New Grower Quick, temporary fix for low humidity

[pop22]

Daytime high here was about 2F.. tonight already -9F! Having force hot air heat, its very dry in here. With the other upgrades i need to my grow room, a humidifier isn't happening until March. So what i did today as a test was hang a wet towel on a clothes hanger in the room. now the grow area isn't completely sealed off yet as I want to make some changes and I've got a few days before I will really need it, I had this hanging in a room that total 10x12. It raised my RH from 34 to 44 and has held there for about 8 hours. So I'm guessing it will at least help bring the RH to a reasonably healthy level until I can get the Humidifier. I'll change it 2x a day. Also I am building a lint trap for the dryer and am going to let it exhaust into to house. recycle the heat and the humidity.

Not the best fix, I know but better than nothing!

 

[chrisp]

My overnight temps have been in the single digits for about two weeks. Sucks. Humidity this morning was 16. I didn't think about it affecting my plants. I do see humidifiers at the store for about $18.00. Add a gallon of water and it runs until the water runs out, Usually takes 6 hours to run out.

 

[Balarama]

Instead of changing the towel every 8 hours, keep it hanging in a bucket(with some water) inside the room.
With the height of the towel you can regulate the amount of the evaporation area, so it's a passive control for humidity levels.

It should work, in theory

 

[faded187]

Instead of changing the towel every 8 hours, keep it hanging in a bucket(with some water) inside the room.
With the height of the towel you can regulate the amount of the evaporation area, so it's a passive control for humidity levels.

It should work, in theory

damn good idea..i been takin mine in the house and soakin every 6 hrs,gonna try ur bucket trick

 

[pop22]

good idea! TY :Sharing One:

 

[cidd]

just so you know when you exhaust the dryer into your house you are also introducing carbon monoxide into you house along with the water vapor. Now its not enough to kill you unless you do a heck of a lot of laundry.

 

[Alpha Skull]

Those are all groovy ideas. "Bailers Booya"

With the wet towel trick raising the RH to 44, why bother with a humidifier?
Even if your RH was 10%, as long as the plants have enough to drink and their leaves are not wilting, there should not be any problem.

Save yourself some money---and have one less object taking up space.

There's a tendency in the grow community to molly-coddle these beast-weeds. Too much emphasis on achieving perfect conditions with blemish-free, highest yield results. I seriously believe that this dreaded tendency accounts for about 75% of the threads in the infirmary.

Dirt, water, and strong light is all they need. You can achieve satisfactory results with minimal effort. Especially with autos. They REALLY hate being messed with. They often hate nutes of any kind whatsoever no matter how organic, and they virtually give up the ghost when you top them. They go into a suspended animation mode and don't grow up or sideways. Such has been my personal experience. Yours may indeed vary!

Anyhow, great grow karma to ya!:thumbs:

 

[pop22]

just so you know when you exhaust the dryer into your house you are also introducing carbon monoxide into you house along with the water vapor. Now its not enough to kill you unless you do a heck of a lot of laundry.

it electric so its not exhaust I'm venting just the waste heat/humidity. They use to and I think still do, sell kits for this.

 

[SkatterBrayne]

Daily foliage sprays are a great 'replacement' for a humidifier in low humidity situations. Add a surfactant wetting agent, and some liquid seaweed to the tops and bottoms of the leaves. The majority of the stomata on the leaves are located on the underside. Spray with the lights raised, and lower them 30 mins later after it all evaporates. This is so you don't contaminate the glass of your lights, and so the water doesn't magnify the light and burn your leaves.

You can also mix Epsom salts, which is a great treatment for magnesium hungry strains, and since magnesium is an immobile nutrient this is actually the most effective way to treat magnesium deficiencies which are not uncommon for autoflowers.

Discontinue foliar.sprays when they go into flower, the spray can burn the pistils. Low humidity will be an asset during the flowering period, anyway.

Maxicrop has a great, reasonably priced liquid seaweed product. Any seaweed or kelp extract will work. A VERY little amount of soap (NOT DETERGENT) can be used as a surfactant, although you may need to add an emulsifier. I personally use Earth juice assist as my surfactant, along with Dutch master penetrator as foliar additives to great effect. Soap is cheaper than the earth juice assist, but I also foliar spray actively airated composte tea, and the soap would kill the beneficial bacteria in it.

 

[Epic Genetics]

Daily foliage sprays are a great 'replacement' for a humidifier in low humidity situations. Add a surfactant wetting agent, and some liquid seaweed to the tops and bottoms of the leaves. The majority of the stomata on the leaves are located on the underside. Spray with the lights raised, and lower them 30 mins later after it all evaporates. This is so you don't contaminate the glass of your lights, and so the water doesn't magnify the light and burn your leaves.

You can also mix Epsom salts, which is a great treatment for magnesium hungry strains, and since magnesium is an immobile nutrient this is actually the most effective way to treat magnesium deficiencies which are not uncommon for autoflowers.

Discontinue foliar.sprays when they go into flower, the spray can burn the pistils. Low humidity will be an asset during the flowering period, anyway.

Maxicrop has a great, reasonably priced liquid seaweed product. Any seaweed or kelp extract will work. A VERY little amount of soap (NOT DETERGENT) can be used as a surfactant, although you may need to add an emulsifier. I personally use Earth juice assist as my surfactant, along with Dutch master penetrator as foliar additives to great effect. Soap is cheaper than the earth juice assist, but I also foliar spray actively airated composte tea, and the soap would kill the beneficial bacteria in it.

arrrg im drunk and cant think of the word , but if you spray the plants in attempt to replace rh the plants cant do something they are supposed to do , same goes for if the rh is too high , but it has to be real high for it to stop them

lol i know i sound like a dumb drunk right now , but spraying the plants isnt the best idea

google it and get a better idea of what im trying to say lol

peace