HIGHGROOVE
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hey community i want your ideas on oscilating fans in a xxl tent.....right now have a oscilating fan thats a lil too powerfull and need some ideas
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GROW TENTS !!!!!!!!!
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igrowwitmatches
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i'd live in a tent if people brought me food ^^
O.G.#1
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Hows she working for ya since your last post?
Im on my first run ever in the same tent, day 8.
How many watts you got running in there? 4x 400w?
CCfromTCC
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one of the new 4'x8' silverlined hydrohuts or some brand w/ 2k in it.
Its my mom tent, I decided to flower them out and start over as they were getting too big. Had to put in a 10k btu portable and 70pint dehuy to get in the range I want for flowering.
These pix are of it while still vegging and before I decided to flip them , shits just way too big now,lol screw it , its just extras... the single plant is a cheese in front of a 32gal trashcan , everything got vegged another 2wks before it got flipped.
Its my mom tent, I decided to flower them out and start over as they were getting too big. Had to put in a 10k btu portable and 70pint dehuy to get in the range I want for flowering.
These pix are of it while still vegging and before I decided to flip them , shits just way too big now,lol screw it , its just extras... the single plant is a cheese in front of a 32gal trashcan , everything got vegged another 2wks before it got flipped.
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SpendThrift
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Any new reviews on the Growlabs?
HIGHGROOVE
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hey commuinty wanted to get your thoughts and ideas....my setup when it is day time my girls are in darkness.. so yes there is some light in the room but none in the tent....i could use some mroe airflow i have plent of negative pressure...being that its light in the room and ideas as far as opening one of my vents of the tent to get more air inside but still keep it dark...what could i do to cover the vent?
SpendThrift
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Best brand of fan for a tent?
Best brand of fan for a tent?
Between elicent, vortex, and can fan, which would you guys pick for a 4x4 tent based on stealth/noise/efficiency/cost?
Best brand of fan for a tent?
Between elicent, vortex, and can fan, which would you guys pick for a 4x4 tent based on stealth/noise/efficiency/cost?
HighonPottery
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i also run my lights at night. cooler in summer nights and keeps warm in winter nights. on my tent, i leave the bottom rear vent and side vent open since they don't really get hit by light where i have the tent setup. the 3rd vent i keep open most of the time and when i turn the lights on in the room, close it. all the other duct holes i don't tie the cords tight so air still flows through them but doesn't let light in. hope this helps.
spendthrift: all those fans are pretty much the same. all similarly priced with similar noise/cfm movement. get whichever is easiest to obtain.
SpendThrift
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Thank you, how would you compare S&P to those other brands?
wickedpete66
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I have been following this thread for sometime, but have never posted any pics of my setup in here
veg room is a clonebox w/ a 400wt mh bulb and 170 cfm vortex. Box stays about 2* above anbient.
next is my first stage flower cab it uses 600wat hps and 449 cfm active air fan. cab stays about 5* above anbient
This is my second stage flower cab. They house week 5-9 plants. This is lit by a 400 hps and 400 watt mh. This cab stays about 7* above ambient
veg room is a clonebox w/ a 400wt mh bulb and 170 cfm vortex. Box stays about 2* above anbient.
next is my first stage flower cab it uses 600wat hps and 449 cfm active air fan. cab stays about 5* above anbient
This is my second stage flower cab. They house week 5-9 plants. This is lit by a 400 hps and 400 watt mh. This cab stays about 7* above ambient
HydroHut Silver 3x3 w/ 1000w HPS
'Hindu Kush x Skunk #1' and 'Cherry Pie' around 30 days 12/12
3gal pots, 50/50: compost/reclaimed soil to coco
Ferts: fish emulsion, P-guano, meta-K, catalyst, microblast, humic acid, blackstrap molasses, occasional compost or casting tea.
I have trouble keeping my temps and humidity down with a 400 in somethin like that.how the hell are you cooling a 1000 with no inline fan???..a ac unit in the same room as tent??
ehh Ive bought bought 5 fans now ..as the plants get larget they wont mind a bigger fan...when there small just use a smaller fan..its cheaper than buying a spped controller IMO
take em back if youdont like it>>
Im looking at a tower design right now ..slender and diffrent levels usually they have multi fans ..
