Just transplanted last night and will weed out soon to get down the numbers. Had temp problems and may add an intake fan and keep the exhaust fan that would have been my neg air system, not sure it was enough before.
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Just transplanted last night and will weed out soon to get down the numbers. Had temp problems and may add an intake fan and keep the exhaust fan that would have been my neg air system, not sure it was enough before.
If I understood your question, YES.Quote:
Originally Posted by frostedwonder
Leave one end of the cooltube open (exhaust system's intake), and then the tubing goes out the other end, to a fan, out the closet (exhaust system's exhaust)
I think that makes sense...:stoned:
Still have heat problems??? That's strange, sounds to me like your fans aren't working efficiently. Can you re-configure your ventilation in a way that you minimize bends in ducting? How about the ballast for your hps, is it in the growroom? Can you mount it somewhere outside the grow area?
okay now I am getting it I think. Basically I didn't think moist air coming from gen growing part of the box should go thru the hood and over the bulb. Does that affect it? Its an $70 bulb and I didn't think it should get moist air but I think that if I do what you said I should have no probs with heat the air ductfan for the tube is 80 cfm and if I use that for just gen intake exhaust I would have one 6'' duct fan pulling air out and I could use the other 4'' duct for just exhaust with the one tube off in cab that should work.. I just transplanted last night and they dropped for a bit and now look fine.:thumbsup:
would put some pics on here but system isn't letting me for some reason, there not that big of pics either hmmm
here is a pic update after transplant to bigger pot. Still trying to rework the air hood and over all exhaust of box.
My ballast is outside my box the only thing heating it up is the four bulbs the main one is the 400w hps in its ac hood and then there is one 85watt feit cfl and one 200w cfl and one 100w cfl there is a mini fan inside that oscillates and there is three 2.5'' holes for the neg air and one 6'' duct fan pulling gen air out of box and then the 4'' duct in the ducting for the air cool hood. I always see the ac hood with both ends using ducting never really thought to leave one as a exhaust for gen growing area as well. Anyone have issues with moisture in the hood or over the bulb? Not saying I am imagining it to be that humid but any kinda makes me worried about the 70buck bulb and all the fixings.. any thoughts would be appreciated.:jointsmile:
So, took some advice and removed one of the tubes on the air cooled hood and turned the 80cfm duct fan to pull air out of the box thru the hood first, which seems to really help. I was hovering about 82f sometimes and once ran up to 90's eeck! curled a few leaves which has me worried one of my fav plants looks like it has a tan, new leaves seem unharmed tho. This is my third week of growing and plants are showing three sets of leaves yeah! I bought a 400watt mh bulb and switched out the hps, glad I bought a switchable ballast. This prolly will not be something I keep in for long but until I have clones this is going to be use as a stand alone box then make use of a veg cab that I already have with t8 floros and some cfl lighting as well. Bought some root riot plugs and the dome setup and some clone gel. Rounded my single attempt to restart the economy by getting Grow big nutes and grabed some fox farm ocean soil and light warrior to have on hand. Will post pics tomorrow.:D
I make things up and this is just one of the many absurd babbles I have written to humor myself and others and should not be taken serious as with any of my posts.
geez from others posts you would think new current grows would get more views but I will take any insight that I can get. I started using grow big foxfarm soil nutes for the recommended three wk dose amount and have some leave curling upwards and some color changes, not sure if it was over done or just gen shock, any thoughts? Oh plants are 18days from seed germ to now.:hippy:
Your cabinet looks great. Your plants are over nuted though.
Pure FFOF has plenty of nutes almost too much for small plants. I would flush them out and just water for awhile. I like to mix the FFOF with sunshine mix #4 50/50 it's a great balance and still leaves room for extreme nutes. The Fox Farm schedule is powerful start out at half stength or less and get a feel for it.
I did a side by side comparison with four plants from seed using FFOF and Sunshine mix #4 (which is a soilless medium that has no fertilizer) in the Sunshine mix I used the Fox Farm grow big soil and big bloom. The FFOF plants had too much nitrogen but stayed really stocky, the sunshine plants were a little more stretched, not much at all, but the stem was wider and the roots ran deeper.
This is what brought me to the 50/50 mix. Check out my log in my sig.
Nice to see things are coming together for you. Yes, they look a little overfertilized to me also. Also, careful with that MH, as it will burn your babies easier than an hps.