Silent and affordable is going to be a bit of a contradiction on the vent fan. Pretty much every brand charges a premium for the plastic body/reduced noise models. If that's what you're going for you're going to have to be comfortable with the premium.
I personally have a vivosun plastic...
Here is the newest round. All at varying ages because I had one hell of a time getting my Mephisto beans to germinate. Out of the 8 that I had only 2 of them properly germinated. One other did technically pop but then it had deformed first leaves and took a full week to pop a deformed second set...
Here they are almost a couple of weeks into flower. The chronic x nl in the back is still stretching. I'm probably going to have to make a second platform for the two in the front; I already raised them up about 3 inches. I'm definitely glad I took the runt out- these 3 have filled the scrog in...
I may try to pick up some more Dinafems at some point. I actually grew some White Widow XXLs and am still smoking on that. They have some good genetics for sure
I have been having a hell of a time germinating some Mephisto seeds I have. Out of 7 I've started germinating only 2 popped and one of those has a gimpy set of first leaves and I'm not sure it's going to grow a second set. After a few attempts to reach out to them they finally came back with the...
Got the scrog in. I think it was definitely a good idea to let the chronic spread out rather than having the runt take up that space. Going to flip to flower tomorrow, just need to reprogram the timer tonight