Bugbee says 400 minimum I think in a video. I’m not sure how fast these ladies use it though, seems like 150 ish an hour or two as a wild guess.
I’ve got 2 ACI 6 inch inlines with 2 of their 6 inch oscillating fans. An 8 inch would probably be better in the 5x5 but I got their kit on a good discount.
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Nice setup, they should be getting a good flow of fresh air. I keep my circulation fans at or just below the main canopy. Since I moved my LED Drivers outside the tent I see no reason to try and blow a fan at my bars lights. After removing the main source of heat for the fixtures and getting them out of the tent temps are much easier to manage and I let the heat rise out of the tent through the ceiling 6’ exhaust flaps. I pull in air from the outside with a 6’ inline fan. I will configure a second 6’ inline fan that will kick on when CO2 sensor alerts for low levels of CO2.
Now my main goals for the environment center around VPD and keeping it in a beneficial range for plant stage.
Here’s a good tool I use to calculate VPD. They also have an App for this that you can use with certain Bluetooth sensors that I’m interested in.
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Nice! Yeah I’ve just got the intake going through a 6 inch carbon filter trying to minimize potential for light. I have a 6 inch inline from my first spider farmer kit I was using before I needed the plug for something else. Considering pulling one of the oscillating fans from the 3x3 though to put it back in and maybe pull in not air. Temps are only really an issue when it’s dry though. I like the idea of just exhausting through a roof duct but think I might be pulling too much positive pressure for that and have to keep the smell contained.
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I use my carbon filter for the exhaust vent. I also use an outside vent as the main exhaust. I’m on the second floor and any odor is quickly vanquished into thin air. I worked in the IT department world and worked at many different co-lo’s where hundreds of not thousands of servers resided. All of them based the build with cool air pumped in from the floor and hot air sucked out the top.
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Yeah my inline runs through a duct out the top, sorry thought you just meant left a vent hole open to free exhaust.
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Dude I do it all the time. Tents are not air tight. If it hurt I would not mention it.
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I was honestly just thinking about how successful your grows are without concern for this while I was watering and thinking about something else someone told me I should worry about but there was evidence it made little difference for most. Guessing it’s only really critical in a home grow with tents if your background already sits really low. Ours is pretty high so I’d be surprised if they ran out all of their CO2 in a couple hour down time. Definitely will still be keeping this in the tool belt if I see it down to 40 or below.
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But are you able to monitor the amount of available CO2 in your tent? How about temperatures and humidity? Are you monitoring?
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I think he let his plants do the monitoring for him. Canary in a coal mine. Hate it or love it, it definitely works for him. Huge respect for both approaches.
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Yes, I didn’t always monitor all aspects. My good neighbor moved and left his grow room out front a few weeks before. I inquired and he left me his gear. This was maybe 10 years ago. He had 600 watt ballast with sealed light fixture and 4x4 tent. Lots of extras I just moved to my garage. When I decided to setup the tent I used the fixture, tent, inline exhaust fan and some timers. I decided it was too hot so I started to upgrade the setup with some LED fixtures. After a couple semi successful grows I started hitting YouTube U. I also dug through his gear and decide to hookup this Sentinel Environmental controls. At the same time I purchased some LWD driver extension cables and moved the driver outside of the tent.
Started monitoring temps and humidity and VPD. Found out that plants will close stomata’s when it’s too hot or too dry as a response to the environment. Depends on your strain but I’ve found I can keep the environment inside the envelope during the winter growing at night. Making use of the cool air for cooling.
I can grow two full crops during the winter months. The first crop is mothers and the second if clones from selected plants.
Stated these girls October 28th, last Fridays photos above.
Will collect clones this week when I give them their first trim.
Using DWC and GH Flora trio with additives for the expert feeding schedule.
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2 different styles man. Your dwc. I am living soil very basic. Very little equipment used to grow. We are both successfull. Both styles work well.
Not a newbie here but think as you wish. Discussion between us on this is closed. Lets help others. I despise drama and comparing penis size.
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I wouldn’t want to lead anyone down the wrong path. Not trying to compare appendages.
I hope to pass on basic information, that would do no harm. That’s my only intent.
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Same here. No worries man.
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