Overthinking my grow tent setup?

[AGBeer]

Hello all, long time visitor brand new grower.

My setup is pretty much as follows -
Vivosun 2x4x5 tent.
SF2000 grow light
6" fan and carbon scrubber
My first impression was "Holy fuck this scrubber is HUGE" and that lends to the rest of my conundrum...
I managed to hang my scrubber and fan from the top of the inside of my tent and now Im about to suspend the lights as well below them.

When I look at this setup, Im thinking "Damn, this gives me very little space for my plants to grow as almost half of my vertical real estate is taken up by equipment. Is this considered 'normal' and my expectations of long and tall plants are unsubstantiated? (Again, this is my first grow)
Or should I move the ventilation outside to allow more room to raise and lower my lights?
*Note* My first grow will be a couple of autos if that makes a difference.

Thanks!

 

[HASHCAM]

big filters do get in the way can you not get a smaller one

 

[revegeta666]

Or should I move the ventilation outside to allow more room to raise and lower my lights

I would. You can have the filter and extraction outside/on top of the tent. Are you sure you want to grow autos indoors?

 

[Mithridate]

In smaller tents, its common to put the filter outside the tent.

 

[HASHCAM]

In smaller tents, its common to put the filter outside the tent.

I always put the filter at back in the middle or top, lose a plant and keep it off the ground simple, place on crate

 

[AGBeer]

Thanks for the replies everyone! I guess the best way is to "Just do it" and modify from there.
For starters, I am running autos because well - thats what my buddy did and he raved about it.
I do have a couple of fem photo seeds I might pop in my next growround.
Right now its a matter of cutting my teeth and finally putting into practical application what I have read about for too many years.

 

[Three Berries]

All my tents I put the fan on top. Usually lay a piece of sheet insulation for it to sit on. Don't use filters though.

 

[Veritas629]

Fan and filter outside the tent, pulling air from the tent and pushing through the filter.

 

[Vandenberg]

My favorite indoor auto flower with qualities of fast finishing and short stature is a strain called "Topgun" produced by Atlas Seeds that is short and fast at 65-ish days from sprout to harvest and under 1meter/yard tall, at least for me. One can expect 3-4 zips per plant.
Atlas doesn't sell direct unless your buying commercial acreage quantities with a thousand seed minimum but other online seed vendors sell in personal grow sized packs. The smokes pretty good too.

And ditto on Veritas629 recommendation, that's your solution.
Great filtration is essential where its illegal to grow, one stray whiff and out go the lights.
I grow where its legal to do so now, and have grown some very odiferous strains recently that I would have never had dared to cultivate "back then" while still always having an eye on trying to stay out of prison while doing so.
Oversized filtration beats undersized anyday. It's a good thing.

Vandenberg

 

[Three Berries]

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[GoatCheese]

Hello all, long time visitor brand new grower.

My setup is pretty much as follows -
Vivosun 2x4x5 tent.
SF2000 grow light
6" fan and carbon scrubber
My first impression was "Holy fuck this scrubber is HUGE" and that lends to the rest of my conundrum...
I managed to hang my scrubber and fan from the top of the inside of my tent and now Im about to suspend the lights as well below them.

When I look at this setup, Im thinking "Damn, this gives me very little space for my plants to grow as almost half of my vertical real estate is taken up by equipment. Is this considered 'normal' and my expectations of long and tall plants are unsubstantiated? (Again, this is my first grow)
Or should I move the ventilation outside to allow more room to raise and lower my lights?
*Note* My first grow will be a couple of autos if that makes a difference.

Thanks!

You can use a timer on your exhaust to control air movement going thru the tent – if you have it ON all the time you may struggle keeping temps and RH% high enough in your small tent.

My exhaust goes ON for 10-12 minutes every 90 mins or so now during winter – more often during summer - but i have a circulating fan in the tent on all the time during lights on- pointing towards the led light not so much at the plants. My small tent is 90x50x160cm

 

[goingrey]

I think you'll be able to fit a couple of autos just fine in there even with the equipment.