Help with humidity issues....

Is your tent in a room in your house or like in a garage where outside air is cooler? Your exhaust fan is sucking your humidity I’m battling some low humidity issues myself. Where my auto fans will kick on due to high temp range and thus sucks the humidifier humidity out of the room. What I found is controlling all elements with what they need controlled by.
Example
ac for cool air
Heater for heat
Humidifier for humidity and so on. I have two exhaust fans that only kick on for 15 minutes every hour to exhaust the stank out of the house. Now everything is in check for my grow. Maybe this might help

SmittyB.. said:

Is your tent in a room in your house or like in a garage where outside air is cooler? Your exhaust fan is sucking your humidity I’m battling some low humidity issues myself. Where my auto fans will kick on due to high temp range and thus sucks the humidifier humidity out of the room. What I found is controlling all elements with what they need controlled by.
Example
ac for cool air
Heater for heat
Humidifier for humidity and so on. I have two exhaust fans that only kick on for 15 minutes every hour to exhaust the stank out of the house. Now everything is in check for my grow. Maybe this might help

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Sorry needed to change this one of my exhaust fans kick on for 15 minutes the other is cooling the lights only when on.

You have negative pressure in your tent. Which is good. This is why your sides suck in.

It is in my basement! Could this be an issue

If your furnace is in there it will make it a bit more difficult.
I run in the basement with the furnace. I do my best to just keep the whole basement above 50% with a large humidifier and it's made things a lot easier.

BigMBigBuds27 said:

It is in my basement! Could this be an issue

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Your best bet is. Control everything like I had mentioned before. Different seasons make it harder if your grow is in a garage or basement or any place not ran buy an hvac. Mine is set in the garage and winter I struggled with low humidity and in summer it would be nice cause humidity and heat were a bit easier to manage. Not under constant changes on my controllers. The best thing I did to make it simpler year round was control temp with controller plugged to ac and heat. And also a controller plugged to humidifier and dehumidifier. Once your environment is in check you’ll see wonders with your plants.

youll want barely negative pressure with fan on. (causing walls to slowly and slightly pull inward.) Make sure ur humidifier is ultrasonic, not evaporative. You wanna be able to SEE the mist/moisture its making.

Flagg420 said:

youll want barely negative pressure with fan on. (causing walls to slowly and slightly pull inward.) Make sure ur humidifier is ultrasonic, not evaporative. You wanna be able to SEE the mist/moisture its making.

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Man someone told me to get evaporated humidifier cause you don’t want particles flying around your tent.

It is very dry where I grow as well, in the winter time around 35%. I don't even bother trying to add humidity, it is just another factor I have to control. I seem to have fair plant health. I am not as professional as some people on here though.