Zandor: ok so your saying the dryer the air the harder the plant is working, why is it harder, isn't it working with less resistance ?, let's say we have a perfect enviroment with optimum light, optimum CO2, optimum airation and perfectly balanced nutrients in a medium that has an ideal air to water ratio, we now have the perfect setup for optimum growth, in that type of setup our plants would be thriving with an impressive metabolic rate, but by the theory I'm going by, raising the humidity is creating more resistance in the air, so now that plant is working harder, because if all enviromental conditions are at optimal levels than our plants are working at optimum metobolic rates and we slow down the nutrient solution movement in the plant by raising the humidity then were starving the plant of nutrients it needs, I'm not saying your wrong, I'm saying my theory is create optimum metabolism and you get the by product, which is optimum growth, its kind of like the make her thirsty technique growers were using back in the 90s , then we all realized starving our plants of water can kill them, but the theory was corect just the technique was wrong, let's starve them of humidty and give them all the water they need
connisuer Reviewed by connisuer on . question for Zandor hey man, I am getting mixed results as to what the proper pH should be for hydro during the flowering stage. It is ebb and flow and the muditity is pretty high. I saw that you recommend starting at about 70-80% humidity and then lowering it 5% a week until harvest. Our humidity is at like 70% right now at week 3 of flowering. We were thinking about turning off the inlet fan since temps aren't a problem right now, and letting the humidity settle out with the natural humidity of the house rather Rating: 5