Need advice on odour control

ausblit

Active Member
Browsing this site i have heard many conflicting opinions on carbon scrubbers currently i have a single rubbermaid tub as it all my space can afford and stealth is my absolute top concern. From what i have read some people say a scrubber can completely eliminate smell however on a thread i just read people were saying that homemade scrubbers were worthless for flowering.
Basically i have a scrubber that i built myself with parts from lowes about a foot high and 6 inches in diamater with a 80 mm 100~cfm computer fan blowing the air into it. Is there any chance that this will completly cover the smell of the plants i have currently growing or is my only hope to buy a premade one off the internet.
I was planning on doing a scrog however if that would be too much smell i could attempt to just grow a single small plant just so long as i get somthing lol just don't want to spend hours working on this over the next month or so just to find out the smell is so bad i have to get rid of it.

and sorry i don't have strain information the plants i am currently growing are mostly some bag seeds from a few ounces of mids i bought a few weeks ago and a few others that i have randomly picked up over a month or so none from very good weed.

ty in advance for any advice that can be given on my problem

ps the box is around 3 ft by 2 ft by 20 inches i know its not big but its all i can manage at this moment
heres a pic of the box size with the filter on top from a few months ago from a grow that went bad before i could reach flowering
https://www.rollitup.org/attachments/cfl-growing/186634d1220675382-any-way-fix-these-first-000_0765.jpg
 

ausblit

Active Member
try this https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/89078-diy-carbon-filter.html

I'm on 7 or 8 mounts (changed 1 time)

I use it for this and no smell. One of my best friends is blind and he can't smell the grow until I open the door.
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ah thank you thats fairly similar to the one i have just a little smaller and i don't plan on having anywhere near as many plants as you do until im in a better place to grow so i guess i should be good then again than you so much haha
 

abomb

Well-Known Member
A 100 cfm comp. fan is not enough for a 1 foot 6 inch diameter filter and depending how far from your canopy your fan is it probably wouldn't be enough those computer fans aren't strong enough especially when u add a scrubber I would get at least a 275 cfm fan if you want to make sure there is no smell plus it will help more with Temps humidity etc you can never go wrong with more cfm's!!
 

Willis

Active Member
A computer type fan will NOT cut it. They have no capacity to deal with air flow restriction. None.
 
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