I recently started my first indoor grow. The first priority for me in my attempt to grow my own weed is to not get caught, since it's illegal to grow cannabis where I live. I use an air scrubber carbon air filter that is pretty good at cleaning the air, but not perfect. Sometimes you get a whiff of the smell of the pot growing even when the fan and filter are running. That is especially true when I am working on my plants and my room is open, so after my plants got to be about 3 weeks old, I realized I had to do something about eliminating the smell and along with it, any chances my neighbors might be down wind of it and get suspicious.
I was somewhat panicked... OK, I was freaking out!! My plants were doing great and I wanted to keep my grow going, but I knew if I didn't fix the smell problem, it was over, so I asked for help from the folks watching my grow journal on RIU. Danielsgb, a friend and fellow grower responded with some pictures he had found from another grower who is not identified, but is also owed a thank you from me. Whomever you are. Thank you. You can see the pics of the device he used here.
https://www.rollitup.org/attachments/grow-journals/1506486d1300724787-smoke-n-strums-first-indoor-odor-bucket-001.jpg
I had to do something fast, because the smell was bad and I wanted to salvage the grow. I didn't have a can fan, and I couldn't get one quickly enough, so I tried to think of what I could do. I had an old outdated computer in my garage and I knew it had fans in it, so I took it apart and salvaged the fans. The following is my adaption of the idea Danielsgb gave me. I had to buy an aquarium air pump and air stone. The rest I already had.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here it is. This what I needed to put it all together. You can use pine sol or whatever you have that works. Pine sol works great and it is cheap.
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To wire the fans you need a 12 volt inverter that puts out about .3 amps. Close is good enough. When you hook the wires up, red goes to the wire with the slashes on it. Don't worry, if you hook it up to the wrong wire. It won't hurt anything, it just won't work. Just change it back and be sure to test it before you put it all together. The rest is pretty self explanatory I think. If you have any questions, ask. I hope this helps someone keep their grow on...sns
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One fan blows into the bucket, one blows out. This thing works great. I put two capfuls of pine sol into about 6 inches of water in the bottom of the bucket. Pine sol foams a little, so don't fill it up too high. A little pine sol goes a long way. Use your own judgement. Good luck.
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