Greenhouse misting in your little greenhouse
July 31st, 2007 by
Greenthumb
A greenhouse supply you might want to consider in your little greenhouse is a greenhouse misting system. A greenhouse misting system can be helpful to your plants when you are lacking humidity and they also help to cool your greenhouse.
Greenhouse misting systems can reduce temperatures in your little greenhouse by as much as twenty-five degrees F. This is about the same as 14 degrees Celsius.
A greenhouse misting system can be used to distribute water in a coarse spray or a very fine mist. You can adjust the spray depending on the nozzle you use, the operating pressure and the spacing of the misting nozzles.
The greenhouse misting system may utilize a pump that is designed to provide continuous or intermittent spray. An intermittent pump will provide water for five minutes and then rest for one minute before beginning the cycle again.
Some misting systems come with electronic timers. These timers can be programmed to mist 1-14 times a day. The misting cycles last from 1 minute to 24 minutes. You can find other misting systems for your little greenhouse with timers that can be programmed to mist in shorter increments of time but more often.
Look for the different kinds of nozzles that are available. Nozzles may be made from plastic materials or brass. There are positive features about each type of nozzle.
You can figure out the proper amount of water needed to make the best use of the greenhouse misting system by multiplying the rate of the nozzle flow per minute by the number of nozzles in the system. Then you need to multiply the result by the minutes the system will be used each day.
A greenhouse misting system may be just the thing you need to help you regulate the climate in your little greenhouse in the heat of summer.
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