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irie420
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what hygrometer readings are appropriate for BEST?
#3224780 - 10/06/04 09:05 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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hey guys i bought a hygrometer today (combination thermometer / humidity gauge) from acurite - question is - what is the appropriate level of humidity? currently it says HI. is this OK or should it be more like 80-90% ? please advise because dew drops are formin on the cakes and their growth is stunting one appears aborted whats goin on? bought a thermostat heater for the closet and outside and inside chamber temp is at 80 degrees F steady...
is it too laste or are they most likely dead from overhumidity? thx, irie420
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Re: what hygrometer readings are appropriate for B [Re: irie420]
#3224796 - 10/06/04 09:09 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like you have a cheap hygrometer. Cheap higrometers have trouble reading humidity above 80% or so. When they get a high humidity they just say Hi. If droplets are forming then the humidity should be fine.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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hyphae
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Re: what hygrometer readings are appropriate for BEST? [Re: irie420]
#3224809 - 10/06/04 09:12 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Drop the temp down to 74-76F. that will lower RH as well. Don't worry they're not dead Cakes love high humidity!
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Re: what hygrometer readings are appropriate for B [Re: hyphae]
#3225082 - 10/06/04 09:55 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah man, I got a cheepie electric one too. It changes to EE repeatedly so I have to fan out the air and wait a bit to get a decent reading. Hopefully once I get my air pump and stone in it'll fix it up.
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Re: what hygrometer readings are appropriate for B [Re: BioSore]
#3225383 - 10/06/04 10:46 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh yea, and don't use a cigar humidor hygrometer. Maybe that's obvious. Like a real and proper noob, I ordered one because it seemed cheap at $10 (for a piece of equipment that is optional anyways). - Then I get it, and it only measures RH between 40-70%! (Though the dial goes from 0-100%, just to taunt us) <--- 1st grow; will wait to see how it goes, then consider getting a nice one.
Edited by Land_Crab (10/07/04 01:13 PM)
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