Humidity

Musice13buds

Musice13buds

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How to prevent moisture on the inside of my 2x2 tent. I dont have much room around my plant in this tent. I was looking into dehumidifiers but they seem to be too big. Im 1 week into flower. Im Told to watch out for mold now. Any suggestions?
 

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If you have enough space to put a dehumidifier outside the tent it should work. I have mine placed right outside the tent and it does the job
 
Musice13buds said:
How will it work setting it up on the outside of the tent?
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It's easier to remove moisture from the air in the room outside the tent, so the air coming into the tent is already dry, vs trying to remove moisture from air inside the tent, which is constantly being exhausted and cycled out anyway.

Plus if you have a sump or utility sink nearby, you can drain water from the dehumidifier into that and not have to be emptying the dehumidifier bucket every day.
 
Your plants are creating humidity so you need to vent it out.
Any simple exhaust setup will do. EDIT: Vent outside if you can. If you cannot, then try to vent as far away from tent and intake as possible.

Pushing the air out will create negative pressure in the tent forcing it to replace that air, by pulling in air from outside the tent.
Generally this is controlled feeding a empty duct into your tent for it to pull in air unrestricted.

Because of that you need to make sure that the air around your tent is at the correct humidity that you need.

Hope this more basic full picture run down is helpful.
 
weedstoner420 said:
It's easier to remove moisture from the air in the room outside the tent, so the air coming into the tent is already dry, vs trying to remove moisture from air inside the tent, which is constantly being exhausted and cycled out anyway.

Plus if you have a sump or utility sink nearby, you can drain water from the dehumidifier into that and not have to be emptying the dehumidifier bucket every day.
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My tent is in the basement. Concrete walls and floor. And I do have a drain in the floor right near the tent.
 
Musice13buds said:
What can I do to fix this situation?
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Right before the lights go out, spray them down with some Captain Jacks, top and bottom of all leafs. Saturate the shit out of it till it's dripping all over. Verify that you do have Thrips first tho. Not that it's going to hurt anything to spray them anyways, I do it all the time when I've transplanted a new set of clones to make sure I DON'T have anything trying to invade my mother tent.
 
Musice13buds said:
My tent is in the basement. Concrete walls and floor. And I do have a drain in the floor right near the tent.
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My situation is similar. I have a dehumidifier that dries out the whole basement, and it drains into the sump pump hole so I never have to worry about emptying it.

I also exhaust back into the same room, and have no issues with smell or humidity. Air comes in an opening near the bottom of the tent and exhausts out the top through a carbon filter. I'm always leery of folks recommending to vent outside; that can cause negative pressure on your entire house and suck your furnace/boiler/hot water heater exhaust gases back down the chimney (not good!)
 
Musice13buds said:
How will it work setting it up on the outside of the tent?
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The room where my tent is placed is normally 65%+. I’ve got a larger dehumidifier, but nothing crazy, I just set it to 30% and place near my tent door and has kept humidity in tent under 50%. I do get some swings in RH usually between 30~45%, I’d rather not have the swing, but it’s at least staying low
 
weedstoner420 said:
It's easier to remove moisture from the air in the room outside the tent, so the air coming into the tent is already dry, vs trying to remove moisture from air inside the tent, which is constantly being exhausted and cycled out anyway.

Plus if you have a sump or utility sink nearby, you can drain water from the dehumidifier into that and not have to be emptying the dehumidifier bucket every day.
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Okay makes sense. Thanks
 
DoubleAtotheRON said:
Right before the lights go out, spray them down with some Captain Jacks, top and bottom of all leafs. Saturate the shit out of it till it's dripping all over. Verify that you do have Thrips first tho. Not that it's going to hurt anything to spray them anyways, I do it all the time when I've transplanted a new set of clones to make sure I DON'T have anything trying to invade my mother tent.
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Okay ill order some tonight thanks.
 
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