Greetings everyone, this looks like an amazing community, and I'm looking to learn alot from you guys, and hopefully teach you some things as well.
A little background I live in Jamaica, and over the last year and a half, I started growing weed for myself and my friends. I usually grow outdoors, but somewhat recently i moved, and I still do grow outdoors, but here where I am now outdoors are full of bugs and mold (high humidity)for my plants. A problem I never had before. Because of this I decided to grow indoors and I already had some grow lights. And I am totally against pesticides. I've tried neem-x a derivative of neem oil, but it doesn't work imo.
I explained all of that because people say your in Jamaica, why not use the sun. And I still do as I have 5 plants outdoors growing (which is the limit they allow)
Now my issue is,
Because it's a shed away from the main house, I had to find away to provide it with power, and my solution was to use solar. And I do plan to expand the number of panels and batteries in the future, but for now.
My humidity in the room, is about 50-60% when the sun is out sometimes even in the 40s. But at night it avg between 70-90. The other day it was raining , and that night it went to 95.
I do have a dehumidifier but during the days it's not in use much as the relative humidity is ok. But at night I have a big issues. I cannot run the dehumidifier because it kills the batteries fast (remember solar powered). And this results in the dehumidifier turns off, and so do the fans and grow lights. Which doesn't make sense as the humidity will quickly rise again and no power.
If I leave the dehumidifier off, the lights stay on. And everything else works but the humidity is high, which I thought that can't be so bad. But it is. Its terrible. The plants I have indoor were planted the same time as the ones outdoors and it's no comparison. The ones outdoors look healthier, bigger and are stronger than the ones indoors. So I need to find away to lower the relative humidity naturally, so that the dehumidifier won't have to work as hard at nights and hopefully keep the lights on.
I'm open to all suggestions. I tried buying a ventilation fan which only seems to drop the humidity a point or two. I noticed when I turn off the oscillating fans at night the humidity decreases about 5 points. So I started turning them off.
If I was to seal the room all together and then use a fan to intake air, would that be better.
Also to be fair, the temp in the room is also high in the days around 93F but that's a easy solution, get a ac unit, but I think I want to fix humidity before I fix the heat. Or is the heat the reason why my plants can't grow as well (which I doubt because outside is hotter than inside and they grow better outside, but who nows?) (Because outside just as humid too imo) or is it even the grow lights, idk. (I have solar system 550 (blue 99, white 99, red 30)) and 3 roleandro 2*200w cob as supplement lights.
So if we do the math that's like 1750w of light, so I doubt the it is lights, but something if preventing my plants from growing.
I also added pics of the shed. It goes all around with the mesh at the top and ply and concrete below.
The oscillating fan takes the air from outside disperse it around the room, and there is another oscillating fan not shown that stands on the ground.
A little background I live in Jamaica, and over the last year and a half, I started growing weed for myself and my friends. I usually grow outdoors, but somewhat recently i moved, and I still do grow outdoors, but here where I am now outdoors are full of bugs and mold (high humidity)for my plants. A problem I never had before. Because of this I decided to grow indoors and I already had some grow lights. And I am totally against pesticides. I've tried neem-x a derivative of neem oil, but it doesn't work imo.
I explained all of that because people say your in Jamaica, why not use the sun. And I still do as I have 5 plants outdoors growing (which is the limit they allow)
Now my issue is,
Because it's a shed away from the main house, I had to find away to provide it with power, and my solution was to use solar. And I do plan to expand the number of panels and batteries in the future, but for now.
My humidity in the room, is about 50-60% when the sun is out sometimes even in the 40s. But at night it avg between 70-90. The other day it was raining , and that night it went to 95.
I do have a dehumidifier but during the days it's not in use much as the relative humidity is ok. But at night I have a big issues. I cannot run the dehumidifier because it kills the batteries fast (remember solar powered). And this results in the dehumidifier turns off, and so do the fans and grow lights. Which doesn't make sense as the humidity will quickly rise again and no power.
If I leave the dehumidifier off, the lights stay on. And everything else works but the humidity is high, which I thought that can't be so bad. But it is. Its terrible. The plants I have indoor were planted the same time as the ones outdoors and it's no comparison. The ones outdoors look healthier, bigger and are stronger than the ones indoors. So I need to find away to lower the relative humidity naturally, so that the dehumidifier won't have to work as hard at nights and hopefully keep the lights on.
I'm open to all suggestions. I tried buying a ventilation fan which only seems to drop the humidity a point or two. I noticed when I turn off the oscillating fans at night the humidity decreases about 5 points. So I started turning them off.
If I was to seal the room all together and then use a fan to intake air, would that be better.
Also to be fair, the temp in the room is also high in the days around 93F but that's a easy solution, get a ac unit, but I think I want to fix humidity before I fix the heat. Or is the heat the reason why my plants can't grow as well (which I doubt because outside is hotter than inside and they grow better outside, but who nows?) (Because outside just as humid too imo) or is it even the grow lights, idk. (I have solar system 550 (blue 99, white 99, red 30)) and 3 roleandro 2*200w cob as supplement lights.
So if we do the math that's like 1750w of light, so I doubt the it is lights, but something if preventing my plants from growing.
I also added pics of the shed. It goes all around with the mesh at the top and ply and concrete below.
The oscillating fan takes the air from outside disperse it around the room, and there is another oscillating fan not shown that stands on the ground.
