Odor control help please

I have a 2.6x1.5x2.6 tent which has a plant that vegged for 5 weeks. It is now in its second week of flowering starting today. My problem with smell began in the 4th week of veg. At first I dealt with it but now its getting even stronger to where its able to be smelled halfway down my steps. To tell how far that is I have 1 plant in this tent in a room in my attic. This room has a door that I close and then put a cloth at the base to help hold airflow in so it doesnt go into hall as much. Outside this door starts the steps which halfway down is about 10 standard size steps. If it gets any worse it will be down the next set of 10 steps and out the next door into where i cant have it haha.

So for my solution I have been looking at different methods for a diy carbon scrubber type deal. My problem is the fan I got which is the one that fits my tent exhaust holes is a 80 cfm inline. So what im wondering is what would be a good setup for this fan to effectively get rid of some or most of the smell?

What I did for now as I wanted to see how it worked when the system turns back on in the morning is I have the fans set to exhaust from the tent. I put a piece of filter from home depot on the outer part of inline fan(outside the tent. This was so it would allow airflow and now suck any carbon back into the fan. The problem with this is just this thin piece of filter blocks a lot and i mean alot of air flow so I had to cut a hole in the center to allow a bit more airflow through, Then what I did was bought a bathroom vent piece at home depot which is jsut a piece of venting with a cap on the end that has vent slits so the air vents out as much as possible. Inside this piece i just poured a bit of active carbon so the air travels over it hopefully eliminating a decent amount of odour.

So below willbe an image of final product. Like I said it may or may not work iv never done this before so ill know tomorrow. I would really like to hear what others do with this size of fan to keep the smell away and airflow nicely flowing as im assumnig if I cant feel the air coming out the final venting piece that my system is not working and not filtering the smell correct? Thanks to all that help.

I actually have the system up and running on the tent now and although the airflow goes through the active carbon I feel that sitting in this room I can smell more and more of the smell. Almost as if its just exhausting the smell and no odour is beeing removed.

you may need a more powerful fan. if you dont have the funds for a real vortex fan, check the link in my sig. it illustrates my setup and how i rigged odor control together using only a household box fan and 4 inch dryer duct. check it out

I see the inductor box from home depot. Is that what you are using?

buy a couple jars of ona gel, they work real well with eliminating odor.

get a real filter.....forget your problems. They cost like 100$ for a small one I've been down the road you are on.....it just gets stinkier and stinkier.
good luck

Thanks for replies guys. Yes Dank that is from home depot that was a temp setup just to get it under control for now as this was just to air out a test run plant. That fan is going to be used jsut for some air circulation for my little tent which wont need a filter. Pure I will be getting that too I just like to have multiple things for ultimate odour control. Klone Thats what im working on now. I am looking to get a nice setup going here soon.

So heres a question for you guys. I have 2 tents setup side by side. One will be veg and 1 flower. Ill be working from clones after mother is established. What im wondering is since my clone tent is small could i use a small fan just to exhaust all the air from that tent into the bigger tent which will have an exhaust with a carbon filter on it going out the top or is that a bad idea? Below is a simple diagram of what im thinking to explain.

If you link the two tents to exhaust out the same carbon filter it should work but if you have any qualms afterwards you should look into a negative Ion generator they can be had fairly cheaply (under 100) which will more than meet your needs. It will at least eliminate the smell while you fix your air scrubber and since you are using tents it can be used when youre drying and trimming without you having to set up additional air scrubbers in the room Im sure it will be stinkier than ever at that point.negative ion generators are portable ,as long as youre near an electrical plug, so its a quick, easy and fairly economical fix. Happy growing and a successful harvest to you.

is this along the lines of what you are talking about?
http://www.amazon.com/Purifier-features-Negative-Generator-Purification/dp/B0016ZXJEC

Thats first one that popped up when searched. How do you tell what a good one is or which ones are shit. I know nothnig about these things.

If you are just veggin in the small tent...and it is small, you can probably just ona that one and keep it simple and separate. Like Klonerone said, I would just get a small filter fan combo for the flowering tent and save yourself a lot of headache. I know the Ona gel is popular, but personally I found it to be a pain in the ass. It dries out and you can reinvigorate it with a water to a certain extent. But it wears out and goes quickly. I bought the ona time released spray and put in one of those lysol time sprayers you can get at the grocery store and set it for every 18 min. It lasts over a month and seemed to work better. I wouldn't put it in the tent, but maybe not too far from it outside in the room

Alright thanks alot for the input everyone. I think Ill just go with venting everything to the flower tent and have my real filter there and use some ona gel as well.

You could very easily just vent each tent seperately into the room containing the tents and use a carbon filter/fan combo in that larger space. Just because venting out air through the carbon filter is sometimes most senseful, sometimes it is least. If you put the carbon filter on the ground outside the tents and use the fan to just blow air out of the filter... no hose no nothing just filter->fan you will be able to easily keep that room organic smell free.

yes but i think i would get more out of it if i controled the odours location by moving it all to 1 tent as the veg tent wont smell quite to bad like the flower tent. Then when that is all filtered out through the carbon filter if there is any leftover oddour i should be able to control it with other odour control techniques. Guess it will be trial and error. The reason I feel your suggestion lacks reliability is because the area that which would be needing filter then would be so much bigger and I would think that would make it harder to control.

eminent said:

is this along the lines of what you are talking about?
http://www.amazon.com/Purifier-features-Negative-Generator-Purification/dp/B0016ZXJEC

Thats first one that popped up when searched. How do you tell what a good one is or which ones are shit. I know nothnig about these things.

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That one looks like its for a car. You will want one that can handle the cubic feet of the area you want air scrubbed in. They are a simple technology so they work about the same. What it does is uses negative ions to attract positive ions (unwelcome smells) and grounds them so the smell is not in the air. It will collect like dust around the ionizer and will need to be cleaned from time to time. Using one in conjunction with the carbon filter exhaust will be the most sure way of getting all the smell out. And if you smoke weed there too it will help eliminate those smells as well. As far as knowing which ionizer you should use you will just have to research and ask people at the stores they even sell these at some wal marts.

You can also vent your ducting into a larger container, like a five gallon bucket that has a mixture of water and pinesol in it, and have the exhaust run through that, that would kill most of the smell and make it smell like fresh pinesol all the time. If it doesn't controll the smell well enough, use more pinesol and less water.

Thats a good idea! Never thought of that. Do you bubble it through the pinesol or just blow over the top of it?

I dont bubble it through, it's just the fumes your looking for and it would be a hassle to draw it through the water without burning up your fan motor or making a mess, just draw the air over top of the water to get the fumes.