eighty9concentr
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I know this post is old but i experienced this problem before and figured out what the culprit is and wanted to do a post for any one who may encounter this. Btw I run sealed rooms and this was happening without my co2 burner being on. My atlas 1 co2 controller was reading 900.
It is the soil, pro mix, ocean whatever. I had the same issue and was stumped. I started to test everything in the room to figure out where it was coming from. Long story short, I dumped a bag of soil into a trash can and put my controller in there to test what it was putting off, and it went from 350 to 700 with in 2 hrs. Bingo! Noting else raised the co2 ppm at all besides the soil. So I went to my hydro store and bought a bag of 4 different soils, and they all raised the co2 ppm in the trash barrel. Problem solved.
I was having this happen right before i planted my rooms. So i had pots of soil in there, but no plants or had just put clones in. Once the plants grow for a week or 2, that natural level from the soil drops as the plants are larger and are eating up the co2 as the soil puts it off. So i don't have to turn on my burner until the plants eat faster than what the soil can provide them.
Hope this helps some one else who has noticed this before!
It is the soil, pro mix, ocean whatever. I had the same issue and was stumped. I started to test everything in the room to figure out where it was coming from. Long story short, I dumped a bag of soil into a trash can and put my controller in there to test what it was putting off, and it went from 350 to 700 with in 2 hrs. Bingo! Noting else raised the co2 ppm at all besides the soil. So I went to my hydro store and bought a bag of 4 different soils, and they all raised the co2 ppm in the trash barrel. Problem solved.
I was having this happen right before i planted my rooms. So i had pots of soil in there, but no plants or had just put clones in. Once the plants grow for a week or 2, that natural level from the soil drops as the plants are larger and are eating up the co2 as the soil puts it off. So i don't have to turn on my burner until the plants eat faster than what the soil can provide them.
Hope this helps some one else who has noticed this before!
