mould!...how to reduce humidity

[raven6]

Hi Guys,

 

In the last few weeks of constant rainfall here on the north coast I have noticed the humidty in my grow room climb from 60% to 80% and now I am starting to get mould in my grow room in the walls. I am saving up madly for a new centrifugal fan in the hope that better air flow will sort out the problem and I have a pedestal fan blowing over my plants at the moment but I cant seem to reduce the humidty ....have also decreased the watering schedule as well down to a bare minimum.

 

Does anyone know any good methods to reduce humidity? maybe some of our friends up north in tropical Queensland or NT? I have heard that if you put a bowl of baking soda on the ground it will absorb any moisture out of the air

 

Any help would be great......I am pretty much pulling my hair out with all these problems!!

[Radic]

mould and fungi can only attack a plant that is not 100% healthy

stress of high humidity will cause a plant to use all its available potassium in 1hr

K deficiency is not healthy for you plant

the best way to deal with k deficiencies is to spray with Potassium bicarbinate

strictly agg strength

forget the backing powder

 

the orchard industry has an excellent product called -->Eco Carb

which is agg strength Ptoassium bicarbonate

thats what i am using right now pon a mouldy female in full flower

from just too much rain and humid conditions

storm blew the roof off her hot house

and she got stressed

 

also suplement your nutrient sollution

with a high K like liquid kelp

druing times like dees

 

DIY rulez

there are ways to dehumidify your grow room

all you need to do is extract some of the water from the air as it comes in

a small heater outside the grow room

next to the grow room air intake will do it

if you use a gass heater it will also add co2

Crucial

now

you need to cool the air before it hit your plants

AC rulez

you can get a small AC that fitz inside a computer box

put 1 inside your air intake that sux the air from the heater

suck from the bottom of the gass heater to capture the Co2

all diss elerodate set up is only need during extreem weather conditions

if you can figer a way to DIY

irey

otherwize

at some point it will become too expencive to persiue

 

keepin the K up to dem is a must

 

irey guidance

[shirty]

you can get a small AC that fitz inside a computer box

any links for tiny AC plz ???

 

[raven6]

Wow radic thanks for that, I have a lot of respect for you having read some of your posts, really happy you try and help me out, I will increase the pottasium ASAP and look into a small AC

 

....good luck with your mouldy plant, you must of had the same wild weather we had in Byron

[loylty gets u nothing]

ok

right now my main concern would be

removing the existing mold..the bits in the grow room..

i have used an organic product called citrofresh...

bitter orange extract i believe..

having that mould will keep the spores local

remove them entirely increase airflow...buy that centri asap

and ofc treat ya whole grow area for mould

with some l;uck u will be ontop of it...

ozone also is very handy for moulds etc

BUT is VERY nasty to humans animals etc wen inhaled..

so if u do use be sure to turn it off 5-10 mins prior to entry

all the best

bil

[sunnycoaststoner]

depends what sort of mould you got too, for powdery mildew you can spray with a rose spray for instance.

[Radic]

np raven6

ganga garden reasoningz

anytime

everytime

you reach nimbin

check me yard

i live in town

just ask around

some mate is bound

to point you to we gate

 

 

i have sprayed eco carb twice so far pon a trifolia female in full flower

with great success

but

she has big problems with scale insects too

again the scale insects will only attack a unhealthy plant

so she may hafe go

she is under scrog

with other healthy plants that show no signs of mould or scale insects

it is all happening to the trifolia

if i dont gain control by tomorrow

i will show no mericy

if i do gain control

she can stay till the next full moon

but i know she wont recover what is lost

is lost

however

she will contintue to fatten the undamaged budz

 

irey guidance

[calaman]

I lost everything at the beginning of the year with the floods we had up north Q. I was in the midst of battling the mold with ozone (I was winning too!) when I came home one morning with flood water lapping at my feet. It wouldnt have been too bad for the plants, ie i coulda survived it, but it was storm surge. I lost all my babies and my mother and have since had to grow bush which i had all sorts of dramas with. I finally got an order thru the post last week - no thanks to PICKnMIX the fuckers!

So, the relevance here is Ozone - it was working.... honestly, it really was.... !

[mark60]

Hope u all went ok with floods & mould. I'm on the south coast WA wet as here as well. I'm an outdoor grower & got hit hard with all sorts of weird moulds gray. green downey mildew u name it. Havent seen it before anyone got any ideas how how to get rid of it ? Does it hang in the soil waiting 4 next season (gulp)