Originally Posted by
CharlieQuote:
Originally Posted by COGardener
Charlie,
Are you running a humidity source in the figdom? Since most of us use a humidity bin, is it a humidity room?
No it's just a room in our home. Was wondering a couple days ago what the humidity is in here since we're evaporating close to 2 gallons of water daily.
Since the ceiling fan went out the only air movement is from a small fan across the hall blowing cool air in at floor level to force the hot air out at the upper level, seems to be working well enough.
The only cuttings to ever be covered in any sense of the conventional humidity bin are the Unk Lake Spur when they were first started, in a big tote and the 11/01 group which were covered with cups for a couple of days at their beginning. Ever since then there have been no covers or bins or totes. Just daily watering.
There are also some traditional multi-node cuttings in here in cups and they are starting to bud and leaf. They are also not covered.
I'm not going to say humidity covers are not necessary but for this scenario they are not. I'm not scientific enough to say this or that for certain, it's just working. Fact is I did not expect nearly this sort of success. Maybe 50% was what I was hoping for. There are over 200 bowls/cups in here and only 35 are not budding yet but many of them have roots I can see on the surface.
Thanks everyone for the comments and show of support. Means a lot to me to do something positive and contribute to fig lovers. I hope some more folks can do this as well and find it works for them also. Not much to burying some sticks and watering them now and then. :)