Not A Game
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A sane manI have been EXACTLY where you are now. Stores don't carry even a simple fucking box fan in the winter. As a matter of fact if my box fan dies in my grow room I'll be up shit creek.
Don't listen to the guy about the thermometer thing, he's just a wee bit, I dunno, wrong. Not only do I keep a thermometer telling me the ambient temperature in the room, I have a chain that hangs down from my light and 18" down that chain hangs....another thermometer. This one is telling me the temperature 18" from my light which is as useful if not more useful than the ambient temperature. I have done this for years and don't believe it has ever given me false readings. Thermometers don't give "false" readings because they are under a light, I don't even know where the logic COULD be in that. I try to keep the temperature under my light at canopy height between 82 and 86 degrees.
This thermometer basically sets my canopy height. I'm using a 1000w light, and flower at night so that the cool night air that I intake can cool my light and grow room down. Some nights it's a little warmer so I will either dim the ballast and lower the light or I raise the light a little and move my canopy closer to 24". When the night temps get REALLY cold I do the opposite, but it is all based on the info from the thermometer hanging under my light. Having that information has allowed me to maximize my light usage over the years.
You will need to get a 400w light much closer to 12" if you want useful buds when it's all said and done. I think that the real problem you are facing is that you a need an inline fan and a carbon filter. You'll need these items to flower successfully anyway and it's the proper way to vent your grow space. If you have an air cooled light hood it would help too, but on a 400w it's not really necessary.
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Anyway, thank you for the insight
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BTW, I shall upload pics once a week (my only source of internet at the moment is my phone which is slow as fuck).
Unless of course I need to to diagnose any unforeseen problems.