New Grower Seltzer Water.
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Seems like a negligible amount of CO2, some bubbles for a few minutes, a waste.
You could add a lot more CO2 by just breathing, hanging around the tent (presuming the tent is drawing-in air from the room it and you are in). That would probably raise CO2 much more than selzer water. Air-breathing animals exhale a higher CO2 concentration.
Otherwise, how could you have a carbon dioxide deficiency? CO2 is in the atmosphere, and it's level's are going up. Only a small percentage of growers with the right setups supplement with CO2.
You could add a lot more CO2 by just breathing, hanging around the tent (presuming the tent is drawing-in air from the room it and you are in). That would probably raise CO2 much more than selzer water. Air-breathing animals exhale a higher CO2 concentration.
Otherwise, how could you have a carbon dioxide deficiency? CO2 is in the atmosphere, and it's level's are going up. Only a small percentage of growers with the right setups supplement with CO2.
surffreak
H.T. Care Bear
@BII has it entirely correct!
Co2 levels will be low and short lived with soda water. If you're wanting to speed up flowering a bit, the best thing you can do is give it more light for more hours per day. Maybe start doing hydro or soilless if you're not already. A co2 enrichment setup is not needed at all until you can provide enough light for the plant to use it, as in at least a 1000 watt bulb, plus you'll want everything else dialed in and be prepared to feed like crazy! When you are supplimenting with co2, in order for it to be at all effective, the grow area needs to be COMPLETELY sealed with no ventilation to the outside, otherwise the levels will never build up enough (at least not without many, many expensive tanks or generators). After its sealed, this will add the need for more equipment in addition to the co2 stuff, like dehumidifiers and ac units to keep it under 90 to 95 degrees. Co2 is usually the last thing to add once you're already optimal everywhere else. Even in the best circumstances co2 doesn't speed up flowering so much as make them get bigger in the same time frame.
I think your best bet is to optimize your lighting in some way. Maybe a small t5 panel for side lighting?
Co2 levels will be low and short lived with soda water. If you're wanting to speed up flowering a bit, the best thing you can do is give it more light for more hours per day. Maybe start doing hydro or soilless if you're not already. A co2 enrichment setup is not needed at all until you can provide enough light for the plant to use it, as in at least a 1000 watt bulb, plus you'll want everything else dialed in and be prepared to feed like crazy! When you are supplimenting with co2, in order for it to be at all effective, the grow area needs to be COMPLETELY sealed with no ventilation to the outside, otherwise the levels will never build up enough (at least not without many, many expensive tanks or generators). After its sealed, this will add the need for more equipment in addition to the co2 stuff, like dehumidifiers and ac units to keep it under 90 to 95 degrees. Co2 is usually the last thing to add once you're already optimal everywhere else. Even in the best circumstances co2 doesn't speed up flowering so much as make them get bigger in the same time frame.
I think your best bet is to optimize your lighting in some way. Maybe a small t5 panel for side lighting?
OGXTrich
You only live once, so just go f**king nuts!!
Why isn't 720w led good enough?
surffreak
H.T. Care Bear
I never said it wasn't but I have no idea what you're using as you never posted that info. A 720 watt true draw should be fine for use with co2 suplimenting but it still doesn't really overdrive the plants if it's spread too thin. A 1000 watt hps isn't even that much if it's spread over a 5x5 area, a 4x4 or smaller focus with that bulb would be better. As far as the led, I don't know what type it is or how much space you're covering with it, my only point is that everything should be perfect before using extra co2 as its expensive to set up and you'd want to get the most out of it per dollar.
surffreak
H.T. Care Bear
By the way according to NOAA, current atmospheric levels of co2 are at 400 parts per million at sea level, that's almost of a third of the way to the optimal 1500 ppm level! We all need to get muscle cars and pretty soon we won't have to spend any money on co2 upgrades, just gas masks! 
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