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Originally Posted by cbuchman
In an Orchid Show talk this week, I saw a great technique for keeping up humidity for small plants.
Put a clay pot in a saucer of water and then hang your little orchids on the inside rim of the clay pot. The pot provides moisture wicked up from the saucer and an almost enclosed environment to hold the humidity, but one that is open enough for air movement. Pictures showed humidity loving orchids growing in a house this way. It's so easy, I plan to try it. I wish I'd thought of it myself!
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That is a good suggestion! Ill have to consider it! The issue foresee is that I grow these guys under a big t5 fixture and I have many hanging plants under it and so it would be hard to get the pot up close enough for the fixture.
I'm still working out he kinks in my home made humidifier. I have a five head ultra sonic mister that is on full blast inside a 40 gallon trash can...one that was never used of course. It has a top on it with a flexible tube for the outlet and a five inch fan atop a hole opposite the outlet that forces the dry air into the can and therefore the mist and humid air out the other side.
It's incredible effective! I can make it rain inside, which is not good. Lol. I need to find a way to control it better. I don't know how though. If I could rig up a way to have the humidity sensed and put a max humidity setting in place to stop the fan when it hits max that's be ideal.
At 40 gallons, the system runs for just over a week but with a noticeable drop off near the end with what I guess is 10 gallons or less remaining.
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