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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Open the plastic coverings gradually, and do everything you can to increase 
the relative humidity of the room:  If you heat with wood, keep a kettle 
boiling on the stove.  If you have central heat, cook more rice, bean soup, 
etc; and hang up a lot of hand-laundry.  Get a conventional humidifier, and 
keep it filled and running.   Back off if you see water running down the 
windows.  And best of luck.

tc, who has tried it


----Original Message Follows----
From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: griffingardens@earthlink.net,North American Fruit Explorers 
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] School P/ Indoor Plants
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:50:07 -0500

Hello,

You can always place pots on a tray of gravel, (pea stone) that is holding 
water.  The water
evaporating around the plants increases humidity.  There are also ultrasonic 
humidifiers that are
very effective in a room.

Use filtered water in an ultrasonic, or they will produce dust in the room.

Tom


Griffin Gardens wrote:

> Can anyone comment/advise on these and other practices to deal with these
> over-dry indoor growing conditions of winter? I am trying a rooting
> experiment with hardwood peach cuttings which are just now breaking bud.
> They have been and still are under plastic but I expect this will be too
> humid in the long run, while at the same time, I am reluctant to expose
> them to the further stress of the indoor winter desert.
>
> Dave
>

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