Take a Look at my new Grow Tent/setup

[RealSmokey]

So to all the people who been reading my post about needed help and advise and all that good stuff for a beginner grower. i went out today purchase all my supplies i set up shop and this is how it came out. take a look at the video tell me what u think. any tips pointers ,something im doing wrong let me know so i can do things rightly. but for the most part like i said i been studying and asking question and think i have a basic understanding of it all now. special thanks to all the follwers that been helping out and putting there input , im sure any info is going to help me and any other begginer growing like myself succed to some wonderful yeild and quality.!







[video=youtube;K76iR_Y4pS4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76iR_Y4pS4&noredirect=1[/video]

 

[Slipon]

looking good Bro ...

as I wrote in the other thread aswell ..

make sure your tubeings are as strait and short as possible .. with no bends .. will make your air flow much better ..

also .. if you can make a string of tubeings from the out side to the passiv intake you can provide your girls with fresh air/co2 ..
and it might also help a bit on your heat problems ?

 

[RealSmokey]

so what your saying is i should cut the tubing a little from the cooltube to the inline fan sense thats the once with most tubing and that to also make tubing from the intake of the fan going to outside ??

 

[Slipon]

erm ... what Im saying .. is that the shorter the tubeing is the more effectiv will your ventilation fan be and the less bends the more freely it can pull air out ..

so no bends and a short line ..

no need to have 3 feet that realy is`t nesseary hanging ther and being in the way maybe ..

tho make it long enough so you can make a nice soft bend up to your out/intake ..

no biggy .... was just looking for stuff to point out

also what I was saying .. if you have access to the outside (your out take blow it out of a window it look like ?)
you could add you intake tubeings so you pull fresh air directly from the outside ..

 

[IC3M4L3]

get that coarbon filter out mate u loose 20% efficiany (cooling) u dont need that till late flowering

and did u get dual spec hps bulb for flower or what?? i take it not if ur using mh for veg and hps for flower,,,,switchable blaast i take it?

 

[RealSmokey]

Alright I get what ur saying now about the tubing. Im going to cut it shorter tonight. And maybe run the extra tubing out side the window so it can get directly fresh air from outside the window. And as far as the carbon filter do I have to have it out for veg? Cause it was a pain in my ass to hang that heavy ads filter by myself. But as far as that everything else looks good? And ya I got a converter for the mh and hps lighting.

 

[Slipon]

nahh just leave it ..

ther will also be a littel smell in Veg .. specialy when they get bigger ..

only if you experiance heat problems .. then it might be a solution .. carbon filter do take about 20% of the sug of your ventilation ..

so I guess what he meant is if you have problems with temps. you could remove it to get even more air flow .. as it realy dont do much right now as I dont expect you got much smell ..

also remember .. carbon filters last a year roughly ..

then you eaither need to switch it to a new or buy some activ carbon and empty the old out and fill in new ..

so if you runn it wile thers is`t any need you will use it up on sumthing that dont do you any good .. up to you ..

you could just remove the tube from the filter and let it hang loose in ther .. so its ready to connect agin when you begin to smell em ..



but look nice .. only minor stuff you can correct along the way ..

but if it is`t a problem to take fresh air in from the out side I would for sure go for it (I have a tube from my passiv intake over my window to my intake in my grow room .. make temps drop a few more and provide fresh air and co2 for my girls .. Im sure they love it insted of my stall air in my appartment ..

 

[RealSmokey]

ya deff going to do that tonight. but i see what ur saying about the carbon filter. i bought it from htg supply so i think i have a 2 yr warranty on it. but ill choose what to do while i go along with veggin. Question iv been watching alot of videos of grow tent and the intake fan n filter. alot of ppl do it the way i am with the inner fan outside the tent blowing air in threw the tube hitting the light then traveling to the filter. THen alot of other ppl have it all in the tent with the filter then fan to the lights then blowing the rest of the air outside the tent? does it matter which way u do this. is the way im going abouts this fine or should i switch it up to where its all inside the tent blowing the air outside the tent.??

 

[808killahz]

it dont matter if the fan is after your light "pulling" air or before it "pushing" air threw. Inlines can be hooked up either way. definitely try and minimize the bends in your tubing tho. you can lose 5 to 10% efficiency with each 90 degree bend. you also lose effiency the longer your tube gets not to mention the carbon filter takes 20% away as mentioned earlier. straight and short as possible is what you after. looking good tho...

 

[Slipon]

yea 2 years .. if ther is a sumthing wrong with it ..

I think they need to give that warranty ..

but if you runn it 24/7 all year I would expect it to begin to smell a littel in flowering after a year .. but only time will tell ..

but it dont last for ever .. just what I was trying to point out ..

so running it when ther is no real need is kind a "unnesseary"
specialy if you have high temps .. if 2 minuts removeing the tube could get temps down even more and safe your carbon filter a littel ..
I dont see any reason not to .. connect the tube agin in a month or so when you begin to smell em .. hope summer temps is over by then ..

and no .. ther is`t any diffrent if you set your ventilation out side or inside the tent ..

