Grow Box Smell Control

Im using a cardboard box w a fishtank filter on the back of my grow cabinet out take. It works ok but I need to change it often. But if I had the dough Id get the real nice inline carbon activated filter ohhhhhhh lol ;)
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Advocate420 said:
Lol laughed my way in here. I have had great luck with inline filters. You can blow air into them and mount outside the grow space too I have seen.


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I'm trying to laugh. But I'm frustrated trying to convince him we need something more substantial than his sock plan. .

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There are huge differences in the effects of the methods you each prefer. Your way, the fan and charcoal, pulls ALL the air out of the box and cleans ALL the air that is leaving the box. The fan also forces ALL the air through the charcoal and then right out of the grow box.
This process allows room for outside clean-smelling air to be pulled in to replace the air that is leaving the box.

What your partner is suggesting for odour control will have virtually zero effect on the the smelly air in the box. The sock filled with chracoal and hung on the wall would have no physical way to interact with air; there's nothing forcing the air to integrate with the charcoal so it cannot get cleaned by it. The charcoal won't work like a Glade plug-in air freshener. The grow box air will remain as smelly and that smelly air will not be going anywhere except, as it passively leaks out at a steady rate to the rooms, spaces, and people around your grow room.
 
FlowerNose said:
I want an inline activated carbon filter on the exhaust fan.

My husband wants a sock nailed to the wall full of activated charcoal.

Thoughts? Suggestions?



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My Old Lady would either tell me to put a sock in it or tell me where to put the sock...but she kind of a smart alec. Depends if a little smell is fine or not, if you can afford it I would think an inline one would maybe do more. I'm running my boxes thru the carbon prefilter stuff that comes in a sheet for air purifiers but holes size of computer fans and when it was in the shed the smell wasn't so bad but in the house got me in the doghouse ;) :rofl::rofl:
 
FlowerNose said:
He told me to go on the grow box and see what he did.

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More details of my setup are on my journal. I still want something more significant that this old sock... We'll get there. :)

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Are those fans blowing at or away from the plant?

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Jurf said:
Hey flowernose. Sorry if this is kinda rude, but I wanna ask, will a 4 inch inline extractor be strong enough to deal with the odor in my 100x100x180cm tent? God I hope so...
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Wish I knew! Haha. Questions aren't rude, It's what we're here for! My husband's the engineer, though. He's doing all the tech and designing the space for the grow. I'm providing love, general YouTube education and plant interaction. I'll ask him.

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FlowerNose said:
We finally did get the odor down though. We used the sock with activated carbon, but put it on the back of a fan in the cab. There's also a foam carbon filter panel we've folded up and put under the exhaust fan, forgot to take a pic of the brand. Kind of ghetto rigged, but we're figuring it out. :)

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Hi flower nose don't mean to be rude but I have a question to ask regaRding carbon filters. Usually in which stage do you switch your carbon filter on? :) first grow


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Blowing trees said:
Hi flower nose don't mean to be rude but I have a question to ask regaRding carbon filters. Usually in which stage do you switch your carbon filter on? :) first grow


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Hi, Blowing trees. Questions aren't rude! :) It was about 3 weeks into veg when I started noticing a "green" aroma in the room with my stealth cab. I liked it and we had no visitors so we left it for a while. Start using the filters whenever you notice smells. :)

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FlowerNose said:
Hi, Blowing trees. Questions aren't rude! :) It was about 3 weeks into veg when I started noticing a "green" aroma in the room with my stealth cab. I liked it and we had no visitors so we left it for a while. Start using the filters whenever you notice smells. :)

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Thank you flower nose quick reply and goodluck with your grow :)


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FlowerNose said:
Wish I knew! Haha. Questions aren't rude, It's what we're here for! My husband's the engineer, though. He's doing all the tech and designing the space for the grow. I'm providing love, general YouTube education and plant interaction. I'll ask him.

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Guess ill just hsve to wait and see haha. I guess every fan must be a little different too. So i suppose ill just have to see once it gets here and check the low down. Nice filter system btw! Very interesting. Ill admit i underestimated sock power! Haha

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