Martha tent for high production cloning

[africanherbman1]

I've been using shelfs ghettofied with t5s on each level for a while to take care of high number of cuttings. But now I'm thinking that hooking up a humidifier to a Martha Stewart tent will easily keep all of the clones at the perfect humidity, so no need for bulky lids. The martha tents is an old technique for high production mushroom cultivation. With the lids out of the way I can get away with the shelves being 12" high at the most. Each flat is 10" wide, so I can fit 6 horizontally. I can make 5 shelves. At 72 clones per flat, I'm thinking I should be able to take care of 30 flats or 2,160 at a time. That's going with the Matha tent dimensions. I may rig a 4x4 hydrohut instead, which would be able to take care of a higher number. What do you guys think? Any thoughts?

 

[St3ve]

Should work just fine. Just keep a few hygrometers at different locations in the tent to make sure there is a even RH. As long as the size of the humidifier can keep it at 80% or higher (which shouldn't be hard) it should work just fine.

You also want to consider something to keep a tight control on the temps.

another idea you could consider is building a trough to "float" the trays in. Then you could drop an aquarium heater and air stones in it. This would do a few things. It would allow you to heat the bottoms of the trays, and the bubbles will add the RH to the room while mixing the water for even temp distribution. If not this, you'll need the humidifier and heat mats.

 

[dsd1]

Hello when I was doing production cloning I did the same thing but a little different. I bought those wire racks from homedepot I think they are like 4'x6'x2'. The I bought a roll of clear plastic from homdepot for under 10 bucks and drapped it over the top and zipped tied the sides to the bars. I hung all the lights inside the tent with a humidifer at the very top and it worked great. The most important thing was to get this outlet they sell on amazon that is a humidity gauge. So you plug an extension cord into your outlet then at the over end goest this humidty gauge then you plug the humdified into the gauge and set it to 90% runs automatically. I also made my own industrial humidifier with a homedepot bucket and pond foger and a 2" cheap fan.


Here is a link to the plug PM me with any questions!

http://www.amazon.com/DAYTON-1UHG2-...sr=8-2-spell&keywords=daytonn+humidifier+plug