sleeperls93
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Do yo know any plumbers? Ask at the local home depot, maybe they could help you get then right fittings and tools for the job...
Dude,
Run your AC inside, vent it out the window somehow using home made ducting, let it drip into a big ass rubermaid. Then feed the plants with the collected water. FUCK THE MANAGEMENT.
Or do like he said get a portable fucking AC.
If it was me I'd tell the management to fuck of and get a new place to stay as soon as the time was right.
This is not meant to be mean, but helpful......
You dont think anybody can see that exhaust/intake hose thru the window?
Your using 2 600 watt lights for 4 plants?
You plan to harvest 2 pounds?
3 plants in one bucket?
Will def do when I get some more cashDo yo know any plumbers? Ask at the local home depot, maybe they could help you get then right fittings and tools for the job...
I know bro, I still got time. I have a 35 watt pump so I can run 6 5 gallon buckets on it to keep oxygen/water ratio perfect.Alright man i know everyone is giving you good info and all but your going to be lucky to get 1/2 lb with that set up if that. First off your crowding 3 plants in one bucket, having room for your plants to reach out and utilize its light source is key. You started off with wrong lighting and way to high of nutes to youve already stunted growth. My babes would be 5times the size of yours by now. You have to be getting your grind on and keeping your bills paid will you grow, its not just fun and games and counting on a harvest for servival is not smart. You should of done alot more research before you got in over your head and you would be better off right now. Are you gonna use co2? your yield and product would be their if you dont. Are you leaving enough room in your buckets for the right oxygen/water ratio so you root rote wont set in? That system you have is really designed for one plant in each bucket. Not crowding 3 in one to save money. Instead the 2 600s you should have got more buckets anr air pumps. But in time you will learn.
People who are afraid of apartment growing are usually lazy and have no creativity. I use an entire walk-in closet bro, chill, smoke, drink a beer and tackle the situation. I run carbon scrubbed air into my wall (there is a draft running through the wall leading me to believe there is a draft from outside) The scrubbed air gets swept away. Negative pressure from the scrubber pushing air into the wall causes the slots under the door to act as passive intakes and sucks cool apartment air into the room. Mount your scrubber/exhaust high (heat rises) and have your intake low. The Walk-In is padlocked and the bedroom it's in is locked (I changed the bedrooms doorknobs) Management/Maintenance would have to illegally bust through two locked doors to get to my lab. The breaker box and the water heater are nowhere near these rooms. Now then, be sure you keep your humidity low if you decide to vent into the crawlspace between apartments as high humidity will eventually cause mold. My humidity sits at 45-50% more on the dry side.I would be extremely paranoid to be growing out of a first floor apartment... Imagine when things start to get stinky? people are really nosy, be careful dog... and seriously, if you have 6 plants get six buckets dude; that bucket sharing shit is not going to cut it! You could position one 600hid over 3 plants, and so forth.... you get that water situation fixed, and learn how to properly feed them, and maybe you could get alot closer to your goals, right know thoughj, I doubt you'll get a half P...
Don't take that quote personal man, but yeah the statement stands. The reason I told him about exhausting through the crawlspace was because I saw the pic of the window. Police can use that as probable cause if they couple it with smell, heat, or electricity usage. It takes VERY little time to get a judge to give them a probable cause warrant.I know your not calling me lazy or uncreative? right? Dude seriously though, you didn't see that picture from outside? His window is right next to the fucking Ac condenser for the apartment complex!!! There will be traffic by your window, I'm an electrician and I have to check those very often in some complexes, and so do the hvac guys, I'm just saying, dont call me fucking lazy, you can call me a paranoid motherfucker, and that would be more acceptable! I might be stoner, but I am one hardworking motherfucker!
haha, its cool man, i know what you mean, i'm also in an apartment... but it's not in a complex like his... it's alot riskier just for the simple fact that a landlord does exist, lol... Landlord loves me though, I always pay my rent early, don't make any noise, very low key and keep everything clean, inside and out...Don't take that quote personal man, but yeah the statement stands. The reason I told him about exhausting through the crawlspace was because I saw the pic of the window. Police can use that as probable cause if they couple it with smell, heat, or electricity usage. It takes VERY little time to get a judge to give them a probable cause warrant.
No offense man but you turned a relatively simple endeavor into a potential legal nightmare. Your room has all kinds of makeshift ducting and shit running through a regular room. It looks terrible and if I had that going through my condo I would be terrified every second I was away from the apartment. I grow in SOIL, I use a 400w switchable electric ballast (no sound) 4" inline scrubber moving air into a crawlspace and passive airflow induction. I use a T5 propagation setup for cloning and seedlings and don't need/use the scrubber when smell/temp isn't an issue (T5 runs very cool) You went overboard thinking about $$$$ money man. You can grow less and yield more if you dial in the small shit.
Sleeper this wasn't aimed at you bro, most people who bash apartment growing have a very comfy house with no neighbors and don't have to worry about unwanted traffic, and they always say people are dumb for growing in rented space. Maybe your not most, I dunno, just giving the guy food for thought. Thats what this site is all about......
I would invest in a portable A/C unit. I use them in my small condo and vent them out the window through a small vent. It's very hard to notice the vent. This is the best time of year to buy them because Winter is just around the corner.My temps were running perfect for my 2 600w's over my new born babies.
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Until maintainence came and told me I had to take out my window unit I had in my apartment window.
I was venting tha air out of tha 2 600w cooltubes out of the side of the window ac unit. And puling fresh air in through tha side of tha grow tent from the room that stayed at least 70.
Now that I had to take out my window unit tha ambient temp in my room is 79 and my tent temp is 95.
Is this too hot for my babies? Im gettin 2 Air Master fans tomorrow in tha mail, so hopefully it will bring the temps down in my tent. What do yall think?
Im in 2 DWC buckets with each one under 600w MH or a 600w HPS.
Tha one on tha left is Super Lemon Haze and tha bucket on tha right is LSD.
Heres how its lookin now:
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I have tha air being pulled from tha 2 cooltubes just blowin out tha window for now, and a small fan suckin air from outside tha window into tha room, barely lowering temps in tha room.
Do yall think id be good for now with out killin my baby plants? thank in advance.