Originally Posted by newgrowerguys

Originally Posted by newgrowerguys

27 views and still no help ?? come on guys please.........

Originally Posted by hobbiest99

Many of your questions can be answered in some basic research of the grow journals and guides, none the less I will try to give you a few answers from my own knowledge.

Most weed is stinky once you enter flowering.... there are many strains that have slightly different/less smell, but it's going to smell like weed. Because of your limited space it will be hard to squeeze a carbon filter in there, but if you want positive smell reduction to almost none, you need to use carbon/activated charcoal filters. There are some tutorials online to make them yourself, but I'm sure they don't work as good as store bought and they are much less effort (Machine packed = ... self packing = BIG BLACK MESS).

I'm a little confused on what you mean by:
"i will be using a 250w 8u cfl i have a reflector that came with it and a 6400k & 2700k and 2 125w red and blue for left and right side of my cab"

Are you saying that you will be have both the flowering bulb (Red@2700k) and the vegging bulb (Blue@ 6400k)in the same chamber running at the same time?

As for venting... it is important to have negative pressure in the box to prevent smell from leaking out. That means your fans should be sucking air out of the box through the carbon filter, as opposed to pushing air in the box, as the stinky air can leak out of cracks, and the like. With the cfls having built in ballasts they do produce some heat. As a general guide I would say 3-5 air changes of the chamber per minute would be adequate. Therefore your chamber of 6.468cuft needs a fan that had a cfm rating of 33 or more. Personally I would go more... around 100 would be cool. Fan outtake should be where heat collects (the top of the chamber), and intakes should be cut at the bottom for maximum air flow over plants. A fan inside the chamber is also a good idea to strenghten the stalks and distribute air evenly.



No offense intended, but you need to do some basic research before throwing some seeds in the soil/medium. A great beginners book is "marijuana Horticulture - The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Growers Bible BY - Jorge Cervantes" I had been interested in growing for years. It wasn't until after I had got some books that brought all the concepts together that I understood much of the basics. That being said my first ever grow I did with only online guides/forums (got one week into flowering, had troubles with the wife, got thrown out, babies died).

Good luck to you!