New room, First grow Criticts wanted

Hey gotta be quick but here's a few pics tell me what you think

Looking good my man. You seem to have everything in order to grow some nice plants. Just watch the temps, which you seem to be doing. I especially like the thermostat by the plants. Very good idea. Peace

clamps on your fan would be better............im not sure how long your tape will last

woody333333 said:

clamps on your fan would be better............im not sure how long your tape will last

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Yea I've noticed the tape starting to peel in a few places alrdy, I will get clamps next time im at lows and remember lol

Deceptively Compact! I kinda dig the little space. 1. It may get tight during flowering - look into using LST (low stress training) on your plants 2. Don't blow air directly on your plants but around them, 3. your seedlings need humidity to start out happy; I always humidity dome or loosely sandwich bag them until they look like they can stand the heat/dryness; like 2 weeks. GL and have fun! oh and be safe! I notice some wires on the ground; may want to sort those out in the case of unexpected spills.

Seems like a well thought out start!

Good luck to you!

Thanks guys, keep it coming. Also I forgot to mention that im placing hook in the walls around a foot and a half. I have a length of cargo net that im going to use for a screen and a bag of pipe cleaners for any additional lst needed. I was worried about the height restrictions because I want to veg the full 30 days. so I think the net acting as a screen will let me do what I want really.

Hey guys, I might go a head and order this http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-QuietClean-Purifier-Permanent-HFD-010/dp/B000NBIO0Y/ref=sr_1_5?s=appliances&ie=UTF8&qid=1366145795&sr=1-5&keywords=air+filter Tell me what you think, as you can see from the pics above I should be able to stick it in that back right corner on med or something. I've also desided on doing a mini fridge cool pump thing. Ill wrap the tubing around that fan you see in there, and its on oscillate also. Im not in a rush to do the mini fridge thing quite yet. ive got my temps down to the mid 70's during the hottest times. im just worried that in a few months when its much hotter outside that itll get crazy hot being in the attic and all. also I have an ozone gen in this space its rated for 5500 sq feet. my fan is 240 cfm out with a bathroom exhaust fan in to the hood.

Hey guys, I might go a head and order this http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-QuietClean-Purifier-Permanent-HFD-010/dp/B000NBIO0Y/ref=sr_1_5?s=appliances&ie=UTF8&qid=1366145795&sr=1-5&keywords=air+filter Tell me what you think, as you can see from the pics above I should be able to stick it in that back right corner on med or something. I've also desided on doing a mini fridge cool pump thing. Ill wrap the tubing around that fan you see in there, and its on oscillate also. Im not in a rush to do the mini fridge thing quite yet. ive got my temps down to the mid 70's during the hottest times. im just worried that in a few months when its much hotter outside that itll get crazy hot being in the attic and all. also I have an ozone gen in this space its rated for 5500 sq feet. my fan is 240 cfm out with a bathroom exhaust fan in to the hood.

The truth ; your legs are made of cotton and theyre far too long. J/K your setup looks really comfy and therapeutic .I could prolly hang and sleep in there. Nice setup.

Do you have any fresh air coming into your attic or exhaust to the outside? How hot is it going to be in a month?

I heard that the honeywell filters don't do much for plant smell but are great for cigarette smell.

Just get a carbon filter IMO.

Guys I cant believe I didn't see this sooner. I have heat build up problems and Im not running insolated duct work <DUHHAA>. So the way im looking at it now, im just exhausting the air from around the light not the heat. the heat is radiating back into the room via the 10 foot plus of uninsolated duct. So today as soon my lights come on late afternoon im gonna get all th duct covered with like R11 or something. and that will cut down on noise from the air moving thu the duct as well as hopefully cooling at least 5 degrees.

Skilz said:

Guys I cant believe I didn't see this sooner. I have heat build up problems and Im not running insolated duct work <DUHHAA>. So the way im looking at it now, im just exhausting the air from around the light not the heat. the heat is radiating back into the room via the 10 foot plus of uninsolated duct. So today as soon my lights come on late afternoon im gonna get all th duct covered with like R11 or something. and that will cut down on noise from the air moving thu the duct as well as hopefully cooling at least 5 degrees.

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i suppose if u got a bunch of insulation laying around but i would just buy the insulated stuff ........i dunno that it makes a huge difference its the fan thats loud ...............kinda looks like u un hook the inbound side of that light and your heat problem goes away.....for now

Hmm... okay, for starters, regarding your cooling... you are losing significant air flow to that "draping along the wall" pattern... the air is working up and over ach of those drapes, and it is slowing your air flow. Fixing this could result in an increase of air flow and you might be able to skip the insulation. Honestly, if you are right about the heat exchanging on it's way through your ducting, then correcting the air flow would probably help more than insulating it.

Keep in mind that ducting is not a heat sink... it will exchange some heat, granted, but the faster the air moves, and the more direct the air path, the less time the air has a chance to exchange through the wall, and less push against the ducting directly from it hitting the bends.

My advice would be to take the duct off the hooks and just run it along the floor, in that bottom corner, which will keep all bends out of it, since floors are nice and flat and evenly supported. Either that, or tighten up all the duct runs so that they are pulled taught.

Finally... I can't tell what is going on with your intake end... it looks like you have an intake coming in from outside the room, running into your hood in kind of a weird way that hits the corner of it rather than the intake duct...? What is going on there? I can see the intake duct sticking off behind it... are you using a Y splitter so that you can draw air from outside as well as in the room or something? If so you are diminishing effectivity more...

My advice would be to either get a second inline fan set up to exhaust the room, or use a passive intake to provide fresh air to the whole space, and then draw the air from the room, through the hood, and out. That way the cool air is flowing into the room and becoming available everywhere it's needed, both to cool the lights, and to provide fresh air to your room...

But I am getting ahead of myself... can you explain your ducting on the intake side?

woody333333 said:

kinda looks like u un hook the inbound side of that light and your heat problem goes away.....for now

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Yeah it looks like you noticed the same thing I did woody... I can't tell what he's doing on the inbound side...

btw, OP, where is that intake drawing from? What's on the other side of that black box on the wall?

Thanks Thanks Thanks. Ok inbound is a bathroom exhaust fan pulling from inside of the interior wall. im on the second floor of a two story place. Now how it connects to the hood is custom. I have an open wing reflector. I saw here on RIO how to take a pieces of glass and make a "cool tube" or vented hood. the intake from the wall is taped to the hood and so that it comes in from the front left and is pointed towards the right rear. Now the other side is open. and that lil white fan is blowing in with a little direction from a single piece of tape just holding it still. so yea the out fan is a 240 cfm and it pulls like 18 feet to outside. This is a STEALTH GROW. Rep were deserved

Ok so hello from inside my green room . Heres a few new pics. Thanks AlterN I agree with the bends. I just couldn't give up floor space. Im gonna add a few pics of my "friends" don't want to jinx ladies yet. Maybe I did oh well. Would anyone support a grow journal of these four? Pics coming soon

Looks like you got rid of the drapes with the insulation pretty well... double score for the noise reduction I'm sure... right on.

Regarding the intake... are you saying you're pulling from INSIDE the wall, (ie, from the space between the sheet rock, between the joists?) or through the wall, from an adjacent room? I would think this a critical difference, in terms of how much air flow through you end up with.

Well its the space from between the sheet rock and joist, but there is plenty of free flowing air due to the fact that's it an old house and im on the second story. I normally would have just put a thru air grill on the other side of the wall but It wouldn't change much. the air in the walls are gonna be as cool if not cooler then air in a bedroom.