my jardins are vacummed and lose some space. the newer ones havent done it yet. Ive never wasted tent space with a filter but use a big mdf box manifold with ballasts and filter inside it and one exhaust hose.
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Let’s see some pictures! (You might actually be helping out someone that doesn’t know they need the help yet.)
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I should sell the thing but being open source like greywolf is the way. You can use prebuilt panels from home depot. 2x4 foot mdf screw it toegether into a box with one end open to maintain all the hps ballasts and the carbon filter/fan combo. It really cuts down on noise and you can put a moving blanket on it too. I also use a variac for the fan to prevent that sound. by one end open I mean dont seal that end, just screw it together. I got away with that for years in an apt. I would never suggest anyone grow in an apt unless its legal. Im sure I got caught a few times but the maintainance was nice. I was not using a tent in the apt. One time I came home after shredding the hackeysack and the wall was melting!!! I was like wtf, it was a roof leak in my garden room! I stuffed 1.4 kw of super silver haze into a bedroom closet with plants already and then- It took 2 weeks to repair the roof and then they could do the drywall.
in the process the painters were illegals or something and just tried painting over the damage. I complained to management and when i saw the attic it was COVERED in mold. I had issues of smelling floral shit and it turns out the dryer room was exhausting into my attic and molding it up while making my apt smell like a laundry. the hot attic melted the snow and created an ice dam. Stay out of apts.
they supposedly remediated the mold- I had no job and they did not do anything in my attic. Maybe they painted it in killz
Here’s some pics of my little tent. Don’t mind the messy appearance up top. It looks worse than it really is. The string from the hangers and extra wires from the seedling mat make it look really bad in the pics.
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I made up a couple of air filters for intake air out of a pretzel container and some 1" thick foam circles from ebay. I ordered six 6" circles of filter foam, and they fit perfectly in my amazon pretzel container, stacked three thick in each half. It’s not HEPA, but they stop an amazing amount of dirt, with very little restriction of flow. Cost was almost nothing.
One note, the plastic acts as a fiber optic, channeling light into the tent. I eventually plan on either painting the plastic, or covering it in black duct tape to block light transmission. Hasn’t been an issue yet, but will be if I ever use it to flower.
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I always wind up maxing out the height so Ive never even thought of mounting the fans up top even thought ive seen it suggested. Also ive been doing that manifold thing forever, part for sound but now with multiple ports it acts as a manifold. also removes ballast heat sstraight out. Thats why im saying led runs hot.
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It kills almost a foot of space in the tent, but running leds kinda makes up for it since I can run em closer. Still has tons more vertical room than my last cabinet. The tall stuff all gets to go outside and soak up the sun anyhow. It works pretty well for starting seeds, clones, and teens, with the occasional auto thrown in for variety.
@Capttripppp… lol, not gonna happen
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Nice setup! I’m totally jealous because growing (vegging) in my bathroom has become… tedious, we’ll say… My bathroom is up the stairs from my apartment, but it’s an internal room with only the small vent for the bathroom fan. It’s totally insulated so it’s like 85 degrees at the top of my stairs/bathroom. There’s absolutely NO WAY I’ll be able to use it in the summer time. It will be WAY too hot to even consider using that space, but I’ll be able to use outside
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you shouldnt exhaust into a vent fan in an apt, it will go right into another apt. Unless the fan is on the roof.
I’m not exhausting into the vent, I was merely trying adequately articulate just how shitty it is to grow in my bathroom. Plus, the vent vents to the roof, I know because I’ve been up on my roof to patch it last summer, and I traced all the vents while cleaning them
Too hot in Alaska?! Lol, at least you can use it for a few months to get some teens ready for spring. Gotta love the great outdoors and that giant HPS in the sky! My issue is trying not to overcrowd the tent before it get warm enough to start moving some stuff outside.
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I am so lucky to not be in ail for growing in an apt. I didnt have tents but used the manifold and panda film. Id come home from work and it stunk at harvest, even with mild c99 strains. I would spray ona and run some machine with a cartridge likea bathroom all the time.
I’m building a garage grow and while I thought about using tents I’m going to build rooms for less that are better out of drywall and frp and 2x4
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Definitely a better way to go for a space that large. I’ve always been a fan of building a proper room, but sometimes the convenience of a tent is worth it, especially when building isn’t possible or practical.
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it has alot to do with individual situations. I like a tent because I can tear it down and not leave holes in the wall. I could probably block a window and many people do that but its all up to the individual. when i run tentless i see that tarps never work, the carpet get stained, Im not sure how to get deep in the garden because im usually overgrown etc… A 4x8 tent has easy acess to all plants and you can have more than one tent.
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You can build a wood tent
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I used to use strips of wood and panda film but like the lack of holes in the wall. I dont think they invented grow tents back then.
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