[Sojourner]

Hi Dg, everyone

I have several packs of your seeds and I really want to get them started, but I'm kind of worried about odor control. All my previous grows over the past 6 years have been from bagseed. It's always been very low odor, so low odor all I needed was a homemade pc fan carbon filter.

I have only just this year acquired a safe addy, so this will be my first grow with known genetics. I've been doing a lot of reading up to make sure it goes off without a hitch. I'm really quite excited to finally have some high quality seeds, I can hardly wait to get things going. I've decided I want to start some Camelot Kush for my first run.

In my readings I've started to get a little paranoid about odor, so I went to my hydroshop and bought a can 33 carbon filter. My grow room is a medium size walk-in closet, approximately 170 cubic feet. I have placed my carbon filter and 240cfm fan inside the closet on a shelf, I have cut a 6 inch hole through the wall and using a short length of duct and an elbow I am exhausting into the house.

I'm also a little concerned about odor during veg. My bagseed plants would have virtually no odor until they started flowering, but I've read quite a few posts on plants stinking pretty strongly during veg, although I don't know if Camelot Kush is one of those. I'll be starting these seeds in a cabinet, which has the current odor control of two 80cfm pc fans with 2 ounces of activated charcoal in a coffee filter sandwiched between them. I plan to veg until the plants show preflowers, then I'll take clones and move all the plants showing female preflowers to the closet.


I do occasionally have guests over, so I obviously don't want my house reeking of pot. I'd like anyone's input if my odor control sounds adequate or if they think I need more.

To DG, anymore info on Camelot Kush would be greatly appreciated. How nute sensitive are they, can I expect them to burn easily if I feed heavily? Will I be likely to find a couple different phenos, or will most of the plants be uniform? How strongly should I expect them to smell?


Thanks in advance

[Dutchgrown]

I've not exhausted inside....always to the outside, even with multiple large (60") carbon scrubbers.

Anyone who has a grow inside their home, and has guests should always be concerned about smell. What becomes an ordinary (unnoticeable) aroma to a grower, to the extent it is no longer noticeable, doesn't mean others noses don't pick up on it straight away.

Camelot Kush is perhaps lower odor than others, but not enough that air filtration can be omitted. Good call on installing a scrubber. Camelot Kush is not finicky on nutes, just give them what they ask for, when they ask....that's the key. You will perhaps be able to spot at least 3 phenos...all in the luck of the draw as far as specific seed traits....Camelot Kush has not been worked/refined to any specific trait other than those of it's parents, so it genetically stands to reason you could have a pheno dom to it's mom, a pheno dom to it's father, as well as a split of the two parents. They will smell in flw...no question of that...take appropriate precautions. But...they will not smell to the extent of Chemdog, Sour Diesel, NYCD, RKS, and several others that come to mind immediately.

It's a bit late for me now, so don't have my head wrapped around the sizes/spaces you have referenced...but by the time I check in here again, I'd suspect others might have been able to answer your technical question...or check out the Equipment forum where you can surely find your answer.

Thank you for your interest and look forward to seeing these progress nicely for you.


DG

[Sojourner]

Originally Posted by Dutchgrown

I've not exhausted inside....always to the outside, even with multiple large (60") carbon scrubbers.

Anyone who has a grow inside their home, and has guests should always be concerned about smell. What becomes an ordinary (unnoticeable) aroma to a grower, to the extent it is no longer noticeable, doesn't mean others noses don't pick up on it straight away.
--snip


DG

Thanks very much for the answers, Dutchgrown.



On exhausting inside, that was something I wasn't too sure of, but it would be a lot more work to route the exhaust outside, as the closet is in the center of the room on an interior wall. I'm also leary of exhausting outside as the only way I could do it would be a window, which is about 40 feet from my neighbor's driveway.

I'm kind of concerned about smell escaping everytime I open the door to water or check on my plants. I've been thinking of picking up another small carbon filter and fan to run outside the closet recirculating. I figure that would help eliminate any smells that escape when I open it or that the first carbon filter doesn't catch.

I only have guests over quite occasionally, maybe five or six times over the summer. I'm thinking I'll get a couple glade scented plugins or something to provide a cover smell. I keep the bedroom door shut, so no guests ever nose around in there.

I don't know, maybe I should make a post over in growroom design. But if anyone here wants to answer any of this I'd appreciate it.
thanks

[Dutchgrown]

MUCH better than any glade plug-in or similar product is Vaportek. I was introduced to this company/product back in 1999 in Amsterdam by the grow shop I use.
During one of the 420 cups...think it was in 2004, I was sooooo happy with Vaportek that I mentioned it to some other folks in attendance and one in particular (breeder) swears by it now.

I also know of growers who use Ona...comes in gel or crystals....can be easily used in a DIY manner with a small fan.

I know where to get it in EU....but based on whatever part of the world you are in, just do a google search for it, might be available through whatever shop you use for other grow items.


DG

[Justa6655321]

Sojo, scrub the air in your cabinet, then use some Ona or Glades for the room, then exhaust to the outside via a window or whatever....

I got a dryer vent from Home Depot that I exhaust to the outside...I use regular dryer clothing softener sheets on the outside of the fan. I don’t run it all the time...I figured out when my neighbors are most likely to be gone during the day, then I shut it off in the evening and then crank it up at night. I’ve had people say it always smells like fresh cloths at my house....ha

DG is right by the way about not being able to smell it yourself. Before I did this I couldn’t smell anything but my friends could tell instantly when they came over.

My theory is the more circulation to the outside the better

[Justa6655321]

One of my friends uses the same type of set up as mine but has a commercial bathroom freshener that drops a drop of ultra smelling freshener every 10 minutes or so...I think you can get them a Home Depot also

I bet you can even do an IV drip with pinesol or something...to the vent outside

[slackx]

I use an air scrubber inside the tent to exhaust it, and i put a ozone generator by the entrance to the area so nothing smells through. Harvest on the other hand normally means no social life inside ur house for a week or so though. Atleast that's what i do.