Ventilation in Growshops

Why ventilate an indoor garden?

Ventilation is essential for a successful indoor garden plantation successful gardening. Especially indoors, the plant is like you, it needs to breathe. The risks if you do not ventilate are multiple:

• Growing box transformed into a furnace
• Risks of mold, insect attacks
• Bad smells stagnate
• No renewal of CO² in the air

How to ventilate your growing space?

Ventilation is easy with Growshops !

Don't be afraid of technical terms, ventilation products are first specific to a size of grow box, and to the lighting used. Other ventilation products then participate in the good management of the climate, and the comfort for the grower.

The essential is theextractor and theintractor connected to the outside via ventilation ducts for the growing rooms.
Don't forget a good fan, which will stimulate the growth and comfort of your indoor grow by stirring the air inside.
Then think about a measuring device to test thehumidity and T°.

Finally, humidifiers, deodorizers, controllers, are certainly accessories but they are very useful when you want to go further in the control of the climate of the indoor culture.

How to calculate the volume of air to ventilate with an extractor?

Calculate the volume of air according to the power in W of your lamp:

It's easy with the lighting/air volume correspondence table above!

This table shows you the minimum volume of air per hour that should circulate in your box to ensure a fast and healthy growth of your crop.

Don't hesitate to over ventilate, for less noise and a better control of the temperature.

Ventilation accessories

The measuring devices

Thermometer, Thermostats, Thermo Hygrometer are the essential tools to know everything about the climatic conditions of your box. If there is too much humidity (cellar), think of the dehumidifier.

The automatic controllers

As a good grower, you would like to automate certain actions such as increasing the ventilation power in case of a heat wave, or lowering the temperature to maintain an ideal temperature in your indoor garden. For this, there are climate management controllers. These small machines to plug into the mains increase the power of your ventilation if needed, or turn off your lamps automatically..

Humidifiers or dehumidifiers

In a growing room, humidity is sometimes insufficient, orchids for example need a lot of humidity, so there are humidifiers which transforms water into steam and fills the air with moisture

Brands	Ultra Mist	Air Naturel

Ventilated reflectors

To stimulate the air and stir the leaves of a crop a fan is to optimize the ventilation of your plants. But there is still better to lower the T°, the ventilated reflector.

Discover the famous Cool Tube reflector (recommended by Growshops)

► More info on the Cool Tube!

Charcoal filters

Some plants are unpleasant in terms of the odor released. A charcoal filter positioned just before the outlet/extractor helps filter out bad odors.

Brands	Green Filter	Can Filter	Phresh	Bull Filter	Hy Filter	Ozotres	Prima Klima

Soundproof boxes or sound traps

To avoid noise pollution from the extractor, the soundproof box surrounds the machine and absorbs part of the sound, for a quiet growing.

Brands	Winflex ventilation	Air box One

Anti-odour treatments

A classic but effective product, odor neutralizers mask or eliminate malodorous molecules.

Brands	Ona	The Neutralizer	Air Butler

Addition of CO² to the air

The new kid on the ventilation block is the cO² generator. Some environments are devoid of CO², so you have to think about that. A plant needs CO² to release O² (Technique reserved for experienced growers).

Ventilation and light go hand in hand for indoor growing. A led that gives off little heat will need less ventilation for an optimal culture.

Good gardening!