Large viv, Help in setup please! Dial up DANGER

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by Jussi_K

Hi!

You should have an air circulation that big that the nearest plants leaves go around.

I heard that it is very bad for plants. Do you grow something very close to fans?

[Lin]

Wow just doesn't seem to cut it.

You did a fantastic job keeping everything so happy.

[Jussi_K]

About the air circulatiuon:
- Air circulation can be really good thing, if other conditions are right. Air humidity is the most important, it has to be over 60% if you grow in baskets and over 80 if you grow in kork or some other way bare roots.
- Heavy air circulation keeps the mold away
- Brings carbon dioxide near the plants
- Brigns H2O (gas) near the plants leafs
- Helps to make the evaporation more rapid, then your roots get air and don't die.
- In the wild there's actually pretty heavy wind in the middle section of rainforest, where epiphytes mostly grow.

[Shadow]

Thanks for explanation!

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Jussi_K

About the air circulatiuon:
- Air circulation can be really good thing, if other conditions are right. Air humidity is the most important, it has to be over 60% if you grow in baskets and over 80 if you grow in kork or some other way bare roots.
- Heavy air circulation keeps the mold away
- Brings carbon dioxide near the plants
- Brigns H2O (gas) near the plants leafs
- Helps to make the evaporation more rapid, then your roots get air and don't die.
- In the wild there's actually pretty heavy wind in the middle section of rainforest, where epiphytes mostly grow.

Jussi,
do you have your fans on all the time or some of the time [iet night or a few hours per day] and are they blowing in, out or within the the viv [just recirculating the air already inside the viv]?

[Jussi_K]

within the viv, all day long

one exhaust fan, blows cold air from outside additionally at night

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Jussi_K

within the viv, all day long

one exhaust fan, blows cold air from outside additionally at night

Thanks Jussi

[smartie2000]

Wow that is one sophisticated vivarium! Nice to see that the plants are blooming well
I see a paph blooming

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by smartie2000

Wow that is one sophisticated vivarium! Nice to see that the plants are blooming well
I see a paph blooming

Fren,
this is what I would hope I could acheive - a mixture of plants, but with a focus on many healthy blooming orchids, a water section and the look of a slice of tropical jungle/forest

[Jussi_K]

Hello,

Again, time to give some update photos. Not so many orchids blooming now. Only one masdie (sadly no photo) and one paph. But really many tillandsias blooming,,, I guess you guys are not so interested of them, but here's few photos, also photos of my frogs...


Vivaario tillandsioilla

just to get you interested...