Setup for a 32x32x63 grow tent

Vermonter2016

Vermonter2016

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Hey there so I have this grow tent and am growing 2 auto fem gypsy widows under 2 (600) LEDs, 4" exhaust and 4" inline.. also have a humidifier and 3 regular house fans to help with the heat and humidity but we seem to have an issue with the heat being too high even with the exhaust on high and the humidity will drop even with the humidifier on.. Pleaseee help its starting to give our girls spider mites
 
GoatSoup

GoatSoup

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Get some Neem oil asap. Spider mites are the worst. How many wall watts are your lights? My "1500 Watt" LED only pulls ~225watts from the wall. only raises the temp 3-4 degrees above ambient. I'm waiting for a new "1000 Watt" light that only pulls ~140 watts.
If you are really using 1200 watts in a small space you;ll need more ventilation. Try turning off one light and see how much the temp, and light drops.
 
GvegasGrowa

GvegasGrowa

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I have the same tent. I use 2 300w leds & a 600w mh/hps. I use a 750 cfm fan that takes in outside air to cool the light only. & a 250cfm to vent the tent. The fans only come on when the temps get above 75°f.
Which is like all the time in the spring through fall.

It all may seem like overkill but I max lux & raise my lights if I get leaf bleaching, or they grow into a high light zone.

As for humidity... I have a humidifier in the tent which I have to manually turn on every day & I hang wet towels in there too every day or 2. Humidity stay around 45-55% this time of year. In the winter, I only use the towels. & a bucket of water.

Mites are nasty. I have a bit of an expensive solution I found on here...http://www.rollitup.org/t/stop-mites-forever.752589/

Hope that link works. Its the only thing I've found that really works well. The dip, if plants are small enough, has worked every time.
 
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Vermonter2016

Vermonter2016

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GvegasGrowa said:
I have the same tent. I use 2 300w leds & a 600w mh/hps. I use a 750 cfm fan that takes in outside air to cool the light only. & a 250cfm to vent the tent. The fans only come on when the temps get above 75°f.
Which is like all the time in the spring through fall.

It all may seem like overkill but I max lux & raise my lights if I get leaf bleaching, or they grow into a high light zone.

As for humidity... I have a humidifier in the tent which I have to manually turn on every day & I hang wet towels in there too every day or 2. Humidity stay around 45-55% this time of year. In the winter, I only use the towels. & a bucket of water.

Mites are nasty. I have a bit of an expensive solution I found on here...http://www.rollitup.org/t/stop-mites-forever.752589/

Hope that link works. Its the only thing I've found that really works well. The dip, if plants are small enough, has worked every time.
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We just got a new humidifier which is helping the temp go down to 75-76 sometime it gets a little above 86 but it goes back down after a few hours. The humidity is doing better 65-70% but mites seem to be coming more and more.. We spray neem oil on it and everything but seem to not have any luck, it's mainly on our bigger girl.
 
nonamedman420

nonamedman420

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sometimes to raise RH i put a big shallow tray, maybe 5' tall but wide. i fill it with perlite, and water it good. i put this near my intake, and it helps raise the humidity a decent amount. figured i'd put that out there so maybe it could work for someone else as well.
 
Vermonter2016

Vermonter2016

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These are our girls.. Snow( in the black bucket) is 52 days old and liberty( in the white bucket) is about 43 days old.. Now on snow we decided to do a spiral around the bucket and she's seems to be doing good with it but she has the spider mites. As for Liberty we pinched her when she was 2-4 weeks old and then let her go from there til my boyfriend broke her top on accident and she ended up doubling more then we thought But she's just getting tied/pulled off to the side but has no mites that we can see or tell. So far happy with our girls oh and the are starting to flower
 

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nonamedman420 said:
sometimes to raise RH i put a big shallow tray, maybe 5' tall but wide. i fill it with perlite, and water it good. i put this near my intake, and it helps raise the humidity a decent amount. figured i'd put that out there so maybe it could work for someone else as well.
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Have you tried vermiculite? I'd think it would work better.
 
GvegasGrowa

GvegasGrowa

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You should really check that link I left. I use the FloraMite/TetraSan combo. It works every time & that plant doesn't look huge. You could get that stuff from Amazon & probably use a 5 gallon bucket to dunk it... Carefully.
 
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