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Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)
It is 6:30 am PST as I check the Weather.com website for the humidity and temperature in Marin County. The website measured the outdoors temperature at 49 F and 94% RH as of 6:21 am PST from Point Reyes Station, CA.
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Yes, Marin has microclimates. Point Reyes has the coldest dampest climate in the county (well, it and Bolinas). Where I live, about 25 miles inland, can be 30 degrees hotter and dry as a bone when the coast is socked in in cold fog. It's like Santa Monica versus Ontario in Southern California, but across a smaller area.
I did have a humidifier in there, I guess I'll put it back and use that instead of
misting and see how that goes. It's a fairly big room but if the humidifier is right there with the plants that area stays humid.
The gigantea just got repotted, so the stakes are to keep it from wiggling in its pot. Definitely I like the idea of letting them grow at any angle; I know some people only mount their Phals. The bellinaxequestris also just got repotted but is a larger plant and didn't need staking to be stable in its pot.
I use cheap little humidity meters (shaped like buttons), made for reptile terrariums. They probably aren't perfect but having moved them around, I know they work.
The bud blasting is probably a result of cold in my case.
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