gill_za
Never Knows Best
My ultimate goal is to mostly isolate the shelf from the room because unfortunately my apartment experiences serious fluctuations in humidity and in temperature. So I hope to smooth it out by creating close to isolated environment on each shelf in the long run. The shelves right now are so densely packed with plants and trays that I hope that the excess humidity will condense in the trays and/or gets absorbed into the soil (I'm planning on using DI water for Ultrasonic Humidifier).
In addition I'm planning on running the humidifier on the timer to save on water/electricity and not to overwhelm the plants. I realize that if I pump the air into the setup, whether I want it or not it will need to escape somewhere and will probably carry some moisture with it on the way out. Timer should also solve the excess humidity problem I hope.
Why did I even bother with humidifier? With enclosure my pings and utrics were drying out so quickly I could not keep up with watering. Without additional humidity the air is too dry. And even with evaporative humidifier that pumps air onto each shelf the humidity drops to 35 - 40% once the lights are on.. And the temperature rises to 80F with low 70s in the room (I dread summer...) Without the enclosure my apartment looks like I have a miniature lighthouse beacon in the room.
I realize that after all my experimentation and tweaking there might be a moment when I realize that all that effort was in vain (as for example I realized that reflective wrap sold in Lowes would be easier to setup than those foam panels) and its better to have a fan on very low blowing fresh air in. We'll see
In addition I'm planning on running the humidifier on the timer to save on water/electricity and not to overwhelm the plants. I realize that if I pump the air into the setup, whether I want it or not it will need to escape somewhere and will probably carry some moisture with it on the way out. Timer should also solve the excess humidity problem I hope.
Why did I even bother with humidifier? With enclosure my pings and utrics were drying out so quickly I could not keep up with watering. Without additional humidity the air is too dry. And even with evaporative humidifier that pumps air onto each shelf the humidity drops to 35 - 40% once the lights are on.. And the temperature rises to 80F with low 70s in the room (I dread summer...) Without the enclosure my apartment looks like I have a miniature lighthouse beacon in the room.
I realize that after all my experimentation and tweaking there might be a moment when I realize that all that effort was in vain (as for example I realized that reflective wrap sold in Lowes would be easier to setup than those foam panels) and its better to have a fan on very low blowing fresh air in. We'll see
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