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CO2 @ 7000' !! HIT A BRICK WALL, LOST !!
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EvilTwin
Hi Solace,
So you haven't grown indoors there? To use CO2 properly, you almost need a sealed room. I've used a low grade continuous co2 which was a propane lamp by the air intake...but no meters or anything. Seemed to help some.
I'd set up your room and do a grow. Maybe you won't need the co2 if you have good ventilation. Doesn't need to be outdoors...just from outside the grow room.
People also use dry ice and co2 pucks as well as yeast growth buckets. Lots of low budget things. But a full-on co2 system with bottles and times are regulators...be thinking close to a grand for all that.
Peace,
ET
So you haven't grown indoors there? To use CO2 properly, you almost need a sealed room. I've used a low grade continuous co2 which was a propane lamp by the air intake...but no meters or anything. Seemed to help some.
I'd set up your room and do a grow. Maybe you won't need the co2 if you have good ventilation. Doesn't need to be outdoors...just from outside the grow room.
People also use dry ice and co2 pucks as well as yeast growth buckets. Lots of low budget things. But a full-on co2 system with bottles and times are regulators...be thinking close to a grand for all that.
Peace,
ET
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NOYB
While I'm only at 4,000' I always loved it when it is ice cold outside. For starters that air is really dry. I built in a lot of flexibility into my old room and one thing I do in the winter is rearrange the ducting and push air through the hoods and point the ends of the ducts right at the incoming air to temper the cold. I also had floor standing oscillating fans blowing hard well above the canopy to help mix the air before it gets to the plants. The top of the canopy fluttered just a bit. One of the things that does not work well in the winter in grow rooms around here is if you have a lot of dead space. I set up one room that was 8' x 18' x 6' with 4800 watts. It was like a big grow box with hardly any dead space. In the Summer all the heat gets ducted right out through the carbon scrubber.
Another friend has a space with 10' ceilings and there's too much dead space. He's not willing to cram a bunch of lights in there so has to run an electric heater to drive the temps up so the thermostat kicks on to vent the room to get some fresh air.
Another friend has a space with 10' ceilings and there's too much dead space. He's not willing to cram a bunch of lights in there so has to run an electric heater to drive the temps up so the thermostat kicks on to vent the room to get some fresh air.
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EvilTwin
Solace,
I looked at that panel heater. Just like with lights...there's no substitute for wattage. That wouldn't work for heating cold garage air.
Just get a good carbon scrubber and vent from and back to your living space. That solves the heating and co2 issues. It's what I do and it works fine.
ET
I looked at that panel heater. Just like with lights...there's no substitute for wattage. That wouldn't work for heating cold garage air.
Just get a good carbon scrubber and vent from and back to your living space. That solves the heating and co2 issues. It's what I do and it works fine.
ET
