![]() ![]() By forcing the grow room air though your DIY carbon filters, through adsorption, oxygen will be the only remaining molecule able to reach the outdoors. Homemade carbon filters work by trapping the hydrogen and carbon molecules within the gaseous oxygen making up our atmosphere by a process of adsorption. As noted above, during the bud curing process the terpenes are chemically converted into terpenoids by oxidation, or exposure to air. So what then, is a terpene?Ī terpene is an aromatic organic hydrocarbon, or molecule made of carbon (hint hint…) and hydrogen, and they are responsible for the plant’s smell profile. Terpenoids are, simply put, terpenes that have gotten a bit of oxygen. So when I had heard about something akin to charcoal being effective in ‘scrubbing’ the aromatic profile accompanying your growing cannabis, I was curious as to how.ĭIY Activated Carbon Filters and Terpenoids ![]() In fact, this is just one example of many on how little I know about smell. I don’t know about you, the fact that I don’t know how they get the smell into a candle, fleeting though it is, consistently vexes me. (b) Depending on where you live, diy activated carbon filters may ultimately keep the neighborhood free of the smells of your grow operation and, by extension, help keep you out of the purview of the law.īut how do they work? How do homemade carbon filters remove the smell from the air? With what effectiveness? Is there multiple types of DIY carbon filters? Do you have to use activated carbon when making homemade carbon filters? Can you use charcoal? (a) They aid in the removal of the aroma created by the terpenes/ terpenoids of your bud plant. So far, I hope you’ve picked up two things about homemade carbon filters: ![]() Contained within that nugget of cannabis cultivation knowledge, the term ‘carbon filter’ came up and it is the application of homemade carbon filters that allow so many at-home ganga growers to evade the olfactory arm of the prohibition of Cannabis. Earlier this month, we gave up the deets on how to build your very own grow box. ![]()
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