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Im Dealing With Some Cold Weather Please Help.

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Im Dealing With Some Cold Weather Please Help.

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temperatures are on average from 28 during the day down to 15 at night I have a Mitsubishi mini split I will have pictures up here momentarily just wanted to get this thread started. Average temp during the day in the room is only 65 and getting down to as low as 54 at night. I have a 2k set up and I'm not even cooling them I'm trying to harness the heat from the lights to heat the room. I will have exact measurements of my room also here in the next half hour please keep an eye on this thread also sorry about the vagueness of everything at this point
 
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I like to lay pond liner on the floor to help with temps and moisture. The root zone temps will effect you plants life tremendously. I like to put a few temp readers in my pots during the winter to make sure they don't fluctuate much. Can't think of the name of this stuff I used in the Veg room but they sell it at home depot. It's plywood with a hard rubber mat on the bottom. Kinda like the mats you'd see in restaurant kitchens. Comes in 2 x 2 squares and snaps together. Funk on and hope you find a solution
 
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Does the mini split have a heat option? You've had issues with low humidity, maybe get one of those hot air humidifiers? Definitely get the plants off the floor the VS said. If you can, run your lights at night. Keep all your ballasts in the grow room. It's probably too late, but if you can add insulation do it.
 
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rick ratlin said:
Does the mini split have a heat option? You've had issues with low humidity, maybe get one of those hot air humidifiers? Definitely get the plants off the floor the VS said. If you can, run your lights at night. Keep all your ballasts in the grow room. It's probably too late, but if you can add insulation do it.
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Yes it does I have set to its highest setting I have the room very poorly insulated which is a large part of my problem but im looking to add a little heater to helo pump the room up. If anyone has had any good kuck with one please chime in.

Bubbalova
 
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Im in michigan and I heat my 12 x 20 x 9.5h with a ceramic tower heater from lowes, I think it draws 1000w on low power which keeps my room/shop toasty all winter.i just keep several wall fans and a scrubber on 24.7 to move the air and heat around.but my shop is built well and insulated just like a house with r19 walls and r 30 cielings.but still there is a large rollup door 8x10 that has some leakage around the edges.gl
 
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@sixstring im also in Michigan my setup is in a pole barn that has next to no insulation, im going over it this eveing to really seal it up then I guess the next step is more insulation and mabey add another heat source.
 
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You have to have heat bro. I actually run air cooked hoods and bring cold air into the room to cool during the day on a temp sensor and timer so it won't run accidentally at night and freeze them. Day time is pretty easy, its night that is the issue.
I hit 59 in flower room last week - too cold. So I ran duct from a heated room next door on a timer to bring warm air in. So far it is staying warm like 65 at night.
I also have a wireless temp alert that texts me if the room gets below 65 or above 90... A good investment to save from froze crops...

You could just put 2 oil heaters from Walmart and play with the switches... Or you could build a heat box from plywood outside the room and have a heat sensor turn on an intake fan....
 
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this is the unit i been running for prolly 4 years now.it was 11f here 2 nights ago

i also have my lights air cooled from outside air but my fans dont run much this time of year and i have them shut down 20 mins before lights out so my room jumps up to about 82f before it shuts down for the night.my walls and roof are 3/4" osb so it holds heat real well.peace
 
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I would add a co2 burner that will add heat and co2 .. Then use a space heater for lights out... Once you can insulate better that should solve your problem as welll.... Or as others have said time to add more lights
 
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bubbalova said:
Yes it does I have set to its highest setting I have the room very poorly insulated which is a large part of my problem but im looking to add a little heater to helo pump the room up. If anyone has had any good kuck with one please chime in.

Bubbalova
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I found that doesn't work so well. I had to tighten up my room (dropped the ceiling, that made a HUGE difference, but it does mean the room's really best for SOG-style growing), and when it got really bad I used what I call the Electric Blanket Sandwich, because it uses a fraction of the power something like a space heater would. I mean, if I'm going to be adding a whole other 600W, it's going to be in the form of LIGHT.

(Aziz! LIGHT!)

My whole room is completely lined with that rigid Styrofoam insulation as well.
 
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sorry for going off topic but i have the opposite probelm. i have a pipe in my room that radiates heat all day with no way to turn off. is there a way i can wrap the pipe to insulate the heat?
 
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Exhaust lOTE="splakdawg, post: 1362314, member: 43023"]sorry for going off topic but i have the opposite probelm. i have a pipe in my room that radiates heat all day with no way to turn off. is there a way i can wrap the pipe to insulate the heat?[/QUOTE]
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splakdawg said:
sorry for going off topic but i have the opposite probelm. i have a pipe in my room that radiates heat all day with no way to turn off. is there a way i can wrap the pipe to insulate the heat?
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exhaust that shit out with a temp sensor switch and timer. Then you can export that heat and if it gets too cold, it stops and also when lights are off, you want that heat and can set so it wont run after hours too.
I have this actually both ways, in day time I export heat. At night, I import heat running opposite times and opposite temps. This required double the work and cost more, but I spend $210 a month right now running 8, 1000 W, A/C and powering the rest of a large building. So not bad.
 
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