How do I keep my HPS light cool?
Directly cool your lamps with a separate ventilation system. Use a sealed hood for your lighting and run additional ducting to directly cool the lamps (as a bonus, place dry ice above your lamps to help cool them and add CO2 to your grow room).
Does my grow light need a fan?
Even if you do not use other fans inside your grow room, an exhaust fan is necessary. It is essential because it expels the air and controls temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, odor, and humidity. Typically, there is only one exhaust fan that can be placed on a wall.
How do I lower the heat in my grow room?
Use an oscillating fan or clip-on fan — Sometimes all you need to do is get stagnant air moving around in your tent. Most people have a small fan or two lying around in their house. Or, just grab a clip-on fan while you’re here. They’re cheap and don’t take up much space at all, and will help disperse heat.
How hot is too hot in grow tent?
If you are growing marijuana in a grow room, keep in mind, the maximum temperature for marijuana grow tent success is 85°F. Temperatures higher than this will result in the plant’s death.
Why are reflectors useful in a grow room?
By making sure light is reflected back at your plants, your plants get to use even more of the light that gets produced which would normally be “lost”. Reflective walls will also help prevent parts of your plants from sitting in a dark or shadowy spots. Outdoors, growers get to use the sun!
Do LED grow lights need cooling fans?
LED Habitats are built with sophisticated heat sinks that cool super-efficiently without any cooling fan, so all Habitat LED grow lights run silently.
Do mirrors give plants more light?
Mirrors help increase light for plants in two ways: reflection and redirection. Say your indoor plant needs full sun, but you don’t have a bright area in the house for it. That doesn’t mean you’re limited to plants that like shade. You need a mirror to reflect more light onto that sun-loving plant.