So I’m a new grower, just had my seedlings sprout out of my soil in my 5x5. My temps rn are 79-81 so I know my humidity should be pretty high too cause I’m in early veg. Thing is I have trouble keeping the humidity up to the 70% that’s recommended. When the exhaust is running 24/7 on low settings I get around 55% humidity. I can get it to 63% if I have the exhaust on for a minute and off for 6. After asking around and googling I found some people saying you only need exhaust to keep humidity and heat under control and the oscillating fans do all the air movement. I have 3 oscillating fans (thinking of getting a 4th cause the tent looks weird not having a fan on all corners). Idk if I feel safe turning the exhaust fan off completely, but do you think it’s a good idea to keep the exhaust fan off for even longer? Like 10min instead of 6, just so I can get 68% humidity? Also I would use a dome of some kind to keep humidity but it’s annoying having to go into the tent to mist the domes every morning and night. Plus the domes don’t let the oscillating fans from doing any low stress training to the young plants. With the exhaust fan schedule my vpd ends up spiking up and down because the humidity goes from 58-68%, would that stress out the plant? Pics of humidity spiking below.
Edit* I was able to smooth out the spikes a little by setting my inline to activate at 69% with a 4% buffer and running the inline fan at speed 1 instead of 2. That way the exhaust runs for about a minute before shutting off, less air movement but it’s okay cause at that speed, it pulls 227cfm and a 5x5x6.6 only needs 165.
Edit* I was able to smooth out the spikes a little by setting my inline to activate at 69% with a 4% buffer and running the inline fan at speed 1 instead of 2. That way the exhaust runs for about a minute before shutting off, less air movement but it’s okay cause at that speed, it pulls 227cfm and a 5x5x6.6 only needs 165.
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