I’m struggling with humidity a little bit. The humidity for the past week in my area has been around 90 %rh so it’s been insanely humid out. The la dies are in a 2x4 tent in my back garage. I have a 9 in osc fan, 6in vivosun inline fan for exhaust, and a ac infinity booster fan to pull air in at the bottom. I’ve been just trying to get the air flow as much as possible since the insane humidity. I have a very small vivosun dehumidifier in there now. I tried 2 different ones and I’m honestly not happy with either. So I’m just looking to see if anyone has a dehumidifier they think works great or even decent if i can get it to be in 50 range I’d be happy , I’m looking to spend less than 100 if possible. Thank you
You will never get that humidity down to where you want it with that constant intake at 90% RH. You have to create a closed or semi-closed system in order to do that. Those humidifiers and de-humidifiers are designed to do a small space with for the most part static air or low volume. A de-humidifier is nothing more than a small air conditioner, the coils get cold and condensate out the water vapor in the air and deposit it in a reservoir the heat must be directed somewhere other than your tent or it then causes that problem. Your best and most lasting solution would be to install a window AC unit in the garage.
This is why I don’t grow during summer time, to much heat and humidity. you can grow outside and yes its possible to grow indoors but IMHO unless you have a space purpose build for growing plants indoors, its extremely difficult and costly thats not even including that most electric companies charge more during summer “peak hours” for me that’s .23$ more a kilowatt hour. may the odds be ever in your favor.
Yes, agree, I have the perfect setup, didn’t realize it when I bought the house, but my old coal room turned into the perfect grow room, I put 2x12’s top bottom and sides and R22 insulation completely. The hot air is exhausted outside in the summer through the old coal shut that I converted to a multi pane homemade window with a duct, in the winter I can duct it out the wall of the coal room to heat the basement for free with the heat from the light. They only negative is it is kinda small, and I also have my office in it as well. It is 16’ long and 6.5’ wide after the framing insulation and drywall.
It’s in the mid and high 90’s here now, and here is a pic of my tent controller, I am currently in the drying phase of my last grow.
Very nice and lucky. Sometimes things just work out. I’m going to be popping seeds sometime next month so by the time the clones are ready from them the temp/humidity will be more easily controlled in my space.
