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Dr.Amber Trichome

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Hope you all are well!good luck this sEason whodatnation! Dont ever forget A lot of people are grateful and very thankful for your hard work and your determination to produce the fantastic medication that you grow. You and all the growers producing high quality bud have a lot to be proud of . Your work is very spiritually rewarding and far reaching...what a great way to live your life.
 

whodatnation

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Hope you all are well!good luck this sEason whodatnation! Dont ever forget A lot of people are grateful and very thankful for your hard work and your determination to produce the fantastic medication that you grow. You and all the growers producing high quality bud have a lot to be proud of . Your work is very spiritually rewarding and far reaching...what a great way to live your life.

Thanks allot :-D
 
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duchieman

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Hey :-) how's it going duchie?
All things considered, it's ggoing pretty good. I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my life and I think I need the help of my friends here to help me out. Full legalization will be here by next spring and I really want to take advantage of this new market. That said, I'm so happy to see your photos first thing. I'm envious every time. :) But, I'm looking forward to picking your brain, and everyone elses. More questions to come.


Glad to see you're developing a southern drawl. some of us are still here.

How's the Canadian mj business going?

:peace:
cof
Business is the right choice of words, as I was saying to whodat, I have some ideas and can't really nail one down but hope to maybe try to clarify things chatting with you guys. If you actually heard that drawl, you'd know how fake it is. ;) Always glad to see your here cof.

Hey Duchie. Good to see ya. Hope you are good.
Yes sir. Sunny days ahead. How things at BB? Still plugging along?
 

duchieman

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So guys, here's my first dilemma. This is my new grow room. The wide angle on my phone makes it look small than it is but it's 8ft x 8ft x 8ft. From the back wall to the door/window (directly facing each other), is about 5ft. The small open vent on the door side is the cold air return. The vent under the window is heat/central air. For equipment I have two air hoods (6") for two 600hps ballasts/bulbs. I have a Vortex S1000 (10") inline with a 10" charcoal cannister as well as my old Vortex VTX400 (4") and cannister. I could use some help figuring out how best to configure this gear. I'm thinking of using the 10" as a scrubber and the 4" to extract the fixture heat outdoors. I'm thinking this because I foresee an issue with reducing the 10" cannister down to 6" through the fixtures, and then stepped back up to a 10 to extract outside. Something about this doesn't seem right. Any thoughts would be appreciated.






 

DST

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So guys, here's my first dilemma. This is my new grow room. The wide angle on my phone makes it look small than it is but it's 8ft x 8ft x 8ft. From the back wall to the door/window (directly facing each other), is about 5ft. The small open vent on the door side is the cold air return. The vent under the window is heat/central air. For equipment I have two air hoods (6") for two 600hps ballasts/bulbs. I have a Vortex S1000 (10") inline with a 10" charcoal cannister as well as my old Vortex VTX400 (4") and cannister. I could use some help figuring out how best to configure this gear. I'm thinking of using the 10" as a scrubber and the 4" to extract the fixture heat outdoors. I'm thinking this because I foresee an issue with reducing the 10" cannister down to 6" through the fixtures, and then stepped back up to a 10 to extract outside. Something about this doesn't seem right. Any thoughts would be appreciated.






Why do you have to join the 4 and the 10 together? Is it that you only want one outlet? Or am i getting this wrong? A 10 inch seems good for 2 lights imo. Do you need the 4inch?
 

duchieman

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Why do you have to join the 4 and the 10 together? Is it that you only want one outlet? Or am i getting this wrong? A 10 inch seems good for 2 lights imo. Do you need the 4inch?
I guess my concern is with stepping down from the 10" canister, all the way down to 6 inches at the fixture(s), and then back up to 10 going into the fan. Would that not create excess draw on the fan? Or am I nuts? My other idea was to use the 4 inch set up to draw the heat out of the fixtures only, while the 10" exchanges the room.

Only a few feet away, outside the window, is the neighbours window and I'm not sure how to shoot that much air out of it without it being too much. Even though I'm legal I still need to be somewhat discreet, and courteous. I'm wondering if I can use the cold air return vent somehow to shoot the stale air into the basement.


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Yodaweed

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I guess my concern is with stepping down from the 10" canister, all the way down to 6 inches at the fixture(s), and then back up to 10 going into the fan. Would that not create excess draw on the fan? Or am I nuts? My other idea was to use the 4 inch set up to draw the heat out of the fixtures only, while the 10" exchanges the room.

Only a few feet away, outside the window, is the neighbours window and I'm not sure how to shoot that much air out of it without it being too much. Even though I'm legal I still need to be somewhat discreet, and courteous. I'm wondering if I can use the cold air return vent somehow to shoot the stale air into the basement.


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Make sure if you exhaust back to your house you use a dehumidifier or you could promote mold growth in the areas you exhaust into. Good luck and happy growing.
 

DST

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Do you mean pushing the air through the fixtures, rather than pulling it through?
Aye lad, that's what I mean. Yes, pushing air over bulbs may reduce life of them slightly, but nothing we would notice imo (since most of us probably change bulbs every now and then anyway). I have been running my set up that way for a long time now and I am lucky to change my bulbs once a year if that.
 

THCBrain

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Aye lad, that's what I mean. Yes, pushing air over bulbs may reduce life of them slightly, but nothing we would notice imo (since most of us probably change bulbs every now and then anyway). I have been running my set up that way for a long time now and I am lucky to change my bulbs once a year if that.
I have a close friend whose grown for 8 years using the same bulb and ballast I don't know how he does it but every time pulls double figure yields off 2 plants, I just don't know how lol
 

duchieman

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Aye lad, that's what I mean. Yes, pushing air over bulbs may reduce life of them slightly, but nothing we would notice imo (since most of us probably change bulbs every now and then anyway). I have been running my set up that way for a long time now and I am lucky to change my bulbs once a year if that.
Ok, cool. I'm willing to give that a shot. Pretty sure I have enough CFM to do it too. Thanks D!
 
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