Dealing with the smell.... Viola!

So I don't have my grow room ducted. It just passively vents into my bedroom. My plant are young and in the Veg. state but have begun to skunk up the room pretty good. Enough to make my 4 year old to ask "what's that stinky smell in your room". Well needless to say that not good. So just as an experiment I took my humidifier that I have running into my grow room and put 3 drops of peppermint oil in it's water tank. VOILA! not only did it mask the smell 100% but it neutralized it and you can't even smell the peppermint. There is no smell what so ever. I don't know if I can increase the amount of peppermint as the plant's smell intensifies during flowering but we will see. I don't know if anyone has tried this but I was pleasantly surprised.

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Yea, that's a good one.
Don't think you will be able to use it later though. Once those girls start putting on the foliage you wont want the extra humidity.

cruzer101 said:

Yea, that's a good one.
Don't think you will be able to use it later though. Once those girls start putting on the foliage you wont want the extra humidity.

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So what is the desired Humidity for flowering girls?

I might be able to run it outside of the grow room. Dunno though.

50% is good, but you will find as they get larger they will produce it themselves.
Kinda depends, in a small space where you are pumping a lot of air through to keep a light cool then you may still need it.

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Peppermint oil is not nuetralizing the odor, it doesn't have the physical properties to attach itself to an odor atom and neutralize it. Since peppermint is another type of plant, you have found a good mask. The only reason you can't smell it is because you are getting accustomed to it. Invite a friend or neighbor over and borrow their nose

Serapis said:

Peppermint oil is not nuetralizing the odor, it doesn't have the physical properties to attach itself to an odor atom and neutralize it. Since peppermint is another type of plant, you have found a good mask. The only reason you can't smell it is because you are getting accustomed to it. Invite a friend or neighbor over and borrow their nose

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Although I might agree with your chemistry (balancing that chemical equation would be fun).... My nose wasn't accustom to it (as both my wife and my friend had fresh noses). It is probably just be a very good mask and lightly scented. Regardless of how it worked I found it work very well.