Dissolved oxygen

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Not posted for a while, I’m still in the game just keeping my head down as you doooo

Question to anyone who maybe able to give some advice, but does anyone have an experience using DO to treat their ladies?

Been looking into this a lot recently and obvs the benefits are there.

O2 grow in the USA (emitter) is what I looking at.

Is this something you feed your plants or spray on them?

Some new gadget to empty our wallets maybe?

Link?

I had a post half written when I found this s....

https://www.o2grow.com/

If you have a professional hydro grow going, sure why not.

$200 fro the cheapest model? Frig no!
Build the equivalent for 1/4 of the price

Good luck

Hugo Phurst said:

I had a post half written when I found this s....

https://www.o2grow.com/

If you have a professional hydro grow going, sure why not.

$200 fro the cheapest model? Frig no!
Build the equivalent for 1/4 of the price

Good luck

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Wonder what happens to all the hydrogen? Electrolysis makes twice as much of it as oxygen so better not smoke in the grow room.

Stones keep the DO up more than enough. Just another gizmo to fleece gullible growers.

Im using a O2G2020 now. I had root rot issues last grow, but one plant has at least recovered enough to be encouraging, so will use it exclusively for my next grow.

I no longer do threads here due to a bunch of Ahole bashers

Go to their www to learn the whys and wherefores

Thanks for your replies. Btw I use soil not hydro. I see from the videos and the information that once you have saturated the water with DO, it can stay in that state for up to 24 hours, so as a soil grower, Im assuming there would be nothing stopping me feeding that from the tub I mix my nutes in. The reason behind my thinking is that soil growing is a lot slower than hydro as we know and if there was any way this could be sped up by oxygenating the root zone would be a no brainer. I have checked out the site and watched the videos and tbf it looks pretty impressive. There is a lot of information on the net regarding this with proof of the benefits, was just intrigued to see if anyone here has got involved.

I THINK that if DO water is stirred, the stirring releases much of the DO, which likely applies to pouring it into any medium

Also, as to how long it stays in suspension, O2G suggests turn O2G on every 4 hours

OldMedUser said:

Wonder what happens to all the hydrogen?

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Thats the first thing I thought as well.

PhatNuggz said:

I THINK that if DO water is stirred, the stirring releases much of the DO,

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Actually any movement that disturbs the surface actually increases DO. Standing water is very low in oxygen.

I see that makes good logic, Ill have a wee look into that cheers dude

ZeeeDoc said:

Thanks for your replies. Btw I use soil not hydro. I see from the videos and the information that once you have saturated the water with DO, it can stay in that state for up to 24 hours, so as a soil grower, Im assuming there would be nothing stopping me feeding that from the tub I mix my nutes in. The reason behind my thinking is that soil growing is a lot slower than hydro as we know and if there was any way this could be sped up by oxygenating the root zone would be a no brainer. I have checked out the site and watched the videos and tbf it looks pretty impressive. There is a lot of information on the net regarding this with proof of the benefits, was just intrigued to see if anyone here has got involved.

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If you water soil properly it gets more then enough DO. As the soil dries after you water it, it sucks air into the root system. Its the same effect that flood and drain system.

If you really want to increase the O2 in your soil, there is a technique I found years ago. I guy on here posted about it, and it worked awesome for him so I tried it too when I grew in soil. It uses an air pump to feed air into a diffuser in the bottom of your soil pot. This forces air into the root system which allows it to dry faster and increases the O2 in the root zone. It seemed to make the plants I did it to grow really well.

Thundercat said:

If you water soil properly it gets more then enough DO. As the soil dries after you water it, it sucks air into the root system. Its the same effect that flood and drain system.

If you really want to increase the O2 in your soil, there is a technique I found years ago. I guy on here posted about it, and it worked awesome for him so I tried it too when I grew in soil. It uses an air pump to feed air into a diffuser in the bottom of your soil pot. This forces air into the root system which allows it to dry faster and increases the O2 in the root zone. It seemed to make the plants I did it to grow really well.

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Have you tried those air pots? I never tried them but they look cool. lol

Just fill a five gallon bucket or other form of vessel with water. Put a small pond pump on the bottom. Let it circulate for a day. All the DO you need in the water. I'll call this emitter a rip off because it is.

Renfro said:

Have you tried those air pots? I never tried them but they look cool. lol

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Store bought air pots? I haven't tried those. I did a DYI version back in 2009 with aquarium air pumps and construction sponges and it worked awesome. Those plants definitely went through more wet/dry cycles. The root zones also dried more evenly and didn't get wet spots. The plants that had it seemed to grow more vigorously, but it wasn't a scientific side by side. Its definitely a concept that made sense to me.

The person I learned about it from was called @natmoon. They did it in a 10x10 "basket" with the air diffuser in the bottom, so they got air from all the sides and injected. Natmoon grew baseball bat colas with this setup. Sadly most of the old threads have lost there pictures. Natmoon refered to the style as an "air basket".

xtsho said:

Just fill a five gallon bucket or other form of vessel with water. Put a small pond pump on the bottom. Let it circulate for a day. All the DO you need in the water. I'll call this emitter a rip off because it is.

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I have a small aquarium pump I plug into my exhaust fan controller with a 6" airstone in a full jug of RO water so it is always charged with O2 whenever I decide to water and the pump isn't running 24/7.

PhatNuggz said:

I THINK that if DO water is stirred, the stirring releases much of the DO, which likely applies to pouring it into any medium

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Your thinking is wrong about that. Stirring or pouring water from one container to another will add O2 to the water. It doesn't get released like CO2 from a bottle of pop as it's not under pressure. If it's low on O2 to start just sitting for a day in an open pail will absorb as much O2 as it can hold at that temperature in a day. Agitation or bubbling air thru it speeds up the process.

Distilled water is nearly devoid of O2 so should be aerated in some manner before using. I'm not sure what the deal is with RO water but I aerate that before use to make sure it's got lots.

Renfro said:

Have you tried those air pots? I never tried them but they look cool. lol

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I've often thought of getting some of those but I think about a lot of things.

My regular plastic pots dry out fast enough tho and those would just make more work for me. Something to be avoided whenever possible IMHO.

OldMedUser said:

Your thinking is wrong about that. Stirring or pouring water from one container to another will add O2 to the water. It doesn't get released like CO2 from a bottle of pop as it's not under pressure. If it's low on O2 to start just sitting for a day in an open pail will absorb as much O2 as it can hold at that temperature in a day. Agitation or bubbling air thru it speeds up the process.

Distilled water is nearly devoid of O2 so should be aerated in some manner before using. I'm not sure what the deal is with RO water but I aerate that before use to make sure it's got lots.

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Im speaking specifically about the DO as created by an O2G, which is microscopic. Seems to me pouring that into anything else would quickly dissipate the DO

DO is DO regardless of it's source.

I have used those airpots, imo they are more hassle than there worth, they dry out quick so you really have to keep on top of, plus when you water, good luck cleaning up the puddles when it starts pissing out all the holes ha ha
I did have a reply from 02 Grow regarding DO and using in soil grow see below

Hi @£$@£$

Its the soil farmers who have the best success with this science. Don't let the aquarium demonstrations on our website confuse you. Sorry about that. We just use those for visual purposes. Go ahead and charge your water just before watering. You can add your nutrients if you use those after you vacated that 40 litres for half hour or so. Our organic lovers also love this science. ( She then starts to talk shit about duty/tax/import szzzzz) So yeah that was the reply. So going back to my original thought, I kinda wanted to know if this would benefit in a soil grow. Thanks for all your replies will look into a few things that you have mentioned

Sip pots or Hempy buckets all day