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Do sealed rooms really control odor?

testing

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I know the theory.... If there is no air exchange happening then there's no smelly air to go out side. But air molecules will permeate almost any material and once they do the smells they carried with them will end up outside of where ever they were supposed to be sealed. This is the same reason that a dog can be trained to detect substances that are sealed in whatever container they are concealed in. The air molecules slowly make there way through and eventually are detectable. Obviously a dogs sense of smell is much better than a nosy neighbor. However a grow room, especially a commercial one is creating much higher levels of odor than whatever a dog is usually trained to detect. I'm getting a little off topic but you guys get my point. Smells make their way through material, or do they? If a room is sealed with a vapor barrier does that mean odor isn't permeating it? Or does odor make its way through everything, but we humans simply cannot smell it? Or are large scale commercial grows simply not able to truly contain odors? even when built as truly sealed rooms.

I know alot of you guys have sealed rooms with carbon scrubbers keeping odor at bay. And alot of you will tell me that you cannot smell anything. But do any of you have true commercial sized sealed grows that are still odor free? And does any body have any real experience with commercial sealed rooms and there odor?
 

testing

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besides harvesting inside the sealed room any ideas on odor control during harvest. Also I haven't really heard much on making sealed dry rooms. Has anyone ever heard of any reasons you cannot dry inside a sealed room? Using a dehumidifier to control RH and an AC to control heat.
 

Millerstreeandl

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I changed from a partially sealed room to a completely sealed room.i had some issues with smell before doing this but smell is no longer an issue now that the room is completely sealed. I dry in a big tent with a carbon filter and humidifier to control rh. It works great.
 

medicalmj

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Firm believer in having negative pressure. However, the stanks gotta go somewhere so good and often replaced filter is key. My entire grow area (3 rooms) is basically sealed with poly spray glue and duct tape from floor up and around. All seams spray glue and duct tape. Ypou can feel the walls and know if you have neg pressure.
 

Bob-Smith

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Not sure about that sealed room thing. Had my ex once say she could smell the harvest (bad) when she pulled into the driveway. The sealed room was the house.
 

the gnome

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Not sure about that sealed room thing. Had my ex once say she could smell the harvest (bad) when she pulled into the driveway. The sealed room was the house.

wasn't a sealed room then, eh.
that skunk smell has a way of getting past the tiniest leaks.
i remember venting out the window years ago, my neighbor was
over 100ft away, @6-7wks bloom he said to me
"I can smell it big time" I kept telling my wife it must have been a dead skunk :D
had a can50 4days later.

I told him I grew 1 big stinkee plant hidden in the bushes
 

Mikell

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There's something to be said about acclimation. In the future I'll borrow the nose of non-smokers.

At home all I have growing are peppers and a double sealed jar of smoke. Home Care (senior/disabled care) comes twice a day to preen the old man, so I try to keep any clothes or sources of odour clean. He has his paperwork on file with Health Canada and takes a tincture as sleep aid, but I don't feel it's worth the red tape to make it a public issue. To my knowledge no one has challenged HomeCare on medical marijuana. I strongly believe it would turn out in our favour, but again, at what cost. Washing your fathers balls until HC buckled to legal pressure, that's what. Too high, says I.

This is some rambly smoke. To the point.


I never thought veg was an issue until I started gardening in a borrowed space. Not living with the plants, it hits me at the front door. It's to the point I knew one particular strain was preflowering by walking in the house. The room is located on the other side of the house and stanks up the entire basement.

Farkin' carbon can, out of storage, strapped up out of the way. I feel like I'm just clogging the prefiltre with dust.
 
N

noyd666

I always wondered why peeps were always saying veg don't smell, mine reeks at times so there's a 8'' and a 6'' phresh filter going all the time, also used as flower room for part of cycle.
 

SocalNugz

Member
Sealed room, good carbon filters and Ozone generators.
These 3 things applied properly together work great, nothings perfect but these work awful well.
 

the gnome

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Veteran
i run a 14 x 20 sealed room,
i bought a can 150-the big 1 and a 10" canfan for it and have never never used it for the sealed room.
the only time you can smell odors is going in or out the door, which has gaskets and is sealed.
the smell inside the room can be fuggin intense so I have a gallon of ona gel by the door and crack the lid when i go in the room and close it up leaving.
the only thing stankin like canna is me when i leave

oh, hell yes veg plants can stank enuff to need a scrubber.
especially clones from seed plants that have been kept for extended periods.
some smell nearly as bad as if they were in bloom
:smoke:
 

DemonTrich

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Veteran
the glues in my veg room smell.

Im in a sealed room. I use a monster carbon scrubber, plus I have another 3' scrubber I put in the room I trim/harvest in, PLU an air filter (heap/charcoal filters).
 

the gnome

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Veteran
There's something to be said about acclimation. In the future I'll borrow the nose of non-smokers.

last year I had the loudest strain ever in the last 4yrs.
EVER!
it hit me like a ton of bricks when i walked in the room and the ole lady said it was intense.
after a couple minutes and I didn't notice it
and I have a nonsmokers nose
 
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