HighonPottery
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I have trouble keeping my temps and humidity down with a 400 in somethin like that.how the hell are you cooling a 1000 with no inline fan???..a ac unit in the same room as tent??
it's funny you ask, because i've been wondering the same thing. to combat the temp swings in my garage, i have lights on at night. this way in the winter, the tent stays warm at night from the lights and in the daytime the garage heats up a little from sunlight during lights out. my veg cab runs 24/0 to keep temps up, too.
in the summer - we'll see - but i still flower at night in hopes to not heat up the garage too much during the day. we had a couple days over 100* so far and during lights out it was just under 100* in the tent - plants seemed just fine and really happy actually. i just reconfigured my exhaust so that it is a more straight-piped system and the air movement seems to have substantially increased due to less turns/shorter ducts. i also directed my canopy fan toward the light to help cool it off and keep heat from collecting in the metal housing - i need to get another canopy fan as it's been on the list. i've also added a fan up in my rafters to help exhaust more of the hot air accumulated in the daytime and help cool the garage faster when the sun goes down. i think this addition will make the most difference.
i have not yet figured out a way to easily air cool my reflector because of it's size vs the size of the tent. if i had a 4x4 tent, it would be no problem, but the 3x3 is a little close to the walls to have ducting on either side. i've got a small fan lying somewhere in a box and i'm gonna try to cool the light independent of the scrubber exhaust fan with outside air (intake fresh air from outside tent=>fan=>light=>exit tent). if it gets really bad, which i expect it to do, i've got a cheap window a/c unit that i might try to convert into a portable one to help cool the garage off. if my battles are all uphill with these methods, i'll scratch growing indoors during the summer and stick with outdoor plants or just move the tent into my computer room.
i've also got the current summer tent grow going in milk crates and rubbermaid storage totes. strains are GDP, HK-S, and Cherry Pie. i am hoping that an increased root mass/soil volume will help keep plants from getting heat stressed when it gets really hot. the grow should also be done at the end of july, hopefully finishing right before the "real" heat becomes a factor. then when those are done, out go the late-season minis in the veggie garden.
oh yeah...yield from the last grow in the tent was right around 15oz combined from 3 different strains in 9, 3-gal pots. the quality of the bud is out of this world. my old 400w could NEVER do what the 1kwt did this time. i think that's pretty good for a first round in the tent and first time using a 1kwt. it was all organic with a recycled soil/coco blend, ferted with fish emulsion, EJ meta-K, high P guano, a little EJ bloom(till the bottle ran dry), humic and fulvic acids, blackstrap molasses, EJ catalyst, EJ microblast, and a few compost teas(which i plan on doing a lot more of). i definitely have more of a grasp on the strains and know i can let them get a lot taller because i had plenty of height to raise the light up. this round, i've vegged a tad longer, so we'll see. also gonna be pumping nutes a little bit later in flower as well as added some bone+blood meal to the bottom 1/3 of the soil.
PS - my ballast and electrical is mounted OUTSIDE of the tent. it really makes a big difference.
WESTCRAZY1
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i have a brand new secret jardin DR80 for sale if anybody is interested.
I dig ya on the height thing ,,nothin like having anohter foot of height available when the strech is done
BayAreaBully23
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HydroHut Silver 3x3 w/ 1000w HPS
'Hindu Kush x Skunk #1' and 'Cherry Pie' around 30 days 12/12
3gal pots, 50/50: compost/reclaimed soil to coco
Ferts: fish emulsion, P-guano, meta-K, catalyst, microblast, humic acid, blackstrap molasses, occasional compost or casting tea.
so i went with a 4x4 tent and got the 600w... will i still need to aircool the bulb??? im sure im going to need a exhaust fan tho...
growMEDS
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Might as well invest in one since summer is coming up. They're not really more expensive than normal ones if you search around.
