Humidity for indoor orchids in winter..

[HollyMStewart]

I am wanting to make sure my humidity is staying high enough for my orchids for the winter. I live in Tennessee, so it is cold and dry this time of year, especially with the heat running. Everyone in the house has been getting dry bloody sinuses, so I know the orchids could probably use a bit more.

I don't have the orchids on humidity trays yet, hopefully I can get that in the works next. I just now got all my orchids on one stand in a central location. For the past few days I have been running a humidifier in the room. Is this a good way to give humidity to indoor orchids. Could there be any chance it could cause harm (fungus, bacteria, etc?) It seemed like a good idea to me.

I need to get a gauge for that room, but if I had to guess the overall humidity in the room is about 50-60 at best.

I am currently growing a handful of phals, cattleyas and cat hybrids, 1 paph, an oncidium and dendrobium kingianum. Everything is in spike except a couple of the phals, and I have one cat hybrid in bloom.

Here is a picture of my orchid shelf.

(The aquarium below the plants houses our orchid guardian - a solid white female corn snake. LOL)