Hello
I am not sure if I posted in the right section but I could not find a place for fans and extraction.
I am 4 weeks into my first grow and everything's been going fine, up until the last week anyway. I've been growing in a 60x60x120 cm tent under a 125w cfl, trouble I've been having is with cooling. My extractor fan is a 4" fitting and I have placed it in the loft, I have 10m of flexi hose coming down through a cavity and out through a hole in the wall and directly into the tent. Once inside the tent the hose goes to the top and has a carbon filter fitted. Everything seemed fine until my plants started to go dull and the leaves started curling up, then they were going yellow and they just didn't seem to be growing anymore, I finally managed to find a thermometer and realised my temp is way too high. I have rigged up a makeshift fan in there to aid air circulation, I'm waiting for a small clip on fan to turn up which should be here tomorrow. My light was then raised up which has made the plants cooler and I have been giving them a very light spray with rain water every now and then, the colour is deffinately starting to come back now
My question is this, Should i have the extractor in the loft where it has to suck through 10m of hose and a carbon filter thus loosing efficiency, or should i put the extractor in the tent and use the 10m hose as an exhaust and then have a 1m piece of hose between the extractor and the filter. The answer is obvious I know but I'm worried about the extractor being in the tent with moisture and heat, is this an issue?? Does anyone else have there setup this way?? Bearing in mind it's only a small tent
Great forum by the way, I've found so much useful information here so far that I haven't needed to post till now
I am not sure if I posted in the right section but I could not find a place for fans and extraction.
I am 4 weeks into my first grow and everything's been going fine, up until the last week anyway. I've been growing in a 60x60x120 cm tent under a 125w cfl, trouble I've been having is with cooling. My extractor fan is a 4" fitting and I have placed it in the loft, I have 10m of flexi hose coming down through a cavity and out through a hole in the wall and directly into the tent. Once inside the tent the hose goes to the top and has a carbon filter fitted. Everything seemed fine until my plants started to go dull and the leaves started curling up, then they were going yellow and they just didn't seem to be growing anymore, I finally managed to find a thermometer and realised my temp is way too high. I have rigged up a makeshift fan in there to aid air circulation, I'm waiting for a small clip on fan to turn up which should be here tomorrow. My light was then raised up which has made the plants cooler and I have been giving them a very light spray with rain water every now and then, the colour is deffinately starting to come back now
My question is this, Should i have the extractor in the loft where it has to suck through 10m of hose and a carbon filter thus loosing efficiency, or should i put the extractor in the tent and use the 10m hose as an exhaust and then have a 1m piece of hose between the extractor and the filter. The answer is obvious I know but I'm worried about the extractor being in the tent with moisture and heat, is this an issue?? Does anyone else have there setup this way?? Bearing in mind it's only a small tent
Great forum by the way, I've found so much useful information here so far that I haven't needed to post till now