questions/advice

[Heads4]

5 girls in a 4x4x7 foot area.
1000W HPS
growing in soil with an oscillating fan on them
using shultz bloom plus.....
Plants all look healthy though they are stretching pretty high for my room since I need 3 ft. of light clearance with a 1000w
I've had to bend 2 of them.
I think the tempatures and humidity are getting too high in the room.....
There is no exhaust fan and I can only vent the room by opening door once a day.....
What can i do to lower temps.????
What can I do about stretching??

Heads4 Reviewed by Heads4 on 08-24-2005. questions/advice 5 girls in a 4x4x7 foot area. 1000W HPS growing in soil with an oscillating fan on them using shultz bloom plus..... Plants all look healthy though they are stretching pretty high for my room since I need 3 ft. of light clearance with a 1000w I've had to bend 2 of them. I think the tempatures and humidity are getting too high in the room..... There is no exhaust fan and I can only vent the room by opening door once a day..... What can i do to lower temps.???? What can I do about Rating: 5

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at about 21 days of 12/12 only 1 plant is really starting to flower hardcore...

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the one on the left is the one that is flowering the best...

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Zandor??? HARDDON????

[latewood]

you need your light closer to them to stop the stretching...you have a heat problem...
with 1000w light you are going to have to vent somehow or use smaller lights and that sucks...I don't think you can have enough fans to bring temps down with that light...

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Thanks latewood
I think im going to install an exhaust fan. Would it be okay to have it run 15 mins. on....15 mins. off...and so forth. This would bring in more fresh co2 and better my plants even more with temps being down and co2 levels being up.... My weekend project is set then. Exhaust fan to clear that hot steamy air...yeah baby..

[HARDDON]

You can help yourself immediately here....to some degree...

Your fan is positioned in such a manner that it is going to suck in hot and blow hot air out the door. You are not getting IN any fresh air.

You need to add a fan and have it blow INTO the room at a level lower that the one you have blowing OUT of the room.

That will create immediate improvements in air flow.

So you need two fans.

One low in...one higher out. That might help keep a buffer for the top layer of heat until you can exhaust out of the room.

Remember though, to exhaust OUT you must also exhaust IN.

HAPPY EXHAUSTING

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Harddon
thanks much
I have a smaller fan that I will turn on blowing into the room at a lower level....i can see how this might work...thank you very much..
the only thing is that the room is enclosed for most of the day...will the smaller fan by the door still help my cause???

[HARDDON]

Unfortunately it will not address or solve the issue.

It may provide temporary releif, but, without air IN and air OUT there can be no escaping the heat build up. The only thing you can do is just keep the air moving so much with second fan that nothing will burn or frizzle the plant tips.

[Heads4]

If lighted temps. were in the 90's, how much would that hurt my bud production or overall yeild???