JonTheBaptist
Active Member
Hi all, and thanks for answering my germination question yesterday.
I've just received my thermometer today, so I can go ahead and start my grow (didn't want to jump the gun) but I'm having a problem I had the last time I tried a grow in a PC case: humidity doesn't seem to want to climb past 30%, in fact it's down to 15% right now, and I know this is basically a death sentence for my plants.
I have a 5'3 tall tent (feet with inches always makes the size more comprehensible for me) , 63 x 32 x 32, with a 600 watt cool tube Apollo Horticulture digital/switchable ballast. I also have a 6 inch 240 cfm fan, but it is so damn loud I can barely hear anything... it sounds like a jet. Though powerful, I just can't use it. I have about 5 vents here for fans, so I'd like to know if I could just put a few small computer fans to do the trick. The humidity % is currently without the fan running since it's just not possible to have it running right now. In fact, as you can see, the fan is pretty big... it won't evenly fit in the air duct but leans either inside or outside.
1.) Can I put a small humidifier inside my tent? Will putting a humidifier in the room I'm growing in (not that big) affect the humidity inside the tent?
2.) Is the light to close to the sides of my tent? I don't want to melt it and breathe any toxic chemicals.
3.) Can anyone tell me what those omega-shaped metal strips are for? None of my equipment came with instructions so I just winged it, and so far so good, but I'm not sure what to do with them. There are two (though only one is pictured).
And last but not least, what do you think of my setup? Would you add/change anything? I'm looking for opinions as well. Thanks in advance to everyone I wouldn't know what to do without my online greenthumbs
I've just received my thermometer today, so I can go ahead and start my grow (didn't want to jump the gun) but I'm having a problem I had the last time I tried a grow in a PC case: humidity doesn't seem to want to climb past 30%, in fact it's down to 15% right now, and I know this is basically a death sentence for my plants.
I have a 5'3 tall tent (feet with inches always makes the size more comprehensible for me) , 63 x 32 x 32, with a 600 watt cool tube Apollo Horticulture digital/switchable ballast. I also have a 6 inch 240 cfm fan, but it is so damn loud I can barely hear anything... it sounds like a jet. Though powerful, I just can't use it. I have about 5 vents here for fans, so I'd like to know if I could just put a few small computer fans to do the trick. The humidity % is currently without the fan running since it's just not possible to have it running right now. In fact, as you can see, the fan is pretty big... it won't evenly fit in the air duct but leans either inside or outside.
1.) Can I put a small humidifier inside my tent? Will putting a humidifier in the room I'm growing in (not that big) affect the humidity inside the tent?
2.) Is the light to close to the sides of my tent? I don't want to melt it and breathe any toxic chemicals.
3.) Can anyone tell me what those omega-shaped metal strips are for? None of my equipment came with instructions so I just winged it, and so far so good, but I'm not sure what to do with them. There are two (though only one is pictured).
And last but not least, what do you think of my setup? Would you add/change anything? I'm looking for opinions as well. Thanks in advance to everyone I wouldn't know what to do without my online greenthumbs
