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splifner180
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Dirt-Simple Way To Cool a Monotub for Fruiting
#5778497 - 06/21/06 10:39 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been reading a lot and from what I've seen, cubes can (and do) fruit in fairly warm temps but cooling helps trigger the pinning (along with a reduction in CO2 and introduction of light).
So I'm thinking there are three ways to accomplish this in a monotub setup.
1. Be lucky and have a spot in your house that stays a consistent 75F year-round.
2. Spring for a nice CoolWorks IceProbe.
3. Go DIY/ghetto.
While I'm sure there are a million ways to skin a cat, but not finding a lot of posts on the subject, here is my solution.

That's right. Two sets of 2 icepacks that rotate in and out of my freezer very 10-12 hours. A dry Igloo cooler holds both the freezer packs and the monotub. The Igloo is left open to encourage a bit of FAE and to allow light.
This, of course, scales like shit but it's good for the bigger-than-cakes, smaller-that-HC's-gigafruits grower.
I'm considering adding water to the Igloo but of course I'll be limited to only as high as the polyfill holes.
My temps generally stay in the 68-73F for about 10-12 hours, even with a weak breeze through my house, and that's in the mid-80's. If it gets hotter the temps will stay in that range, the packs will cool faster but that's not a problem. Which means I can leave for work and come back and the temperature only fluctuates over 5 degrees.
splif
-------------------- First Grow: Ecuador -> LC -> HPoo/Straw -> Monotub Build a Do-It-Yourself Magnetic Stirrer in thirty minutes with no money.
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kranked
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Re: Dirt-Simple Way To Cool a Monotub for Fruiting [Re: splifner180]
#5778524 - 06/21/06 10:46 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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My house sits at a consistant 68F. So I'm constantly struggling to warm things up.
-------------------- "When it went off in New Mexico, that first atomic bomb, we thought of Alfred Nobel and his hope, his vain hope, that dynamite would put an end to all war" -Robert Oppenheimer 1945
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Re: Dirt-Simple Way To Cool a Monotub for Fruiting [Re: kranked]
#5778599 - 06/21/06 11:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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my monotubs had trouble when they had walls around them, i think you might have FAE issues with that. a fan would fix that well enough i suppose.
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musher_420
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Re: Dirt-Simple Way To Cool a Monotub for Fruiting [Re: Omnicracker]
#5778664 - 06/21/06 11:18 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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That would definitely require fanning.
I would consider removing the motor from a coolmist and modifying a Styrofoam cooler to be used as the base. The out put would be a PVC pipe. You could refill the coolmist with ice instead of water. Run that to cheap large cooler or possibly a burnt out fridge.
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splifner180
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Re: Dirt-Simple Way To Cool a Monotub for Fruiting [Re: musher_420]
#5780481 - 06/22/06 01:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ok, back to the drawing board.
I've come up with a new method but I'm testing it out before doing a writeup. Probably a good idea. =P
splif
-------------------- First Grow: Ecuador -> LC -> HPoo/Straw -> Monotub Build a Do-It-Yourself Magnetic Stirrer in thirty minutes with no money.
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