Temperature help please

D1104

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All your pics got deleted for some reason but I would try to do 4 plants under each light minimum. Unless youre doing months of LST to create alarge canopy, most of your light will be wasted and your room will just become an oven.

You need some sort of cooling AND ventilation. Its not optional. You dont want to spend the money to run all those lights and end up with little to show for it.
They are in 30 lt pots it would be to crowded to put 4 under one light as im doing lst to make them horizontally
 

Tolerance Break

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The lst was done 2-3 days ago. I will leave them another 2 weeks till i turn them to flower
The type of LST nessessary to make 1 HPS per plant a rational choice takes a very long time.

Yes it is hps
This is a really really bad idea. You could buy several HLG 100w boards right now and save thousands in utilities for veg. Without the long veg this wont work. Since you wont reduce the number of lights, the cooling is even more important
 

Tolerance Break

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I worked in a grow with 16HPS in a room more spread out and he used a home unit that cost over 10k for that room alone. Your problem is only going to escalate.
 

Star Dog

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The small one is to bring in fresh air the big ones to take the air out
That's a nice set up you have, what about your extractor fan size?

From the picture I'd increase the diameter of the inlet ducting I'd use as big as possible for least resistance (or pascals iirc)
What size/type fan do you have?
 

Star Dog

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The inlet ducting in the photo looks like 4" if the fan is connected to it then your fan is way too small, the bigger ducting looks like 8" if that fits the fan it's better.
Which ducting fits into the fan?
 

D1104

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The inlet ducting in the photo looks like 4" if the fan is connected to it then your fan is way too small, the bigger ducting looks like 8" if that fits the fan it's better.
Which ducting fits into the fan?
The big one is for the fan. The little one is a small moter to bring air in it has nothing to do with the fan
 

Star Dog

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The big one is for the fan. The little one is a small moter to bring air in it has nothing to do with the fan
I'm not sure about a 8 fan in a area that size.
I take it that you're not venting to outside when you have a small motor bringing in air?
Venting to the outside made a big difference in temperature and humidity for me.
 

D1104

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I'm not sure about a 8 fan in a area that size.
I take it that you're not venting to outside when you have a small motor bringing in air?
Venting to the outside made a big difference in temperature and humidity for me.
I think the ventilation is not really taking the air out like it’s supposed to hint the high temps. They are at 33 c rn.
 

Lordhooha

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I worked in a grow with 16HPS in a room more spread out and he used a home unit that cost over 10k for that room alone. Your problem is only going to escalate.
That seems high for one room with 16 lights. Also home units especially micro channels are not meant to control grow rooms.
 
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Tolerance Break

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They seems high for one room with 16 lights. Also home units especially micro channels are not meant to control grow rooms.
This was years ago and I was high the entire time, so my memory is sus, but i promise he knew what he was doing. It was a 3 story apartment complex converted into a grow op. I watched him perfect Master Kush. Dude was growing top colas the size of my forearm in flood and drain with rockwool.
 
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