The UK Growers Thread!

[Don Gin and Ton]

Is it the 8" sp td silent fan u got m8? I got one hooked up to an 8" mountain air filter with acoustic ducting and I thot it was pretty quiet, not silent but quiet. My rooms about 10'x6' and its def doin the business, u can feel it sucking the door open when I've nearly got it closed. Expensive fans but def a good job IMO

aye that's the one, it's friggin huge. thought it was going to bring me tent down on top of me. especially with 2 sealed hoods and the filter lol. yeah most of the noise is from the ducting, i just got normal, i did try the fibre glass stuff in my first grow but it made little difference. i'm thinking i might unhook the lights and just extract from the tent 2 x 600 gets fuckin hot in a 1.2m tent

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

The insulated boxed acoustic fans are what you want if your going acoustic they are quieter than the equivalent sized rucks\rvks by a fair margin. For the money thats what i would have got over the TDs. Super silent boxed insulated acoustic fans are just about the best you can get, I would have thought running two fans in place on one large one creates more or less the same amount of noise, not much init anyway.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

aye very true man but them acoustic box ones are pretty expensive if memory serves. and aye there's not much in the sound from 2 rvk's and the big TD your reet.

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

Aye, gotta ave deep pockets for thos things. Never gonna be silent as you know even with the boxed ones, moving massive amounts of air creates noise, its just a case of trying to deaden it as much as possible. Ive pulled me hair out many a times trying to keep the noise down, now i just think sod it and have the radio on for a bit of cover noise lol.

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

Gonna do some reworking in my tent today, me girls look like there a week or so behind for some reason, ive stepped up too twice a day watering but reckon they should be on 3, should ave got the 10ltrs over the 6 air pots me girls a drinking like shit and me temps are sweet at 25, must ave bloody good roots.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

aye i put mine on the opposite corner to the neighbours and just accept the mild humming. it's only noticeable if you stand outside the door to the room. doonstairs it's no more noticeable than the central heating. tho i am a little concerned now the weathers changed that someone's going to see the hot air coming out the airbrick rather than the heating duct.

last place i was at it created a little hole in the snow on the roof, which a pigeon promptly took up residence in, then froze to death.. you could see the poor fuckers foot over the guttering for ages. fucked if i was going up a ladder to remove the thing tho.

 

[mrt1980]

my fan is loud as fuck in the bedroom but i can hardly hear it outside with the silencer atatched to the vent. my balasts make a loud noise when they first start up but it only lasts a min or 2. how visible will the hot air be from outside in the winter?

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

LOL poor fucker what a way to go. Ive insulated the garage door rather than trying to deaden the fans as long as i can keep the noise from getting outside i'll put up with it inside. Yeah heat exhaust is a prob in winter, i vent from the garage into my dining room theres ducting running across the back of the room to the patio doors, the wife just has to put up with it although its a pain if there visitors as this needs stashing away and its a fucking trip hazzard lol. In the summer the patio doors are always open so my mutts can come and go as they like and the hot air can escape, now tho the temp outside has dropped alot and as im pulling seperate outside air across my lights the exhaust air isnt that hot, 3 600s in my tent and the exhaust air is rather cool tbh.

 

[jimmygreenfingers]

my fan is loud as fuck in the bedroom but i can hardly hear it outside with the silencer atatched to the vent. my balasts make a loud noise when they first start up but it only lasts a min or 2. how visible will the hot air be from outside in the winter?

Yep mrt silencers are a good cheap way to lower noise levels, just big fuckers, ive got an 8" silencer and its huge lol not too mention heavy.

 

[mrt1980]

Yep mrt silencers are a good cheap way to lower noise levels, just big fuckers, ive got an 8" silencer and its huge lol not too mention heavy.

i know mate. i got an 8" thats wedged between my tent and the wall. its bent to aim out of the vent but on my last grow every 2-3 day when i opened my tent the fucker slipped down and i'd have to try and balance it back. this time i used no nails to glue a bit of wood just under it to add support but that ripped the wall paper so i stuck the wood back onto the exposted bit of wall and it seams to be holding ok now.

