everyone can smell it!!

Nova_Grower

Nova_Grower

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hey,my parent r really getting pissed about the smell of my plants ,i have an 8 site flood and drain system and my exaust fan blows rite into the back yard and up the road,can anyone post some ideas on how to get ride of smell from past expreince,that is cheap but effective,thanks .
 
mogie

mogie

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This is thanks to Video:

(Inspired by4free)
....Do you know the Muffin fan
...the muffin fan
.... the muffin fan.

Actually, the whole setup cost about $30, and that is including the ONA.
You will need:
1. A five gallon bucket
2. A "muffin" fan, or a round fan of some sort that has the motor built into the compact frame of the fan.
3. A drill
4. A one pound container of Soil Moist, which is a water absorbing crystal. You can find it at almost all nurseries and grow shops.
5. ONA, or Odor Neutralizing Agent. YOu can get it at most grow shops or "baby" shops for new mommies.
6. A 5 gallong bucket lid, which may be optional.

(For what it's worth, another twist on this machine is I recently heard that pinesol & water in the bucket works good too.)



Get yourself a muffin fan, or a Durex brand or Holmes brand circular fan with base. They are very common at Wal-Mart and can usually be bought for less than $8 US. The reason you should get this brand of fan is because after you have removed the base, it fits perfectly into a five gallon bucket.


Step 2.
Using a flat screwdrive, pry of the nubs on the base and remove the screws.


Step 3.
Remove the fan from the base. Keep all the parts in case you might want the fan again someday.


Step 4.
Place the fan into the five gallon bucket, frontside up. If you boght the holmes brand fan pictures here it will fit VERY snugly. You don't even have to secure it in place.
(If it is smaller than the opening, then cut a hole, smaller than the diameter of the fan, into the bucket lid. Use some floral wire and secure the fan to the lid so that you can place the lid onto the bucket.)


Step 5.
Drill about 8 or 10 holes around the bucket.


Step 6.
Remove the fan/lid and put about 9 cups of water into the bucket. Then put about 1 cup of the ONA into the bucket and mix it up. Be careful, it can smell pretty strong at first.


Step 7.
Put about a cup or two of the soil moist into the bucket. Make sure that all of the liqued is absorbed. You don't have to use alot! The crystals expand to about 50 times their size.


Step 8.
Set the fan on the lowest setting and put it back on the bucket. Plug it in and put it somewhere in the corner of your grow room. I don't actually have mine in the closet itself...


You will notice a difference in about 5 minutes!
If you have a big grow room, I'd imagine you just use a bit more ONA or put the fan on a higher setting. Not only that, but ONA has a pleasant smell all by itself. It just smells *clean*, which is the best way to describe it.

The great thing is that the Soil Moist is re-useable. Once it dries out, mix up some more water/ona and pour it right in.

I'd say that that a cup of ONA, with the other parts water, lasts about 4 weeks or so.

I've been using mine now for a long time, and its perfect. When ppl come over, they always comment that our place smells "clean."
Using the soilmoist crystals REALLY makes the ONA last longer.

You may need to tweak it for your own grow room, but that's the basic design. Thanks!

 
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johnb93

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look up how to make an ozone generator. OZONE IS HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND COULD BE HARMFUL TO PLANT LIFE. it will react w/ the compounds that smell like weed and neutralize them. the ozone is not toxic after it has reacted because it isnt ozone any more. maybe vent the room right b4 u go in. HOME MAD OZONE GENERATORS MAY BE A FIRE HAZARD. they seem fairly simple.
 
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marcnh

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I'm excited about a fan I bought at wal mart today. It's 4 inches in diameter, and all metal. This fan is only 6 dollars, and can easily be made into a home-made tube style filter using some 4 inch tubing and filling it with some type of activated carbon (pellets, rolled up sheet of activated carbon). There are some posts around all the marijuana forums, easy to find. Just wanted to spread the news since the only small 120v fan I could find was about ten times the price. Odviously, this is only good for a small closet grow.
 
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fdd2blk

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wal marts fan section is this place to be right now. i went in the other day and bought a few. MANY options to chose from. all very reasonably priced.
 
Soda Pop

Soda Pop

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marcnh said:
I'm excited about a fan I bought at wal mart today. It's 4 inches in diameter, and all metal. This fan is only 6 dollars, and can easily be made into a home-made tube style filter using some 4 inch tubing and filling it with some type of activated carbon (pellets, rolled up sheet of activated carbon). There are some posts around all the marijuana forums, easy to find. Just wanted to spread the news since the only small 120v fan I could find was about ten times the price. Odviously, this is only good for a small closet grow.
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I bought 2 of those suckers about a week ago. Freakin' score. I love wally world.
 
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marcnh

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Hell yeah man. I just bought some cfl's there. Ok I'm a geek and I did the math. I got 941 lumens per dollar at wal fart. I've been drooling over these 105 watt e27 base cfl's online, they were 38 bucks which works out to only 172 lumens per dollar. I'm happy. I'm just starting seeds to plant outside so its cool.
 
ez_growin

ez_growin

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I picked up a Frebreeze air cleaner that uses a charcoal filter and it works great, I have a small cabinet with 2 in flower and the smell of skunk (nice) is strong, I have the filter placed in the cabinet and I used a piece of charcoal filter and placed it over the exahust fan, to my amazement no more smell this little filter really works (for my area anyway) cost was 14.00 and the filters are good for 4 months with replacements costing 4.99 a small price to pay for odor control I thought.
 
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marcnh

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NO GROW - yeah they move a good amount of air for their size, and especially the price, but not that quiet. If you need a quiet fan, I would buy a computer fan and splice the wires to any 12 v dc power supply like to a cell phone/battery recharger ect that puts out near the same voltage as the fan requires. I just looked on ebay and they have computer fans for 5 bucks.
 
420passion

420passion

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well if you don't live in Washington state they will have a few options at your local grow shop. I have been wanting to rant about this so coming across this thread must have been meant to be lol. In Washington state it is now illigal for grow shops to carry can filters ona gel and so on. there is some other stuff to. i know there's other options like internet orders and its fairly easy to make your own but man! could go into whole political thing here but its probably not appropriate. I think Ive said enough to suffice this thread...oh man just had a thought...i hope its not a federal law...
 
tryingtogrow89

tryingtogrow89

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420passion said:
well if you don't live in Washington state they will have a few options at your local grow shop. I have been wanting to rant about this so coming across this thread must have been meant to be lol. In Washington state it is now illigal for grow shops to carry can filters ona gel and so on. there is some other stuff to. i know there's other options like internet orders and its fairly easy to make your own but man! could go into whole political thing here but its probably not appropriate. I think Ive said enough to suffice this thread...oh man just had a thought...i hope its not a federal law...
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what the hell are you talking about man? that statement just simply is not true....
 
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