Setting up my indoor grow system and @raustin is doing a fantastic job keeping up with my noob questions as she mentors me. I ordered a 2x2x5 tent so I’m selecting a 4" exhaust fan for the top draw. Will have a 4" intake fan as well.
The fan I originally selected is a 190 cfm inline - then I added a speed controller with H/M/L settings. While adding items in my Amazon cart, I noted an AC Infinity 152 CFM inline fan that has a temp probe and a digital controller setting that allows the fan to come on and operate at a pre-selected temperature inside the tent. The price is roughly $40 more than the fan plus the speed selector with no temp probe.
I’ll be setting my tent in a location that I’ll access daily but wont be close at hand on an hourly basis. I’d like to be able to set my temps for HVAC in the grow space w/o having to second guess when the exhaust needs to come on or go off. I realize humidity will factor into this equation and that is yet to be addressed. But at the end of the day, will a fan with a temp probe be worth the additional expense and convenience since I wont be close by 24/7?
No, it won’t, because the exhaust fan needs to stay on 24/7 regardless of the temperature. It fights mold and mildew by keeping the air circulated. I’ve never had a reason to turn off my exhaust fan. I sometimes turn off my intake, but only because I’m too lazy to turn it back on.
Beautiful. I follow your lead. The tent is on order, next - the final order of fans, ducting, PPM meter, 5G fabric pots and a few other misc items such as power cords, power strips, humidity meter with temp gauge…etc.
FF soil and nutes in hand, LED 135W QB to arrive next week. All is shaping up.
ILGM Fem WW seeds have been shipped, but I’m going to do a test run with a generic (unknown sex, unknown strain) seed just the get my feng shui going on.
I THINK I’m getting my head wrapped around this experience. Love it!!
My tents been getting down to 60 degrees with lights out. Im bad and plugged the fan into the light timer
Where I live its always a low humidity problem never high
You must have a PH meter already, right?
And pulling you best plant because its a male wont do your feng shui any favors. Plant a fem now or cry latter
I’m going to have too heat my tent soon. I live in a urban environment and need to keep the smell down , just not ready to pay the power bill to heat it yet.
I’m also urban, very urban in NYC. I live off the lobby in my building and sometimes I stink up the entire first floor when i’m harvesting. Oh, and my building is owned by nuns. Lol!
I too will face low humidity in the winter, and can humidify the grow room if necessary. Higher humidity loves to create mold and mildew as @raustin points out, so my goal will be to create a reasonable balance the girls will flourish within.
Yeah @boardsbird, I have a Hach Ph meter (glass bulb) I use for brewing. it is super accurate so I can test runoff and nute solutions before application.
I have a darn grocery bag of seeds (unknown) so I want to do a test run to “pop” seeds in the Rapid Rooter, set my LED QB’s output for seedlings and just do general test w/ nutes for a few weeks before terminating the plant.
Kind of a “sacrificial” plant we may say. BTW, I watched a video in which the YouTuber says he can determine the sex of the plant by a seed examination 85 - 90% accuracy. He looks at the crown of the seed where it attaches to the bud. A male has a very slight raised plateau with an erratic center while a female has a raised plateau like a volcano with a very defined center.
HOWEVER, with all his soothsayer science involved, I’ll trust ILGM to send me something I can bank on for sure.
As a small plant i reached to pull this plant 2 times and stop myself" It was not flowering so I just stuffed it in the back of the tent and look what happened
