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Burners have always been an issue in small sealed rooms,dont seem to affect large ones as much,nothing new or groundbreaking about that as you can see by the three year old post you bumped.
Ethylene in a room is a LOT different than there not being enough oxygen, which was my whole point. I ran sealed rooms for a few years and burned propane and never saw any issues. Maybe its a NG thing.people are using more sealed rooms than before... generally very little discussion because it (ethylene/ sulf.) doesn't show up with people using tanks, just NG burners.
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Symptoms of slowed growth, yellowing, leaf curl...at all phases... possibly symptomatic of ethylene, by product from NG burners in O2 deficient rooms... suspected to affect the stomataWhat is happening at an increasing rate?
Plants all of a sudden STOPPED photosynthesis??? They stopped converting CO2 into O2?
just trying to add to the original dialogue thats all as I had the same problem. If you read back you can see that that there can be enough oxygen in the room to run a burner but not enough for plant health... just adding to the discussion as a couple of friends... one a long time manufacturer of burners and another a successful grower on every size level as well as a very knowledgeable shop owner... We were discussing this as something that is coming up more and more. The solution seems to be bringing in more O 2 and flushing the room or switching to tanks... I dont claim to have the answer and Im not stuck on labels... call it whatever... just discussing and being open... which is the purpose of forums for the most part... Ive been growing off and on since 1974 and always learning thanks to places like this.Ethylene in a room is a LOT different than there not being enough oxygen, which was my whole point. I ran sealed rooms for a few years and burned propane and never saw any issues. Maybe its a NG thing.
Again...if there was insufficient oxygen in the room...you would pass out in it. Your co2 burner would NOT fire.
I'm not against a bit of fresh air exchange in a sealed room.....I'm just saying call it what it is. Oxygen depletion is NOT the problem.
I just don't agree with the Oxygen depletion part of the statements. As per simple botany plants breathe in co2 and breathe out o2. The problem is the overabundance of ethylene....not a deprivation of oxygen. I also agree that air exchange helps.just trying to add to the original dialogue thats all as I had the same problem. If you read back you can see that that there can be enough oxygen in the room to run a burner but not enough for plant health... just adding to the discussion as a couple of friends... one a long time manufacturer of burners and another a successful grower on every size level as well as a very knowledgeable shop owner... We were discussing this as something that is coming up more and more. The solution seems to be bringing in more O 2 and flushing the room or switching to tanks... I dont claim to have the answer and Im not stuck on labels... call it whatever... just discussing and being open... which is the purpose of forums for the most part... Ive been growing off and on since 1974 and always learning thanks to places like this.