Ventilation in TEXAS cold/heat

[jbrand]

first time poster so bare with me please. I live in texas and want to start a grow for some personal use pot. (tired of dealin with drug dealers lol)

During summer time it gets very hot and humid here and am worried about setting up an fresh air intake vent and bring all the heat and humidity into the house. my house is only a year old and was built with a whole house ventilation system. will this kind of system bring in enough fresh air for my plants? fyi i will be using a modified armoire to grow in.

i was thinking of setitng up a whole new vent system just for the armoire but they are 1000 bucks.

Any tips on ventilation in humid climate would be awesome. thanks in advance.

J-rock

jbrand Reviewed by jbrand on 12-29-2009. Ventilation in TEXAS cold/heat first time poster so bare with me please. I live in texas and want to start a grow for some personal use pot. (tired of dealin with drug dealers lol) During summer time it gets very hot and humid here and am worried about setting up an fresh air intake vent and bring all the heat and humidity into the house. my house is only a year old and was built with a whole house ventilation system. will this kind of system bring in enough fresh air for my plants? fyi i will be using a modified armoire Rating: 5

[senorx12562]

Do you have a/c in your house?

[jbrand]

Do you have a/c in your house?

Yes sir. i keep it at 75 in the summer times

[senorx12562]

The air from the rest of your house will be much cooler and drier than the air outside, so it seems like you should be ok. You should probably get a wall mount circulation fan and mount it inside your armoire to be on all the time, and if you can leave the door(s) of the armoire open when the lights are on, temp probably shouldn't be an issue either.

[Farmer Rich]

How large is the light you plan on putting in your armoire? I used to grow in a box and they can get a bit hot (used a 600w hps in mine). If you\'re naturally venting into the room using your home\'s HVAC system, you may want to think about the location of the thermostat and the A/C\'s ability to know that the room where you box is located is getting warm.

Peace, Farmer Rich

[LetsSeeYa]

first time poster so bare with me please. I live in texas and want to start a grow for some personal use pot. (tired of dealin with drug dealers lol)

During summer time it gets very hot and humid here and am worried about setting up an fresh air intake vent and bring all the heat and humidity into the house. my house is only a year old and was built with a whole house ventilation system. will this kind of system bring in enough fresh air for my plants? fyi i will be using a modified armoire to grow in.

i was thinking of setitng up a whole new vent system just for the armoire but they are 1000 bucks.

Any tips on ventilation in humid climate would be awesome. thanks in advance.

J-rock

Check this guy out as he grows in extreme heat too. RustyTrechomes is an experienced grower and he wrote this very informative thread, its in hes sig. If ya got questions, hes a good guy and would help im sure, but iv read it even though i dont have the issue, but to gain his insight.



http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...es-desert.html
:rasta:

[irydyum]

Ventilation is a necessity for sure. You don't want to use the house system to take care of that, home systems are usually sealed and balanced for pressures and such and cutting into them can cause some weird effects on heating/cooling the rest of the house. Not to mention putting bud stinking air back into the system that is taking care of the rest of the home.

You can find an exhaust fan and carbon filter combination for under $300 that would be more than sufficient for your space and it would control smell for you. If you keep a negative pressure in your growspace and the exhaust is cleaned by a carbon filter, you can effectively eliminate the smells outside the space. You will be shocked at how much a single flowering plant can smell.

Best of luck, there's a lot of fellow texas growers on here to help you out. You'll never be alone here.

Just my :twocents:

[LetsSeeYa]

Ventilation is a necessity for sure. You don't want to use the house system to take care of that, home systems are usually sealed and balanced for pressures and such and cutting into them can cause some weird effects on heating/cooling the rest of the house. Not to mention putting bud stinking air back into the system that is taking care of the rest of the home.

You can find an exhaust fan and carbon filter combination for under $300 that would be more than sufficient for your space and it would control smell for you. If you keep a negative pressure in your growspace and the exhaust is cleaned by a carbon filter, you can effectively eliminate the smells outside the space. You will be shocked at how much a single flowering plant can smell.

Best of luck, there's a lot of fellow texas growers on here to help you out. You'll never be alone here.

Just my :twocents:

Yes for sure irydyum, as i watched them hook up a cover over my front door of my house, to see if the house was too insulated. I never thought a home could be ''too'' insulated, but i guess that there needs to be a balance of air flow through your house to keep harmful air thats not good to breath out of the home. Of course there is a balance which needs to be met so to keep out the cold, but allow harmful elements in the environment to escape is the slandered.:rasta:

[growmanchw]

Yes for sure irydyum, as i watched them hook up a cover over my front door of my house, to see if the house was too insulated. I never thought a home could be ''too'' insulated, but i guess that there needs to be a balance of air flow through your house to keep harmful air thats not good to breath out of the home. Of course there is a balance which needs to be met so to keep out the cold, but allow harmful elements in the environment to escape is the slandered.:rasta:

i think if you have ventilation/a/c outlets in your house i would set the armoire near it with the intake fan as close to the outlet as possible then you have the fresh cool air being drawn straight in this will force the hhot humid air out thru you extraction fan hope ive helped a bit