and you best use nothing higher than cfl's in that little tent or the heat will be insane.
A 250-watt HPS would work in a 2'x3' space, given sufficient volume (IOW, assuming a reasonable height). In my opinion, that would require lowering the shelf a bit more than halfway down if one wanted to use that area for both general vegetative and cloning/seedling, but that should still work. That is, of course, assuming a reasonable ambient temperature of the space the tent is in, along with a correctly sized exhaust fan - but the same holds true as a general rule for most any grow space. The lower space could then still be used for seedlings and rooting cuttings (clones), with some lesser form of illumination - which would be perfectly adequate, as those two things require less than general vegetative growth or flowering. A 250-watt MH (err...
metal
halide, not Mars-Hydro
) could also be used, but would produce slightly more heat than a 250-watt HPS.
The shelf could be raised to halfway, and either or both of the levels of that secondary tent illuminated with T5 (, T8, or even the older T12) fluorescent tubes.
And, of course,
Mars-Hydro is an LED grow light panel manufacturer, so one should be able to find one of their lighting products which would work well in that space.
It might be difficult (NOT impossible) to create a setup in which bright lights could be used in the secondary tent when ambient room temperatures are wickedly hot - but the same would be true to a lesser extent for any grow setup of comparable size.
tell your guys in engineering to stick that thing in your testing room there sara, and start a simulation grow.
Always a good idea when designing gardening products. Due to the local laws in China, it is highly unlikely that they would be able to use cannabis plants, sadly. But it would not be a huge challenge to find a plant that is equally light-loving (or near enough) and which has fairly comparable growth characteristics.
which brings to thought one thing I didn't see in the viewable area of testing. "moisture" it is something we deal with, and it has been stated many times that they are tested for it. but all that was shown was a room full of lights, lol.
so maybe put a couple of dwc buckets in that little tent, bubbling away, try various lights. probably what, a reflector 96? maybe some trays of wet soil on the shelf? are there 2 shelves included? I see the adjustable notion. that looks pretty good. well except for the moisture getting into the poles.
A good exhaust fan should not only pull fresh cool(er) air into and through the tent, it should also pull fresh dry(er) air into and through it, lol. But I agree that testing for robustness against moisture/humidity - both for extended periods of time and for abrupt daily shifts (to simulate the grow of one who fails to manage their grow environment correctly, for example, by shutting off the exhaust fan when the lights go off instead of merely reducing its power) - should be a given for a gardening product of this nature. Things like non-porous surfaces/materials, ease of cleaning, resistance of the frame materials to rust/corrosion (if the material used needs to be painted/coated to guard against it, this painting/coating should be done on both the outside of these pieces AND the inside, since - like automobiles - hollow frame pieces might be susceptible to holding moisture inside and, therefore, see damage begin on the inner surfaces first), et cetera. Giving a good description of any and all "torture testing" that you put your products through - along with the results of same - would look well in the products description, and it would be reasonable to assume such things would also help sell the product. These days, people are not satisfied with merely reading that a product is a good one, they wish to be able to read how/why this is so, lol.
however, in closing, nothing will ever match all growers ideal situation together at any given time.
So very true. My
ideal "grow setup" would change somewhat depending on whether it was the height of Summer or the dark of Winter. With that being said... I think that they are in the process of producing a product that I could work with year-round - and I do not have perfect control over my environment (in fact, far from it :sad: ) . Those who DO have the ability to control ambient temperatures and humidity would be likely to find a grow tent (in general) to be even easier to work with, and to have more choices in terms of their setup.
Still... No, one cannot please all of the people, all of the time. Perhaps in the future, if they continue to improve their grow tent products, and they continue to sell well, they might expand to the extent that they can offer multiple lines which each focus on a different set of conditions/requirements.
however it has lost its luster as a mother tent in my eyes. not too many mothers hold at 1 foot in plant girth.
Mother plants can be trained just like those in flower, lol.
Bonsai Mothers
All About Bonsai Mums!
How do you maintain/prune mother plants?
But I would consider a 1' depth to be somewhat limiting, too. I would much rather see a 2' depth to go along with a width of 3' (for a 3'x3' tent) or 4' (for a 4'x4' tent).
lost the ability to hold say 3 mothers and do your cloning and vegging in one tent with one light.
I could fit three mother plants on a 2'x3' shelf (or, I suppose, on a 1'x3' one - but I would rather not), along with some rooting cuttings to either end, and some (short) plants in vegetative growth below. It wouldn't supply a flowering room of massive proportions, but it would service a 3'x3' flowering area, especially if one went with a perpetual setup instead of trying to fill the flowering side all at once.
that was where I saw the value in the original design. just needed the extra shelf and more width (front to back) or depth if you prefer that word lol.
To be honest, I would guess that most people would have the ability to supply their own shelving unit. The true value would be in a rectangular-shaped tent with a light-proof divider separating it into two unequal-sized spaces and separate access/ventilation/electrical openings for each space. IMHO, of course. As in all things, "YMMV" applies, of course.
A grower who desired a larger setup (one who operated for profit, selling the harvest, for example) might want a larger, separate flowering tent and use a tent that was a combination of a 3'x3' space and a 2'x3' space as a combination of only vegetative (the main space) and mother (top or bottom of the secondary space) plus an area for rooting cuttings (the portion of the secondary space which was not used for mother plants). I am (long) past the point when I sold cannabis, but I could envision returning to a slightly larger grow setup, because I seem to have gotten older when I wasn't looking (lol) and both I and my family/friends have both more health issues and more significant ones. Plus, it would be nice to have room (and the setup) to be able to breed cannabis again. But, for me, such things seem a long way off now. I can, however, see where a person would have a use for multiple tents (up to a dozen or more, lol) even if they are lucky enough to have large separate vegetative and flowering areas, simply because it would allow them to segregate strains, males, experiment with different lighting/environmental conditions, et cetera. Grow tents can be very useful items, and can help one create little mini biospheres (so to speak).
My apologies to Sara for rambling a bit in her thread.
The price will back to original price on August 16th.Hurry up .
New tent update! let's look at the new functions:
and now it just looks even more AWESOME. great seperation solution you guys came up with. that just upped the tent a level or two in my book.
We need your ideas,which delivery company you guys think it better in Australia?
I like sugars...
I will tell our engineer.
