Yamumzbum
Curing
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I got an odur issue and I'm stumped as to what is causing it. I'll give a bit of info and if there's something anyone thinks I've missed something or perhaps doing something wrong I'd appreciate your help.
It was so bad during my recent grow I actually pulled my crop a week or so early coz the smell got so bad you'd think it was unfiltered.
I recently bought a new Phresh carbon filter suitable for the amount of air my 10 inch fan exhausts, bit over 1000cfm.
This is in a 5x9 tent and the fan is next in line connected to the filter. Then the air is ducted about 4 metres with a couple bends in the ducting which then goes to just below my window sill and is strapped there directing the air towards the window but out of view if you were to look at the window from outside, then a curtain is pinned around the entire window frame and the ducting tobseal off any sunlight coming in.
I then put in place of the flyscreen a sheet of perspex with a shutter fan mounted in it to pull the air out.
I use passive intake using two of the mesh vents at bottom of the tent and I always have negative pressure so all the air from in the tent first goes through the filter and here's the weird thing,, I've stuck my face in the ducting and I can't smell anything really, perhaps a very very faint smell of buds but nothing like how bad it smells outside my unit! Out there it sometimes smells like freshly cut buds it's unmistakable.
I don't understand wtf is going on and a few mates have made the comment that it's weird how inside you can't smell it at all.
I even questioned my local about the possibility of buying a dodgy filter, a lemon so to speak and his explanation was that I wasn't using forced intake which simply doesn't make sense but he had a point when he said "but you can't smell it at the end of the ducting can you?" Which he was right, I can't which is making this such a weird one.
Is it possible the smell could be leaking in through the fan body or motor somehow?
I'm lost for an explanation so any help is greatly appreciated.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow but feel free to ask anything I might have forgotten to mention.
Thanks
It was so bad during my recent grow I actually pulled my crop a week or so early coz the smell got so bad you'd think it was unfiltered.
I recently bought a new Phresh carbon filter suitable for the amount of air my 10 inch fan exhausts, bit over 1000cfm.
This is in a 5x9 tent and the fan is next in line connected to the filter. Then the air is ducted about 4 metres with a couple bends in the ducting which then goes to just below my window sill and is strapped there directing the air towards the window but out of view if you were to look at the window from outside, then a curtain is pinned around the entire window frame and the ducting tobseal off any sunlight coming in.
I then put in place of the flyscreen a sheet of perspex with a shutter fan mounted in it to pull the air out.
I use passive intake using two of the mesh vents at bottom of the tent and I always have negative pressure so all the air from in the tent first goes through the filter and here's the weird thing,, I've stuck my face in the ducting and I can't smell anything really, perhaps a very very faint smell of buds but nothing like how bad it smells outside my unit! Out there it sometimes smells like freshly cut buds it's unmistakable.
I don't understand wtf is going on and a few mates have made the comment that it's weird how inside you can't smell it at all.
I even questioned my local about the possibility of buying a dodgy filter, a lemon so to speak and his explanation was that I wasn't using forced intake which simply doesn't make sense but he had a point when he said "but you can't smell it at the end of the ducting can you?" Which he was right, I can't which is making this such a weird one.
Is it possible the smell could be leaking in through the fan body or motor somehow?
I'm lost for an explanation so any help is greatly appreciated.
I'll post a few pics tomorrow but feel free to ask anything I might have forgotten to mention.
Thanks