Repeated misting in a greenhouse environment

[ArronOB]

Hi. I was browsing a publication of the NZ Miltonopsis Society, which this link may or may not point too
http://www.odontalliance.org/affilia...%20no.%203.pdf

What interested me was an article on page 12 by a grower on the NSW Central Coast (where I live) with a wide variety of orchids growing in unheated shadehouses who says he has a very fine misting setup that comes on for 30 seconds every half hour between 6am and 6pm, so 24 times per day.

Bear in mind that this is in environment already on the humid side of average.

This is he first time I’ve heard of such frequent ‘misting’ for shadehouse growing.

Has anyone else tried this, and what was the result.

Incidentally, further down he says he uses an ebb and flow system for his paphs. Again, first time I’ve heard of that with orchids. My experience of ebb and flow was in hydroponic systems - full hydroponics not semi. Can anyone speculate on exactly how he uses the ebb and flow ?

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