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Re: My First RDWC Organic Indoor Tent Grow - LED Lights - Pineapple Express & Money B
Hey Guage Steel, thanks for tagging along. My problem with temps at the moment is due to the location of my tent. It's in my small walk in closet temporarily while the room both of my tents will finally be in is in remodel mode. I should be able to move this tent out of the closet and into its final spot in about a week. Then I won't have as much of an issue. I am going to wrap all my bucket today with an insulated reflective material and I am sure that will help too. My tent was running right at 80 until yesterday when the outdoor temp got above 70....then it started to climb above 85 to 87, and my water temp got up to 77 from 72. With the tent being in that small walk in closet, the vent fan was pulling hot air out into the closet and raising the room temp and the tent temp. I moved the fan and carbon filter outside the closet and that helped a little bit too. I will move that 1 Pineapple Express out of the GH waterfarm bucket when I set up my second tent. That was just a temporary move to get all 6 of my plants going. I'm kinda impatient... :-D . Ultimately, I will have 2 tents with 3 plants each (3 PE and 3 Money Bush) plus the controller buckets, but I am also going to try to move the controller buckets outside the tents when I make that move as well. I'm going to have to do a bit of a test on that as the holes in the tent are not at ground level, so worried that the pump / drain may be a problem with the hoses going through a hole that is a foot off the ground. My pump is supposed to be able to handle a 7 foot rise, but the drain is what I am worried about on that. Will test first, and if no problem, the controllers will be outside the tents for sure. I just wish I could have found a tent with at least one hole at ground level. All this should also help keep the water temp down. I have a 6 inch fan in there, it's just not in the pictures. After I have both tents up I will have more space in each tent and will add an extra fan if needed... I got my seeds from Herbies in the UK. I soaked them for about a half a day and put them in rapid rooters. I had 100% germination within a few days and am very happy about that. It seems like a lot of folks lose some at each germination so I guess I am just lucky there....
Hey Guage Steel, thanks for tagging along. My problem with temps at the moment is due to the location of my tent. It's in my small walk in closet temporarily while the room both of my tents will finally be in is in remodel mode. I should be able to move this tent out of the closet and into its final spot in about a week. Then I won't have as much of an issue. I am going to wrap all my bucket today with an insulated reflective material and I am sure that will help too. My tent was running right at 80 until yesterday when the outdoor temp got above 70....then it started to climb above 85 to 87, and my water temp got up to 77 from 72. With the tent being in that small walk in closet, the vent fan was pulling hot air out into the closet and raising the room temp and the tent temp. I moved the fan and carbon filter outside the closet and that helped a little bit too. I will move that 1 Pineapple Express out of the GH waterfarm bucket when I set up my second tent. That was just a temporary move to get all 6 of my plants going. I'm kinda impatient... :-D . Ultimately, I will have 2 tents with 3 plants each (3 PE and 3 Money Bush) plus the controller buckets, but I am also going to try to move the controller buckets outside the tents when I make that move as well. I'm going to have to do a bit of a test on that as the holes in the tent are not at ground level, so worried that the pump / drain may be a problem with the hoses going through a hole that is a foot off the ground. My pump is supposed to be able to handle a 7 foot rise, but the drain is what I am worried about on that. Will test first, and if no problem, the controllers will be outside the tents for sure. I just wish I could have found a tent with at least one hole at ground level. All this should also help keep the water temp down. I have a 6 inch fan in there, it's just not in the pictures. After I have both tents up I will have more space in each tent and will add an extra fan if needed... I got my seeds from Herbies in the UK. I soaked them for about a half a day and put them in rapid rooters. I had 100% germination within a few days and am very happy about that. It seems like a lot of folks lose some at each germination so I guess I am just lucky there....
