new place, planning new set up. recommendations?

[fatboycantpost]

howdy and merry christmas!

after having a 5.5 x 5 x 11 foot closet for flower and a 2.5 x 2.5 foot closet for veg, i now have a whole bedroom to mess with; 10 ' x 11'.

i pulled as much as 21 oz out of the old closet using a 1000 watt hps. i don't want that big of a crop. it sounds stupid but i'm old and i don't want to have a problem and be sitting on 28 oz. Honest officer, it's all for me! i went from 8oz my first grow to 23 on my biggest! years of practice, practice, practice!

i'll be setting up the new place the first week of january. no one else in the house but me. i have a growlab 80 tent (2' 6" x 2' 6"). i'm thinking of getting two 4' 9" x 4' 9" GL tents. one with a 600 watt dual ballast for flower and one 400 watt dual ballast for veg.

i'll use the GL80 and the 250 watt dual ballast for mums and experiments. i still have the 1000 watt but i won't be using it. it's old so i'll probably just toss it.

my plan is to get a large enough carbon filter and whatever fans needed to deodorize the whole room.. i'm planning on getting can filters and fans and will get the ones recommend by the salesperson or you folks. i'm a very low tech kind of guy and won't be cutting holes in walls etc. i figure with the bedroom door closed, air from the hallway will be sucked in under the door. or i'll open it a bit if need be.

i will be leaving the front of the tents open. i realize this kind of defeats the reason for having a tent but i like them; less damage to the house, water stays inside and i can lock them up if needed. i'm not looking to grow as much as possible. around 9 oz every 3 months would be fine.

any suggestions/recommendations? i have the money and want to do it right, keeping in mind that i think electricity is magic and hammers are for fixing cars.

thanks folks!

 

[Norrath]

so where are you exhausting for this negative pressure to be created?

i've a sealed room with no chance for exhausting to any certain oriface, so had to cut a hole in teh wall and pump into the next room. creates nice negative pressure now for sure. can 33 in line.

thinking about running a recirculating scrubber, just pushing as much through it as possible? like aforementioned, dont think you will be drawing air into the room whilst youre just scrubbing air. Though opening the door once in awhile will be good to exchange air, youre going to get major funky plant smell - though maybe an ONA can in the corner would suffice... food for thought.

as stupid as leaving the doors of tents open might sound to you, with your current goals, it's the only viable way to keep the heat down; even at that, i think you may have heat issues. but we havent heard what the ambient room temp is either, so hard to say. that's my vote tho.

 

[fatboycantpost]

thanks for the reply. ahh, negative pressure. i never had to worry about it before so i know nothing about it. i'll do some reading.

i live in a desert but the A/C temp in my home averages 73 degrees all day. my simple plan was just to have a big filter sitting in the room to scrub the odors and vent them back into the same room. i'll have fans blowing into the tents when the lights are on.

i guess i could cut a hole in the closet roof if i had to. then i'd exhaust out this hole into the attic. it sounds like i'd then need another hole for air to be sucked back into the room. unfortunately it's a duplex apartment building and this bedroom shares a wall with the neighbor. if i exhaust into the attic i'm thinking the neighbor might hear this.

i'm a dirt farmer by the way. i'm used to having high heat in the flower room. i averaged 95 degrees most of the time with the 1000 watt closet. all three of these lights are only 1250 watts.

crap, i was hoping this would be simple.

 

[phattybudz]

Is there a window in the room? What's wrong with just scrubbing the flower tent out the window?
Your plan sounds fine to me, if temps are in check and you're scrubbing the flower chamber out the window you should be fine. If there's no window I would cut a hole in the closet like you mentioned, easy to patch up when you leave.

As for the noise, you can make/buy a silencer for the exhaust, check the DIY section or ask you hydrostore guy.. Shouldn't be an issue.

 

[GrowerGoneWild]

i live in a desert but the A/C temp in my home averages 73 degrees all day. my simple plan was just to have a big filter sitting in the room to scrub the odors and vent them back into the same room. i'll have fans blowing into the tents when the lights are on.

Not the simplest way but...

If you could pull fresh air from the outside, circulate it over your light and directly dump the hot air outside,

Run a scrubber in the house to keep the air clean. Dont dump the scrubbed air outside, that means your nice cooled air is going out into the desert air.

Thats the most effective way.. how I see it.

I still have a problem with scrubbed air, that is recirculated back into the house, I've tried ALOT of scubbers, and it still smells a bit.

My solution is still to pull dirty air from inside the apartment, first scrub it and then ozone treat it on the way out.

However, thats an expensive solution for those of you having to heat or cool a house.

 

[fatboycantpost]

hey guys.

i'm trying to avoid pushing air to the outside. too paranoid for that! also, as i'm not very manly when it comes to working with tools, i don't see drawing air from the outside either. my brain is not wired for anything remotely technical.

this is not encouraging: "I still have a problem with scrubbed air, that is recirculated back into the house, I've tried ALOT of scubbers, and it still smells a bit." i love the smell of a growroom and i go out as opposed to having people come to visit so my main goal is to keep the smell from outside and from the living room in case someone knocks. i might just end up putting up an ozium dispenser near the door for a second line of defense. i want to remove 100% of the odor but if i can only get 80%, i could live with it. ozium, gels etc in the living room.

i've been reading alot about neg pressure so i kind of understand what is needed. i'm trying to think of something i can "seal" the doorway to the room with (other than the door). maybe put three 8" holes in the material (something like that) for passive intake of hallway air while having the scrubbed air going through the closet ceiling. i'm wondering if i could use some heavy gage plastic or panda poly to cover the doorway. maybe 3 layers of it with a way for me to enter.

another idea is just cut some holes in the door and replace it when i leave.

crap! i was naively thinking this was going to be simple.

edit: after smoking a bit i had another thought. maybe i should just use the tents the way they were meant to be used. seal them up with the carbon filter and exhaust fan (which i assume will remove the hot air too) inside the tents and open them when the babies need work. and i'll use a fan to pump air into the tent via the tent ports.