NugHeuser
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to follow guidelines(the graphs online) for a healthy vaper pressure deficit on my plants. I currently am only running one 630 watt double ended ceramic medal halide inside a 9x10 room and at the moment only one month old plant under it, the temps are nice, around 81 degree highs, but because this is an open de light it's sucking a lot of moisture out of the air.
I've been misting the walls and also a little bit of searches on raising rh, most answers to the threads were unrelated to the questions or were saying "it's fine, don't worry about it". So I ended up going to Wal-Mart and paid 80 bucks for a thin tower evaporative humidifier(1.7 gal capacity) they only had one size bigger that advertised for 2000 sq ft for 90 dollars(I didn't see sq footage specified on the model that I bought but figured it was in the ball park of the 90 dollar model).
So now after a couple days, I have 2 buckets of water with wet towels draped over the edge(both within a foot of the plant), misting the walls(usually only get to mist in the evenings and the mist is usually evaporated after 30 to 45 mins), and this humidifier(on high, does not blow air very hard for high) and a fan behind it blowing the moist air toward the light and plant.
My rh is maxing right about at 60 percent(lights on) but that's when I'm really working to raise it (resoaking towels and misting walls) which I only get to do for a couple hours each evening because I work so much. When I got home from work rh was 50%, 5 hours after lights on. I'd like to have control up to about 70 percent, even more would be nice. Just doing what I've done the past 4 days or so(When I started experimenting with raising humidity) seems to have caused my plant to explode as far as rapid growth goes and just looks overall healthier.
So any more tricks or recommendations for units that will actually get the job done I would greatly appreciate. Also it's just an enclosed finished room (no windows) in my basement if that makes a difference. Rest of basement seems to stay around low 60s to mid 70s for rh depending on weather outside. At dark in the grow room the rh does rise to mid 60s without the humidifier or misting.
I've been misting the walls and also a little bit of searches on raising rh, most answers to the threads were unrelated to the questions or were saying "it's fine, don't worry about it". So I ended up going to Wal-Mart and paid 80 bucks for a thin tower evaporative humidifier(1.7 gal capacity) they only had one size bigger that advertised for 2000 sq ft for 90 dollars(I didn't see sq footage specified on the model that I bought but figured it was in the ball park of the 90 dollar model).
So now after a couple days, I have 2 buckets of water with wet towels draped over the edge(both within a foot of the plant), misting the walls(usually only get to mist in the evenings and the mist is usually evaporated after 30 to 45 mins), and this humidifier(on high, does not blow air very hard for high) and a fan behind it blowing the moist air toward the light and plant.
My rh is maxing right about at 60 percent(lights on) but that's when I'm really working to raise it (resoaking towels and misting walls) which I only get to do for a couple hours each evening because I work so much. When I got home from work rh was 50%, 5 hours after lights on. I'd like to have control up to about 70 percent, even more would be nice. Just doing what I've done the past 4 days or so(When I started experimenting with raising humidity) seems to have caused my plant to explode as far as rapid growth goes and just looks overall healthier.
So any more tricks or recommendations for units that will actually get the job done I would greatly appreciate. Also it's just an enclosed finished room (no windows) in my basement if that makes a difference. Rest of basement seems to stay around low 60s to mid 70s for rh depending on weather outside. At dark in the grow room the rh does rise to mid 60s without the humidifier or misting.
