The girls arrived and are in the process of being germinated. The 5 babies wrapped up in paper towel and kept moist. Grow room test is with One Air cooled Dualarc 600 Watt lamp, water alkalinity 6.8, humidity cool mist at 76% and 75 degrees temp with two small fans to circulate air.
I’m starting off with the Golden Leaf strain (don’t ask why) other than I saw a picture and liked the way it looked. Hopefully it’s not difficult to grow. Depending on how this first grow goes I will try White Widow the next time.
So far two of the five girls have decided to stick their heads up see the world. Well, in a limited way of course. I guess whatever world I share with them.
I’m in Texas and it’s actually quite cold now making temperatures in my 4 X 4 somewhat easy to control consistently. If you remember I have (3) 600 Watts Lamps, Daisy-Chained together with air-cool hoods hanging from the ceiling. And Yes, that’s way way too many 600 watters in such a small area and I’m just using one lamp. With the holidays, I haven’t have time to remove the extra lamps.
Surely there’s nothing that says I can’t force air (push) through the air cooled hoods as well as (suck) the air out of the hoods at the same time, is there? I’m currently using outdoor air to cool the lamps but I’m concerned when the season changes (warmer weather) I will need to move as much air as possible. I viewed a how to video and one of the hood retailers stated you should always push forced air and not suck. He didn’t say anything about both. Am I being an idiot and worrying about noting? It’s not like it will cost a million dollars if I screw up an exhaust fan right?
Hope your New Year is a great one and everything good comes you’re way. I’m am close to retirement age but it seems my thirst for expensive toys control my existence. Maybe I’ll grow up, mature and realize some of those silly toys aren’t worth the constant grind and pain. Of course that’s and whole different conversation.
It’s always easier for your fan’s to suck air through , rather than push air through… also it will be alot easier on your fan’s… also that’s the way they were intended to be used…
Carbon filter in tent hooked to lights and ran out of tent to fan and then exhausted out of the area or recirculated back into the tent depending on temps and what you’re trying to accomplish…
Hope that makes sense…
I think it would be very difficult to exhaust your tent by pushing air into it, and then out the vent. It would have to be airtight! If you just install a duct at the top, to an inline fan, and then duct that out a window, it would be a lot easier. You can include a carbon filter if needed just before the fan. That way it is easy to pressure seal and not have a lot of smell leaking out. Lots of duct fans are available from HVAC places. Home depot even has one.
Thanks @peachfuzz and @1BigFella. I went ahead and purchase an in-line 8" 710 CFM Hyper-Fan. It works great. I can maintain a constant 75 degrees in my 4X4X6 with two 600 Watts lamps on. Of course that’s a bit overkill but its good to know I can control temps with that fan. I have it filtered and sucking from outside and then into my enclosed lamps and then out a carbon filter to another 8" inline 240 CFM fan. All this may seem a bit too much but I guess you could say I’m learning what kind of capacities I have controlling or maintaining temperatures. I’m blowing and sucking. I’m not using a CO2 system yet so I’m not concerned about a real closed loop set up with my fans and lights yet.
Thanks @AmnesiaHaze. I would love to think I could maintain 72 degrees here in Texas using only outdoor air to cool my lights. I’m positive summer-time will be the time I have to use some sort of artificial cooling system.
I think that’s going to pressurize your tent and fill your house with weed smell.
I think you want it the other way around so the big fan pulls air from the tent through the filter and dumps it outside. Intake I would not worry about too much. Comfortable home temperature is comfortable weed temperature. You can probably just pull inside air into the bottom of the tent.
Good point @1Bigfella. I will swap the fans around when I finish construction on the Flowering (bud) Room. I’ve decided to use the tent as a Starter and Veg. room so I will have to acquire another set of air handling fans and ducting. I will make sure the suck side is stronger or at least adjustable. I love that Hyper-Fan.
Do I really need to buy and install a muffler for the duct work? I was thinking my set up could be vented off into the attic with a high volume capacity carbon filter. I saw a muffler on someones site but thought it might be unnecessary for me. I guess I could try it without and see. Maintaining good temperatures and keeping the humidity up is a true balancing act. Hopefully that problem won’t be as prevalent when I move to that larger space. I showed my girlfriend what you meant but the higher tent pressure @1BigFella by turning up the air volume and the room soon have a thick fog from the humidifier. She got a kick out of that.
I think use of a muffler is pretty rare. Most houses can use a fan without raising suspicion. A carbon filter IS necessary if you need to control odor. Some of these strains make it very obvious you are growing without it. Some people care, some don’t.
I’ve made some changes with my light setup guys/gals. I could bake bread with all three lights at 40%. But one light works perfectly. I decided to remove the two extra lights and thought I might as well expand the project by constructing a 7’ X 5’ Flowering room. The 4’X4’ box can be used as a Nursery and part-time Veg. area. What the heck. I figured since I had two extra lights, I might as well expand the project. @1BigFella@AmnesiaHaze@Nug-bug@peachfuzz. I tried everything possible to maintain good temperature and humidity but I had to move too much air to keep things cool and humid. I’ve decided temperatures in Texas aren’t cool enough to use with more than one 600 Watt MH/HPS High Output lights even just turned on 40% and still maintain a good growing environment. At least I now know how to set things up with the duct work and lights. I’ve also learned all things being the same Gold Leaf babies are a little slower growing than Northern Lights babies. Starting off anyway.
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@MarianoGomes. You will learn you can ask and receive help with any question you may have. Except for Stock tips. Which in my mind isn’t a real necessity. Welcome to the fun MarianoGomes. @Nug-bug, you’re probably right. A subconscious plan to stay busy playing with the girls in a closet. I used Orca film to cover the walls and its some great stuff. Tough tear proof material with 94% reflectivity.
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