Thanks for the tips. I was planning on moving the ballast out of the tent. It's getting pretty hot in there and the ballast is getting really warm. Temps were just at 87, so I think it's time to move it out. The room it's in is around 74ish degrees. Yea, it sucked trying to hang that filter alone but whatcha gonna do.Nice work man - the first thing that comes to mind is your ballast sitting in the bottom of the tent. If you haven't yet, be sure to relocate it outside the tent - that will drop your temps in there quite a lot. What is the CFM rating on your inline fan?
I hear ya about hangin that beasty 18" filter - I had a buddy help out with that, can't imagine doing it myself!! A quick tip I learned afterwards with hanging it though, is to loosely put the 2 ties (or straps) around the tent bar first, then slip the filter into the straps so it's hanging like a sling - then tighten each side until taught.
It sounds like you have plenty of head-room in there. Maybe try tieing it down (LST) during veg to spread it out some and then even more with the screen...worked for me. =)
Overall though - lookin super! I'm sure your root is fine - keep her moist in the next few days and it'll pull through!
Yea, it's not bad. Kind of annoying, because I was expecting 100% lightproof but what is? I'm really amazed at the cool tube and how cool it keeps that MH.
That's a pretty monster setup. Nice though. I went ahead and moved the ballast out of the tent. That thing was getting pretty warm and pushing temps close to 90.Here's an old pic of my bigger tent from one of my previous grows - this shows how I had 2 reflector-style 600w cooltubes ducted together and cooled with 1 filter. The filter has a fan built into it, but I don't think it was strong enough to cool both of those lights... I'm using the filter from this picture, in my small tent now, and I bought another filter the same size, but with a seperate 440 CFM blower fan to run the filter and cool the lights in my next dual waterfarm grow - same setup as this though - same idea.
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It's 190 cfm
wat. It's a femenized seed but it's way too early to tell if it has hermied or not.
Thanks! I've wanted to grow strawberry diesel for years! The seeds were sold out everywhere for the longest time and as soon as I seen they were back in stock I had to grab me some. Next im'a do Nirvana Ice, then prob a G13 strain. That is, if this grow is successful in this setup.
Awesome man - looking really great!!
I know exactly how you feel with watching how fast it's growing right now...exciting every time you open the tent! =)
Yea, I don't do that. I'ma start though, I do check the ppm and ph level and pour water back in over or next to the rockwool. Thanks, I wish I was as far along as you. 3 months is killer!Awesome man - looking really great!!
Are you rotating some water through the bottom in through the top every now and then? That's how I would keep the root moist at that stage - bend the drain-tube down and siphon some water into a small cup, and pour it in through the top right at the base of the stem...repeat 4-5 times.
Nice - one other thing you can do (at least this is what I do) - put a small fan at the outside-end of that 4" ducting you just installed, so it pushes extra fresh-air into the tent. I remember you saying the temps outside the tent are already fairly high though (74ish I think you'd said), so that may not help much but it may bring your temps down a bit more. I know this will than nullify your intake as 'passive', but it's a way to try and get cooler fresh-air into the tent... you can see mine at the back-left bottom of the tent - I try to point the ducting up and to the center of the tent, which give some nice breeze below your (future) canopy.
