Lung Tent?

LewberDewber852

LewberDewber852

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Has anybody created a lung tent to supplement their grow tent?
I live in an old farm house and have huge variables in my lung rooms depending on season.. 4 seasons make it all that much more difficult and a pain. Closet was great in winter, bad in the summer..
Set-up a tent in the basement, good for the summer, not so much for the cold dry winter..
Was thinking of a lung tent.. Would this make sense? I can keep heating and cooling equipment out of my main tent so my ass has room to work, also keeps grow gunk/life outta the filters of the equipment.
I am posting this question because I have a tendency too overthink which has led to some overspending and inefficiency. My goal is to create a raised 2.5x4.5 no till box/bed. Don’t feel comfortable doing this until I can control my environment better.
Thanks for any help as always RIU!!
 
jondamon

jondamon

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LewberDewber852 said:
Has anybody created a lung tent to supplement their grow tent?
I live in an old farm house and have huge variables in my lung rooms depending on season.. 4 seasons make it all that much more difficult and a pain. Closet was great in winter, bad in the summer..
Set-up a tent in the basement, good for the summer, not so much for the cold dry winter..
Was thinking of a lung tent.. Would this make sense? I can keep heating and cooling equipment out of my main tent so my ass has room to work, also keeps grow gunk/life outta the filters of the equipment.
I am posting this question because I have a tendency too overthink which has led to some overspending and inefficiency. My goal is to create a raised 2.5x4.5 no till box/bed. Don’t feel comfortable doing this until I can control my environment better.
Thanks for any help as always RIU!!
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Why not just a larger tent and erect your smaller tent inside it.

make sure all tents are not sitting on cold floor, raise them up.

Open/close passive vents on larger tent and use heating/cooling inside larger tent to help better control smaller tent?
 
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Jay Unity

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LewberDewber852 said:
Has anybody created a lung tent to supplement their grow tent?
I live in an old farm house and have huge variables in my lung rooms depending on season.. 4 seasons make it all that much more difficult and a pain. Closet was great in winter, bad in the summer..
Set-up a tent in the basement, good for the summer, not so much for the cold dry winter..
Was thinking of a lung tent.. Would this make sense? I can keep heating and cooling equipment out of my main tent so my ass has room to work, also keeps grow gunk/life outta the filters of the equipment.
I am posting this question because I have a tendency too overthink which has led to some overspending and inefficiency. My goal is to create a raised 2.5x4.5 no till box/bed. Don’t feel comfortable doing this until I can control my environment better.
Thanks for any help as always RIU!!
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I do something similar to this. I grow in tents in a basement. I have a 6" intake going into my 4x8 that is hooked to a 3x3. In the summer I have a floor model air conditioner and dehumidifier in the 3x3. Winter sometimes I'll have a humidifier and heater. It works well for me. I sometimes have a 4x8 and a 4x4 Intaking from the 3x3 but it doesn't work as well, maybe if it was a little bigger it would be optimal for both. I feel like it saves me alot of money compared to getting 2000sqft to appropriate temp and humidity levels.
 
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Bookush34

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I essentially created a ling room out of the room my 3x3 is in. Works great. Humidifier is in the lung room and in the winter I duct my light heat back into the lung room and In the summer it’s ducted right out of the house.

No AC and temps are always bang on. Well in the winter when it’s really cold it’s a struggle to keep it up to 80F.
 
LewberDewber852

LewberDewber852

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jondamon said:
Why not just a larger tent and erect your smaller tent inside it.

make sure all tents are not sitting on cold floor, raise them up.

Open/close passive vents on larger tent and use heating/cooling inside larger tent to help better control smaller tent?
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I don’t have enough space for one big tent or else this is what I would do. Load baring poles scattered all over. Feel like I’m the 1800s house engineering was based on the moron theory.. just add moron on and hope it works lol
I Also had to use one of the wonky 5x5 that had a lower height because of the extremely low ceiling. It is on the floor which is def not ideal but all I could do! I plan on raising my plants up tho when I build my SIP setups for the next go.
This is why I’m thinking separate tent attached by hoses so I can put it wherever..
Thanks for the idea though and honestly love the tentception concept!
 
LewberDewber852

LewberDewber852

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Jay Unity said:
I do something similar to this. I grow in tents in a basement. I have a 6" intake going into my 4x8 that is hooked to a 3x3. In the summer I have a floor model air conditioner and dehumidifier in the 3x3. Winter sometimes I'll have a humidifier and heater. It works well for me. I sometimes have a 4x8 and a 4x4 Intaking from the 3x3 but it doesn't work as well, maybe if it was a little bigger it would be optimal for both. I feel like it saves me alot of money compared to getting 2000sqft to appropriate temp and humidity levels.
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This exactly what I was thinking. Like spot on. Would’nt have guessed the 3x3 lung would keep up tho! You have pics somewhere?
Also do u passively pull the air from the lung or do u have fans working together?
 
