About to Harvest soon, Need some Dry Tent Advise on Setups and Portable Air Conditioners

[Marla 420]

Hello as the title states I'm about to harvest soon. I have a 3x3x7 Tent and I read that you want to dry at 60 degrees and 60 Humidity. I need to buy a portable air conditioner and want to know what type some of you posters run to get nice temps of 60. I was thinking of getting this Black and Decker off Amazon but the lowest Temp it goes to is 64. Amazon.com: BLACK+DECKER BPACT08WT Portable Air Conditioner, 8,000 BTU, White: Home & Kitchen Even then some reviews are bad.

It's Hot outside right now where I'm at lol. The A/C is gonna have to work really well.

So what type of Dry room/tent setups do you have/advise for a newbie?

 

[Pacoson71]

If your tent is in a room you can just cool the room.

Portable A/Cs are not efficient and NEED a window to expel the heat. If you have this exhaust go into your tent or room...... HOT

Just get a window A/C (if you can)

 

[Marla 420]

If your tent is in a room you can just cool the room.

Portable A/Cs are not efficient and NEED a window to expel the heat. If you have this exhaust go into your tent or room...... HOT

Just get a window A/C (if you can)

Yes I was going to exhaust through a window, I can't cool down my room/area all the way down to 65 (It's kind of an open area) . The electric Bill would be insane lol. I'm already paying a pretty penny with it from this heat. That's why I wanted to get a Portable A/C for a 3x3 tent and exhaust through a port hole out through a window.

I would love to just get a cheap window A/C if I can.. But I don't know if it really really work with my tent because I can't put it in the actual 3x3. Maybe put up the tent right up against the wall and duct tape the open flap to the wall so the cold air won't leak? I don't know how effectint that would really be. Maybe if it was good duct tape? Lol.

 

[Pacoson71]

When drying and curing the RH is what is more important. If you can control that to 60% don't worry so much about the temp.

Read the curing and Harvest section, I'm in the same boat as you with a harvest.

 

[MidnightSun72]

When drying and curing the RH is what is more important. If you can control that to 60% don't worry so much about the temp.

Read the curing and Harvest section, I'm in the same boat as you with a harvest.

Temp still sort of matters. Cooler temps help break down the chlorophyll. So does total darkness.
Best cures for me so far is cool and slow. Total darkness. 50-55RH first week 55-60RH second week. 16--18*C. Then put in bags or bins and burp. Also consider washing your weed before drying. Although when I do this I put it in front of a fan for like 4-6h to dry off the water and then just indirect air movement for rest of drying time.

 

[Apalchen]

Just cool your living space down to 70 and run your exhaust fan constantly, it doesn’t have to be 60 degrees. I’ve dried plenty of fire in temps above 60 degrees. I wouldn’t wanna be north of 75 as you start to lose some terps around 80 degrees, at least that’s what I’ve heard. Your tent should stay same temp as living space since there is no light running. I always just chopped and dried right in the tent when I grew in tents with the carbon filter going and exhaust going full blast. My central air was always set to 65 at that house but hot days could be 70. I have tons of money invested in environmental controls and lighting now in my rooms and yeah I get better yields than I did in tents, but those buds out of those tents were still some of the best I ever grew, no c02, no stand alone ac, budget lights(315 cmh/600hps)just straight venting 24/7 and trying to keep the house as cool as possible.

 

[Marla 420]

I pretty much ruined my harvest.

The Ac in the tent was throwing out way too much condensation into the air. For the first 2 days I couldn't get it down from 85% RH, inline fan always on. opening vents trying to figure out what I could do. On the 3rd or 4rth day I turn on fan mode and it probably hit 79 at times when I caught it and switched back on to cool for awhile. It also was hit with alot of direct air on fan mode (I know a no no but I was getting desperate) and dried it to a crisp with a hay smell a few days later. Terrible, it smelled so good when I chopped them. I guess you live and you learn. I have one plant coming up for harvest soon that I kind of neglected but I get another chance at practice.

 

[MidnightSun72]

I pretty much ruined my harvest.

The Ac in the tent was throwing out way too much condensation into the air. For the first 2 days I couldn't get it down from 85% RH, inline fan always on. opening vents trying to figure out what I could do. On the 3rd or 4rth day I turn on fan mode and it probably hit 79 at times when I caught it and switched back on to cool for awhile. It also was hit with alot of direct air on fan mode (I know a no no but I was getting desperate) and dried it to a crisp with a hay smell a few days later. Terrible, it smelled so good when I chopped them. I guess you live and you learn. I have one plant coming up for harvest soon that I kind of neglected but I get another chance at practice.

AN AC should have made your tent too dry. Not the other way around. Were you use an evaporative cooler or something??? Or did you not vent the AC out of the tent?

 

[Marla 420]

AN AC should have made your tent too dry. Not the other way around. Were you use an evaporative cooler or something??? Or did you not vent the AC out of the tent?

It was super cold air hitting the 3x3 walls and making moisture. I was venting outside but I had my tent in the flower room which is 80-87d My tent would suck in and kind of ice up in a way (Not really just cold moisture). I think it was way too small of a tent, maybe it would have worked in a bigger area but It was just super overkill in a 3x3.

I still needed an AC so I returned the portable and just got a window unit. I'm thinking this time just duct taping some ducting from the AC to the 3x3 and have a small fan on the bottom. Maybe I should invest in digital RH unit like AC Infinity.

 

[jondamon]

It was super cold air hitting the 3x3 walls and making moisture. I was venting outside but I had my tent in the flower room which is 80-87d My tent would suck in and kind of ice up in a way (Not really just cold moisture). I think it was way too small of a tent, maybe it would have worked in a bigger area but It was just super overkill in a 3x3.

I still needed an AC so I returned the portable and just got a window unit. I'm thinking this time just duct taping some ducting from the AC to the 3x3 and have a small fan on the bottom. Maybe I should invest in digital RH unit like AC Infinity.

What you had there was warm tent walls being cooled by cold AC air.

when warm air and cold air collide you get condensation.

 

[MidnightSun72]

It was super cold air hitting the 3x3 walls and making moisture. I was venting outside but I had my tent in the flower room which is 80-87d My tent would suck in and kind of ice up in a way (Not really just cold moisture). I think it was way too small of a tent, maybe it would have worked in a bigger area but It was just super overkill in a 3x3.

I still needed an AC so I returned the portable and just got a window unit. I'm thinking this time just duct taping some ducting from the AC to the 3x3 and have a small fan on the bottom. Maybe I should invest in digital RH unit like AC Infinity.

Likely you could run the AC outside the tent and run an exhaust hose off the cold air outlet on the AC and have a fan on the opposite side of the tent sucking the hot air out and passively pulling that cold air in, But I usually have zero issues cooling my tents if using LED just an exhaust pipe ran to top of LED drivers and constantly exhaust out of the tent. Stays 79-82 max on hot days.

 

[Alter Jean]

Do not hang the plants in the same room you are blooming/growing. Separate the rooms you won't have as much temp issues.

If they are already completely separate then my apologies.