Notcoolzeuss
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Turkish said:I think I might give the emergency blankets a try thanks notcoolzeuss and opt. Ya this is my first time using grow bags and I love them, I saw them in your grow thread ncz and had to try em out
Niiiiiiice. You know what though, Opt1983 is right. Your best bet is flat white paint. Cheap as hell, easy to maintain, permanent, and it has the same if not better reflectivity than foil. I painted all of the walls of my cab with flat, white paint. I use the emrgency blankets for the small open portion at the top of my cab, since you can't paint air. So, if you are able, your best bet would be the flat white paint for your walls, and then you can use the emerg blankets for other small stuff.
I'll show you.
Here is the frame of my grow box. You can see the larger openings on the bottom. Those were sealed up with plywood sheets, and then painted white. I have a removable sheet of plywood painted white on one side which I use as a door. Above the square openings in the frame, you can see a smaller gap. For those gaps, I simply cut emergency blankets to fit, and ducttaped the blankets over the gaps. For the very front of the box, I made a removable shade out of the blankets which I hang up when I leave the room.
You can kind of see the emergency blankets at the very top of this picture, but as you can see, they are above the lights, so there's not a ton of light I need to reflect up there. But down in the cab where all of the light is concentrated, the white paint is a great light reflector.
Feel free to choose whichever you want, but if you are planning more grows in this same area in the future, you'll save yourself a lot of time and effort down the road by painting the walls now. Oh yeah, I forgot the best part about using white paint. No suspicion!!! Everyone has white walls in their house. Very few people have foil wallpaper.
Peace, and keep up the good work!!! A reflective surface will make a big difference. You'll see.
