Indoor any advice on getting rid of smell from plants

[the_reeper]

Hi Guys I am a noob and this is my first post on here

I am ready for my first grow but dont know how to get rid of the smell of the plants

a friend of mine has a nice setup , but the smell from the plants stink the whole house out and he is running a rhino carbon filter with ducting placed at the top corner of the tent, he does have the vents at the bottom of the tent open and no fan blowing air in the tent

I am ready to buy my setup I was looking at a 3.0 * 3.0 * 2.0 tent , igrowled lights, but really dont know how to get rid of the smell should I close all the ventilation vents on the tent and have a duct blowing fresh air in with two rhino air carbon filters running?

any advise would be great as I am new and really do need some help , I want to be able to have people round and them not smell anything in an ideal world.

Thanks guys

 

[The Squid]

Hey reeper, welcome to the site man.

You need a good inline exhaust fan and carbon filter that is rated for your room/tent size. The bottom flaps are pulling air in passively as long as you have enough power to pull enough air out with the exhaust fan. If setup properly then there should be no problem. Rhino makes good filter so I have read. Something isn't set up properly or that filter is no good. Without knowing exactly what your friend has and how big his tent is and all it's hard to say what's causing it to not work.

Multiple the dimensions of your room. So for that tent and an example: 3 times 3 times 2, which is 18. You need a fan rated at about 18 cfm(cubic feet per minute) that's how much air that fan moves, and get the filter to match as close as possible. Now that is a small box and the smallest inline fans I have seen are rated about 150+cfm, but that's fine. You get a speed control to dial in down a bit, that'll make it quieter too.

My tent is is 3 feet wide 2 deep ad about 6 high. My fan and filter are rated for 180 I believe. Which is plenty. It smells some when I open my tent but not closed. The air in your tent needs to be exchanged about 5 times every hour, I could be slightly off on that, but that's fine either way.

Hope this helps.

 

[the_reeper]

Hi The Squid

Thanks for your advice man , sorry when I said my tent will be 3.0 * 3.0 82.0 I ment to say metres not feet , big tent

 

[The Squid]

Wow so like 9 x 9 x 6. Damn that is big and tall. Gotcha. You are going to need a massive exhaust fan for that, possibly two, I am not certain. And you may need a fan pulling in air too being that big, but I think passive intake should work fine just the same. Just have to have enough air being pulled out.

 

[the_reeper]

Ok I was told to have the filters inside the tent is this right way of doing it? My friend has ducting inside the tent sucking air to the carbon filter on the outside of the tent is this wrong?

I think if I do go for a 3m tent I will have to get two carbon filters and also one fan blowing air into the tent I have been told always have more sucking out of the tent than blowing in also face the ducting of the inner plant to the floor of the tent not directley onto the plants as this will stress them

please let me know if I should have the filter on the inside or the outside

 

[hereb4]

We tried it both ways. we like the fan and filter outside the tent. the fan rests in a tote full of insulation to keep the noise down, the filter is attached to the exhaust side of the fan. a short piece of ducting wrapped in foam and tape connects the intake side of the fan to the top hole in the tent.
this gives more room for plants,lights etc. and gets that heavy ass fan and carbon filter weight off your tent frame members.
the addition of a ona block and maybe even ozone are a good idea if security is a big concern.

 

[The Squid]

In or out. Either works fine in my opinion. Mine is inside, but I see some outside. More inside, but it doesn't really matter.

 

[waveguide]

not to underemphasise the importance of a good carbon scrubber...

..if you ever have a situation where you need to get rid of the smell, add a teaspoon of white vinegar when you water your plants. you don't want to do this all the time, but a couple of times in a grow is okay. it should be next to odorless.... saay.. if your straight neighbor is planning a party that evening or such..

 

[Mr Piggy]

I can't say if vinegar will help the smell, it didn't for me when I was using it for ph adjustment. Can you explain how waveguide? OP, if you choose to use vinegar make sure to monitor your ph as vinegar will lower it.

 

[waveguide]

were you using white..? i read it on a forum, news to me too. i've tried it on a couple of plants, and it knocked the stink off for several days every time.