humidity

Hi there just a quickie, how can i raise the humidy in my garden area,i've tried the damp towl and fan blowing across a bowl of water methods and still had no joy! IM skint to go and buy a humidifier!
CAn anyone plz help???

buy one there not that much

I would if i could believe me buy the money i had went on everything else.

you can buy one made by vicks for like $7. Or get multiple bowls of water and let them evaporate.

boil some water on the stove.

Shit, Man! I'll bite. Why do you want to raise the humidity?

I'll tell you this now, the higher the humidity in the flowering room, the greater the chance for fungus.

Are you sure you need to raise the humidity level or are you just guessing? Around 50% is considered ideal. If you are sure its to low you cuold mist your plants more often, that would raise the humidity level temporarily.

what about a humidity of 14%. Cloan area has 90% humid. but the veg/bloom area is 14%. It's gone up about 2% and as low as 11%

is that good or bad? I know ideal is 40%, but how will a humidity in the teens effect the crop?

Your plants need water. If the humidity in the air is low the plants will emit water into the air thru the stomata, and have to work harder to have water to use for growing/ blooming. It will stress the plants.
If you have 90% humidity, the plants will have trouble transpiring and the stomata can get clogged making a bad situation worse. Spider mites love high humidity. Sounds like you need some air movement in the clone area and less ventilation in the growing/ blooming area. This is only a guess without more information.

40-50% seems to be ideal for people having problems with fungus. I find that between keeping my house at about 32% humidity my grow rooms ranges from 40-50%. The drip irrigation room sits at around 40% and the fill and drain system sits at around 50%.

I had problems with fungus but it was because I had a bad hygrometer(thing that tells you what the humidity is) I was pumping huge humidifiers to move the humdity level up. Then came the grey fungus. So I got a new meter and tested it with the local weather channel and the readings I got with the meter being outside.

Then I took the meter inside. The damn house was sitting at 83% humidity!

So first thing first....check to make sure your meter is accurate. If you're still at 14%(very easy to do during the winter months) then yeah, you need a humidifier or something.

cheers penguin.

VictorVIcious said:

Your plants need water. If the humidity in the air is low the plants will emit water into the air thru the stomata, and have to work harder to have water to use for growing/ blooming. It will stress the plants.
If you have 90% humidity, the plants will have trouble transpiring and the stomata can get clogged making a bad situation worse. Spider mites love high humidity. Sounds like you need some air movement in the clone area and less ventilation in the growing/ blooming area. This is only a guess without more information.

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Okay, I am working on getting the humid up.

As for the 90% humid. it's in my cloan area away from my veg/bloom area. The cloans are in a dome and from everything I've read and on this site, humidity needs to be high for them to take root. Or am i wrong on this??

put some water in a container and let it seat in the room to increase the humidity, the wider the top the faster it will humidify...spraying the floliage by a spray bottle should increase the humidity...but i don't think humidifiers are as necessary as dehumidifiers.

nightfun said:

Okay, I am working on getting the humid up.

As for the 90% humid. it's in my cloan area away from my veg/bloom area. The cloans are in a dome and from everything I've read and on this site, humidity needs to be high for them to take root. Or am i wrong on this??

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Your absolutly right

yeah when i spray its goes up but quickly goes back down again.i've tried putting a bowl (wider at the top) in there in increase it but that hasn't worked for me!

what is causing your air to be so dry?

potroast said:

Shit, Man! I'll bite. Why do you want to raise the humidity?

I'll tell you this now, the higher the humidity in the flowering room, the greater the chance for fungus.

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The only place I like hunmidity is in HER pants....

don't know dude,my grow box in lined with aluminuim foil,got 2 small pc fans in on the box,1 sucking in , 1 pushing out, and a fan circulating on the plants just outside the grow box.

lol at garden known, me to,it gets hot down in the bush area lol

do you have a ballast in the room. sounds way to low for a veg room. can't understand what would be drying you out. you said heat was in the 70's?

fdd2blk said:

do you have a ballast in the room. sounds way to low for a veg room. can't understand what would be drying you out. you said heat was in the 70's?

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don't know if this is directed to me or not. in case me, I'll answer..

My ballast is in the same room. Yes does sound low for a veg room. So far today, I've put the intake fan on a timer and a osolating fan higher up moving all the air around. My humidity is now 34%. The temp is holding tight at 78. I'm going to run with this for a few days to see how the humidity changes.