Buddy of mine rolled out his tent after being in storage for about 1 year . Smells like mildew pretty bad. I told him to throw it away and buy a new one but other than the smell it’s brand new used for one flower cycle . Has anyone had this issue or corrected it? Just wanted to see what some have you have done if you ran into this issue
Grow tent issue
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SouthFloridaGenetics
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Fill the bathtub up with water and add about half a gallon of bleach. Stick it under water for a few minutes, like 15 minutes. Then drain the tub and fill it back up to rinse the tent. Easy peasy. I have to do ours every so often.
Does this bleach the black tent to a different color?
SouthFloridaGenetics
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Nah. you can dab some on the corner and see.
I will tell him try it out . Shit stinks bad lol
Went with what you said. He said fuck it and wanted to throw it away . I said fuck that give it to me I’ll try to wash it. Got a gallon of bleach , some Clorox sanitizer, vinegar and used some tide pods . First I tried to just wipe everything down with vinegar , at first it helped but that smell came back after 12 hours both inside and out mixed with water. Then I ended up putting my tent in the only bathtub I have in the house filled it with water and bleach ( not sure how much I used but it wasn’t a little and not a whole jug maybe 1/8 ) tested a corner no discoloration after 15 minutes so I dunked the whole thing in
After this I drained it and put in 3 tide pods (Kirkland brand ) same shit tho and this Clorox
After about 15 minutes of me moving it around such as a washer would to make sure I get everything as clean as I could before drained it
out and rinsed it the best I could , then I did a final soak with just water and look at this 
water is clear as can be , there was a little residue on my seat there as you can see from the previous steps but all in all I’m happy so far . I have it laid out on a tarp in my garage right now drying in this 104 degree weather today so my garage is about 112 . I will post an update when it fully dries out for smell and visual inspection. I will tell you right now smells like fresh laundry.
SouthFloridaGenetics
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Hell yeah brother that's the exact way to clean it! Happy growing!
And since I posted it, my tent is fully dry , I called my buddy and said to come pick it up I cleaned it and he said go ahead and keep it. So looks like I got a semi new fresh smelling tent, imma throw this thing up in a few hours! Looks like imma start a perpetual grow again lol