July 30, 2020
If you want to grow sticky, high-potency buds, your indoor plants will demand attention to its many needs.
One need of the growing indoor plants– that is commonly overlooked – is humidity.
Believe it or not, humidity is actually very important to your plant! Humidity will help determine your plants resilience against mold/mildew in addition to how much your plants need to drink. Getting it just right can improve plant growth and increase your yields.
When we talk about humidity, we usually mean relative humidity (RH), which is the ratio of partial pressure of water vapor to the maximum vapor pressure of water at the same temperature. You get the whole idea when knowing the basic principle that warm air holds more water vapor than cold air. This is one of the reasons why it’s necessary to extract a lot of warm air from our grow room, and ideally allow cool air to enter – warm air simply holds too much water vapor in it.
Effects of Poor Humidity Management
White Powdery Mildew
White Powdery Mildew is a fungal disease that young indoor plants flourish in high humidity environments. Luckily, you can stave off WPM by making sure there is proper airflow in your grow area; a small oscillating fan – even on the low setting – works wonders.
Bud Mold or Rot
Beacuse of your poor humidity management, bud rot or mold will be discovered. Imagine harvesting a huge, dense main cola from your plant only to see the insides are totally white or brown with mold. In this condition buds are unusable and 100% should be thrown away.
Nutrient Problems
Humidity is a factor that partly determines how much your plants will drink. If the air is dry, your plants will tend to drink more at their roots. If they’re already drinking more due to high temperatures, low humidity can cause them to drink a lot of water through their roots and uptake too-high levels of nutrients. If your plant takes in more nutrients than the plant can use, the leaves will begin to show yellow or burnt tips, which is the result of nutrient burn. Sometimes too-low humidity can cause other apparent nutrient problems.
Slowed Growth
Indoor plants love higher humidity when they’re young, and lower humidity when they’re mature. To be frank, if they’re not getting these conditions, they may not be growing nearly as fast or healthy as they could.
Now we know why we need to manage humidity when growing indoor plants, but we may not know what humidity you are aiming for. So, What are the optimum humidity levels for indoor plants growing?
Here are some basic “rules of thumb” you can follow:
We’ve got a pretty good idea on humidity levels we aim for. Now it’s time to get to the practical part, and to find ways to bring things back in balance when they’re not.
Lower humidity
Raising humidity
Humidifier is an efficient way to add additional moisture to the air and thus increase your room humidity quickly. Here we give two for your consideration which we think both useful but cheap.
Increases humidity in dry living spaces and grow room.
-Removes unpleasant odour and other smell.
-Removes dust and indoor air pollution.
-Disinfects and deodorizes indoor air. -Creates clean,hygienic and bacteria-free air.
-Place: Applicable for room size: 30m2.
-Working time: 14-28 hours.
-Caution: Better use clean water.
-Better switch off when power off.
-Waterless automatic protection.
-Mist-out mouth rotatable at 360°C.
-Chrome decorated switch for Mist Adjustment, Time setting and Night Light.
-Removable water tank with a wide mouth for easy filling.
-Low noise.
ITEM SIZE:256*256*330mm
NET WEIGHT: 2.0kg
GW:2.6kg(WITH BOX)
TANK CAPACITY:8.0L
MIST VOLUME:300-350ML/H
RAW MATERIAL:ABS+PP
Product Specifications: Size: 8” x 6” x 9” | Power: 120V, 50Hz | Max Run Time: 16 hrs | Coverage Area: 250 sq ft | Tank Capacity: 1.5 Liters (.4 Gallons)