Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:28 am Post subject: Cleaning out
Every time i clean out my little friends do i have the same problem every thing becomes soaked and then the water becomes dirty so Im only putting in the bath water once a day each week is any one else having the same problem ?
Dep[ends if a cagfed or a bird in an avairy..
If in avairy it is worth while taking the time out for automatic daily watering.
Some elcheapo garden irrigation hose, bit of 5mm capliary tubing, and a water timer. _________________ My Spelling is Not Incorrect...It's 'Creative'
"work hard at being lazy"
Something my Dad used to say..Spend an afternoon cutting a slice out of the concret driveway, lay the hose, under ground, a good Sunday afternoons work....dont have to change water each day for the next... 10 or 20 yrs..
One can oinly be lazy (ie lazy around on holiday) if one works efficient.
Those who just never do anything are not lazy... they are just no hoper drop kick, blights and bludgers on society. _________________ My Spelling is Not Incorrect...It's 'Creative'
i have better idea hozelock in the u.k do a kit that you can put around your garden for automatic watering so i may invest in one of them for a future reference
The spray nozzles on those things are useless for humidifying tropical plants, too low pressure, all wetness and no humidity. The kits are ok to get you going though.
What sort of mains pressure do u have there...?
We have 85/95 lbs
It is not so much the fine spray for humidity but the evaporation of that spray after everything is damp.
A humdifier in a glass house usually has the spray setup to a humdity switch...turns on for a very short period, evaporation held in the glass house, most condenses and re evaporates...but if that evqulibruim drops, the system gives another spray. _________________ My Spelling is Not Incorrect...It's 'Creative'
The kits require a pressure reducer, the cheap plastic nozzles produce relatively large droplets (even ultrafine versions), all it does is soak the compost. If we used mains pressure and (relatively expensive) impingement nozzles we might get a decent way to humdify the air, but the reality is anybody seriously keeping tropicals needing high humidity in a uk type greenhouse would go for a hydrofogger, which is a centrifugal fogger. Cheap to run and produces a fine fog without soaking the compost.
I agree a closed system would be 100% humid or thereabouts but as soon as you provide ventilation in a greenhouse it can drop to 20%. With or without the cheap spray systems.
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