Keeping Cool?

We have Central Air but not in my Grow Room.

The exhaust Fan is just blowing into the room.

I told my Son we should just vent it outside. He said just run A/C into my room.

???

how is your humidity? My humidity would skyrocket if I didn't vent outside.

Vent outside.. I have ac, thats what I do..

I have to open door use big fan to blow air into grow room. If its 85-90F in there and 70 in the home its pretty much a ac unit level effectiveness. When ac kicks on then I can close door.

Can vent outside but it warmed up my whole upper floor a few degress if thats ok. Hvac guys said my venting out was the culprit. Its working now that I dont vent outside. Just for summers.

Oldguyrealy said:

We have Central Air but not in my Grow Room.

The exhaust Fan is just blowing into the room.

I told my Son we should just vent it outside. He said just run A/C into my room.

???

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I grow in an insulated, unconditioned (in the summer) shop. I vent into the attic, which helps control humidity, but also heat - not only from my lights, but the positive pressure in the attic aids its passive ventilation.

If I had an A/C, I would still vent to the attic.

If you're having heat or humidity issues, I'd start with venting outside. If that doesn't do enough, A/C might help. But as @medidedicated pointed out, that might put more load on your A/C than it's designed for.

This is the last summer I'm flowering indoors until I can effectively control my temps in the summer without breaking the bank.

It's just too damn expensive.

I didnt get that tag thats weird. I wonder if that happens sometimes when I tag people. Maybe because I unwatched thread because Im on RIU every day Ill see all new posts unless its something super important.

Tolerance Break said:

This is the last summer I'm flowering indoors until I can effectively control my temps in the summer without breaking the bank.

It's just too damn expensive.

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This is the first summer I gave it a go. Drying will be challenging. Right now I'm testing my 2x2 with four jugs of frozen water. With 100dF outside and 82dF in the shop - hopefully four jugs every 12 hours will work. Sitting at 69dF and 60%RH right now. Hehe.

Tolerance Break said:

This is the last summer I'm flowering indoors until I can effectively control my temps in the summer without breaking the bank.

It's just too damn expensive.

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But in veg they love the humitidy so you got 4ish months to veg out monsters

VaSmile said:

But in veg they love the humitidy so you got 4ish months to veg out monsters

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I'm trying the opposite right now. Got a couple 20 watt lights in a box made of 2 stacked 27 gal totes, vegging out a bunch of seedlings and a couple clones. Trying to practice keeping plants small... it's a work in progress.

Wouldn't be so bad if they weren't sativa Dom plants with some vigor lol

Well drying I guess can smell mine over at a Cops house. Guy was over there Weed Eating.

Smelled it says that Cop is growing some good stuff.