92 F / 30 C inside when heat is blasting. should i mist roots everyday?

[stefpix]

Hi
in the apt where I live now the heat is blasting -
what is in S/H looks drier as the LECA is.

should i mist the top of the mdium everyday? I got one of those pump sprayers with a wand?
I have phals, dens, catts and more.

Anyway in NYC outside is freezing.
I took inside my Den nobile just in time as the temperature dropped in the 20s with high wind. a Wandering Jew i left outside turned mushy with the freeze/thaw and prob died [but who knows if it can grow more from the roots].
Also the Den nobile has been outside until now pretty mych dry except rain now and then. is it enough of a rest?
I feel with 90 F inside in the afternoon evening i need really to mist the roots way more often except what is close to the window.

I have a small cool mist humidifier running most of the time but does not cover enough.

[Ray]

I would fully water daily, rather than just mist.

You really should do something about the humidity!

[stefpix]

thanks.

can i water just with the pump sprayer by spraying generously on the roots?
well it is 90 F only in the evenings when they raise the heat.
teh humidity is not too bad like 50 % on average.
also i keep some water on the tray [but plant pots not sitting directly on water]

[Donald]

Only kidding stefpix but those conditions sound ideal for growing cactus. I would have to agree with Ray and see if you can get the humidity boosted up. I have my collection in a sunroom where the temps vary from 55 at night to 75 during the day. The humidity varies and the highest I've been able to get it to during the winter is 50. The only plants that are not happy are a couple of vandas that have never bloomed which are, I'm sure, the conditions they are living in.. I mist a couple of times a day. Ninety two degrees. I've begun to sweat. Stay cool.

[RosieC]

Wow, that's warm. How do YOU live in that heat? My heating is set to 66F / 19C when it is on.

[stefpix]

well it was so hot because there was a cold spell in NY

the temperature dropped outside quickly and usually i leave the window cracked open -
Actually I have 2 windows and i leave one cracked open on top [so i get no cold draught on the windowsill].

Now I just came back and inside is 78 F and 45% humidity.
Bu I have to say
Dendrobium spectabile is growing new cane and looks longer every day.
Spathoglottis plicata is in spike
and so are 2 or 3 Phal NOIDs.
Dendrobium Hamana Smile has a keiki that bloomed.
Cestrum nocturnum is still blooming.
2 or 3 Vandas are growing many new green roots.
2 Masdevallia hybrids are growing many new leaves
Carnivorous plants like Pinguiculas keep blooming and grow new asexual plantlets
Phaius tankervilliae is growing 2 new leads.
So can't be that bad.
A Phal equestris spike blasted - I think probably some cold draft one day i opened the lower part of the window.

In a NYC apartment building the window is your thermostat.
sometimes the heat goes off at night sometimes it goes on -
I have no control on the temperature,
and maybe the plants have some more humidity being close one to another and some on some sort of humidity tray.

A Cattleya guttata had new roots that now look a bit drier -
wonder if i should mist the Cattleyas on hydroton more often...

[Donald]

Good Evening stefpix. Nice collection and based on your
description they all seem like they are doing A OK.
Have a good night.

[stefpix]

And anyway
it was really nice to come home in 92 F / 30 C after having been outside in that sudden arctic wind chill that hit NYC all of a sudden after many mild days...
well I opened the window and let the temperature go down to 80

[Country Gramma]

Stefpix,
It sounds like you have quite a few orchids that are loving whatever you're doing so I say "If it ain't broke don't fix it".

Donald,
I know what you mean about the humidity. I live in E. Brookfield, MA and I struggle to keep the humidity at 50%. Gotta love our winter!!!

Karen

[stefpix]

Actually my red Hyppeastrum and 2 paperwhites blooms kinda dried up and some Phal equestris roots dried up too -
I can take the radiator lower but it is hard to control when the weather in nyc is such a sequence of freezes and thaws.

a bulb of a Arundina graminifolia is finally shooting up a keiki after 6 months and so the semi dead Den kingianum that i put horizontally in a seedling tray on coco coir is shooting up keikis that grow and root visibly evry day.
I was worried about the 2 Masdevallias but i think being close to the window and in clay keeps em cooler.
Tomorrow supposed to be 50 F / 9 C and tuesday even warmer. 2 days ago the windchill brought the temperature in the lower teeens so they said on the radio... Although i dont believe in windchill factor temperatures