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please help!!!!! can fumes from a deisel heater kill my plants?

Well, considering they need fresh air as much as we do, I'm sure diesel fumes will either kill them or they could be absorbed and expunged into the buds. Whereupon you would have to be very careful when lighting your joints.
 
Depending on what kind of heater you got, does it have a seperate exhaust with a heat exchanger inside? If it does you could make a provisional exhaust duct. If not keep in mind the CO2 levels might go dangerously high. For the health of your plants, as I've ounderstood, if you smoke with your plants you clog the pores the leafs use to breath CO2, as diesel is oil based it might do the same. Just thinking out loud.
 
The combustion of diesel fuel (if the burner is functioning properly and IS designed to use diesel) should produce CO2, water vapor, maybe some CO, and various nitrates, sulfates, depending on it's purity and the type or grade of crude oil that it was derived from. It will kill You if You have to spend any amount of time breathing in the fumes. That type of heater is only to be used in very well ventilated areas! An electric, fan forced heater would be the better choice. BE VERY CAREFUL and ventilate the shed if you must use it.
 
Have u ever tasted diesel fuel,the smell is almost as bad,don't treat your buds with exaust.Thay will take on the smell & taste of whatever there exposed to.Yuck! LOL
 
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Being familiar with the various different kinds of heaters I am curious when you say "diesel heater" because the only two types I am aware of that would fit into this type of description is the first which is the most common, the Kerosene heater which is used in most household types of heating situations, and the Nipco Heaters which are used for heating things like garages and larger areas. Kerosene is suppose to burn cleaner than diesel as far as the fuel grade goes, and I can tell you from years of burning kerosene for heaters inside it is sooty and dirty and there is even an additive bottle that comes in one of four scents just to help it burn less sooty and less of that kerosene smell inside. My negative ion generators can't even be ran when burning it because of the soot they will extract from the air can then be ignited by the static charge of the commercial built for home use negative ion generator that plugs into the household's electrical, so that gives the very clear impression the soot can still pose a fire hazard. It will collect as dust as an oily grime throughout the entire building, including the soles of your shoes as you will notice with time. Plants over time will start to get a shine to them after you try to wipe the oily dust that collects on their leaves, and in time the plants will slow down and have more issues and troubles. I've also tried the air purifying cleaners like for HEPA filtration to cut down on issues, but all it did was plug up 30-day HEPA filters in 2-3 weeks, and the charcoal filters needed to be changed more often as well, overall not happy.

As far as the Nipco Heaters go, they stink more so than the kerosene heaters, but put out a massive amount of heat ahead of itself, great for heating large areas, but they leave things rather drafty when they aren't being used constantly and then if they are they get so super hot in there. The only other idea I come up with under the idea of a "diesel heater" is the house style, but they call that Fuel Oil... and even when I think of the lanterns I keep thinking they have them in Kerosene, White Gas, Lamp Oil... The only diesel heaters I know of that actually run diesel is the Nipco Heaters.

If you are looking for precious control consider looking to a wall mount propane garage heater the type that is "Vent Free" so you can run it off a propane tank, you can get them from running small propane bottles to the 20# propane bottles, up to the LP propane wall mount heaters all in Vent Free. What that means is the CO2 is then released into the air of the location of the heater itself, as such they are now built with CO2 shut offs, if the CO2 levels get too high on a "construction heater" or "garage heater| they are set to automatically cut the fuel supply before it hits dangerous limits for a human or pet. The plants love the additional CO2 and propane burns clean only adding humidity to the air, which offsets for the drying of the air in some cases, other times you still need to add more humidity still.The other style is to vent the heater outside, but since plants need CO2 why not give it to the plants.

Having lived with the different methods of heating for many years, if you are doing anything with plants you will find propane heaters are the cheapest to operate over the longer period of time, and kerosene or diesel will still have you running to the store often to try to keep up with fuel supply at random times, propane on the other hand is more precise and you can pick up a tank and know it will last you for this period of time, where with the liquid fuels they burn at different efficiency rates every hour depending on environmental conditions and such. Propane is known to be a "clean burning fuel" and that is also why the furnaces and CO2 generators used by the greenhouses around me also burn propane. Hope that helps.
 
I work driving an old diesel tractor as part of my job. It smells terrible. Some days I cough and choke so much I have to put on a gas/fume mask while driving. I wouldn't want my plants anywhere a running diesel engine of any kind.
 
The heater can be in my 25x25 foot she'd on with me in it all day without being vented and I dnt ever feel any signs of toxins of short of breath or anything. Would it still be fine for a plant short term couple days?
 
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This is the heater I speak of
 

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Have the exhaust pointed out the door...

I work around and with those all the time..I just point it toward on open door...few days should be fine..use kerosene tho...keep eye on them...

Gotta do what you gotta do....
 
Yeah I'm with Green on this, you do what you have to do... use kerosene though, of all those three fuels you named you could run it is the best one of them all. I would leave fresh air coming in constantly with a heater like that, because wow can they ever really heat a place up and thaw out a tractor or car in the dead of winter with temps -40 or colder outside.
 
Why wouldn't u use this heater xaliuz? It's done me wounders in the winter were it got to minus 60 where I live and the temp go's from minus 10 to minus 60 from October to march
 
Most likley because im a noob. The 13gal tank giving 9.5 hours uptime, recomended 8 feet space behind heater and planthealth was why i didn't think much of it. Good the profesionals stepped in!
 
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