Tents, how does yours rate?

horribleherk

home grown
Just got a 4x4 LA Garden tent.
Fail!
7 of the 8 corners are bust. The snap pins dont make it to the holes to lock in. So tent is wobbly.
Ill disassymble and hog out the holes a bit and make it work i suppose.
On a high note, contacted seller and they are sending a second tent free of charge so ill have 2 when i get this one straightened out. View attachment 46800 View attachment 46801

How do they get such a large bead of weld on such a thin piece of metal?

Sad part is ive run an 2x4 LA Garden tent for years and its been the best one ive had. No QC i guess.
My guess as to how they built those welds up is they used a tig , low temp & built it up possibly a machine weld looks perfect I've been using the cool grows ( amazon) now on its second grow with no failure , that said I'm gonna spend a few bucks more & go back to hydrobuilder.com & get their covert tent my 3x3 is in its 4th year of constant use with no issues
 
Summit Grow Labs - 9.5/10 - 4.5x4.5, Couldn’t ask for much more. 25mm poles I could use it as a jungle gym. Thick material like Gorilla with Mars style doors with improved zipper flaps and zero light leaks. Only thing I’d improve is there are top duct ports in the roof but nowhere up high on the walls of the tent.

Gorilla Grow Tents - 9/10 - 3x3, Great, not a fan of the zipper style and has the most light leaks of the top 3 tents. Quality is a bit stronger than Mars but price hurts.

Mars Hydro Tents - 8/10 - 2x4’s, I would be weary of the larger Mars tents. No lower ports otherwise fantastic quality for the money.

Mammoth Tents - 5/10 - 2x2, You get what you pay for. Cheap, no reflection, I haven’t used this since I got it the plants didn’t like it.
 

OldG

Elite Hobbyist
I got a CHEAPO from amazon...and let me tell you its a cheapo. Glad its in a place where i dont have to worry about a light leak or it having to be robust...thin cheap poles etc.

But...IT WORKS!!

This Chinese special is so amazing 6 1/2 feet must have been tiny Chinese feet because it is 6 foot 1 at best.

:D

Vivosun...Solid and the best of the ones I have purchased...Come in 600D and 1280D and dont get tents under 600D

Mars Hydro Tents I agree....good quality.

The cheapo was just like a mamoth...it might say 600D but its more like 400D

Gorllla Tents look pretty nice...

When you open and close the tents push the flap in the tent and the zippers wont snag....someone told me about that...thanks whoever you were :D
 
Tents I have :

Fusion Hut 6'x6' - 4/5
Bloom Grow 2.5'x5' - 3.5/5
Growneer 3'x2' (shorty) - 5/5
Growneer 4'x2' (shorty) - 5/5
Melon Farm 4'x4' - 1/5

Fusion Hut is very good. But it had a lot of pinholes when I got it. The gap is a little much, so the centre tent ceiling poles sag. I almost need a tent prop pole from Home Hardware or something. Velcro could be better.
Still good tents though. Had mine for 4 yrs now and it should hold out for a few more, easily.

The Melon Farm was a huge disappointment. Huuuuuuuuge. No lower ports to pass cords thru, or mount an intake fan in. Only a single rectangular, meshed breather hole. And no side doors. So accessing shit at the back is infuriating as hell. And finally the zipper. Oh...the zipper. I've nearly taken my Bowie knife and sliced this tent up on more than one occasion getting annoyed with that zipper. I absolutely HATE this tent.

Bloom Grow are decent, or should I say "were decent" for the price. They seem to have got a little greedy with their pricing lately, without any seeming improvement in build quality. The one I have has no side doors or even a door window to peek thru. The zipper eventually started going hinky. The one I have (2.5'x5') is pretty thin fabric with a large gap between poles, so it sucks in real bad if you don't figure out a way to prop it out. Definitely a cheap brand, but it does what it was intended to do and I've pumped a bunch of cannabis out of it, so I can't complain too much.

Best bang for the buck in my inventory, by far, are my Growneer tents. Real good heavy zippers that rarely jam. Decent fabric thickness. They have plenty of ports for pass thru and intake fans etc. Velcro seems to stay strong. Just very well made for the money.
They make probably the best fabric bags I've used too. Heavy gauge with stitching at the rim and super heavy duty double stitched handles.
 

horribleherk

home grown
The cool grows tent continues to be working out with no issues so far I would like the zippers to be a little smoother but so far they havent jammed or stuck & the poles not as strong as I would like but have caused no problems overall no light leaks & it has all the openings in the right places for my fans & access openings to get to my scrog 20210217_120404.jpg 20210217_120330.jpg 20210217_120322.jpg
 
someone told me this before... push the tent doors into the tent and then use the zippers...they go shut right every time,

They snag when the flaps are out.
This definitely works when I have a zipper issue on all my tents......except my Melon Farm. Lots of similar complaints in the reviews as well. Not sure why, but it drives me insane lol
 

horribleherk

home grown
Tents I have :

Fusion Hut 6'x6' - 4/5
Bloom Grow 2.5'x5' - 3.5/5
Growneer 3'x2' (shorty) - 5/5
Growneer 4'x2' (shorty) - 5/5
Melon Farm 4'x4' - 1/5

Fusion Hut is very good. But it had a lot of pinholes when I got it. The gap is a little much, so the centre tent ceiling poles sag. I almost need a tent prop pole from Home Hardware or something. Velcro could be better.
Still good tents though. Had mine for 4 yrs now and it should hold out for a few more, easily.

