Cheapest diy odor control ever.

dimebagdan

dimebagdan

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i bought an expensive carbon filter and inline fan to cool my light but i have to run the carbon filter even when the lights not on to control odor of blooming plants. so ive bought all kinds of thing to : remove odor, mask odor, change odor with limited success. until i took acouple of used pickle buckets from work[im a chef in a casual restuarant]. by just placeing the bucket either inside or outside the grow area masked all smell of ganja from the back to the front door. And this is an empty pickle bucket.if you have a quart of juice in the bucket forget about it. itll make your house/grow room smell like an italian deli! people walk in my house now and ask wheres the food not wheres the ganja anymore.cost me nada. so go to your local restuarants back door and see if you can find the kitchen manager or chef and ask him/her if you could have some of their used pickle buckets.some reuse but most have a surplus that they store some where.offer a couple bucks or a fresh twisted jay[most kitchen workers hit more trees than sonny bono]and im sure theyll come off some for you.
 
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lucy21

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Its always the simplest/ cheapest which works the best :)
This is something I would never have thought of, cheers mate
 
cowboylogic

cowboylogic

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Very interesting. If you can exhaust into an attic or directly outdoors. Passing the air through a box full of mothballs works well and is very cheap. Then people will wonder where you grandma is at! LOL Gonna try the buckets though.
 
dimebagdan

dimebagdan

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Fill the bucket with pickle juice and use an aquarium heater set to 85 and blow a fan on it for large grows. Also is great for when the can filter is off because the lights are cooled by the fan attached to the filter. And it's lights out.
 
Rankdank

Rankdank

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Possibly only america, but it's common that our pickles arrive in restaurants. 5 gallon bucks and possibly bigger. But ya, they stink like hell. I used to work in a sub shop, you can't give them away. So, in essence, go to local sub shops or sandwich shops and ask for them.
 
DumpsterKeeper

DumpsterKeeper

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Would a 1 gallon jar which used to contain pickles, still partially filled with juice work for a smaller grow?

EDIT: +Reply for this ingenious idea!
 
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BERRYBLUE

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So has anyone else tried anything else like vinegar itself? Or how about ammonia, heard years ago that it depletes oxygen from it's surroundings? dunno if that helps but it's what I'm gonna be doing here right directly. Go 4 going in to flower now and this is their fifth day and they're already stinky... so good and stinks. good luck w/da funk:eyesmoke:
 
Learninglots420

Learninglots420

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Question about the pickle brine, has anybody found that any pest or insect is attracted to it? I'd love to try it out for the hell of it, it'd be like a little jar of ONA gel! But before I would risk it in my grow cab I'd set it outside and see what nature it summons forth. It's hard to imagine pickle brine sustaining any sort of life though!
 
bomb hills

bomb hills

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Wow, good idea! Thats funny because I have used pickle barrels for my 5 gal flowering containers before and it's impossible to get the smell of pickles out. Also I have stored change in a pickle jar and when I took the money into the bank it smelled like I was there to make a sandwich.
 
dimebagdan

dimebagdan

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I had a problem. Should I run my carbon filter when the lights are off? Not with two pickle buckets in the grow room. Fresh buckets are the best.
 
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