Co2 poisoning?

Buttercup726 · Jul 14, 2020

Flipped the switch on my ladies last night. Turned the co2 on but didn’t notice the burner was not plugged in the sensor. So essentially the burner/co2 was running all night until I popped in the room 16 hours later noticing a strong smell of co2 and the plants looked stressed. The heads looked bad. Will they recover. It was for about to 16 hours. The ppms were over 10000. I unplugged the burner and the ppms began to drop. I just want my ladies to recover.

Aqua Man · Jul 14, 2020

Buttercup726 said:
Flipped the switch on my ladies last night. Turned the co2 on but didn’t notice the burner was not plugged in the sensor. So essentially the burner/co2 was running all night until I popped in the room 16 hours later noticing a strong smell of co2 and the plants looked stressed. The heads looked bad. Will they recover. It was for about to 16 hours. The ppms were over 10000. I unplugged the burner and the ppms began to drop. I just want my ladies to recover.

Sounds like ethylene poisoning to me have pics?

Buttercup726 · Jul 14, 2020

I only took one. Man. Is there anything I can do to correct it.

Aqua Man · Jul 14, 2020

Buttercup726 said:
I only took one. Man. Is there anything I can do to correct it. View attachment 1000368

They perk back up after? run the exhaust long enough to exchange the whole room. Possible burner issue not efficiently burning gases can also cause this. I highly doubt it was the Co2 even at that concentration. I use bottled gas and have seen almost 3k I know much lower than 10k but no effects. Ethylene is a killer even in tiny amounts. Pay attention to the plants if you see this happening you may need to vent the room more often. Just for future knowledge. The reason plants are so sensitive to it is because unlike Co2 Ethylene is a plant hormone.

Maybe an ethylene monitor will help you see when and if its an issue

Buttercup726 · Jul 14, 2020

appreciate the response aqua man. I think its high ppms from the CO2. Can’t believe I made that mistake. My other room has a few ladies in there and I didn’t make that mistake with sensor. Heads look nice and perky. I might spray it with something tonight. Gonna do some digging on the forum.

Any input would be highly appreciated

LittleDabbie · Jul 14, 2020

I've seen someone paint a grow room in the middle of flower and have it off gas, They bounced back :D Minor stress but enough fresh air they should be fine.

Aqua Man · Jul 14, 2020

Buttercup726 said:
appreciate the response aqua man. I think its high ppms from the CO2. Can’t believe I made that mistake. My other room has a few ladies in there and I didn’t make that mistake with sensor. Heads look nice and perky. I might spray it with something tonight. Gonna do some digging on the forum.

Any input would be highly appreciated
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I wouldn't spray anything on a stressed plant. I highly doubt it was the Co2

Buttercup726 · Jul 14, 2020

Aqua Man said:
I wouldn't spray anything on a stressed plant. I highly doubt it was the Co2

I will take that advice. I will monitor for a few days and hope to see a bounce back.

hamburgermidnight · Dec 20, 2020

Hey, so did you ever get to the bottom of it. I have a Plug-n-grow IGS-061 that took a shit in me twice and plants went from heathy and happy to exactly what you showed. I was gone for 6 hours and when I came back my
Co2 readout was pinned at
5,000 which is the max but who knows what it actually was. This happened twice in two weeks. It took a week for the plants to fully recover. I’m under fluence spydr2i at 35%. Here’s my before and after photos from the same day. First two are before the co2 controller went to shit.

HaveApuff · Dec 20, 2020

Time will only tell

DistyDemon · Dec 20, 2020

You smelled co2? That's weird..... probably smelt gas (propane). I had a regulator go bad and dump 14,000ppm co2 in my flower room. Zero smell/odor.

hamburgermidnight · Dec 20, 2020

DistyDemon said:
You smelled co2? That's weird..... probably smelt gas (propane). I had a regulator go bad and dump 14,000ppm co2 in my flower room. Zero smell/odor.

When a flame is burning you can smell/feel the moisture / flame or whatever other by-products occur if it’s been running in an enclosed space. Similar to after lighting an oven and letting it preheat a bit and you open the door

hamburgermidnight · Dec 20, 2020

hamburgermidnight said:
When a flame is burning you can smell/feel the moisture / flame or whatever other by-products occur if it’s been running in an enclosed space. Similar to after lighting an oven and letting it preheat a bit and you open the door

Also, after hearing your response and others experiences of Co2 bottles dumping with no ill effects it’s leading me to think that when a burner dumps like that it’s the by-products like ethylene that cause the severe effects of trying to stop transpiration giving it that claw look.

hamburgermidnight · Dec 20, 2020

I’ll be ditching the burner and switching to bottled today

DistyDemon · Dec 20, 2020

hamburgermidnight said:
When a flame is burning you can smell/feel the moisture / flame or whatever other by-products occur if it’s been running in an enclosed space. Similar to after lighting an oven and letting it preheat a bit and you open the door

That's carbon monoxide (aka the silent killer)

Co2 gas does NOT smell. Propane has an deodorant put in it to help people discern that there is a major gas leak problem

Aqua Man · Dec 20, 2020

DistyDemon said:
You smelled co2? That's weird..... probably smelt gas (propane). I had a regulator go bad and dump 14,000ppm co2 in my flower room. Zero smell/odor.

Single stage regulator? End of tank dump?

Aqua Man · Dec 20, 2020

hamburgermidnight said:
Also, after hearing your response and others experiences of Co2 bottles dumping with no ill effects it’s leading me to think that when a burner dumps like that it’s the by-products like ethylene that cause the severe effects of trying to stop transpiration giving it that claw look.

Inefficient burners give off ethylene and im all but certain its ethylene poisoning.

DistyDemon · Dec 20, 2020

Aqua Man said:
Single stage regulator? End of tank dump?

I used a regulator that was made with the "shiney metal" and not the usual brass. It froze open (where the reg connects to the bottle threads split) and dumped the bottle in the room. My controller is outside the room and it rwad 14,000ppm co2. I documented the mishap 6yrs ago on here.

Aqua Man · Dec 20, 2020

DistyDemon said:
I used a regulator that was made with the "shiney metal" and not the usual brass. It froze open (where the reg connects to the bottle threads split) and dumped the bottle in the room. My controller is outside the room and it rwad 14,000ppm co2. I documented the mishap 6yrs ago on here.

Ouch haha. Sorry not funny but thats a first for me.

DistyDemon · Dec 20, 2020

Brass style regulators only, no more shiney metal types.

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