Using a grow tent for drying?

fireburner23

Member

• Mar 27, 2011

• #1

I only have one place to dry out my harvest and it is my veg/flower metal container. I've been thinking about getting one of those GrowLab GL40 tents and drying out the product in there, but the GrowLab GL40 tent is only 3 feet tall. I would like to get something that is narrow like the GrowLab GL40 but taller with a drying rack.

Anybody have some suggestions? Does this sound like a DIY project?

 

hippydan

Member

• Mar 27, 2011

• #2

You'd definitely save money with a DIY project, but the convenience of using a grow tent that can go up and come down easily/quickly would be enough to sell me. Good luck finding a solution that works for you.

 

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qbert

Member

• Mar 28, 2011

• #3

Tents are a GREAT way to dry!

I use a Growlab GL60. 2'x'2x5'3" tall. I've suck air with a Solar & Palau TD-125 blowing through a Can Filter 2600.

The stuff that's trimmed sits on screens until dry. I picked up some non-metallic window screen from home depot. I cut some bamboo sticks to length, the same sticks I use to support the plants. Zip strip em to the tent pulls, then zip strip the screen across and pull it tight. Works awesome.

I can dry a crap load in here, a 1lb when dry harvest had room to spare. It's surprising how much fits on the screens, and you can stack a hell of a lot in there, with room to hang quite a bit. The hanging space is the limiting factor.

 

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mellow yellow

Member

• Mar 28, 2011

• #4

i dry in my tent, would prefer to hang it in a room but it stinks far too much, so tent with cf is my solution.

 

fireburner23

Member

• Mar 28, 2011

• #5

qbert said:

Tents are a GREAT way to dry!

I use a Growlab GL60. 2'x'2x5'3" tall. I've suck air with a Solar & Palau TD-125 blowing through a Can Filter 2600.

The stuff that's trimmed sits on screens until dry. I picked up some non-metallic window screen from home depot. I cut some bamboo sticks to length, the same sticks I use to support the plants. Zip strip em to the tent pulls, then zip strip the screen across and pull it tight. Works awesome.

I can dry a crap load in here, a 1lb when dry harvest had room to spare. It's surprising how much fits on the screens, and you can stack a hell of a lot in there, with room to hang quite a bit. The hanging space is the limiting factor.

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qbert, I love what you did with the tent. After spending some time on the idea, I decided to go a DIY solution using a large rubbermaid container with 'shelves' and a 4" carbon filter. I am slowly putting the materials together right now, but I am confident that my DIY solution will fit my needs.

Although, if I had more room and a better location. I would have gotten myself a tent.

 

fear.loathingSF

Member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #6

Qbert, do you leave that exhaust running 24/7? I am going to be drying in my tent in the next day or two and am not sure how I want to have my dry chamber set up.

 

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Catfishh

New member

• Apr 21, 2011

• #7

I cut and lay on screens in the tent for the first 8 hrs ...then remove and put on racks in a food dehydrator with a fan installed in it...The tent is a must for the first hours after the chop ...as at that time the smell can hardly be contained ...after that its strong but manageable to dry outside the tent..

 

Bonavendura

Member

• Apr 22, 2011

• #8

i was drying in my veg area too in a grow closet with one 130cfm extractor fan installed and one or two humidity absorvers

 

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qbert

Member

• Apr 23, 2011

• #9

fear.loathingSF said:

Qbert, do you leave that exhaust running 24/7? I am going to be drying in my tent in the next day or two and am not sure how I want to have my dry chamber set up.

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Definitely 24/7, otherwise it gets quite stinky.

 

fireburner23

Member

• Apr 23, 2011

• #10

qbert said:

Definitely 24/7, otherwise it gets quite stinky.

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I personally made my own little dehumidifier system that turns on the fan when it gets to a certain %. As long as you keep your exterior air dryer than the internal air, you could slow dry your stuff without it loosing any quality.

It took a little bit of work with relays, transformer, a small 4" carbon filter, and a mechanical dehumidifier thing, but it was cheaper than buying the AIR-1 CAP.