I’ve never carbonated my organic nutes because I’m afraid of degradation of organic nutrients, inert stuff I don’t think its affected, but what happens when you carbonate nutrients?
I’m pretty sure roots like a certain ratio of carbonation vs inert air
The only only thing I imagine it would do is lower the ph of the media due to it converting to carbonic acid with the potential swing in PH I would guess one could have issue with lockout of certain nutrients never heard of this before but I’d advise against it.
What is the process for carbonizing ones nutrients?
I was looking at potassium carbonate the other day as an additive, but it’s not good to use, it kills beneficial fungi bacteria. It’s used in vineyards as a anti fungal foliar spray. Might be good for PM.
Crazy i was just thinking about carbonated drinking water. What pros n cons cause the carbonation sgould get o2 to rootzone or am i wrong.
I know there is a carbon foliar i use but only foliar not at root zone.
Im thinking of ways to on demand add air to soil set roots.
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without peroxide and killing the herd i like my microbes n bacterias.
That’s why i was brainstorming carbonated drinking water.
Carbonation uses C02, not 02. Plants roots want 02, not C02.
Are you thinking fermentation? Haven’t heard of anyone carbonating their nutrients either. I can imagine if they were overcarbonated though, and one or two of em… 
I would be interested to see if the enzymes and little beasts that live in the soil could break apart the co2 molecule and utilize the carbon as a building block, releasing the O2 for the roots - I’m sure it’s wishful thinking but interesting for sure.
Exactly this - which would be bad in most cases unless your PH was running really hi. Even if your PH was hi, adding CO2 is a poor way to try to lower it.
Also, in blood work, added CO2 actually lowers O2 levels. Not sure if that translates over to water culture, but I suspect it does. (Edit: no - the dissolved O2 and CO2 are independent of each other, so adding CO2 wont lower O2 levels - just the PH.)
In any case, I dont see how this can do anything but hurt your plants.
I know this but co2 still has o2 it still fizzes and releases air under the surface. Carbon ad oxygen molecules.
My questionis what are the effects of carbon at roots ?cause it supplies both.
this is right looked it up and carbonated water Or nutrients co2 period is good at roots. The thing is it causes ph changes in soil as you said
Good read @rooted theres probably a fine line between what a plant can utilize for optimal growth and and what one can use to tip the balance to unfavorable conditions I’d think I’d would be hard to find and obtain those concentrations in a home based system though Imo. Might be fun to experiment though!
Yeah i was mainly thinking of trying it on a couple rootbound plants i got.
Consider the following:
Carbonated water contains macronutrients that are essential to plant growth, according to researchers at the University of Colorado. The nutrients found in carbonated water are potassium, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and sodium. The researchers used the plant baby’s tears as a test subject. Some plants received tap water and others received carbonated water. The carbonated plants grew more than twice as large as the tap water plants. The nutrients are already dissolved, which makes it easier for the plant to uptake them before they leach out of the soil.
Carbonated “water” does not contain macronutrients unless it is naturally high in minerals prior to adding the CO2. They then compared the growth rates to plants given tap water, which has no / little macronutrients. This seemingly ignores the difference in mineral content. I don’t have the original student paper.
The second article appears to refer to CO2 supplementation of the surrounding air. Not directly to the substrate although they do mention the possibility of high environmental CO2 affecting the soil PH since plants do have the ability to sequester excess CO2 into the rootzone.
There are a variety of scientific papers floating around on the subject though they have shown contradictory results. There has been some correlation to stomatal regulation. For instance,
read through it, im thinking someone can invent a carbonization pill… does anyone know a professor at the university of colorado?
we need to make sure it preserves the internals of the atom
