (aquatium, glass jar, 2L bottle) is to fill a small dish with baking soda and then fill a tied off finger cot (finger condom) with vinegar, and put a pinhole in it. put the vinegar cot into the small dish with the baking soda. The reaction between the chemicals produces new CO2 gas and the apparatus creates a "slow release" effect. |
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Put your lawnmower into the living room and leave it running. You might get a little CO but plants don't really care about that. |
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