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plates of water under your neps pot will help increase the humidity a little bit, but bigger body of water will be better...

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A big dripping wet towel will do the job even better because of its bigger surface. But you've to wet it quite often ... or put the washed cloth for drying between your neps ;)

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Well how bout those trays i use for my VFT and i put it under my rack will also help rite?? I use those plastic containers which they store cookies and stuff and i put it half full and i place it right under the burning sun.

Well im trying ur method..........I wet the cloth/towel and hang it by the divider/railings of my balcony.

Ken

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Ken,

Generally, anything that can hold/retain water will help. The larger the surface area the better. Since water vapour will be circulated through evaporation and convection. But the more pots/vase/urns you have the more chances of getting mosquito larvas. You don't want dengi or health officials come after you.

Try also putting industrial size sponges under the plants as well. Sponges help to trap the water from your watering.

Choong

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Hi Choong

I see..........so the main concept is just the evaporation and then causing it to be more humid and cooler.....Well now i'm using 1 soak towel and a plastic container...which i fill about half of it.....Dengi or mosquito can only breed on shallower waters..

I bought a thermometer a few days back and yesterday i checked at the peak afternoon with direct sunlight my balcony goes around 37-38C but only for around half an hour or an hour....normally its around 34-36...Nights barely go below 24C.

Oh yeah and i officially report that my N bical has somehow stoped growing!~!!!!........Its not dying healthy leaves it just didn't even move for weeks now anyone know what to do please???

Ken

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So a water urn works really well? This has just open a new idea to me......I am planning to give one of my about to come nep a LOT of humidity. It wil work on HL species of nep, will it? I shal go to ikano power centre to get a good tray for my coming nep.

Cheers

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You know what will really work very very very well? A water fountain or if not a water curtain/shower. I just saw one outside a restaurant tonight. One can easily make them out of PVC pipes, and a big water container and a submersible pump. Drill holes on PVC pipe, mount the drilled pipe above the big water container, pump water in it and let excess drain back to the container, the water spray should also end up mostly in the container. This water curtain will surely keep humidity level up in your area for the whole day as long as the pump is operating and that there is enough water. Evaporation will be quite high so you'll probably need to top off every day or every other day, depending on the size of your container.

TTFN
Arvin

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Arvin: I have done that method long time ago but after few days the water kept becoming dirty.After few times washing it.I got lazy and stopped using it.

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Ah, acting as a filter did it? In my opinion no need to clean even if the water is dirty, the idea is just to get as much water spraying for extra humidity and I don't think the plants will mind that type of water. If however it clogs up your pump, then that is another story. The water curtain that I saw last night I don't think they clean them regularly, but this was a sizable one though, the pond is around 2 meters by 1 meter in size, the curtain is also 2 meters long.

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Arvin

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I didn't even know I was doing this method all along by growing waterlilies and lotus in big pots of water.