Photo Tent Controller

 I have two "grow" tents, a Vivosun 2'X4' and a Infinity 4'X4'. The small tent is used for Auto plants, the big one for Photo plants. With tents you kinda get what you pay for. The Vivosun tent is ~$105 USD on Amazon, the same size Infinity tent on Amazon is ~$140 USD. The 24"X48" Gorilla tent is ~$287 USD. When you go to 4'X4' tents the Gorilla tent is ~$390 USD v. ~$180USD for the AC Infinity.

The Vivosun tent is fine for Auto plants because light control is not too important. With Auto plants all the tent needs to do is use your light source efficiently. Photo tents need to use light efficiently but also keep light out during the flower stage. My Infinity 4'X4' does a pretty good job of controlling unwanted light. I expect the Gorilla 4'X4' would do a slightly better job but the real reason to go with a Gorilla tent is it comes with an extra 1' extension so the tent has an 8' height v. 7' with the Infinity 4'X4' tent. With Photo plants that extra foot is useful.

One of the 'nice to have" features of Infinity tents is the outside "controller" mount.

 As always: Click it to big it.

The top controller controls the exhaust fan and gives information on humidity and temperature.  The bottom one controls the California Lightworks Solar System 1100 LED grow light. It is an amazing system giving almost complete control of your lights. IIRC it can have 20 pre-set programs controlling three light channels (Red, White, Blue) from zero to 100%. It can mimic Sunrise and Sunset, you can control the time it takes to go from off to full on and of course it controls the time of light and darkness. About the only thing you need to do with the lights is change the program when it is time to go from seedling to Veg to Flower to finish.

Setting up to grow is not cheap if you go full on, nor is the cost of the grow but if done correctly you should get 10 to 15 oz of useable flower per plant. At ~$300USD per oz at the local "Pot Shop" it doesn't take long or many plants to recoup the initial investment. 

If you just want to grow a couple of plants and are not trying to get max production it can be a cheap hobby. Auto seeds or clone to start, a pot big enough to hold a 3 ft tall plant and a window with sunlight most of the day and maybe a cheap "grow light" to supplement the light. Cannabis makes a kind of pretty house plant but some genetics can have a strong smell during the flower stage. Depending on where you live it can be really cheap, seeds in the ground in the Spring, harvest in the Fall. 

Good seeds run ~$10USD a seed, I don't use clones but my neighbor does and he spends about $25USD a clone. BTW, I have a near 100% seed to seedling ratio. My two main sources are ILGM and Seedman. Seedman is a little cheaper than ILGM but is also slower to deliver. Both work and their seeds have a near 100% "pop" ratio.

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