Hey guys.
Since our last conversation, I have been involved in a long, hurry up and wait battle with the heat mat.
It started yesterday just before noon when I was clued in to the VPD and seeing my set up was way out of whack.
Turning the heat mat thermostat to the lowest setting and putting a towel under the tray didn’t quite work.
The temps would fluctuate from 72 to 85 as the stat kicked on and off with the humidity following in stride. It was evident it had to go. I plugged the mat in directly and waited for the hygrometer readings to stabilize. Now it is pumping out a constant 83 but the humidity was still down at 60.
I tried doubling the trays; I think I got a 1F drop.
Then a wire shelf from a bar fridge to lift it up off the mat. Wait for hygrometer stabilization. Small decrease in temp until the wire shelf heated up.
Tried a wire shelf on top of the wire shelf. Wait again. Small amount again but I’m seeing the humidity rise as the temp lowers. Awesome! Finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
This time I decide to jack it up a full inch with some extra pieces of quartz from the shower sill. I put 2 pieces along each side of the tray like skis and propped up both shelves and all. This made a dramatic difference. Obviously, it would right?
It still needed a little less heat so I added more tiles. I do believe I’m there!
According to my VPD calculations, I’m at the ~0.4kpa mark.
Now if I only had and followed this information from the beginning, things would probably be a lot different in the clone tray.