Tired of Running my Dehumidifier at night

plumsmooth

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I live in an open grow with constant exhaust ventilation spare bedroom 2 bedroom house.

I never used to use a dehumidifier and my weed never got bud rot maybe rarely a spot or 2. But I have PM now in my home.

I live in Vermont and the nighttime here is 95% (at my age of 53) cool enough to have windows open. I run A/C during the day when exhaust window fans are not cooling the house enough.

I do not have a sealed perfectly environmentally controlled grow room. Sure it is a nice ideal to aim for. But what is the point of running my dehumidifier at night when all that dry air is blowing across the plants and then getting sucked up with the humid air at the ceiling and redistributed to the down-stairs where I run a window fan blowing out?

I do however have PM in my environment which I am currently facing. I am adding UVA/UVB ala Solacure lights to each side of my Trees. I am sure this is helping a lot!

My Golosa by Delicious Seeds (30%THC) just finished incredibly resinous -- only some specks of PM and I ran my UV lights only for the last 4 weeks!
I just ordered 2 more.

In Nature plants have the normal ambient Humidity at night so as long as I am exhausting the build of of plant moisture consistently during the night why not axe the dehumidifier and save it for the day if I need a little heat for my LED's... I am not trying to make the case that drying the air at night isn't an improvement over nature... but...

Also, very important. I can get my reservoir temperatures down much easier by not heating the room at night with the dehumidifier. That said ideally I would have a quest on the ceiling sucking humidity out of the room along with the Exhaust Fan at top of ceiling? And no heat generating Dehumidifier at NIGHT?

Here is my Tropicanna Cherry at about 5-1/2 weeks... will add for fun later picture...
 

Rurumo

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I run my dehumidifier 24/7 during the winter time, there is no way I'd grow without it if my room RH is high. Keep in mind, PM thrives in cooler temps. I think if you alter your environment in this way, you'll be unhappy with the results. I just wear earplugs at night and can't hear a thing.
 

Nope_49595933949

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I am in the same region and I only run my dehumidifier when the wood stove isn't running. When the wood stove is running the whole house is super dry and I actually use a humidifier.
 
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