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Odor Control

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I am going to be growing 20 medium sized plants in a basement soon. the plants will be....Sour Diesel....C99....AK47...and....Bogbubble...I know that I am going to have to be careful because these are all going to reak. I am thinking of getting a couple vaporteks. Do you think 1 in the basement and one in my living room would do the job or should I use a charcoal filter or something else?? Thanks...... :joint:
 
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Guest

wow... nice line up...

Can you describe your grow room? What's happening the ventilation now?

A charcoal scrubber is hard to beat.
 
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Its a medium sized basement. There are stairs from a door in the kitchen going down to it. Its has a concrete floor, and the walls are concrete also. The actual room is 12'x16', 192 squre feet, with a 7 foot cieling. My grow are will only be about 6'-7' long and about 6'-7' wide, so 36-49 square feet of grow area. I have 3 600`s that i will be using for veg and flower. The lights will be air cooled. I have an ac in there. I had to make a box for it to go in, the box had an opening on top of it for a 4" ventalation tubing(or whatever its called) that went out the window so none of the hot air went into the room. I dont think i will be using the ac in the winter much though. It gets into the teens during the day. It will have a Co2 system, It will hopefully be controlled by a complete green house climate controller. I have a dehumidifier to go in there also. There will be a few oscilating fans in there also. Now, all I need to cover is the odor control. What do you suggest?
 
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Stank Stank

Stank Stank

With those strains, several of which are legendary stinkers, (and all pretty wonderful, if not legendary) you better think activated carbon, and inline fans. The formula that I have used is to determine Cubic Feet, (you know, height times width times depth, so if you have a seven by seven space, multiply that times heighth, thus seven or eight feet tall, unless you have one midget ass basement) and then get a fan that will change the air in there once every three to five minutes. Put the fan on a flange that will come with your can filter (check your favorite online or real time hydro/grow shop, I like Cheaphydro, but make your own determination...for the brand you like, or make your own) and have that fan suck the stink through the filter, and into some nice ducting or aluminum (not paper or fabric) dryer hose, and out into your vent to the outside. Since you have an active intake with the ac blowing in there, make sure that the stinky air has time to be herded into the filter setup.

This is a security issue, and if you are living anywhere near civilization, make sure you do not scrimp in this process. You probably have never lost your crop and mother plants to a cop, or a pissed off, venge filled roomate, or whatever, but... .handle this without ozone. Do not use the stuff anywhere near you, your plants, or anyone/thing you like.

On a more cheery note, (I did not lose mine to the cops, but everything went to the trash, permanently damaging my op, my wallet, and my heart for months now, I am just getting seedlings started, and their little bit o smell made me creep and spend heavily on the can-fan filter combo) i just aquired a professional dehumidyfier. I would love to know how you use it, especially in conjunction with the AC,. DO not tell me where you live, just let me know if it is moist there or what. I live in an arid climate, on the planet earth. I had mold problems once, even here. The dehumidifier is to cost me about $200 I want to know if the dehumidifier is worth the expenditure. My best wishes, and good thoughts to you, as you have excellent taste in plants. (I am returning with C99, Grape Punch, Reeferman HEavy Duty fruity, Silver Pearl and a grow out of the magical mystery mix which confounds me as to its origin)/////
Travellin Light
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racketeer

racketeer

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Try everything else first, if everything else fails - ozone won't. I use ozone. I've tried everything but the vaportek 4000 - nothing else worked as good FOR ME as ozone does.
 
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rule35sub1

Optimum 4000(industrial odor control) is enough for your whole house more than likely.
 
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Jay Hoffa

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No matter what you do. And this is the TRUTH- charcoal 1st, vented to the rest of the basement. Then ozone the hell out of the basement, it will kill mold but the best investment in a dehumidifier will pay for itself later. Most importantly to seal off the room(s), to make sure the smell DOESNOT BLEED THRU THE WALLS, negative pressure in an unsealed room will cause this PROBLEM OF PARANOIA. sad to say
 
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IMO you cant beat a good carbon filter fan combo.i also use ozone but its not so healthy for our lungs.. The carbon filter is the only thing to fully take care of my stench... the ozone just makes the exhuast smell of a mixture of stench and ozone..But if set up correctly and the ozone has time to mix with the stench as it takes up to 30 seconds for ozone to work you should be okay...

take care
greenfriend
 
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