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Abject
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Proof my fruiting chamber concept
#13036675 - 08/11/10 01:53 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hello, long time reader that has never found the need to ask a question. The search function being so useful at providing the answers I need from the long archive of shroomery topics. Alas I now need to describe to you my particular idea for a fruiting chamber to proof the concept against the community.
At a flea market I’ve found a great 18 inch high, 18 inch wide, 4 foot long glass coffee table type aquarium on casters. I had to buy it. It needs to be a fruiting chamber.
My plan is to face the outside with wood facade so as to make it hidden. The heavy glass lid I will raise from the edge of the chamber with an inch of foam. Through the foam I want to run two PVC pipes.
One pipe, the air out, will be hooked up to a bilge fan to pull air through the chamber. The other pipe will run into a standing cabinet next to the chamber that will contain a humidifier hooked up to a water cooler type water jug. That jug will have holes drilled in it packed with poly fill, the pipe running to the chamber from the bottle in the cabinet.
The concept is to create a system where the air is humidified in the jug, pulled through the chamber by the bilge fan. The holes in the jug allow for additional air to be pulled through and ensure that there is no pressure on the humidifier. I want there to be additional air flow through the holes in the bottle as the bilge fan runs.
I hope to be able to fruit on two levels in the chamber, 9 inches apart.
Does the idea work out? What am I missing?
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Doc_T
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Registered: 03/06/09
Posts: 42,395
Loc: Colorado
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Re: Proof my fruiting chamber concept [Re: Abject]
#13036790 - 08/11/10 02:11 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hidden automated systems are a challenge for even experience growers. You'd be better off to start with a standard shotgun fc. And please please please don't grow on anybody else's property.
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LeopardMan
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Registered: 09/21/09
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Re: Proof my fruiting chamber concept [Re: Doc_T]
#13036803 - 08/11/10 02:13 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Doc_T said: Hidden automated systems are a challenge for even experience growers. You'd be better off to start with a standard shotgun fc. And please please please don't grow on anybody else's property.
+1
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Abject
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Re: Proof my fruiting chamber concept [Re: Doc_T]
#13037040 - 08/11/10 02:55 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Oh no I've done the shotgun thing, worked like a charm. Just a little hard to have friends and family over to give the tour of my new house, the shotgun is beyond even my knack for spinning bullshit.
The concept though, basically pulling humidified air through a chamber from a jug using a bilge fan. Does the idea meet first glance muster?
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Doc_T
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Registered: 03/06/09
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Re: Proof my fruiting chamber concept [Re: Abject]
#13037061 - 08/11/10 02:58 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Trick is to move enough air while keeping it humid and quiet and discreet. But if you've grown, then you understand the requirements. So now it's up to your engineering skills and your budget.
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