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When constructing a medical grow we decided to go with a closed room setup. Read up a lot, asked a lot of questions but in the end designed an excellent room. Unfortunately due to time restraints we were not able to dial equipment in before moving in our genetics.
So one week goes by and plants three wks old are thriving in the environment but humidity is a little high so we begin to utilize our dehumidifier. After two days of this plugged into our CHHC4 set on 65% RH our plants foliage dried up completely overnight in odd patterns across the room and began to spiral. Temp, nutes, air circulation, C02, PH, PPM and every other facet was perfect so we knew it was the dehumidifier. It was the right size for our room but maybe we just needed to mount it so five days later after letting the plants recover we ran it again mounted and in 24 hours the plants looked the same.
We immediately ordered another one sightly smaller 60 pint dehumidifier. Once it arrived I mounted it and ran it with the fan set on low plugged into CHHC4 and it nearly killed all plants in 24 hrs never dropping RH under 65%.
At this point we were completely unsure of what to do because RH gets to be 98% at night so we ordered yet another dehumidifier but smaller 40 pint one. We have ran this one for one week now with no problems and just last night it began to slightly show spiraling on the tops of a few plants in close proximity. Being in Cali we have spoken with many growers and even had a friend drop the question for the people at Oaksterdam but nobody had any clue.
So my question is what are we missing? Has anyone else ever ran a closed room and experienced dehumidifier issues? Thanks for any help. Much appreciated
Specs:
7'x14'
5000 watts HPS
12,000 BTU A/C
40 Pint Dehumidifier
1300 ppm C02
3 wall fans
Advanced Nutrients with organic tea supplementation and Fox Farm Soil
6.4 PH and currently hitting them with 950 ppm week 1 for Flower
Soil PH is 7
Temp during day is 78-82 F
So one week goes by and plants three wks old are thriving in the environment but humidity is a little high so we begin to utilize our dehumidifier. After two days of this plugged into our CHHC4 set on 65% RH our plants foliage dried up completely overnight in odd patterns across the room and began to spiral. Temp, nutes, air circulation, C02, PH, PPM and every other facet was perfect so we knew it was the dehumidifier. It was the right size for our room but maybe we just needed to mount it so five days later after letting the plants recover we ran it again mounted and in 24 hours the plants looked the same.
We immediately ordered another one sightly smaller 60 pint dehumidifier. Once it arrived I mounted it and ran it with the fan set on low plugged into CHHC4 and it nearly killed all plants in 24 hrs never dropping RH under 65%.
At this point we were completely unsure of what to do because RH gets to be 98% at night so we ordered yet another dehumidifier but smaller 40 pint one. We have ran this one for one week now with no problems and just last night it began to slightly show spiraling on the tops of a few plants in close proximity. Being in Cali we have spoken with many growers and even had a friend drop the question for the people at Oaksterdam but nobody had any clue.
So my question is what are we missing? Has anyone else ever ran a closed room and experienced dehumidifier issues? Thanks for any help. Much appreciated
Specs:
7'x14'
5000 watts HPS
12,000 BTU A/C
40 Pint Dehumidifier
1300 ppm C02
3 wall fans
Advanced Nutrients with organic tea supplementation and Fox Farm Soil
6.4 PH and currently hitting them with 950 ppm week 1 for Flower
Soil PH is 7
Temp during day is 78-82 F
