Too cold to grow
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bearded.beaver
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You could maybe add some old school light bulbs in a lamp just to add a bit of heat. Then you get a little extra light with the heat from the bulb.
Rob Roy
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Veg near, but outside, your primary flowering tent and / or grow and flower autoflowers outside your primary flowering tent.
Any electricity used in the form of a light can be dual purpose, creates heat and supplies light. Use thermometers that record 24 hour hi/low temps and become familiar with your grow room temps both inside and outside your tent when it's cold outside so you'll know when or if you need to add supplemental heat, which of course can be another light.
Fluorescent 4 foot lights are cheap if you're on a budget. Good luck.
Any electricity used in the form of a light can be dual purpose, creates heat and supplies light. Use thermometers that record 24 hour hi/low temps and become familiar with your grow room temps both inside and outside your tent when it's cold outside so you'll know when or if you need to add supplemental heat, which of course can be another light.
Fluorescent 4 foot lights are cheap if you're on a budget. Good luck.
slinkysaurus
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Are you soil or hydro?
First thing -
In the cold weather, I need an oil fired radiator flat out 24/7 in the grow room. I place this directly behind a fan so as when lights are off, it's blowing warm air about my grow area.
Second thing-
Nutrient heaters in your brain bucket. Do not let your temps drop below 15c for the water nor your grown room.
You'll run into big problems where the plants stall if you can't keep the temps up.
Thirdly - the room your taking air from. Are you taking your inlet from a room or from a window?
If a window, take it from a room instead. And make sure that room is also kept warm. The easiest way to do that is by using a FAN heater from your intake room. This will also keep humidity down during lights off. Oil heater in tent. Fan heater in intake room.
I'm guessing you're in the UK?
First thing -
In the cold weather, I need an oil fired radiator flat out 24/7 in the grow room. I place this directly behind a fan so as when lights are off, it's blowing warm air about my grow area.
Second thing-
Nutrient heaters in your brain bucket. Do not let your temps drop below 15c for the water nor your grown room.
You'll run into big problems where the plants stall if you can't keep the temps up.
Thirdly - the room your taking air from. Are you taking your inlet from a room or from a window?
If a window, take it from a room instead. And make sure that room is also kept warm. The easiest way to do that is by using a FAN heater from your intake room. This will also keep humidity down during lights off. Oil heater in tent. Fan heater in intake room.
I'm guessing you're in the UK?
slinkysaurus
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I thought so. Read that post again 1st part and 3rd part.
Leave your intake/outlet fans ON.
Heat your intake room and heat your grow room.
Oil heater will.be fine in the grow room just make sure there is a fan to help circulate the heat.
where are you taking your air from? Outside or a room? If you're pulling it from outside, all your going to do is pull in humidity and cold. Pull it from a warm/dry room, and you'll keep things okay at lights off.