I belive you did the right thing .. to littel space ... and a tent is´t that strong .. a ventilation is kind a heavy .. I would have made a security line in the ceiling for extra back up if I was to hang it in ther ..

only diffrent as I see it .. is if you got the room and can secure it in ther you will have less noise out side the tent ..


another thing some Ppl. do is turn it around and use the filter as a skrupper (so the ventilation blows in to the filter insted of sugging air through it)
I dont know exatly what the diffrent is .. or why they do it .. cept maybe space ?

I just know the filter was`t made for it .. and you might end up with carbon dust in your room out side the tent ..

 

[IC3M4L3]

i heard if ur carbon filter is activated ccarbon all u need to do it put it in the oven to re-activate it

hint---to save money on new filter IF you need to buy one,,,take the old carbon out and get a couple of those sheets they have in oven extractors u know with the light fastened to the wall?? ther like sqware peices of carbon,ther exactly the same and made for the same reasons just ina oven hood rather than cylindrical filter

he wont need filter in ther till after week 3-4 flower anyways,only smell he will get is fresh tomatoes smell

 

[tranka32]

You are pulling air through your filter right? I may have interpreted you wrong but you mention that the inline will be pulling fresh air from your window; right or wrong?

 

[Slipon]

oven .. hmmm did´t heard that one before .. need to look in to it .. but I dont belive it .. carbon absore the odours .. when the carbon is "full" it cant abosre more .. maybe you can wash it out of it ?

but Nm. you can buy buckets of it in fish/animal shops ..

or places like here:

http://www.buyactivatedcharcoal.com/

you can allso get it in them replacement filters for cookers .. you know the thing that hangs over your cooker .. they have em in my "walmart" for 8$




have em in 3 sizes .. same price .. bigges do hold a lot of carbon ..



and yea flowering they do stink .. neighbourhood would stink with out my filter .. but in a appartment .. big Veg. plant can smell .. maybe not so you cant stay in ther ..

but if you have to live and sleep it do anoy me .. not them fist 3 weeks or so .. but then you begin to smell em when you get home and open the door .. then you get a brise of odour sumtimes .. then you can smell it all the time and I cant sleep from it ..

 

[RealSmokey]

Thanks for the infoo on that. Just got done fixing up the tent. Ill have a update video. And question if I take off the tubing from the lighiing to the filter for veg. How is the air going to be filter for the ladyies. And all it be doing is bringing in air and not exiting anywhere.

 

[RealSmokey]

And correct Tranka32. Pulling fresh air from outside the window in the tent threw the cooling tube n light hitting the carbon filter

 

[RealSmokey]

[video=youtube;yO83s5bGDFc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO83s5bGDFc&feature=plcp[/video]


Check out the new Vid ! ,, fix up the tubing length and move things around a little. but im thinking its looking good , and just waitinggg for my damn babies to come in the mail so i can get STARTED already!

 

[F A B]

[video=youtube;yO83s5bGDFc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO83s5bGDFc&feature=plcp[/video]


Check out the new Vid ! ,, fix up the tubing length and move things around a little. but im thinking its looking good , and just waitinggg for my damn babies to come in the mail so i can get STARTED already!

bro sorry took me so long to get here
something aint right here

so u taking air from window into sealed hood and the filtering into room?
if so it is all wrong
u have have no air in contact with plants so no smell and no air to plants so no need for filter with that setup

u need a duct bringing air into light then back out of room
then u need a air intake for plants and out of room
if u only have one fan u need a Y at fan then attach intakes ducts one to light one to room

there is a few variations u can do but if what i think i see in vid is right its wrong

 

[Slipon]

yea need to fit the intake tube from out side to your "passiv" intake in the tent .. down at the floor .. not up on the light if that is the case ?

you need to make a negativ presure inside the tent .. so the ventilation the pulls hot air out the tent make a presure so it will pull the fresh air in through the tube at the bottom ..

if you have your filter on or not is not so importent .. with out you have more air flow but no odour controle with it on you have odour controle but ventilation will runn about 20% less ..

how can I explain .. one tube from outside and fixd on your intake hole at the bottom of your tent ..
one tube with the ventilation on pulling ari from the room and out .. pass your cool tube to take the hot air out with it ..

if that make any sens ?

at the other end of your cool tube you will fit your filter ...
or not if you need more cooling/ventilation and odour is`t a problem ..

just leave the filter hanging in ther .. just pull the tubeing off or put it on when needed..

 

[Slipon]

just watch the vid agin .. and actualy looks good .. out take is good ..

but how about your intake ? how is that .. passiv ? or did you fit some tubeings and runn it out to collect fresh/cool air ?

need to see the tent be pulld in when its closed .. not much . just a littel negativ presure .. so your sure no odour will esape once they begin to smell .. but also so your sure it got a good air flow and it pull some fresh air in the passiv intake/tubeings ..

 

[F A B]

Thanks for the infoo on that. Just got done fixing up the tent. Ill have a update video. And question if I take off the tubing from the lighiing to the filter for veg. How is the air going to be filter for the ladyies. And all it be doing is bringing in air and not exiting anywhere.

you are not trying to filter air to ladies u need to filter air from the ladies
where is your exhaust