How to increase humidity?

Gtjoker420

Gtjoker420

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So I can't seem to get my humidity higher than like 30% and that's if I'm lucky. I have been using a humidifier in the room that the tents are in. I thought it was because I was exhausting outside but I stopped exhausting outside for a day and closed the window and still low humidity. What should I do to increase humidity in the tents. I also tried putting the humidifier in the tent and that helped get it to like 35%. I need ways that won't attract fungus gnats. Battling them right now too
 
Honestly I wouldn't be worried about raising the humidity, the plants can do ok with low RH%. If you must have higher RH% then you could toss a swamp cooler in the room the tent draws air from, plug it into an inkbird humidistat. A big enough swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) will be able to keep up with the exhaust or you can just exhaust the tent into the lung room provided temperature doesn't climb on ya.
 
Gtjoker420 said:
So I can't seem to get my humidity higher than like 30% and that's if I'm lucky. I have been using a humidifier in the room that the tents are in. I thought it was because I was exhausting outside but I stopped exhausting outside for a day and closed the window and still low humidity. What should I do to increase humidity in the tents. I also tried putting the humidifier in the tent and that helped get it to like 35%. I need ways that won't attract fungus gnats. Battling them right now too
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I always spray sides of tent maybe bowl of water as well as humidifier
 
The swamp cooler is the only way and at best it gives you 5%.
Im the same RH at 25% I gave up as I count my watts and low humidity is better then 2 much.
Weed grows in the dessert just fine.
 
wet towel in front of fan for a while will sort it - would not worry in a tent - plants will sort themselfs out when they are big enough and when its needed
 
A $10 aquarium air pump. $2 tubing and $5 for airstone or stones w/ gang valve. A 1 gall container. Too much RH in a confined space for cheap and in a hurry.
 
Fill up a salad bowl half way with water.. dip a wash cloth in it, and then lean the wash cloth over the edge of the bowl.. with half the rag still in the water. That helped keep my RH up when I was drying.
 
The problem is if the vent fan is running to control smell,and the house humidity is low then none of the above ideas will work.Turn off the vent fan and all of the above ideas work.
 
myke said:
The problem is if the vent fan is running to control smell,and the house humidity is low then none of the above ideas will work.Turn off the vent fan and all of the above ideas work.
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So I need my exhaust running 24/7. I wonder if running my humidifier say in the front of my house will help make the overall humidity higher vs running it right next to my setup
 
Gtjoker420 said:
So I need my exhaust running 24/7. I wonder if running my humidifier say in the front of my house will help make the overall humidity higher vs running it right next to my setup
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It would take a large humidifier to make a difference.

think how much air the vent fan is sucking out.
 
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