Hi guys, I'm on my second season of growing. Last year I grew from a clone and had some success. I had a beautiful bud. Singular. I didn't do any training so it just grew straight up and my lower buds were too far from the light. So this year I'm trying again, armed with new knowledge. Unfortunately, my conditions are not ideal. I have to grow in a non-insulated shed that's 13x17. The temperatures inside and outside the shed are the same. I'm in Central Maryland. It's too cold to start now, but maybe April or May would be good. Only issue with that is that I'll have to grow right through the hottest part of the summer. What would your suggestion be to regulate temperature? Insulating the shed isn't practical right now, and unfortunately it's my only possible location. A/C and/or heater is the obvious answer but I may as well be running it into thin air. I learned I can build a grow room with foam board around a pvc frame. But is that even really going to be effective, considering there are going to big two giant ventilation holes in it? If that idea would work, I could run a space heater in there but I don't know how I'd cool it short of spending hundreds on a window ac unit. An evaporative cooler would probably add too much humidity to our already very humid summers. This was a really long winded way of asking: If you had to grow in a hot/cold shed, how would you keep it warm/cool enough to grow good weed?
for summer I keep a grow in an outdoor shed, that I've lined with foam board, I've also got a see thru plastic coro roof to allow light in for cloudy days . we get a lot, I use a 6 inch extract fan but not often as I just leave the door open, I keep another grow room inside , the main but outdoors is my favorite it can be done good luck
it can be done. the question is how much money do you want to throw at the problem? LMK if you figure something out bc I would grow outdoors too if I had a way to control the heat and cold without breaking the bank.
Just use a fan for the summer. It's way cheaper than a/c. Have it suck air into the shed from the bottom and let it escape out the top. If you don't have an exhaust hole near the top of the roof then put one in (on both sides).
The first thing you need to think about is how to isolate the outdoor conditions from the indoor conditions in your shed. That means insulation. I would use some 1" R-Tech panels with reflective coatings to insulate the shed. Insulation and a small mini split with heat pump would essentially put you in control of your shed environment. Garage I insulated with 2" R-Tech and installed a 3 ton mini split.