Gorilla 2ft x 4ft Grow Tent VS Secret Jardin Dark Street 48" x 24" Grow Tent

 In this post we’ll help you get started growing plants in a 2×4 grow tent. We’ll discuss the best 2×4 grow tent setup including equipment you’ll need, grow tent features to look for when choosing a tent, and tips to get the most out of your tent.

We’ve grown many runs of plants in both cheap and mid-priced 2×4 grow tents. The small grow space doesn’t mean you can’t grow killer plants. We’ll review how many plants work best, what to expect for 2×4 grow tent yield, and how to maximize bud density quality. You’ll also learn to set up ventilation and circulation systems in your tent to ensure the proper environment for explosive plant growth.

The techniques discussed below will work regardless of which growing medium you’re choosing. We use coco coir because it provides fast, strong growth, but you can also use soil (the easiest if you’re just learning to grow plants), or other hydroponic mediums such as rockwool, deep water culture, or ebb and flow.

Why Use A Grow Tent?

1. You Control The Environment
Nature might be the way it was intended.

But grow tents are the next level.

Where outdoors you can lose your mind fighting bugs, humidity, rains, terrible colds or scorching sun, indoors your plants will enjoy the perfect growing conditions.

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You control everything: from the growing medium (soil or hydroponics), to the wind, the ambient humidity and temperature.

On top of that you won’t depend on the sun, since indoors your grow lights will provide high light intensity with the right color spectrum, from 12 to 24 hours straight.

2. Privacy To Grow
Cannabis doesn’t just smell when you smoke it. It also smells, and a lot, when your plants are flowering.

If you don’t contain the odor, people that live around or near you will start to notice.

On top of that, light leaks can make it look like an UFO landed somewhere in your home.

A grow tent helps you to keep the lights in, and the smell somewhat enclosed, providing you with privacy to grow (it will still permeate in the room).

In case you need zero smells, grow tents also got you covered. You can attach a carbon filter to your ventilation setup, to scrub out the smell of plants and exhaust odorless air.

3. Mylar Reflective Interior Boosts Photosynthesis
The Mylar interior with close to 100% reflectivity will boost the grow light effects even further[4]. Ensuring that the most amount of leaves get as much light as possible.

The reflected light reaches the side and even lower leaves, that would usually be under the shadow of bigger upper leaves.

Not only that, but buds benefit from this extra light as well.

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Photosynthesis depends on light, and it’s a process extremely related to plant growth and development, so you can imagine how all this extra light benefits your plants.

If you want to go even further, some growers even prune their plants, removing leaves that aren’t as exposed to the light so they don’t waste resources.

Or you can use plant training techniques to get as many leaves as possible exposed to the light.

4. Avoid Pests And Infestations
The enclosed space of a grow tent keeps unwanted pests at bay.

If you’ve ever tried to grow outdoors you know how quickly insects will land in your crop.

From grasshoppers biting chunks of leaves, to thrips and spider mites infestations.

Your plants will be safer inside than outside. As long as you keep temperature and humidity under control, and you maintain a certain level of hygiene.

Gorilla 2ft x 4ft Grow Tent

Features:

Gorilla Grow Tents are professionally designed grow tents that are ideal for experts and perfect for beginners. The expert configuration positions ducting ports where they should be. Large EZ View windows offer easy grow snapshots without compromising your environment. The doorways offer 360 degree convenient access. The larger layouts provide frustration free maneuvering. Thick material and large double cinching ducting ports make maintaining an ideal growing space a snap. The Gorilla Grow Tent 2 ft x 4 ft is one of the best ways to start a small-scale indoor grow. This heavy duty, premium tent only takes up a footprint of 24 in x 48 in x 83 in, but can have the height extended up to 10 ft with add ons. It’s the perfect tent for growing 4–6 plants with at least 600 watts of light or equivalent recommended.

Secret Jardin DS120W Dark Street 48" x 24" x 72" Grow Tent

Features:

Secret Jardin grow tents are made of 95% reflective mylar with a hammered effect. The sturdy construction includes extra strong zippers, metal poles, newly engineered polypropylene corners, and ceiling bars to hang various equipment such as reflectors and filters. These are virtually lightproof, easy to clean and assemble quickly and easily. Featuring ceiling bars to hang equipment, engineered polypropylene corners, and advanced lightproof technology, it is the best investment for your plants and your comfort. The tent is made up of robust 190M fabric that is completely lightproof from the outside, easily washable, tear-proof, and highly reflective from the inside. The tent comes with a light baffle to ensure 100% light proofing. It allows seamless movement of air in and out of the tent but restricts any light completely.

Are Grow Tents Worth The Expense?

Although a grow tent can seem like an investment at first, it pays for itself soon enough.

Growing indoors allows you to harvest many times a year, giving you a constant supply.

Unlike growing outdoors, where you’ll be waiting for the right time of the year to harvest.

If you were planning on building your own grow room, I strongly suggest you do so.

But only if you can’t afford a grow tent.

Or on the contrary, if your operation is so big that grow tents just won’t do.

You also have to consider running costs.

Grow lights and fans will impact your energy bill.

Luckily newer LED grow lights have the technology to provide high light intensity with low energy consumption.

Unlike former popular HID lights which are unforgiving in this sense.

Last, you’ll be able to control the growing environment to the very last detail.

Which means you can use fertilizers and nutrients more efficiently, and not waste them on deep soil or have the rain wash them off.

Are Grow Tents Safe?

Indoor grow tents are perfectly safe, no one will get hurt around a grow tent.

But there are still a few things to consider.

Pay attention to the tent canvas material.

Stay away from cheap plastic tents. These are PVC or polyurethane tents that might leak dangerous chemicals into the growing environment.

And if there were an accident, plastic tents would burn super fast.

Good quality grow tents are made of dense fabric, not plastic.

The more dense the fabric, the better insulated from the outside.

This material, along with the Mylar from the inside, are also waterproof and heat resistant, tho not fireproof.

Other than that, you also have to always make sure your cables and plugs are neatly organized. And not near any water source or possible spillage zone.

Hang your cables or keep them outside the tent if you can.

Finally, the top poles of the grow tent need to be resistant.

You’re going to hang a few things from them so they need to able to handle the weight.

Make sure the grow tent you choose can support lights, inline fans, possible a CO2 filter, possible oscillating fans.

If you plan to hang even more stuff, steel poles are the best option.

But as long as the grow tent is a quality one, you will be fine.

Conclusion

Grow tents are not complicated but the quality does vary because there are lots of cheap models from China, however, as long as you do your research and choose a good quality tent you can experience years of service. Simply understand the size of the grow tent that you want to house the plants that you have.

Select how many ports/vents to work with, the strength of the material and you are done. Be careful not to skimp on quality. The best grow tent, however, ought to care well for precious plants and last a long time. We are convinced we have covered some of the best products in the grow tent reviews above, and that our suggestions will influence your decision making. That being said, have fun and wait for your plants to grow large and healthy.