Thoughts on "Misting" the Ladies?

I am curious as to general thoughts on the misting of plants, given that many talk about high humidity as posing problems.

I personally mist mine during vegetation to absurdly liberal levels, drenching them 5-6 times a day with a full spray bottle of mist, and them seem to absolutely love it. I never mist once the flowering stage has begun for obvious reasons. To date I have never had any problems posed by high humidity, but the grow room is well ventilated with fresh air 24/7 with an 18 hour light cycle under a 600HPS. The plants seem to dry out within minutes of misting.

The question is, to what end does this improve the plants in the vegetation stage as opposed to not misting at all? My observations suggest to me it is making the shade-leaves broader, and perhaps improving the overall light uptake through refraction etc.

3 days before flower cycle begins - looking healthy I think.

plants feed themselves with a combination of transpiration and osmotic pressure. if you have low rh to begin with, you can do that and not have any problems. if you have 50% or higher rh in your veg area, it would slow down growth, by slowing down transpiration.
you don't post your RH, but i would guess its lower than 50% by a good bit.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

plants feed themselves with a combination of transpiration and osmotic pressure. if you have low rh to begin with, you can do that and not have any problems. if you have 50% or higher rh in your veg area, it would slow down growth, by slowing down transpiration.
you don't post your RH, but i would guess its lower than 50% by a good bit.

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I am afraid I do not know what RH means

Regional Humidity? At a guess - and if that is the case, I do live in an extremely dry part of the UK (Officially marked at risk of desertification no less) so perhaps that's why they love it so much?

Relative Humidity, need a hygrometer to read it. they sell cheap mechanical ones that are actually pretty decent, and can be adjusted, and electronic ones that vary wildly in accuracy. its easy to check either, though, just put it in a sealed container with a smaller container of DAMP (not soaked) salt. in an hour or two, it ought to say 75% and stay there. if it doesn't, adjust it so it does, or make a note of how much its off.

Silvio Dante said:

I am afraid I do not know what RH means

Regional Humidity? At a guess - and if that is the case, I do live in an extremely dry part of the UK (Officially marked at risk of desertification no less) so perhaps that's why they love it so much?

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Your town named after a famous Prince and Priest before the 16th century witch executions

one Witch Ursula Kemp as she was bound and hanged

cursed the township and the farmer who found her

to be the dryest part of the UK

what happened to the farmers family still is unfound