Comes a Time, First Grow, Please Step Inside -- 2000 watt Sour Diesel

good luck finding an oscillating fan durring the winter....
as for your humidity and mold, as long as you have constant fresh air comming in you should have a problem with it.

It may be pushing it a little. I think that 40% is ideal IMO. I think I said something about that many plants and the space that they take up at the start of your thread, or one of your other ones, but you live and learn. Put the shorter plants in the middle or the taller ones will rob them of light.
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Yeh, I would like to lower it as well Bear. I had some buckets of water laying around in the room, grabbed em out and now my humidity is down to 63 (lights on) yesterday. I am going to look into a dehumidifier. Really would like to see the humidity go down to around 50 or even high 40s. Given that my plants are crowding each other a bit more than I would prefer, I should be especially careful of mold.

Thanks Bear

fresh air flow and constant air flow through your plants is the trick to defeating mold in my percpective. your relative humidity should be an ideal 60%

Went to the grow store to talk to them about the humidity issue and they told me the dehumifier won't even help much unless the vortex fan is off while the humidifier runs... you guys agree? I have a friend who said he disagrees, thinks it will def. help some. Thing is, I can't turn my vortex off during the day because these plants fucking reek!!

As of now, I don't have a closed circuit, just an open one... and cool air is coming in from a vent in the floor. What I was considering doing is stuffing that vent with something to prohibit full air flow, then the air will be drawn in under the door. This air would obviously be dryer... but the plants may not get quite as much fresh air because it would have to go under the door and also through the plastic I put up. What do you guys suggest?

I am considering just biting the bullet and spending the 180 on the dehumidifier, but if it isn't going to work well because the Vortex is pulling air through the room quicker than the dehumid. can work, then there's no point.

Took the humidity right when the lights came on today... 69% humid....one hour after lights came on it dropped to 63. i then plugged up the area where the air from outside was comin in from (in hopes that dryer air would come in under the door) and it dropped to 61. i am curious to ask people would turning off my vortex for 15 mins out of every 60 mins and then turing on the dehumidifier during its off cyle would that help alot? i am surpiserd covering up the area in which the damp air comes in only dropped i t2%....very interested to hear 3what others have done to drop it a few more degrees. other thing i could do is get the fan on a dimmer and set a timer to have it very lightly going during the time in which the dehumidifer is on...can you set the fdan to dim 15 mins out of every hour or no

I just read a thread today where a guy had his RH in the 60's and in the last 4 weeks he started battling powder mold. Sometimes certain strains are more volnrable to the PM, but you need to keep a close eye on things. You can set the fan to come off and on as long as it doesn't get to hot when it is off, because it will draw moisture out of the plants and make the room more humid sometimes.
Racerx, who has a thread in hydro uses a spray to combat possible PM, I would try to hit his thread up and ask him the name of it. It may be in your budget if a D/H isn't.
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I can afford a d/h right now, the only thing is it won't be entirely effective if my Vortex is on. And without the Vortex on, the house reeks! I could maybe put the Vortex and the d/h both on timers, and have the Vortex turn off for like 10 mins out of every hour and the d/h come on. Still, I do think the house will start to really smell in that 10 minutes not to mention I don't want air seeping through the walls into outside our home. I have a friend coming over tonight who has been doing this longer, he is going to give some advice... will keep ya guys posted

cant find the thread, can you post it? with reguards to the spray, i could def. think about doing that but isnt it bad to spray the plants when they are budding...?

Just bought the 50 pint d/h. Got it for 260 with a 3 year warrenty. It uses about 860 watts of energy. I also plugged up the hole in which cold air was coming in from outside, so now my fresh air is being brought it from underneath the doorway...

Now, outside the doorway is a hallway, a bathroom, and another bedroom. If I keep the bedroom door closed often (as well as the door that seperates the hallway from the house) it should work just fine.

I would prefer have the d/h in the actual room, but my Vortex is going to suck out air quicker than the d/h can work. What do you guys do to combat that? I was thinking maybe setting the fan to go off for like 15 minutes out of every hour and then the d/h turns on? I'm not really sure but I know having a d/h outside a locked door isnt the most stealth thing in the world.