 

[Mastergrow]

aye that's the one, it's friggin huge. thought it was going to bring me tent down on top of me. especially with 2 sealed hoods and the filter lol. yeah most of the noise is from the ducting, i just got normal, i did try the fibre glass stuff in my first grow but it made little difference. i'm thinking i might unhook the lights and just extract from the tent 2 x 600 gets fuckin hot in a 1.2m tent

I have 3 600ws in my space and thot heat would be an issue cos the basic cheap hps lights, no fancy shit but the extractor seems to do the job, with weather at the min it's not goin over 23 or so which is spot on for me.

just set up a tent at another place last night, 1.2 tent with one 600w and its like a fuckin sauna lol, hopin the 6" rvk for this setup take a good bit of the heat away, if not goina have to try something else, ill know when I hook her up this evening

 

[The Yorkshireman]

i got the big 4 pot system mate so i think it'll be better to run the 18L pots. im going to run that 1 side and run 5 x 10L air pots the other side to see the difference

10 litre airpots are exactly the right size for a 'Wilma Big 4', my grow shop guy sells them like that and he's the biggest in Yorkshire.
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​its got a floor space of 41.83sq.m(450sq.ft)...40plants in nft trays..hhmm 7/8 600w

Unlucky: To work out how big a fan/filter you will need you should work out how many 'cubit feet' the grow room is and then get a fan/filter combo that can exchange the air in that room at least 3 times every hour, you don't work on the size of the filter you work on how much air it can exchange and still eliminate smell effectively.

I'm very surprised none of the lads have told you that if you intend to run 6-8 600w bulbs then it's not the left over smell you should worry about, it's the 50 foot heat signature that will be your downfall!

just pulling thru the light and blwoing thru the filter should do the trik.

Carbon filters are not designed to be blown through, yes it will work but not as effectively as sucking.

im feeding 40 ml A&B per 10 litres max dose it says on the bottle,, wen intoday and had loads of yellow leaves just drop off, well not loads but since i went upto every 48 hrs i get much more than every 72 hrs they let a litre and a bit every 2 days not dirty nutes or anything as i do fresh every 2.5 feeds so never more than 2 days,, i gotta look for a wall mounted fan for the other end of my op maybe

Dude, it's absolutely pointless trying to troubleshoot your grow if you don't even PH your water.

 

[Mastergrow]

Every time I phd my water when I started the tap water was fine, I never ph now and alls good, don't see the point when it was always fine before unless they start fuckin about with the tap water here which is unlikely

 

[DST]

I don't ph my water either......ooops, lol.

 

[Mastergrow]

I don't ph my water either......ooops, lol.

i don't see the point if its the same water u always use and it was fine before, the nutes I use don't fuck with the ph either so I just fill my res's with 80 litres and then throw in 560ml of nutes be it grow or bloom and that's it good to go

 

[PUKKA BUD]

If ice has got the same water as me since he's not far he should ph my tap come out high 7.8 - 8. If ya taps around 7 then once ya foods in you should be just about right that's with canna coco an notes tho....

 

[drgrowshit]

if you don't mind wiring it yourself www.fantronix.com do the cheapest i found in the uk

what about this mate?http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hydroponics-in-line-extractor-fan-100mm-4-grow-tent-/260688183864?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item3cb23a0238

 

[PUKKA BUD]

Dst did I hear you sayin other day the blues cut we all have is not the original? But a cross?

 

[Mastergrow]

The only time I gotta ph is the last week or so when I add the ripen, only used it on one of my last grow but goina give it ago on this one again, I'm 5 weeks in 12/12 with the psycho and exo today so hopefully 3 to go, times flyin in but I think I might have to let them go nine, always seems to take a bit longer to finish in these wilmas. Might be able to pull it in 3 weeks tho with the ripen

 

[mrt1980]

10 litre airpots are exactly the right size for a 'Wilma Big 4', my grow shop guy sells them like that and he's the biggest in Yorkshire.

cheers mate ill look into that