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Jay Unity

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I don't really have pics atm I might be able to get a few this Eve. I didn't plan this, the 3x3x6 is actually my drying tent ($36 prime day deal) and I got tired of it doing nothing most of the time. Over the summer, I originally just had my ac in the middle of the room with ducting coming down right over top of it that sucked it into the 4x8. The tent was still hitting in the high 80s+ running wide open and so I tried putting it in the 3x3 tent. Worked great, most days my 14000 btu could keep it 75 on low/med and that's with two 6" fans exhausting out of a chimney. I have 3 ac infinity 6" fans and two controller 67s. Two exhaust fans are set for high temp and intake is set to dial down on a low temp. I basically just play with setting the controllers and ac temps so that everything runs constant at low settings. As far as humidity my state has huge swings and in the summer I have three big dehumidifiers going. The dehumidifier that I use in the 3x3 doesn't create much heat, nothing like the other two I have. Also my basement never gets over 85, usually closer to 80 so that's something to consider. I used it at the beginning of flower this winter with a humidifier in there and I liked it alot better than having it in my tent under the canopy. Also used it on my veg tent when they were young with heat and humidity. This all goes down with about 15' of 6" ducting between the flower and 3x3 run along a floor joist in the basement ceiling. Tents are in different rooms. Right now I'm not using it because the tents are at a point where they are good without the extra help. Flower tent getting closer to finishing and veg light turned up with bigger pots has that tent about right. I'm sure there are advantages to a bigger "lung" tent but for me it seems like it would be more important to make sure that whatever you have in there has enough ass to keep up with whatever you need to do. For example I had the ac in a 2x2 (pretty snug fit) for two weeks running to not only veg and flower tents but also the 3x3 full of drying flowers and it took alot of tinkering with fans speeds and the AC was wide open but it kept me close enough to where I needed to be for all 3. So not too sure a bigger tent would really be necessary idk. Another thing that I think helped is I had 4 cheap 4" inline fans sucking in air to the 3x3 and pretty much shooting it at where the ac and dehumidifier sucks it in at. I imagine there are drawbacks to doing it like this but it beat spending another $700 on two more ac units and whatever it would cost to run them. Hopefully you can decipher my rambling and it gives you some ideas.
 
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Jay Unity

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budbeauty said:
Plastic sheeting and 2x4s provide a make shift room of any size..why fiddle with all these tents
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It's easier to talk your buddy into growing those 4 plants for a while when they come set up and ready to roll. Nah just playing but plant limits are a bitch. My plants are just anti social. They don't meet their neighbors unless it's in the flower room. After I bought my first tent new ones just kept showing up at my door every year. I bought 5 3x3s last year that I didn't even know I needed just because they were a steal. Turns out they were needed pretty quick. Can think of a ton of reasons tents are beneficial to me but in all seriousness my #1 is I like to keep things in there own little group or alone in a smaller tent. Not trying to loose everything I have over a sick clone. I've got a 12 x 16 shed I'm hoping to get hauled up here early spring to try and grow some bigger girls in later this year though.
 
LewberDewber852

LewberDewber852

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budbeauty said:
Plastic sheeting and 2x4s provide a make shift room of any size..why fiddle with all these tents
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2x4s and plastic would work fine but I do like the tents because they are real easy to clean and set up. The port holes for ducting, mount points for hanging equipment, pockets, removable floor mat. Just tidy and handy as all hell. Plus cheap too!
 
