Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Humidity 101, 1 by Hoya_24

Hoya_24 wrote:
It would work differently with an aquarium. With my light cart (I have attached a photo of one shelf with some of my Streps), there were 16, 24inch, T12 tubes in total. That is a lot of heat. By cramming four shelves on the unit, the top of each light fixture is only two inches or so below the shelf above it. I simply could not keep up with the watering especially in the winter when it is so dry indoors here in VT. By adding a clear tent to the set up, it only held in more heat making the temperature on each shelf around 95 degrees, which is really kind of hot to maintain plants at. Also the tent made a perfect breeding ground for mold and mildew. If I were to do it over again I would have bought the cart with only 3 shelves - less heat and more growing room for plants on each shelf.

This message was edited Feb 27, 2007 9:43 AM