The Greenhouse Humidification Challenge
Maintaining ideal greenhouse humidity is crucial for plant health. However, greenhouses often face many challenges in maintaining a stable humidity level, such as improper ventilation and temperature fluctuations. Too much or too little humidity can cause plant damage.
How Low Humidity Can Damage Plants
When humidity is too low, plants dry up and diseases spread, ultimately reducing yield. Low humidity is also a poor conduit of temperature, with dry air incapable of stabilizing heat.
In turn, temperature fluctuations can harm plant health. Greenhouses usually keep the moisture at 80% RH to avoid these problems, but that is not enough to ensure all plants are safe.
How High Humidity Can Damage Plants
In fact, if moisture is too high or fails to evaporate completely, excess moisture will stick to surfaces and linger on plants, creating brown spots, mold, and disease.
For the plants that remain, the bloat of moisture can prevent plants from absorbing the right amount of nutrients or cause wilting due to excess heat. All of this diminishes crop value.
The Self-Evaporative Solution
Optimal moisture levels are essential for plant health in greenhouses. Traditional greenhouse humidification methods, however, can leave surfaces damp, creating a breeding ground for diseases. The self-evaporative solution offers a groundbreaking approach to humidity management through benefits like the following.
Non-Wetting Hydration
Moisture must permeate the greenhouse while only leaving dry surfaces behind to create the most healthy produce possible. In other words, it must self-evaporate.
Even when humidity levels are high, self-evaporative humidification never dampens or leaves wetness on plants or other surfaces. The droplets have a reversed correlation effect, which means they repel one another and do not puddle. This is a steep advantage for greenhouse conditions that need high moisture levels and control and want to minimize the drawbacks caused by indoor dampness.
Full Saturation Without Wetting
By the same token, self-evaporative droplets rapidly and evenly dissipate across the greenhouse for maximum coverage and moisture permeation. T
hese microscopic, water-to-water resistant droplets are quick to cover an area, long to linger, and are guaranteed to evaporate before sticking to surfaces or puddling on the ground. No dryness or fluctuating moisture levels are present when self-evaporative humidification is in the room.
Stabilizing Inside Temperatures
Steady moisture levels help stabilize all conditions, including temperatures. Maintaining optimal temperatures inside the greenhouse is challenging with outside temperatures always fluctuating. Self-evaporative technology combats these challenges by maximizing cooling efficiency by cooling air and water.
No matter the outside temperature, the system output is always 40 degrees Celsius. And through the self-evaporative system’s sensor suite, moisture and temperature control becomes both precise and automatic, cultivating ideal growing conditions inside regardless of the conditions outside.
How Humidification Improves Plant Growth and Why Humidification Matters
Maintaining a stable humidity level is essential for helping plants thrive and survive. Proper humidification allows plants to make full use of the available carbon dioxide and nutrients to grow, promoting crop health and reducing pathogen spread.
Benefits of Plant Humidifiers for Greenhouses
Strategically using a humidifier can turn a greenhouse into a thriving, lush paradise while providing these benefits:
Improving Plant Growth and Yield
Like all living organisms, plants need the right amount of water to survive. A humidifier creates a greenhouse environment that enables plants to grow to their full potential.
Reducing the Risk of Disease
Uncontrolled greenhouse humidity levels can create too much moisture and result in a breeding ground for mold and harmful bacteria. Controlling the humidity levels helps reduce the risk of an outbreak occurring.
Increased Savings
Regulating the amount of moisture in the greenhouse can mitigate moisture damage to expensive equipment. Keeping the temperature stable also helps increase plant health, resulting in higher yields and profits.
Smart Fog’s Greenhouse Humidification Systems
Humidification systems are essential for greenhouses. At Smart Fog, we offer various humidification systems that can cool and humidify large areas, including these models:
ES100 Direct Space Humidifier
After a simple wall-mount installation, the ES100 Direct Space Humidifier can turn any setting into a highly controlled environment.
TS100 In Duct Humidifier
The TS100 In Duct Humidifier uses self-evaporative technology in new and existing duct systems to create non-wetting humidification that will not fluctuate, require intensive maintenance or support mold growth.
ES100M Portable Industrial Humidifier
The ES100M Portable Industrial Humidifier offers all the same benefits as the ES100 but in a portable format, so you have greater flexibility where you place the humidification system.
MS100 Custom Grid System
Using the MS100 Custom Grid System simplifies humidifying large-scale spaces while meeting your facility’s exact moisture and temperature requirements.
Simplify Greenhouse Humidification With Smart Fog
Give plants what they need to succeed with Smart Fog’s humidification systems. Since the creation of our company over 40 years ago, we have become an industry leader in producing cutting-edge humidification technology. Transform your greenhouse while improving your bottom line when you contact us today.