odor control

[freedom420]

Hello guys, i hope you are all doing great!
I would like to ask if a carbon filter that's properly installed and fully working can eliminate the odor of two aromatic plants, like sweet seeds Runtz xl per say.
I have done just two grows this far, consisting of northern lights and white widow. They both smelled a bit but the carbon filter managed all the smell once the tent was closed. The white widow supposedly was not as aromatic but really stunk the room up when the buds started to form, nice smell but intense.
The NL on the other hand smelled a bit but had a very floral odor, that if u had them placed outside nobody would notice and also associate with weed.
My grows are semi-stealth so i have to be kinda cautious about the smell and the noise, that's another problem.
I want to experiment with other strains but i am kinda cautious atm. I am using a 4x2 tent that i can grow 2 plants tops inside it.
thx

 

[DCLXVI]

Just personal experience.....

It will help a great deal compared to not using one at all. I highly recommend taping shut any of the unused vents and ports on your tent. Aluminum foil tape on the inside and Gorilla Waterproof tape on the outside. I also need to stay undetected and I found on my first grow that there was quite a bit of smell leaking from my tent. Those mesh passive intake vents with velco on the outside? Yeah, if you don't need it, tape it inside and out.

My first thought was that I had bought a poor filter. Turns out it was just leakage. I went overkill and taped up the whole dang tent and built an external scrubber to vent the already cleaned exhaust air through as well. Currently, only smells when I open it!

 

[freedom420]

My tent has just two air vents so that's not a problem.
On the NL grow there was some smell but that was dew to the crappy fan i was using that couldn't make the tent "suck in". I replaced it with a new Ram fan that has more than enough power, but is really noisy, it is so loud that you can hear it from the outside of the room if u pass by!! My grow room is outside of the "main" house so i can get away with it for now, but i want to make it completely silent and odor free. I have time when everybody is sleeping that i can open the tent and work with the plants safely, but when the tent is closed it has to be odor free.
If i manage to do so, i will be 100% safe and worry free:smoking:

 

[DCLXVI]

I can personally recommend the ACInfinity duct fans. I have both their 4" and 6" fans and matching filters. Very quiet unless you ramp the speed way up. My oscillating tent fan is louder than the duct fan. They are a little bit $$ however, if quiet is a main goal, they are near silent on speed 1-2-3-4 (they go up to ten)

I taped up all the seams and stitching on my tents. The areas around the "socks" where the cords can go in and out are weak points. A bit of tape in and out around everything really made a huge difference for me. If it works, great! If not, well, you wasted an hour of time and $10 of tape.

I also taped the zipper where it ran around the side panel of the tent. Not the door area but the extension for wrapping it around the frame.

What tent are you running? I have the MarsHydro tents and I'm quite pleased with them especially for the price.

 

[freedom420]

That's very nice to hear man, as i am on the lookout for a silent fan. I have already noticed AC infinity but i was cautious to get one, thinking that it is a scum just like the one i got for this grow. Stay way from RAM fans ppl!!!
I use 4x2 secret jardin tent. The only holes apart from the air vents are some tiny ones in the middle an the one that's used for the wiring, but it is easy to seal all of it with tape.
Atm i am using a small 100w spider farmer led and my thinking is that the is no point to invest in a proper led to cover the hole tent for scrog grows, if i cannot manage the smell and the noise.
As i wrote above the white widow despite being advertised as very low odor, stealth etc. really reeked when the buds started to form for about two weeks or so then the volume came down. My carbon filter managed it perfectly but i am kinda concerned about other strains.
Btw i am using a huge filter for the size of my grows just to be on the safe side.

 

[Cerebral Goo]

I'll throw a second on the AC Infinity brand. If necessary, you can double up on the carbon filters. You would just need to increase the fan speed a little. My wife doesn't like the smell in the house and that's what I do once they start to really smell. I put one filter upstream from the fan and another at the end of the duct outside the tent. They also make duct silencers as well that go anywhere downstream from the fan

 

[freedom420]

Thx guys i was about to make another thread about noiseless fans
I will just invest in the ac infinity i guess an get done with it!
Unfortunately i cannot put a filter outside of the tent, cos it will be too much of sign that something is going on there :smoking:
Everything has to be contained inside of it!

 

[Hashsloth]

If you get a good quality filter and hook it up to a fan that's running at the proper cfm and you have negative pressure in your tent,then it will completely eliminate the odor. That has been my experience anyway.
some people will say that there will still be smell left,but they must have a crap filter or they are running their fan too high and not giving the carbon time to absorb the smell.

If you happen to live in Canada or can get your hands on a "Kootenay filter", that is what I've been running for a year and a half almost 24/7 and it still gets rid of the smell completely from the 4 plants i have.