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nepenthes gracilis

nepenthes gracilis

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Hey all, in my greenhouse humidity is decent (lowest about 40%) and I was wondering what would work to keep humidity high in my greenhouse (30ft long by 15ft wide) besides a misting system for it, I couldn't use one anyways b/c water is too expensive. Thanks!
 
however you do it is gonna take alot of water. I collect water that runs off my barns roof. You can just water down the whole green house(on the plants, floor, and benches) and let the sun evaporate it though it will evaporate it quickly. I have heard of someone collect ing rainwater in a big container and pupping it into a misting system. Remember warm air holds more water.
 
What type of water are you saying is way to expensive, R/O or tap. You can raise the humidity with tap water using a method other than misting. A few cool mist humidifiers would work but still release some chemicals, warm mist humidifiers would release something closer to distilled water but more off a pain in the ace. The easiest method is to buy a $170 R/O filter from home depot and put a misting system on it, and it will also supply all your water needs without waiting for rain.

It doesn't take much water to keep the humidity high, what you use to take a shower will keep your green house humid for a week.

joe
 
I make cheap ponds useing the 6 mil that home depot sells that really keeps my humidity nice and high in side my green house and gives off heat at night time.


_-West-_
 
Joe it will expensive b/c 1: it is winter and I cannot hook up water anyhow. 2: the service is expensive, not the usage bill.

Virus, Tony was telling me that may be the way to go, it cheap and econominal. Just need to get a pump and a mister system. It would be easy to do too, just a plastic trash can, pump in bottom conected to misters placed around the greenhouse, turn it on for a qucik balst and your set.
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West, how big are the ponds in your greenhouse?
 
Nep g.  How about a small fountain at one end.  The water cascading over the rocks will evaporate for humidity and you could junglify (new word I just made up) it with CPs placed in the nooks and cranies.  There may be pump kits available at your local DIY store.  Any who just a thought.

Cheers!
 
Hey all here's an update on the situation.

I got thinking perhaps my humidifier (with the rotating disk thingie) puts out mist but not enough perhaps. SO i filled up a 5 gallon pail with water palced the top half o the unit on top and turned it on......mist flew all around so I was quite impressed with the tremedous amount it put out in the air, so I moved the bucket in front fo my heater (as the heated air is like 10-30% humidity) and now when the heater runs, it will blow the heated air through the humidifier mist and make warm humid air in result. Pretty good idea? I thought it was and so far it shows good results with lowls only int he 60% range now! The humidity is improving!
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Like I am going to pay $900 dollars for one of those?
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I am building one in the spring anyways and besides, you couldn't utilize one in the winter.
 
Khai,

How large of a greenhouse can the 7.3 amp evap cooler cool? There doesn't seem to be a refferance to it on the page. The big humidity pad at the end of Orchids Limited's retail section is much larger than this unit. it was like 20 feet long x 4 feet high or something like that. (although that style used at OL looks easy to DIY If I ever get a GH)!
 
Yeah I replaced that #### thing 2 years ago. That was one of the most horrible jobs i ever had to do! 17 years of build up!All over me! And all by myself!
The difference between that unit and The one at OL is that the contained unit is much less passive, and thus more efficient.
And yes they are extremely easy to build its just getting them sealed and keeping them that way that is the problem.
But its usually not that big of a deal.
As for what that model can cool Im not sure but Im sure Charlies would be more than willing to answer any questions.
By the way if you do a search on google I think you might be able to find these even cheaper than what Charlies is asking.

Peace
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OK well the cheapest is $400.00 still not on my budget at ALL. It's a bit ridiculous to save for one of those when I have instructions from Michael Catalani on how to build one. I will be using a much larger and more efficent evap. cooler anyways.
 
Hi Khai, the setup I will be using is how Mike's is setup...you can see his on his website under growing neps in a greenhouse I think. A fogger would be nice...and a simple large ultrasonic humidifier would probably do the trick.
 
The ponds in my green house cover about 20% of the ground.


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Ultrasonic humidifier is a good idea if you dont mind buying them all the time they break very easy iv never had one last me more then 1 winter.They make a really neat looking fog .

_-West-_
 
you ever seen those portable evap coolers?  they are little and go in your window...  well we in the dryer states see them all the time.  one time i used one in my girlfriends bed room at her old house.  except i sat it in the middle of the room instead of in a window.  guess what?  it got so humid!  when the same air is passed through the cooler pads with the water it picks up more moisture.  but as we all probably know evap coolers don't work when it is humid right? so no worry about it cooling off the gh in the winter.
so, why not buy one of these little guys..  i think i see them for like 60 bucks and just set it in the green house.  usally you gotta fill the water in them yourself..  but if you're handy it is super easy to put in one of those fillers with the float.  just use the same one out of a regular size cooler.  they are like 2 bucks.  i hope this can help!!
edit: the more i think about this... the more i think this would add more humidity than just a evap cooler. so even if you are getting a evap cooler setup, maybe it would still be helpfull to run this too.....?
later,
 
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