Grow Tent Club

drolove

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I guess those types of ground matter repel the mites? If so sounds like a cheap safe way to combat em.
yup my father actually told me about it :p

you can dust the plants with it and it will kill all the mites. the rose dust actually has a spout for spraying dust on the underside of the plants. you probably wouldnt want to use it for flowering that way though. but in any stage i dust around my plants and a lot on the ground around them
 

bassman999

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yup my father actually told me about it :p

you can dust the plants with it and it will kill all the mites. the rose dust actually has a spout for spraying dust on the underside of the plants. you probably wouldnt want to use it for flowering that way though. but in any stage i dust around my plants and a lot on the ground around them
where do you get it, or do you just pick it and crumble it?
 

n31

Active Member
I was tossing this idea around and wanted other input on it. I am running into some heat issues and want to cool my tent down. I have decided to purchase a dual hose AC by Danby rated at 11k BTU's.

A perfect dual hose is supposed to draw air in from the intake hose and cool the machinery inside the unit then it should exhaust the hot air after cooling the machinery through the exhaust hose. Compared to a single hose, which sucks air from the room it is in (the air it has already cooled) to cool its machinery. The dual hose is not supposed to suck cool air from the grow tent it will be in, right?

Based on the readings I have found, this is never the case and all portable air conditioners dual or single hose, suck air that they have cooled to help in cooling the machinery. This tells me that when my ladies are in flower, stank-ass smell from the grow tent will be exhausted with the hot air used to cool machinery.

Because attaching a fan to help exhaust the hot air from the AC will ruin the AC exhaust motor, using a carbon filter on the AC exhaust is out of the question.
—I was thinking that I could potentially build a DIY Ona bucket and jerry rig the exhaust duct with ducting tape and scrub the air that way. Do you guys think this will work effectively since the AC will only exhaust a minimal amount of stank-ass smell?
Also, if the intake hose is ducted from another room and not from a window will this effect performance, other than keeping the unit on longer to cool to desired temps?
Thanks guys for the input. :leaf:
 

bassman999

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I am interested in this as well. I have thought several times about an a/c for my tent, but have problems with their design.
 

nas2007

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I was tossing this idea around and wanted other input on it. I am running into some heat issues and want to cool my tent down. I have decided to purchase a dual hose AC by Danby rated at 11k BTU's.

A perfect dual hose is supposed to draw air in from the intake hose and cool the machinery inside the unit then it should exhaust the hot air after cooling the machinery through the exhaust hose. Compared to a single hose, which sucks air from the room it is in (the air it has already cooled) to cool its machinery. The dual hose is not supposed to suck cool air from the grow tent it will be in, right?

Based on the readings I have found, this is never the case and all portable air conditioners dual or single hose, suck air that they have cooled to help in cooling the machinery. This tells me that when my ladies are in flower, stank-ass smell from the grow tent will be exhausted with the hot air used to cool machinery.

Because attaching a fan to help exhaust the hot air from the AC will ruin the AC exhaust motor, using a carbon filter on the AC exhaust is out of the question.
—I was thinking that I could potentially build a DIY Ona bucket and jerry rig the exhaust duct with ducting tape and scrub the air that way. Do you guys think this will work effectively since the AC will only exhaust a minimal amount of stank-ass smell?
Also, if the intake hose is ducted from another room and not from a window will this effect performance, other than keeping the unit on longer to cool to desired temps?
Thanks guys for the input. :leaf:
i would strongly suggest you post the same question in the club 600 you will most likly get your answer, here is the thred
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/285620-club-600-a.html
 

bassman999

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I was tossing this idea around and wanted other input on it. I am running into some heat issues and want to cool my tent down. I have decided to purchase a dual hose AC by Danby rated at 11k BTU's.

A perfect dual hose is supposed to draw air in from the intake hose and cool the machinery inside the unit then it should exhaust the hot air after cooling the machinery through the exhaust hose. Compared to a single hose, which sucks air from the room it is in (the air it has already cooled) to cool its machinery. The dual hose is not supposed to suck cool air from the grow tent it will be in, right?

Based on the readings I have found, this is never the case and all portable air conditioners dual or single hose, suck air that they have cooled to help in cooling the machinery. This tells me that when my ladies are in flower, stank-ass smell from the grow tent will be exhausted with the hot air used to cool machinery.

Because attaching a fan to help exhaust the hot air from the AC will ruin the AC exhaust motor, using a carbon filter on the AC exhaust is out of the question.
—I was thinking that I could potentially build a DIY Ona bucket and jerry rig the exhaust duct with ducting tape and scrub the air that way. Do you guys think this will work effectively since the AC will only exhaust a minimal amount of stank-ass smell?
Also, if the intake hose is ducted from another room and not from a window will this effect performance, other than keeping the unit on longer to cool to desired temps?
Thanks guys for the input. :leaf:
After some research this is what I came up with. The single hose a/c draws air from the room being cooled to run over the coil and then exhaust outside. The dual hose draws outside air in one hose over coils and oput other hose. This accomplishes 2 things. !st if you are running co2 you will be pumping it outside with a single hose, and you are throwing away some of your cooled air to cool the coils off with the single hose as well. This also makes the twin hose unit more efficient.
 

rollajoint

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Hi guys rite first real grow and hit my first problem setting it all up . Will be running 2m length by 1.2m wide tent with 8 " extractor and 6" intake . 2 x 600 watt lights

Straight to the point the ducting dont fit the holes , Is it best to cut a hole in the side of the tent or the roof to put the 8 " extract out of ?

My fault on buying a lower range tent but live and learn . sending back isnt an option really because i need to be up and running asap . Really need help hopefully from someone with the same experiance dont want to buy a reducer as it will lower air outtake . Thanks
 

bassman999

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I use a reducer and prolly have reduced output, but I figured a larger hole wont seal and will eventually deteriorate the fabric.
 

psillysimon

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you're not going to get much of a loss from reducing to 6 inches.

also, when you say 8 inch extractor is this coming off of a hood? or you just sucking air out of the tent?
 
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