Tent growing is a bitch, look what I had to do.

I don't tie into my A/C directly, I have central A/C and I can't use the window for privacy concerns.

Bless,
DZ

I'm back from my belated wake n bake...

FUCK YOU ALL SUCK MY DICK!

nah I love you all, I'm in a good mood :3

Why don't you remove the filter from the hoods and draw thru clean air from outside the tent. If the hood is sealed, the filter is just a restriction. The other blower could scrub the smell.

I noticed in your first post you said you had an exhaust at the bottom, that needs to moved to the top as hot air rises. Having an exhaust at the the bottom is only going to
push the cool air out right away.

From this part of your post "and another filter and fan at the bottom of the tent filter air to the outside but not through lights."

That would waste most of your cool air

Well at the moment I have a direct line outside > ducting > lights > ducting > outside

It has cooled the lights some, but lets be honest, in the summer it wont do shit but make it worse.
Hence why I need the A.c, but I've got some good news. its starting to get hot again so I can start using my A.c possibly in a week or two.

Also I had two inlines and 2 filters in the tent, one for lights one for tent, I would assume with two even if one was placed at the top and another at the bottom it would still work for heat exchange since new air would be in the tent every minute.

You'll always battle smell with that set up. Your lights need to be on their own seperate fan and your filter needs to be on it's own fan. Also, use hard ducting where ever you can, flexible stuff sucks. The reason you were dealing with smelll is your fan was pulling it through little cracks in your hoods without ever going through your carbon filter-so you were sucking smell directly out of your tent that was never being scrubbed by the filter.

In my 4x4 tent 1 6"x24" phat filter hooked up to a 400cfm fan completely kills the smell of a jack herer, 3 Headband, and 3 Bubba OG in flower>and these are some of the stinkiest smelling strains I've ever ran. In contrast, my cheap vortec carbon filter did almost nothing to eliminate the odor. Go with the biggest and best you can afford.

Sometimes, it's just better to not grow, rather than risk it.

The only thing I could suggest is use LED or T5's, to better control heat.

Well I'm not risking much.

The worse I see happening is my plants die from heat stress and I start over next year.
I'm not a cash cropper or committed grower, once every year or two is fine with me. It's more of a hobby, I get more enjoyment out of taking care of plants (Not only MJ, lots of other normal flowers I grow too) then I would flying quad copters, or building a car, or even drinking beer and wine (I don't drink at all)

The smells is 99.9% gone, form time to time I'll smell a little hint of it, but honestly that could just be the weed I have out sometimes or possibly a gust of wind that blows some air out of the passive tents.
Overall I'm happy with the setup right now, I just wish I could have used my A/c sooner. I'm almost done already and I've been having to turn my lights down to 15% of their power in order to keep temps uder 85F.

I'm hopping by June 10th I'll be using my A/c so I can use full power for the last push of swelling.

As for the smell, I'm now using only giant 6"x24" filter with a 8in inline at about 50% blowing air directly out of my tent.
I have a 6 in inline and ducting circulating outside air through the lights to cool them some.

My room is nearly 80F the tent is 75F at 10-15% light power (I'm not exhausting in my room)

Weird shit I know, why I need the a/c so bad.

So worse that could happen, plants die from heat, plants don't yield much due to heat.
At the end as long as I have something to smoke be it making hash out of dead plants or bud, I'll be fine.
Just wanted to enjoy the summer without spending money on weed.

I personally don't think it's THAT hot to begin with, I was looking at someone else's plants growing in a 104 degree temps in California, and they were looking BEAUTIFUL. The key would be to keep the root zone cool. Maybe use ice cubes? or ice packs, or something.... Stretching wouldn't be that bad at 85...

Hell, they grow outside in MUCH hotter temps than we usually grow in doors anyway. People make a big deal and dramatics over small stuff all the time.

Well heat stress is common but its to prevent it from getting to the point of hermies.
I've seen too many people attributing hermies to heat stress.

You also need to understand that outside has a abundance of free flowing air in every direction and every part of a plant outside.

Inside unless you have fans high, mid, and low, its not the same as outside where a plant can be in 105F temp but feel like 80F or less because of strong winds.

Edit:

Also because I don't want extremely fluffy buds, I hate that.