Hello and thank you for your time.
This is my first grow, and I hope to flip to flower in the next week. I am trying to get all I need for drying then curing in order. I plan to use my grow tent for drying. I have the 4" exhaust but no intake fan. There are 2x AeroWave E6 Grow Tent Fan 6”, EC Motor, in the tent as well.
My questions:
Do you close up the tent to dry, or leave a vent window open?
If open, is the just the exhaust enough air movement, and the other fans should be off
I know not to put them directly on the flowers, but that is about all.
The tent is in a basement that stays 65F to 68F year round. The base humidity will be much higher once winter is over so I cannot say exactly what at this point. All other specs below.
What strain - Bruce Banner. Amnesia Haze
Seed bank - seed supreme
Method- hydroponic, 5 gallon buckets with 6 “basket using clay balls, root spa setup
Souce water -well → RO 8-16ppm / pH 5.5-6.5
PPM/TDS or EC - 1235-1325 ppm at current veg.
Additives-General Hydroponics flora series and Calimagic / Botonicare hydroguard
Indoor
Light system- 1x VIPARSPECTRA 2024 Upgraded XS2000, 1x VIPARSPRCTRA LED grow light 450w
Temps; Day - 74F/ 77F Night - 72F / 75F
Humidity; Day, Night - 40-50 same for both
Ventilation system; AC Infinity CLOUDLINE PRO S4, Quiet 4” Inline Duct Fan with 10-Speed Controller as exhaust.
AC- No
Humidifier-Rosem. Small and cheap
Co2; - No
Tent- 4x4x6’7”
Whatever it takes you want to get to 60 degrees and 60% humidity for drying,a fan or 2 just to keep air moving around in tent.my plants are hanging now and moving ever so slightly but im going to switch plants around once a day and keep them in the dark as much as possible, you dont necessarily need your exhaust fan now unless you can run it and maintain the 60/60 temperature and humidity, many ways to do it but this has worked for me, only have 4 grows under my belt so take it from there.
Mine have been drying for about 6 hrs pretty quickly got temp to 62 and its held there, humidity holding around 59.9 %, if that can be maintained for 10 to 12 days I’d be sittin pretty.
I like to leave pass through hole open with exhaust fan running on low speed . Also , leave one small circulating fan on low speed , but not blowing directly on the product. Basement excellent grow space or drying 65 degrees great drying temp.
Good luck
I ran out of electric outlets, so only one exhaust with filter. So hooked drying tent to grow tent. Drying tent 60rh, and 66 to 68 temp. The only thing I could do to cool it more would be to run duct directly into the top of the dry tent from the central air. I’d use a diffuser almost closed. But I think that has potential for more issues. I have the grow tent at 45rh and 78f , 45 since I’m at 11.5 weeks flower. Any constructive thoughts would be appreciated. The little hanging was cut at 11 weeks.
