Mastering YOUR growing culture

[Steve83]

My humidity goes from 65 to 80% at the 7am watering, and it drops to 60 by 7pm when the light goes off. I can water the mounts up to 3x day lol

When the light goes off, humidity rises back into the 70s as things cool.

This is labeled as New Zealand tree fern, and under the dame distribution as Orchiata I believe. They offer it in slab form for mounts, or shredded for potting.

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It is softer than regular tree fern, and the pieces appear fine, but it maintains it's structure (air passages) when saturated.

The slabs can hold quite a bit of water if you drench them, and some plants may root into them. I purchased both Sophie's Orchids. There are also some vids of the products on youtube.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Sweet. Thanks.

[Steve83]

I just bought a Kill-A-Watt today, to see how much my humidifier pulls (it wasn't displayed on the box or tag), because I know energy consumption is a concern for many of us, and I was curious as to what my monthly running cost is.

With the led bars I swapped in, two 5w fans, and humidifier, my daily cost to run is only $0.20 a day, and a single bar would be perfectly fine as well. I will happily pay that to gain complete control of all parameters so that is on par with a greenhouse.

Since I have a majority of the reflective material covered and routed into a drip pan, I may do the inside of the doors and add a chameleon. Because they cannot leap upward, and possess fused feet (not like a gecko) one could be contained among the plants.

[Leafmite]

All the things we do for our beloved plants....