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Jd24522
Jd24522started grow question 5 months ago
Having issue with grow and rh.if I am growing in a tent does the room temp and rh work hand in hand my house is very dry and haveing problems keeping over 30% in late flower have 3 weeks left of a photo period
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AutoflowersSucK
AutoflowersSucKanswered grow question 5 months ago
30% is pretty low. I live in one of the most dry climates on earth. In fact i think 2 years ago we set a world record for low humidity. It's regularly 19% RH here. I use the AC Infinity T3 4.5L humidifier. Maintaining VPD is about the most important thing you can do to achieve the highest output in your garden. It regulates the plants uptake ability. That also includes nutrients. High VPD can actually cause nutrient burn in your plants even though they aren't over fed. The increase in transpiration due to high VPD can cause it. My plants are in week 9 flower and my RH is between 40 and 50% Your temperature is good, humidity isn't. But they will survive and finish so don't worry. But try to improve your garden atmosphere for future grows. And if i can give you some advice about humidifiers. the AC Infinity one is the best because it can be run outside your tent and have the vapor pumped in through a connector hose so you don't waste floor space in your tent. But what i'm saying, is a clear plastic humidifier in a highly lit up tent is gonna grow algae and be a bitch to have to pull out and clean all the time. It's a real mess. So either get the AC Infinity one (they always sold out) or, try to find one with tinted glass or UV blocking glass. And 1 last tip about humidifiers. Use distilled or RO water in them. Don't use tap water because the calcium in the water will end up as a white dust EVERYWHERE....including plugging up your expensive cardon filter and just makes a huge mess everywhere in your house. Hope this was helpful to you.
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Vegetoo420
Vegetoo420answered grow question 5 months ago
You need a humidifier mate ! If you can’t have one, you can’t using a sprayer couple of time daytime, be carful to not spraying your leaves if you do it
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Scrubbyjimbob
Scrubbyjimbobanswered grow question 5 months ago
I wouldn't worry. Low humidity is good for flower. Now if you dry in those same conditions, you might dry a little more quickly. Watch for overdrying. I still wouldn't pump in extra moisture though. It's better to run dry than humid.
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HerbalEdu
HerbalEduanswered grow question 5 months ago
i d be happy if my rh was like yours in flower, mine is often over 50% and it's when i start having some mold with some strains and phenotypes within those strains.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 5 months ago
30% in late flower is good, not a problem.
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Angus_MacGrower
Angus_MacGroweranswered grow question 5 months ago
Let the water run off into the cups, this will slightly increase the humidity under the foliage.
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NoopGrow
NoopGrowanswered grow question 5 months ago
Why don't you use a humidifier?
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Polyphemus
Polyphemusanswered grow question 5 months ago
You problably know you need a humidifier, which i go into below.. but if you "can't" do anythign for any reason rational or irrational, you can mitigate this slightly by reducing concentration of feed to match increased uptake of water in plants. A high VPD environment resutls from low RH. This results in more transpiration occuring per increment of time and that increases the amount of water the plant drinks per day. if it is drining 20% more than before, you shuld drop concentration of fertilizer to math. that way you are providing the same mass of bulding blocks per day as before --- this assumes growth rate was good and everyhting else was/is fine. now trackign how much water the plant used will help inform, but also consider how much large plants have grown.. this makes it very unclear, lol.. just a guess. But, keep eye on plants if they start looking too lush or start clawing, you'll see that reducing concentration of fertilizers is needed when VPD spikes. you'll still get better growth rates with more approriate VPDs but you'll avoid the toxicities. which is obviously a net positive effect. ------ humidifier... evaporative cooler.. something.. the "cold" humidifiers are better than the ones using heat or atomize as far as avoiding a mineral dusting of surface area. some "demineralizing" additives can help with that too. the atomizing ones don't work that well, if i recall? those are the ones that leave a filthy residue on everything too. cold just means it's a fan blowing over a wick that increases surface area while soaking up water from a reservoir. A fan over a bowl of water can do it too, but soemthign that increases the surface area will drastically improve the effect. These type of units, if purchased, do not require many watts for operation.. just a strong fan. Need to replace "wicks" occasionally. you could diy something... hang some towelst that dip into some water and blow air between them.
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