Space heater??

So i live in a far far away place that gets rather cold in the winter months and sometimes i get to see the rare snd endangered snow flakes.

My 2x4x5 tent is in my garage that is seperate from the house and has no heat.
Its gets below 0 in there and im wondering if a small space heater in the tent would be ok as that would allow me to continue growing through winter.

Experience? Thoughts? Advice?

Thanks

You'd want to use an oil RADIATOR not a coil with a fan type heater.

You'd be able to keep it outside the tent by putting it inside an INSULATED box that leaves 8-12" of space between each side of touching it. Use a small 4" inline fan and some INSULATED DUCTING to pull from it into your tent. Cut a few slits in the bottom of the box and draw the Air with the duct from the top or top side of it.

Rob420Herbs said:

So i live in a far far away place that gets rather cold in the winter months and sometimes i get to see the rare snd endangered snow flakes.

My 2x4x5 tent is in my garage that is seperate from the house and has no heat.
Its gets below 0 in there and im wondering if a small space heater in the tent would be ok as that would allow me to continue growing through winter.

Experience? Thoughts? Advice?

Thanks

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Get a 2nd tent if you can and run it on opposite light schedule so you have heat from the lights all day if your going to use a bunch of extra power use it to grow more!

Ryante55 said:

Get a 2nd tent if you can and run it on opposite light schedule so you have heat from the lights all day if your going to use a bunch of extra power use it to grow more!

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Also not a bad idea. Have two fans that switch on with the light timers to pull air from it to the other tent with the lights off. Getting THAT COLD though, you'd wanna use vented hood HPS. I'd rather use LED and the radiator.

Add more lights(watts)?, use hid in winter?, run lights at night?, insulate?, run a sealed grow/no exhaust?keep pots/rez off the floor? use autoflowers? Lol

I wouldn't waste power on a straight heat source, when you can add light w + heat instead.

Yeah the best thing would be to ditch the tent entirely and build your space out of THICK reflective foam from HD/Lowe.

That's what I'd do! But I think it's still going to take a lot of heat. And humidity.

Optimum air temp is lower for HPS than LED. In such a cold situation, I think HPS would actually give higher overall efficiency than using LED. A less efficient light would be more efficient!

Another thought... make an air to air heat exchanger to reduce the heat loss of ventilation.