to each his own sir. Keep doing what your doing because those results speak for themselves.
3 plants in a 2.3 x 2.3 grow tent
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I have another question for everyone watching this thread. For ventilation should I open the bottom vent for passive air intake along with my exhaust fan and 2 oscillating fans or should i leave the tent completely sealed and only the exhaust fan and oscillating fans running up until the Veg phase? right now they are seedlings 6 days old from germ. If i open the vent it will decrease the humidity inside the tent.
Green Refuge
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If you can keep humidity and temps where they need to be with the vent open I'd leave it open. My tent I have to keep it closed up otherwise humidity drops below 20%.
ya see that is exactly what I am afraid of, and my residence is not really that well insulated. I did hear from other sources that when you open the tent to tend to your plants it should provide them with plenty of c02 and that it should be fine to keep it sealed. Does keeping your tent sealed affect your overall harvest results and potency?
Kyzersozay
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Don't start over thinking all this stuff, your seedling are 5 days old aslong as you maintain 40-50% rh is optimal, but don't worry.. mt tent right now is 25-30% because its winter time and just dryer...and plant are fine they don't care....dont worry about your vent and stuff at this point..theyre to young...but once they are bigger I leave all my vents shut and keep my inline high enough to keep negative pressure..I read some where that they enjoy that not sure why
i thought 40-50% is optimal for flowering and 70-80% is good for seedlings and 60-70% is good for veg. basically start high then decrease it by 10-20% at every stage of growth. that is what I read on articles about growing, but reading articles and actually doing are 2 totally different things so i take everything with a grain of salt. Yea its winter here too but as of right now i keep my tent sealed and run a humidifier and a small space heater to control RH and temp. and the T4 Cloudline auto turns on when the humidity reaches a certain point. the reason i ask about the vents is because ive also read that cannabis needs a constant exchange of air to thrive and grow properly and to prevent certain diseases. Ive also read about neg. pressure being good for the plants but i also read that too much is bad for them as well.
Kyzersozay
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The only thing I care about when it comes to humidity..is drying and curing..that has to be 60%rh...and more tou can get mold and less it drys to fast...but as for the growing...and I'm betting...your dipping intonyour tent multiple times a day...I do...i love looking at my girls ..mybwife gets mad says I spend more time with them...thats why I don't care about optimal in this sense because its always fluctuating..look at it like driving..once you got your license you followed everything to a T..and were exact...you don't do that now..and still hit your destination..its like growing..once you understand the basics...find what works best for you, because even different strains want different things some flourish in higher tropical humidity..and some do better in hot dry environment..
oh trust me I know. I just want to do everything by the book and right the first time with minimal screw ups and then the next time i will experiment. I took driving the same way i was good at first followed all the rules and now take the rules as guidelines lol. I dip into my tent only to tend to my girls when i need to. other than that maybe once a day i will peek inside using the viewing window. My wife wants me to grow because it benefits both of us in the long run and she loves watching them grow. She peeks more than i do lol! and i know different strains have different needs. i'm growing GDP and 2 pineapple express and i have read that they require slightly different temps and RH but i am solving that by finding a nice middle between the 2 so they can both thrive efficiently. like i said i am a new grower but i am also doing tons of research and soaking up as much knowledge as i can from multiple different sources to make sure i can get the most yield and the highest potency for the amount of work and money i put into it.
Kyzersozay
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Your lucky, when started growing there wasn't web pages to get all the info you can..I considered a great day if the gas station had a copy of high times, so I had to learn by trail and error, qe even though they mad hash by putting it in a blender then pressing into a block..ya that wasn't good, point is its ok to mistakes that is gonna happen,I find people who start trying to hit home runs right off get discouraged when it doesn't happen RH won't make or break you...proper soil..proper light and distance...good feed and water schedule...master that..and you'll be hitting home runs all day...and if it helps after all this time...im still trying to dial in my dry and cure..