TEC09
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If I put a rock or weight over the tip of a branch won't that possibly crush a leaf or two? Now that she's in flower I try to leave her alone. I tend to smother my plants. I mist her a few times a day due to heat,I gently train her a bit each day to keep her away from the light and I check soil every 3 days or so. She takes a gallon every 3-4 days I blame the heat for that too. Using AN Micro,Grow and Bloom but am about to introduce Rhino skin,bud igniter, bud candy,overdrive,b52, bud factor x and big bud. Any feedback on those nutes in flower? If there's something better that's cheaper I'll grab that and will avoid that $200 hit.
TEC09
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I have an 8" in the top of the tent blowing down,into the tent but it's not enough. Next grow I will invest in a cool tube. Hopefully that will help.
THCBrain
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Just hook a 4 inch inline fan with ducting in the bottom on your tent it will bring the temps down, if you are going to put a cool tube in your going to have to pull cold air from somewhere to cool the tube. So save your money on the cool tube and just get an inline fan and a little ducting a bang job done no more problems I have one in my tent on standby just in case.
TEC09
Member
Will this work? I don't have circular holes for the fan in the bottom of my particular tent. My fan/duct holes are located on the sides of the tent and in the top of the tent.
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ANC
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the tip shot up behind the rock, whatever the rock covered was more than made up for by new growth.
THCBrain
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That would most likely work, I didn't realise you didn't have ducting holes on the bottom of your tent, in your case you don't really have the option to run bare bulb so the cool tube and that fan you showed me would be great then you'd just need a fan inside the tent to blow her about and keep the air fresh,
Roger A. Shrubber
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ok, first, take the fan you have in the top of the tent blowing down, and put it in the bottom of the tent blowing up. if you aren't using a filter and venting the exhaust outside, do so. you don't have to buy a filter, but its kind of pointless venting the heat from your light right outside your grow room so it can get sucked back in immediately.
and the dr. is right, you can super crop plants all the way through flower (although once they set bud good, you shouldn't have to.) if you accidentally split the bark, throw a little painters tape on it, it comes off easy later.
it very much depends on genetics, what size plant you're in when you start flower, what kind of light you had them under for veg and flower, a lot of factors go into how much they'll stretch, they could gains 6 inches or 6 feet, gotta hope for the best, and prepare for the worst
and the dr. is right, you can super crop plants all the way through flower (although once they set bud good, you shouldn't have to.) if you accidentally split the bark, throw a little painters tape on it, it comes off easy later.
it very much depends on genetics, what size plant you're in when you start flower, what kind of light you had them under for veg and flower, a lot of factors go into how much they'll stretch, they could gains 6 inches or 6 feet, gotta hope for the best, and prepare for the worst
Roscko
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My thoughts exaclty.
Roscko
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Also agreed, heat rises so you want to blow the hot air up from the bottom and out the top.
If you can get an extra fan, some tape and dryer hose you can make your own heat ex-changer on the cheap that can be external leaving you the room you need.
Link: https://www.rollitup.org/t/cheap-easy-inline-fan-under-30.458433/
If you can get an extra fan, some tape and dryer hose you can make your own heat ex-changer on the cheap that can be external leaving you the room you need.
Link: https://www.rollitup.org/t/cheap-easy-inline-fan-under-30.458433/
I would look to tie the three major branches outwards towards the sides of the tent and you should get great growth from all the sites along the branches which should really help out your yield and will help extend the canopy into all that empty space you have horizontally.
TEC09
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I accidentally ordered an 8" ...a mis-click on amazon. The holes in the sides are 4" dia. The holes in my tent are on the sides. I will post a stock pic..
48x24x60 Mine is identical to this with the exception of the hole in the back,mine does not have that.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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they make 8 inch to 4 inch ducting adapters, my local big box doesn't carry them, but they can be ordered online easily enough. i wouldn't recommend choking an 8 inch fan down that far, but if you're just using it for an intake, i guess it would be ok.
or you could just spend 15 bucks on a 4 inch booster fan on amazon or ebay