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cgrossoman
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Humidity Question
#592677 - 03/29/02 09:13 AM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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Im having a little trouble with my humidity in my terranium(1 foot deep, 1 foot wide, 1.8 feet long) - its only a steady 90%! Does it need to be any higher, like 100%? And how the hell could I do this? - I currently have 1.5 inches of moist perlite inside, I plan on misting and fanning daily but what could I do to raise the humidity - maybe add more water to the perlite I was thinking I dunno any suggestions?? PS I have one cake in there so I assumed those need high humidity will 90 do the job though?? 95% = cutoff to form primodora? Anyways im just lookign for suggestions as to what to do to higher the humidity
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cgrossoman]
#592729 - 03/29/02 10:28 AM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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The purpose for misting is to raise the humidity. Set the nozzle as fine as you can get it. Don't spray the cake. Spray the sides or install a drip shield. How do you know it's 90? ie what are you using for a hygrometer / humidity gauge? Some are misleading. Have you calibrated it? 2" of wet perlite, 1" of water. PS, you want 95%+ Hope that helps. Free Spore Ring
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phishphan
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To induce pinning the humidity needs to be 95% or higher. As said in the other post try and mist it. Ohhh and do you have a hygrometer, if u dont id invest inone. Radioshack has a plethra of them for aorund 20 bucks, and make sure it s calibrated. good luck "NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE JESUS.
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cgrossoman
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: phishphan]
#592896 - 03/29/02 02:07 PM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes I got myself a hygometer/thermometer digital indoor/outdoor water proof with external sensor from radioshack for 30 us dollars=) its reading 90% atm so im going to mist i guess and i think my perlite could use a bit more water thanks for the help=) wish me luck
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cgrossoman
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OK I misted the sides and added a tiny bit more water to my perlite HOWEVER atm the highest humidity it is staying steady at is 91%!!!!!!!!!!!! Is my hygrowmeter fucked????? I never calibrated it btw I just bought it at radioshack the guy put it in a box I took it out at home and placed it in there How do I calibrate? Any help would be sweet
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Surf Bum
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cgrossoman]
#592976 - 03/29/02 04:01 PM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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there is a salt tek to calibrate it, it goes something like put it in a bag of salt and it should read 75%, i've never done this so you should search the archives, but another good idea to stop having to fan would be to get a 15$ fish tank bubbler put it in a jar of water/h2o2 mix and a polyfil whole in the opposite bottom corner, that eliminates fanning and it should get your humidity up a few points, whatever you do post it back here to help out others
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cgrossoman
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: Surf Bum]
#595870 - 04/01/02 08:35 PM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ok well what I ended up doing was calibrating my therm/hygro just to make sure everyhting was ok, and it turned out to be fine. I added more water/h2o2 to the perlite and misted but still my humidity is like 92% at the highest...... Im not sure why its not getting pasted 92% I have 2 inches of moist perlite and i mist 2x a day and fan 3x! what is wrong!
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cgrossoman]
#595883 - 04/01/02 09:02 PM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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you may need to buy a humidifier. whats your temp at? humidity is proportional to the temp.
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cgrossoman
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Re: Humidity Question [Re: cookiewhore]
#596922 - 04/02/02 06:34 PM (21 years, 9 months ago) |
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a constant 73
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