Seltzer water

Okay so I have been reading. Some people use club soda(has sodium) others us sodium free carb. Water. I have Selzter tablets with sodium I think it's like 500 mg per tablet. I'm going to guess this wouldn't be a good choice to feed my plants with right seeing it has sodium?

I'm actually going to conduct this test, I got seltzer water with no sodium. I am going to feed it to my plants and I will see the results and I'll post pictures for everyone starting today. I'll mist the plant everyday and I'll use this water to water my plant directly once ever other watering and we will see some good or bad results.

The trouble with that is seltzer water will displace the air from your soil. Roots breathe air. You risk smothering your plant. If it gets that "overwatered" look, you'll know why.

And sodium is indeed bad for weed plants. Just one Alka-Seltzer could kill a plant. cn

cannabineer said:

The trouble with that is seltzer water will displace the air from your soil. Roots breathe air. You risk smothering your plant. If it gets that "overwatered" look, you'll know why.

And sodium is indeed bad for weed plants. Just one Alka-Seltzer could kill a plant. cn

Click to expand...

Yeah luckily I didn't feed it the seltzer tabs. Well from the research and studies they've done doing this their plants grew pretty well. Even adding water to the soil because "the carb bubbles make holes in the soil for roots to easily grow into"

IDK, the carbonation doesn't sound like a good thing, even though it is CO2, so keep us posted.

well in theory the CO2 will Get displaced during drainage right around the base of the plant, so its like a little shot of co2 everytime you water. As far as i know plants only use co2 during photosynthesis and its through the leaves, not the roots. could be wrong but thats my 2 cents.

AFAIK, plants can absorb CO2 through the roots too - but in lesser amounts. Also, as someone mentioned, you risk displacing the oxygen. This article on CO2 root absorption is interesting, but that's just from a Google search. In general, most discussions of CO2 are atmospheric. I ran across one "study" that mentioned the other nutrients present in the soda water and compared it to to a tap water control without those nutrients - so it was hardly a fair measure of CO2 alone.

Some use the carbonated water for a foliar spray because, again, the leaves take in most of the CO2.

Keep in mind that CO2 is one of the limiting factors. Just adding more CO2 won't help (and might hurt) a plant unless the other limiting factors are also raised. Then again, CO2 is probably the factor that limits most grows because it is generally easier to increase all of the others (light, water, and nutrients). So I doubt carbonated water would be too much CO2 - but it may be too much water or not enough oxygen.

If you're worried about other minerals in the seltzer water just get a sodastream and make your own carbonated water..

don't know if anyone is following this thread anymore but I thought I'd give my results from last year. I sprayed straight seltzer water in a fine mist over my plant leaves about once a day the first week and every other day or so from then on till she went outside. I must say she flourished. I had new side growth pretty quickly from LSTing while doing this. Maybe it was my wonderful variety of nutes and baked banana peels, but I don't know for absolute sure. That said, go ahead and spray those babies with plain seltzer water every so often, it don't hurt! (and no salt build up) just don't go crazy and soak the plant as I doubt your results would be as good. OH and please let the leaves dry before placing back under your lights. Cheers!