PappaBear
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Thanks! I have one now that is 20x16x30, its fantastic.
PappaBear's DIY Poly-Wood Cabin
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shishkaboy
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+ rep to papabear i just made two tents 1 3x3x3 and 1 3x6x8. I just need to figure out how to deal with fresh air and smell. I was thinking about keeping it sealed up as much as i can and adding some homemade co2 diy. What do u think?
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PappaBear
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Beautiful shiskaboy,
To vent use the same method fr any other tent. Use inline fan, duct line booster, squirrel cage fan, what have you. Now take a piece of cardboard, measure the inner diameter of the duct and cut out for your model cut. Place your die in the spot you want a whole. Take in to consideration, you built this baby from wood, if you take another support stud than that would be enough to hold the weight of an inline fan and filter.
I went to the hardware store yesterday for the filter and one of the items is discontinued, I hear walmart has what is needed and I will find out today. If co2 is what you desire than I can show you a very crude method.
Disclaimer: Do not just mix your ingredients, set and forget. Co2 levels need to be monitored, never leave a DIY Co2 generator running in your environment 30 min before sleep and 30 min after they wake up.
You need:
-plastic or glass jug/bottle.
-filtered low iron water is best
-sugar (brown sugar is my preference)
-molasses (optional has iron though)
-active dry yeast
-tubing
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I place a small hole in the cap of your jug you want a extra tight fit between the tube and cap. Seal if necessary. Leave a half to whole inch of line feeding to the inside of the container with a 45 degree cut to puncture air bubbles. Using room temperature/warm water, fill your container about half way adding about a cup of sugar per two cups of water. Now adding about a teaspoon of molasses per cup of sugar. If you water was on the hot side when you started than give the mix time to cool. Add about a package of the yeast per 2 quarts. Agitate your solution and let it sit. Keep the bottle lover than the distribution point. Co2is heavier than air so let it fall on your plants or attach to a fan. A fried of mine started putting a chor-boy in his line at the 45 degree cut to chop bubbles and break up the gasses(it gets pretty gross sometimes.
To check how hard the Co2is producing set the spout of the hose in a cup of water.. If you have bubbles, you have Co2. This is basic hooch brewing. Cajun creations are only to be trusted as a visual model and serve as a what works for me and a wide group of people. Use at your own risk, if your plant start to wilt than reduce or stop Co2 immediately and monitor your applications better. The stuff will bubble pretty good sometimes so you should never fill a bottle more than half way of mix. If it does foam up, it will die down.
PappaBear
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Also i really suggest the white and black poly. That black soaks a lot of light.
Owning a reservoir is important even as a stand alone unit. Also keeping it oxygenated and at the right temp helps.
To me having filter fresh and PH, oxygenated water for mixing up nutes, preparing clones, brewing hooch (DIY Co2), and flushes is necessary for an optimal grow for any size.
One trip to the hardware store for a pour spout and a couple o-rings. Any size bucket or storage bin drill a hole add your spout and your good to go.
shishkaboy
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yeah i know i gotta put up the rest of the mylar in the flowering space i was really tired last night but i should finish it up today
shishkaboy
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now im all done with the mylar. i have an idea for the smell control. i saw a diy thread for a homemade carbon scrubber using a 5 gal bucket. If i connect it to my fan and set the bucket in the tent and have the exhaust on the outside of the tent. i will kill 2 birds with 1 stone. before i go buying anything i would like some feedback on this plan. what do u all think?
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PappaBear
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The bucket looks like it could work.. I didnt get time to shop today, I guess I can explain the honey pot.
-You get bucket with lid (size bucket depend on room size)
-Small wire mesh trash can or pencil cup (at walmart, size depends on size bucket)
-4 bolts, wing nuts, and washers
-silicone
-appropriate size flange for bucket and ducting.
-activated carbon
-prefilter(i bought a huge one from big lots)
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For the purposes of instructions you are using a 2 gallon bucket with lid, 4" duct and flange and medium sized pencil cup to small tabble top trash can. Drill out a 4" hole through the bottom center, now drill four holes for your bolts in a cross pattern. Put your mesh can in upside down in bucket (some have a mesh bottom some have sheet metal) Bolt down using the washers as centering braces and tighten wing nut. Make sure there is about an inch or so between the bottom of basket and lid. Take the bucket and cut a circle out of the pre filter. Place in bucket on top the carbon making for a tight fit. Now you can take your lid and drill as many holes as you can neatly spaced.
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Now you have a carbon filter with a carry handle! Very easy to hang, hook a duct booster and its a stand alone unit. You might also need to cut a prefilter for the other end depending on what side of the filter your sucking from.
-You get bucket with lid (size bucket depend on room size)
-Small wire mesh trash can or pencil cup (at walmart, size depends on size bucket)
-4 bolts, wing nuts, and washers
-silicone
-appropriate size flange for bucket and ducting.
-activated carbon
-prefilter(i bought a huge one from big lots)
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For the purposes of instructions you are using a 2 gallon bucket with lid, 4" duct and flange and medium sized pencil cup to small tabble top trash can. Drill out a 4" hole through the bottom center, now drill four holes for your bolts in a cross pattern. Put your mesh can in upside down in bucket (some have a mesh bottom some have sheet metal) Bolt down using the washers as centering braces and tighten wing nut. Make sure there is about an inch or so between the bottom of basket and lid. Take the bucket and cut a circle out of the pre filter. Place in bucket on top the carbon making for a tight fit. Now you can take your lid and drill as many holes as you can neatly spaced.
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Now you have a carbon filter with a carry handle! Very easy to hang, hook a duct booster and its a stand alone unit. You might also need to cut a prefilter for the other end depending on what side of the filter your sucking from.
PurpleRhinoceros
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I can't believe nobody was paying attention to this at first, then it got a STICKY!! Congrats papa bear. Thanks again for sharing the frame job. Mad genius
PappaBear
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Thanks buddy, I try to help folks save money with reliable construction.
PurpleRhinoceros
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Take a look at my carbon scrubber and let me know what you think, please.
https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/388044-unofficial-dry-vac-carbon-filter.html
PappaBear, let me know what you think too about my Carbon Filter. I'm crossing fingers I can get lucky and score a sticky.
PurpleRhinoceros
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I'm taking your suggestion PappaBear, and going to spruce it up with some sturdier mesh fo sho. Thank you.
PurpleRhinoceros
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Pre-filter you say?
Well, I added the aluminum screen and have to admit I like it a lot more. Thanks for the push. Now I just have all this leftover aluminum screen without purpose. The only thing I've thought of so far is to cut out square foot sheets and give them away on RIU to anyone who wants to pay the shipping. Because, I seriously can't think of another use for it. My porch screens are black, so I won't need it to fix any unexpected tears.
-purplerhino
P.S. Shoot me your ideas for a pre-filter.
Well, I added the aluminum screen and have to admit I like it a lot more. Thanks for the push. Now I just have all this leftover aluminum screen without purpose. The only thing I've thought of so far is to cut out square foot sheets and give them away on RIU to anyone who wants to pay the shipping. Because, I seriously can't think of another use for it. My porch screens are black, so I won't need it to fix any unexpected tears.
-purplerhino
P.S. Shoot me your ideas for a pre-filter.
PappaBear
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Im glad to hear.. they make replacement pre-filters and they are for sale pretty much anywhere they sell air filters. I got mine for $3 on clearence and it slide clean over a 5 gallon bucket. The pre-filter protects your carbon and snags the bigger particles.
PurpleRhinoceros
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I see, gotcha. I want to protect my carbon. Thanks bear.
-rhino
-rhino