I'm having a bit of an issue with the humidity in my grow box. It's too low. Like, usually between 23% - 38%. Rarely does it go above 40%. I've tried putting an open container of water under my lights, but as I'm doing a CFL grow, there's really not a whole lot of heat and the water evaporates slowly. I have a humidifier but I'm afraid of getting the growbox too humid with it. I'm sure it's far easier to deal with low humidity rather than high humidity. Any suggestions?

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Put paper towels dipped in water to keep the water moving. Put that under the cfl. make sure theres some real absorbing action going on.

my humiditys even lower... its just making the leafs feel very dry, but they arent crumbly or anything, just crystaly.

My humidity is typically less than 40 percent. I don't worry about it.

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Well, I tried the paper towel trick... the humitidy rose 2% but the paper towel wicked nearly all the water out of the container within about three hours. The water dripped from the paper towel and pretty much all over the place... I'm currently sopping it all up with more paper towels. Will try something slightly different tomorrow.

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Haha, that sucks. I filled a cup with half water, and then folded paper towels over... the white thick kind, so they are a wick, but fully in the glass, no part above the brim. It worked well... in a isolated place with a fan going.

You should be ok with the humidity. Its high humidity thats the real enemy but you could add a heating pad under a bowl of water to get the water to evaporat or mist the plants once or twice in the day.Dont over do that though evil mol;d can move in

Yeah, I'm just going to have to resort to misting the plants a few times a day. Trouble is, I work ten hours a day and I'm typically away from home at least twelve hours a day... I can mist them in the morning and evening, and occasionally when I'm able to run home for lunch mid-day, which isn't very often. I've seen those battery operated misters and I thought about using something like that but typically they have canisters of some sort of chemical in them and I'm not comfy with misting my plants with that stuff.

I suppose with a 3 gallon bucket filled about halfway with water, some PVC tubing, a few mist emitters, a small water pump and a digital timer I could rig up a system which would mist for maybe a minute or so every, say, three or four hours... what do you think? Too much?

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Down here I have seen in the summer the icecream stands around here that has outside service.They have fans with mister just in front them spraying.You can do that with your air circulation fan.Like you said rig one up and keep us posted on how it works in controling humidity. Peace

try your humidifier, see how it goes

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i use a old pickle jar and a piece of old warmy belt stuck thru the lid in a slit i made filled half way with water it works some what

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