I was gonna suggest horticultural heating cables for keeping soil temps up but i gotta admit a scrog with them sounds pretty interesting lolWhat if you wired the scrog nets up with thin heat cable wires, instead of using string or bungee cord or whatever. Then, it would radiate most of the heat just in the thin canopy section, where most the leaf surfaces are. You know, instead of trying to heat the whole room and using more power.
CO2 generator. Win-win.
It may work out as win-win but its a bad idea to rely on only a gasburner; you may get into the situation where you need more heat but cant use more CO2. You can get too much of CO2 which kinda mess with plant transpiration, also with a co2 burner you cant go completely sealed as you will run out of O2
it does seem counter intuitive to be using LEDs for their efficiency which is mainly in that they have drastically reduced heat output only to then go behind and add heat... I guess I TRY to justify it by saying that at least I am not having to go through a lot of bulbs and the LEDs will last me a long time. But having both an LED (for warm months) and a more traditional set up for winter seems like it might be ideal for some of us (maybe even myself) but that is also more light investment cost that is needed so lowers that efficiency number even further.... the dilemma I have ponder for some time lol
I was pretty sure this was going to end with, "And then stick it up your butt!" Hehe!I've thought of the only efficient way, I think...
Besides water cooling both the LEDs and driver with super efficient copper blocks, and pumping to small radiator\fan at the base of each plant. So that it blows nearly all the extracted heat back up into well trained umbrella like canopies, that is..
So check it out:
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Each LED grow light fixture has a small built in go pro style camera, right in the center and facing down. So from there, basically in real time.. it projection maps out the leaf movements it senses, and creates a somewhat 3D virtual map of the entire plant from above. At all times, no matter how it grows. As long as the air circulation fans are running, and the leafs are slightly moving (and green, it senses that too), the advanced AI software analyzes that data and then controls a powerful fast moving IR laser beam, that scans only the mapped out plants in the area leaf by leaf, so fast (like, 100s of times per second!) you don't even know its happening, or see the beam coming out of the projector. It would be just the right frequency too, that it doesn't burn the leaves, or focus on any spot for too long. Just helps to mimic the intense heat of the sun rays, which you can tune with different settings to achieve the perfect VPD every time during lights on. All while using way less electricity than using any other kind of heater to supplement with.
Haha JK, HID is king!
I just dont think this is as well thought out as you may think. Id fear it giving contact burns or just not really doing very much at all; whatever heat this brings to the cannopy would likely go everywhere in your grow room due to necesary airflow. Except the heat that gets transferred directly, which isnt really good for the plant; similar to your plant touching the leds or the hot heatsink.I got a de-icing kit like this:
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Pretty sure its 50 or 75 ft, and at least a few hundred watts. Should be just long enough to wire up a trellis pattern across the scrog frame with the wire. Try not to kink it too much.. I'm guessing it will radiate up into the canopy and warm the leaves just right. Use a digital temp controller and IR thermo gun to dial it all in. Keep the canopy as flat and close to the wires as possible..
I guess there is only one way to find out right?
Heated scrog nets.. Man ,who would have thought?
I like to think I'm doing ok in my un heated basement right by the big lake
just into week 3 of flower in a 4x4 grass roots bed with all the build a soil fixins.
Yeah I agree I think this is a fire waiting to happen lol
What temps/rh can you manage in there and how much light can your plants handle. Impressed with all those green stems, almost nothing purple, hats offI like to think I'm doing ok in my un heated basement right by the big lake
Thanks! I try to keep temps at 80f humidity is at 50% atm since going into flower. I normally have it higher but I constantly have a humidifier running distilled water to keep it there. I also run an oil filled radiator style heater on an ink bird with the sensor at canopy level. The light is a high Grove magnolia 6! Amazing light! I am also now running c02 at 1200. Trying for some conissuer bud here lolWhat temps/rh can you manage in there and how much light can your plants handle. Impressed with all those green stems, almost nothing purple, hats off
Oh I also have the blu mat drip hose irrigation system set up delivering just plain water whenever the plants need it ans I only water once a week with the build a soil schedule. These are plants from the spin off seed company they are doing also living soil seeds. Double yahmba by kidkaya. You might say I'm a fan lolz but the results are so great I can't NOT be!
very nice set up!!
