Sealing up a room

Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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JoeRogan420 said:
a grow tent is not air tight, there is places where bugs and ants can get in
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A tent is designed to “ push and pull “ air for exchange , plants need this even dark to metabolize the energy it received during day.
Plants need to breathe. Not in “ unnatural “ sealed conditions.
 
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JoeRogan420

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Budzbuddha said:
A tent is designed to “ push and pull “ air for exchange , plants need this even dark to metabolize the energy it received during day.
Plants need to breathe. Not in “ unnatural “ sealed conditions.
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you do not understand there fore i am done, much love guys why so much hate id love to go on this journey with u not against u
 
Faerystrange

Faerystrange

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spek9 said:
Interesting. You were claiming that your grow box is better than a tent, and you were offering to build one of your awesome sealed boxes for another member of this forum, yet you haven't even built and tested a single one yet.

That's all I need to know.

Besides that, a grow room that has air exchange via intake and exhaust are not sealed. Sealed rooms do need C02, because, well, they're sealed. Air getting through pinholes and zippers? Bullshit. My intakes are more than 2.5 times the area of my exhaust, so no air leaks through anything but the intake vents. Even if there are pinhole leaks... how is that inefficient or even relevant?

You truly don't have any clue what you're talking about. You need to brush up on some terminology and grow room operation.

I'm going to expand and respond to some other things you commented on.

Tent corners breaking. I've never, ever broken one, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. Four out of the five tents I have though have steel corners, and the poles have pins to 'click' them into place.

Can't hang the filter on the wall? Why would anyone want to? The heat you want to exhaust is at the top of the tent, not half way up the wall.

Ability to take down and store just as easily as a tent? How could a solid-wall 4x4x6.5' box break down as compactly and neatly as a tent?

I'm all for DIY, but if I have to decide between tent and build and I opt build, I'm not building a cabinet, I'm retrofitting an entire room.

You keep talking about durability of your box. Well, my oldest tent is going on eight years old, with daily use. It's still standing and operating perfectly. Your box isn't built yet, nor do you even have any construction documentation, so I don't know how you can even begin to compare the two.

You've got a lot to learn young grasshopper.
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How much light actually dissipates through ventilation holes ina tent? Also I have noticed that my closet diy tent with ventilation still needs to be opened up and ventilated.......are prefab tents suitable for closed rooms?...are the ventilation ports circulating only the air in the room?
 
Avering

Avering

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Budzbuddha said:
OP ... look at doing your closet space with good “ extraction “ in both air and scrubber . A simple corner mounted oscillating fan .
You SCROG NET , SOG , that space easily .

Forget building a toy box
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Yes, I was thinking of doing a scrog!! I've read a little on them, if I'm not mistaken you can spread the width of one plant evenly across the room creating an even canopy . Thanks for bringing that up. This would be done without the tent right?
 
Avering

Avering

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Good morning everybody! I see this thread blew up last night! Lol. I'm attaching a picture of how I am venting the air out of the tent currently. There is an air intake hole on the bottom right side. I don't know what would be more efficient, to, use the tent in the room or the room alone. But right now the plant is okay so thats the important part haha. As long aa I'm not using much unecessary power. I would hope that the way I have it setup now aint too bad. Let me see if i can give you guys a better idea/picture. 20200423_081136.jpg
A/C is all the way on the other side of the room. Surely this has to affect the amount of fresh air coming in? 20200423_080500.jpg
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With the doors shut, how do you guys reckon I could move that air out? Can't wait til my carbon filter gets here! The noise of this "hurricane" sure sounds like one
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Mikenike said:
I run a “sealed” 4x8 tent. Although it’s not completely air tight, my 20lb co2 tank lasts me quite awhile for 8 plants. 850ppm for veg and 1500ppm in flower. Exhaust only turns on at lights out and the last two weeks of flower when i cut co2 off. Would that be considered a hybrid?
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Hehe sounds like a standard “sealed” room setup. Obviously being a tent maybe it’s not a perfect seal but they are sealed enough to pull negative pressure. You aren’t venting to exchange air though out the day, you are supplementing the CO2 yourself.

Goggle “hybrid sealed grow room”.

Upon a quick search there only seems to be minor mention of it on THCfarmer. The grower that seems to have coined the term can’t explain why he gets bad results at some grows but found that if he runs CO2 and a low speed exhaust exchanging normal air too that he gets more consistent results. It is not a common term or practice. The hybrid part seems to relate specifically to running CO2 and an extraction fan together all the time.
 
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