New Grower Lucy's Very First Grow - Ak48 auto in soil LED

[Dudeski]

Day 29

Today is all about the variegated plant. She has her girly parts yaaaaay. She's actually looking good albeit a bit small. Her newer leaves aren't as streaked so she's starting to look greener (especially when I turn the bloom light off to take a picture)

I need to find a name for her because variegated is too hard to spell

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That is a beautiful baby girl! Sometimes the freaky ones make the best buds.
@Waira , check out the leads on this one.

 

[LucidLucy]

Day 33 - The New Tent

The new tent is up and running. This is probably the best $350 I will spend on this project. It's a Vivosun 4X4X7' with a 6inch Vivosun carbon filter & fan, couple small fans & a nifty wireless temp/hygrometer. All very nice stuff and super easy to set up. Now I can have my LEDSs up a high as I need.

I am bringing lots of fresh cool air into a 14X14' room and using passive intake to the tent. I am exhausting to the back of the room that the tent is in.
I'm a little confused about why the negative pressure in the tent does not suck the sides in since this fan/carbon combo should be plenty strong enough to do that in a tent of this size. Even on the highest fan setting I don't get this effect but if I put my hand over the intake squares I feel plenty of air being pulled over my hands. So I guess it's ok ? Maybe I should contact Vivosun and see what they think?

I am in New England so with how I am set up I will have to constantly monitor temps and adjust the outside room temp accordingly. It's a heated room that runs cooler than the rest of the house because my heater's thermostat is very far away and I don't think the heating ducts in this particular room are working at optimum capacity. It should be ok.
Bringing in fresh air will be my problem as the weather get's colder. I may find that growing between December and March is not gonna work and that's ok. I'll have to try it this year and see because my photos are going to be going until the first of the year. I guess I'll find out soon.

At the moment the outdoor air is 64F, the room air is 72F and the tent is 76F inside. The intake fan for the room has a thermostat so it turns on and off depending on what I set it for. I am hoping this will help at night when the temps fall down to 55 or so.....for now. I am not sure what I will do when outside temps fall lower. Like everything else......I will cross that bridge when I come to it

 

[Yeatster]

Congrats on the new tent.

How long is the duct that is venting outside? The exhaust would probably give you that negative pressure/tent suck if your duct was straight (every bend decreases cfm) and you dont have a mile of duct venting out. With a low intake temp, you might not want more air coming in...?

Also, the temp on top of your light is going to be considerably higher than that of your canopy, where you want to monitor temps.

 

[gold01ca]

nice set up lucy!

 

[LucidLucy]

Thanks for the knowledgeable reply @Yeaster, it's good to know why I have a lack of suction.
I haven't figured out what to do with the output yet so I left the whole 25 feet of it intact LOL.

There is only one window in this room and it is about 2 feet from where the exhaust exit is in this picture. It would be ideal to just vent it straight out the window but that won't be good when it's below zero outside. Well it would be ok since no cold air will get in while the fan is blowing out but this window is my only source of incoming fresh air.

Here is a picture of the ghetto way that I vent my clothes dryer in another room but I don't leave it in all the time, it just goes in the window when I dry clothes. AND I'd have to make one of these with 2 holes, one for intake and one for exhaust. I don't even know if that would work? This room will get mighty cold If I import air from outside directly into the room. If I brought outside air directly into the tent itself it will be very cold inside the tent I would think. In another two months it will be 30 F outside. My lights only generate 4 degrees F of heat inside as far as I can tell. This picture is upside down, no idea why.

Any thoughts on how to handle the import and export of air from the tent is much appreciated. I am not willing to put a heater in the tent, that just feels like a fire hazard to me.

Thanks !

The hygrometer that you see in the photo is not where it will live. I just took the photo that way to show a friend everything that I bought for the tent and I took that photo as soon as I was done setting up. The transmitter thingie will be inside at canopy level and the receiver you see in the photo will be outside the tent on a table.

 

[Yeatster]

You could get a "Y" splitter for the dryer vent

How big is the room? I would consider letting it circulate in the room, to keep warmth in. Sure, you want fresh Co2 but if the room is big enough, you could get away with keeping, at least some, heat inside.

 

[LucidLucy]

@yeaster the dryer vent setup was just an example of one possible solution that I was thinking about. The dryer is in another part of the house nowhere near the grow tent.

The room the tent is in is 14 X 14' but with the door open it's more like 30X30 ' of open space is that big enough to exhaust into the room while also using passive intake for the tent? This would be the ideal situation for my climate.

So many people grow in small places like closets so it's hard to read up on ventilation since that doesn't match my situation.

 

[Dudeski]

Yes, exhaust into the room. You can always let the intake air come from the ceiling area and not the floor. Are you in a basement or on concrete floors?

 

[LucidLucy]

No it's upstairs on wood/carpeted flooring

 

[Yeatster]

Yeah, like Dudeski says, definitely exhaust into the room. You'll get some fresh air in, every time you visit. Sounds like a plan. Also, Dudeski has a good idea, exhausting from bottom of tent and opening top ports, for intake, pulling a bit of heat toward plants. If you decide to go that route, I'd put the filter/fan outside of tent so you don't use up too much real estate. Then you'd have your tent walls pulling in.