Rooster067
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Hi Guys! Here's my problem. I live in a small one bedroom apartment. Basically two 15x15 rooms stacked on top of each other. One room downstairs, open, with kitchen, one room upstairs, with a small bathroom and walk-in laundry room/closet. There is a wall unit upstairs, that provides heat and A/C, and a baseboard heater downstairs to provide supplemental heating in the winter. I have three small tents setup in the bedroom.
The pic is my current conditions sitting here typing this. The room is where it normally is, give or take, and I know it sounds warm, but to me it is not. It feels rather cool actually, I sleep with a blanket.
The Melonfarm 2x2 is empty at the moment, just sitting there. The 32x32 has three bag seed clones I just flipped to flower, and the 39x39 has three 5 week old plants in it, set on a 18/6 light cycle.
Both tents have 4" inline fans, and I was running them on a medium setting constantly. After watching the conditions for a few weeks, I noticed the temps and humidity would fluctuate greatly with the light cycles. I have since started using the automatic controllers, and that has helped with the fluctuations. It at least turns the fans off when it cools down after the lights shutoff, they just come on to control humidity.
I'm relatively new to indoor growing, and all this equipment I have at my disposal. Although my plants have been looking and growing OK, as far as I know, I'm learning that my temps and humidity are really high. And learning a little about VPD, that is on the high side also.
So, since there's not a lot I can do about the temps, I would really rather not lower the room temp any, I would like to lower the humidity, especially later in the grows. I don't know if running a dehumidifier in the room would be a good idea, working against the A/C, to lower the whole room/apartment humidity, or if small dehumidifiers inside the tents would be a better option. I'm not even sure those small ones even work, or which ones would be best.
I'm open to all suggestions, including whether or not I should even be that worried about it.
Thanks so much!
(The tent pics are from a week or so ago, all the plants are much bigger now)
The pic is my current conditions sitting here typing this. The room is where it normally is, give or take, and I know it sounds warm, but to me it is not. It feels rather cool actually, I sleep with a blanket.
The Melonfarm 2x2 is empty at the moment, just sitting there. The 32x32 has three bag seed clones I just flipped to flower, and the 39x39 has three 5 week old plants in it, set on a 18/6 light cycle.
Both tents have 4" inline fans, and I was running them on a medium setting constantly. After watching the conditions for a few weeks, I noticed the temps and humidity would fluctuate greatly with the light cycles. I have since started using the automatic controllers, and that has helped with the fluctuations. It at least turns the fans off when it cools down after the lights shutoff, they just come on to control humidity.
I'm relatively new to indoor growing, and all this equipment I have at my disposal. Although my plants have been looking and growing OK, as far as I know, I'm learning that my temps and humidity are really high. And learning a little about VPD, that is on the high side also.
So, since there's not a lot I can do about the temps, I would really rather not lower the room temp any, I would like to lower the humidity, especially later in the grows. I don't know if running a dehumidifier in the room would be a good idea, working against the A/C, to lower the whole room/apartment humidity, or if small dehumidifiers inside the tents would be a better option. I'm not even sure those small ones even work, or which ones would be best.
I'm open to all suggestions, including whether or not I should even be that worried about it.
Thanks so much!
(The tent pics are from a week or so ago, all the plants are much bigger now)
