How clean is your set up

[northenmunkey]

Well I for one am super lazy, this is my flower room atm
I have removed the fan leaf bucket earlier this evening.
Northenmunkey

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Cleanliness is next to Godliness if you're trying to maintain your conditions indoors. Dead leaves and trimmed leaves left on the floor begin to break down and rot, or worse mold if you're letting your water overflow collect on the floor. It's also like a Golden Corral buffet for bugs.

Get in the habit of doing some room maintenance at least once a week, where you can lightly sweep the floor and take a hot wash cloth to the floors to scrub any stains left by nutrient water, scum, etc, and then scrub the walls. If you're spraying in your tent with any sort of product, there's going to be some residue left behind (can create a film on your grow lights as well.)

I'll give the same speech I give to my kids when it comes to cleaning, "in the amount of time it's taking you to BITCH about how long it's going to take you, you could have been already halfway done."

 

[Badfinger]

I consider myself very lazy. Thats why I believe the best way to avoid cleaning is to be pro-active in not making a mess in the first place.
I'm a soil grower who uses dry amendments. When I feed, I turn off the circulation fans as to not blow fertilizer dust all over my tent while sprinkling my amendments into the grow bags,
And I am a major believer in trays!
This is as dirty as you will ever see my tent floor, just a few specs of soil that got blown out of the bag from the fans.

 

[northenmunkey]

Cleanliness is next to Godliness if you're trying to maintain your conditions indoors. Dead leaves and trimmed leaves left on the floor begin to break down and rot, or worse mold if you're letting your water overflow collect on the floor. It's also like a Golden Corral buffet for bugs.

Get in the habit of doing some room maintenance at least once a week, where you can lightly sweep the floor and take a hot wash cloth to the floors to scrub any stains left by nutrient water, scum, etc, and then scrub the walls. If you're spraying in your tent with any sort of product, there's going to be some residue left behind (can create a film on your grow lights as well.)

I'll give the same speech I give to my kids when it comes to cleaning, "in the amount of time it's taking you to BITCH about how long it's going to take you, you could have been already halfway done."

I have been growing way over thirty years to date in these conditions, I have never had any issues except spider mites many many years ago from an infected cut from a friend.

 

[northenmunkey]

I have been growing way over twenty years to date in these conditions, I have never had any issues except spider mites many many years ago from an infected cut from a friend.

 

[BII]

I too am a lazy grower, and my tent and growing is far from clean or neat. I don't bother with such things as cleaning much disinfecting the tent between grows; the sides of my fabric bags are outright dirty, stained, show salt deposits, etc. (unlike the somehow perfectly clean bag shown above); some dry leaves on the floor of tent don't bother me (while I remove any leaves on the media/soil surface); etc.

Clutter, having your stuff piled or strewn around, etc. being messy, doesn't matter to the plants. But as noted, some minimal tent "cleaning" is needed in terms of removing and keeping dry accumulated organic material (mostly fallen leaves) to prevent mold and insect infestation.