LewberDewber852

LewberDewber852

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Jay Unity said:
I don't really have pics atm I might be able to get a few this Eve. I didn't plan this, the 3x3x6 is actually my drying tent ($36 prime day deal) and I got tired of it doing nothing most of the time. Over the summer, I originally just had my ac in the middle of the room with ducting coming down right over top of it that sucked it into the 4x8. The tent was still hitting in the high 80s+ running wide open and so I tried putting it in the 3x3 tent. Worked great, most days my 14000 btu could keep it 75 on low/med and that's with two 6" fans exhausting out of a chimney. I have 3 ac infinity 6" fans and two controller 67s. Two exhaust fans are set for high temp and intake is set to dial down on a low temp. I basically just play with setting the controllers and ac temps so that everything runs constant at low settings. As far as humidity my state has huge swings and in the summer I have three big dehumidifiers going. The dehumidifier that I use in the 3x3 doesn't create much heat, nothing like the other two I have. Also my basement never gets over 85, usually closer to 80 so that's something to consider. I used it at the beginning of flower this winter with a humidifier in there and I liked it alot better than having it in my tent under the canopy. Also used it on my veg tent when they were young with heat and humidity. This all goes down with about 15' of 6" ducting between the flower and 3x3 run along a floor joist in the basement ceiling. Tents are in different rooms. Right now I'm not using it because the tents are at a point where they are good without the extra help. Flower tent getting closer to finishing and veg light turned up with bigger pots has that tent about right. I'm sure there are advantages to a bigger "lung" tent but for me it seems like it would be more important to make sure that whatever you have in there has enough ass to keep up with whatever you need to do. For example I had the ac in a 2x2 (pretty snug fit) for two weeks running to not only veg and flower tents but also the 3x3 full of drying flowers and it took alot of tinkering with fans speeds and the AC was wide open but it kept me close enough to where I needed to be for all 3. So not too sure a bigger tent would really be necessary idk. Another thing that I think helped is I had 4 cheap 4" inline fans sucking in air to the 3x3 and pretty much shooting it at where the ac and dehumidifier sucks it in at. I imagine there are drawbacks to doing it like this but it beat spending another $700 on two more ac units and whatever it would cost to run them. Hopefully you can decipher my rambling and it gives you some ideas.
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So I think I deciphered your rambling and that’s pretty impressive u were able to manage 3 tents with a ac in a 2x2 lol I’m sure that took a lot of fan fuckery but once dialed in u got your results so good job! So just to be sure, you have intake fans in the lung in which mixes with the ac, dehumidifier etc. Then a intake fan pulling from the lung, then 2 exhausts?
 
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Jay Unity

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LewberDewber852 said:
So I think I deciphered your rambling and that’s pretty impressive u were able to manage 3 tents with a ac in a 2x2 lol I’m sure that took a lot of fan fuckery but once dialed in u got your results so good job! So just to be sure, you have intake fans in the lung in which mixes with the ac, dehumidifier etc. Then a intake fan pulling from the lung, then 2 exhausts?
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Yes the intakes in the lung were basically blowing into the intakes on the ac etc. Just pointed at them 3 or 4 inches away. Ac/dehumidifier seemed to pretty much suck it all up. I use 2 6" fans to exhaust the 4x8 as opposed to using an 8" fan. One in the tent and one mounted to to round six inch hole in the chimney. It's a pretty getto setup but works for me
 
LewberDewber852

LewberDewber852

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Jay Unity said:
Yes the intakes in the lung were basically blowing into the intakes on the ac etc. Just pointed at them 3 or 4 inches away. Ac/dehumidifier seemed to pretty much suck it all up. I use 2 6" fans to exhaust the 4x8 as opposed to using an 8" fan. One in the tent and one mounted to to round six inch hole in the chimney. It's a pretty getto setup but works for me
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Thanks dooood!!
If I go this route I’ll post the setup.
 
pharma0719

pharma0719

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Jay Unity said:
I do something similar to this. I grow in tents in a basement. I have a 6" intake going into my 4x8 that is hooked to a 3x3. In the summer I have a floor model air conditioner and dehumidifier in the 3x3. Winter sometimes I'll have a humidifier and heater. It works well for me. I sometimes have a 4x8 and a 4x4 Intaking from the 3x3 but it doesn't work as well, maybe if it was a little bigger it would be optimal for both. I feel like it saves me alot of money compared to getting 2000sqft to appropriate temp and humidity levels.
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I’m planning on trying this next
 
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solittlethyme

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LewberDewber852 said:
Has anybody created a lung tent to supplement their grow tent?
I live in an old farm house and have huge variables in my lung rooms depending on season.. 4 seasons make it all that much more difficult and a pain. Closet was great in winter, bad in the summer..
Set-up a tent in the basement, good for the summer, not so much for the cold dry winter..
Was thinking of a lung tent.. Would this make sense? I can keep heating and cooling equipment out of my main tent so my ass has room to work, also keeps grow gunk/life outta the filters of the equipment.
I am posting this question because I have a tendency too overthink which has led to some overspending and inefficiency. My goal is to create a raised 2.5x4.5 no till box/bed. Don’t feel comfortable doing this until I can control my environment better.
Thanks for any help as always RIU!!
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For one of my tents, I used thick insulation foam board to build a cubby hole for the dehumidifier and AC to vent into, and an inline fan to pull the air into the tent. Worked pretty well.

And I just set up a larger tent and built a larger foam cubby behind the tent, which encloses a window ac and dehumidifier, and will soon have the reservoir for my DWC system. It's working great for drying my harvest atm, but I may take the dehumidifier out and just leave the AC and reservoir.

But yeah, a grow tent/diy mini lung room can be great.
 
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dreadedbud

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I am growing in a loft with a very low height in a 2x2x4.

Humidity is a killer where I live.

I have a small dehumidifier which I have put into the tent. This reduces humidity but I think mainly by increasing the temperature.

Can't really dehumidifier as it is a big space and very draughty.

Would creating a mini lung room out of a small tent work? And what size would it need to be for a 2x2x4 tent?
 
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