The Melon Farm was a huge disappointment. Huuuuuuuuge. No lower ports to pass cords thru, or mount an intake fan in. Only a single rectangular, meshed breather hole. And no side doors. So accessing shit at the back is infuriating as hell. And finally the zipper. Oh...the zipper. I've nearly taken my Bowie knife and sliced this tent up on more than one occasion getting annoyed with that zipper. I absolutely HATE this tent.

Bloom Grow are decent, or should I say "were decent" for the price. They seem to have got a little greedy with their pricing lately, without any seeming improvement in build quality. The one I have has no side doors or even a door window to peek thru. The zipper eventually started going hinky. The one I have (2.5'x5') is pretty thin fabric with a large gap between poles, so it sucks in real bad if you don't figure out a way to prop it out. Definitely a cheap brand, but it does what it was intended to do and I've pumped a bunch of cannabis out of it, so I can't complain too much.

Best bang for the buck in my inventory, by far, are my Growneer tents. Real good heavy zippers that rarely jam. Decent fabric thickness. They have plenty of ports for pass thru and intake fans etc. Velcro seems to stay strong. Just very well made for the money.
They make probably the best fabric bags I've used too. Heavy gauge with stitching at the rim and super heavy duty double stitched handles.
Thanks for sharing this is good solid info
 

horribleherk

home grown
Used the "d" flaps to access my scrog today really convenient I would buy this budget tent again matched to a decent light I'm really digging the yield for a change I still have product left when I'm gonna be harvesting the next round 20210217_164802.jpg 20210217_173715.jpg 20210217_173703.jpg
 

thesunnyvalekid

Boutique Auto Service
I've not seen them yet I'm in calaveras gold country summer temps can get hot & dry moved up here from stockton
Spent some time in the Valley, Modesto and Riverbank mostly, fly fishing the Stanislaus river, gorilla growing along its banks. Great weather there for outdoor growing, 1995-98 would be the years. Missed the mountains and beaches of Santa Cruz to much, moved back home to Sunnyvale.
 

horribleherk

home grown
Spent some time in the Valley, Modesto and Riverbank mostly, fly fishing the Stanislaus river, gorilla growing along its banks. Great weather there for outdoor growing, 1995-98 would be the years. Missed the mountains and beaches of Santa Cruz to much, moved back home to Sunnyvale.
Have grown along the stanislaus myself I'm native to manteca & fished the entire area nice striper & steelhead in that area not to mention smallmouth bass we used to drift the stanislaus at various points from knights ferry to manteca where it joins the san Joaquin they get a good shad run in the stanislaus too
 

thesunnyvalekid

Boutique Auto Service
Have grown along the stanislaus myself I'm native to manteca & fished the entire area nice striper & steelhead in that area not to mention smallmouth bass we used to drift the stanislaus at various points from knights ferry to manteca where it joins the san Joaquin they get a good shad run in the stanislaus too
Hmmm, your a local. Only locals know about steelhead in the Stanislaus, it actually has two runs one in summer and one in winter, can’t fish the winter one cuz river closes for the salmon runs, but fishing is spectacular. Knights ferry is a beautiful area, behind the store in the little town, I know a guy that grows on the hillside there, he breeds his own strains lives there. He ties flys and fishes the Orange Blossom Road area heavily. Love the area and miss fishing the river.
Nice to have a local on the site, nice to meet you.
Having any luck growing and fishing in gold country, your close to the upper Sacramento River, ever fish it?
 

Gentlemancorpse

Cannabis Chaotician
Staff member
Moderator
Hmmm, your a local. Only locals know about steelhead in the Stanislaus, it actually has two runs one in summer and one in winter, can’t fish the winter one cuz river closes for the salmon runs, but fishing is spectacular. Knights ferry is a beautiful area, behind the store in the little town, I know a guy that grows on the hillside there, he breeds his own strains lives there. He ties flys and fishes the Orange Blossom Road area heavily. Love the area and miss fishing the river.
Nice to have a local on the site, nice to meet you.
Having any luck growing and fishing in gold country, your close to the upper Sacramento River, ever fish it?

Your user name just fully registered for me lol. I have mad family in Sunnyvale. Tried living out there for a minute but it wasn't meant to be. Beautiful area.
 

Dino Party

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I've had 3 brands of 4 x 4's.

HydroCrunch (Home depot)- some light leaking, weak front zipper 3.0/5

Vivosun- some light leaking, slightly better zipper then above brand ^, average interior reflectivity 3.8/5


Zazzy- no light leaks, blinding diamond mylar reflectivity, HELLA front zipper 4.5/5


All were about $90 to $110 range.
yo I got a zazzy too, the name always makes me LOL

got my first 4x4 still from years ago, an Apollo. Wish they still made it, super heavy duty, super kickass. was cheaper than any 4x4 i find these days, even the cheap ones.
 
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