I’m looking for some advice on my grow tent setup. I currently have a 4x8 tent but only plan to grow around 4 plants at a time, so the space feels a bit excessive for my needs. I’m considering using Mylar rolls to build a divider and essentially create two connected 4x4 spaces. This way, I can dedicate one side for veg and the other for flowering, or even use one side for drying while the other side is for active growth.
I already have a carbon filter and an inline fan for the tent. My question is: could I cut a hole in the divider so that the carbon filter could work effectively for both sides, handling odor and temperature control? Or would I be better off getting a separate carbon filter setup for each side?
Any suggestions or tips on how to optimize this setup would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
My recommendation would be “no” for the hole, because different stages of growth require vastly different environments for optimal growth (and pathogen mitigation).
It would be much better to create two tents out of it, treating it as if it were really two tents (with intakes and outtakes for both sides, along with separate air exchange and humidity management hardware).
I feel like whether you can use the same HVAC/etc will depend on a couple of factors.
Can you make the divider light tight for flowering schedules? And/or air tight to keep humidity differences?
How is the door situated in relation to the divider you’re wanting? Will you be able to open each side relatively separately to keep airflow and light quarantine?
If you can’t access them separately, then it would change the plan I’d think, because you would be opening up to more cross contamination (of light, pathogens, humidity/whatever).
Yeah, it shouldn’t be too difficult to create a light-tight divider using enough tape and Mylar. However, achieving an airtight seal might be more challenging. The divider will be made from grow tent wall material, which is generally good at containing light and other elements. So, with careful construction, I think it should work.
The tent has two separate doors on the front, left and right, so I should be able to keep the two sections isolated without issue. The only shared component would be the air filter, but I think I can dial in the individual environments to meet their specific needs without too many problems. I’ll attach a picture so you can see the layout.
Oh yeah, that door setup helps a lot! I was concerned it might be a single door, which would complicate things immensely.
With some effort into considering lung room conditions and what conditions were needed for each section, you could probably get the airflow running such that it’d pull less moist air into the area you wanted to stay drier, then pulling the already somewhat moist air into the more humid section, and then out.
I picked up some mylar for that very reason. Was gonna just put a sheet across it to divide it. I didnt need it completely sealed though because I was just gonna put my 3x3 veg tent in other half. But, I ended up just buying a 40x40 and using that for now instead. I just took my 4x8 down for now.
