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Thank you Centaura! I was beginning to think that I was the only person around who owned a hygrometer. . . As Rick pointed out, the only way to achieve high levels of humidity up around the foliage is with a confined enclosure. This doesn't need to be a big deal. A humidity dome, a tent, a big fish tank, whatever. On the other hand, it is a bad idea to raise the humidity of a room in your house to 70%.
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Keeping track of how humid I go is the other reason that I have a hygrometer. I don't want to get up into the levels of humidity that would cause mold problems in the house, but I also don't want to be so low that my humidity-loving items would be totally unhappy. Rick is totally correct in saying that the best place to create a high-humidity environment is some kind of greenhouse/conservatory, and its my fondest dream to have one someday. The best I can do there is using seed-starting greenhouses to make minature conservatories, but that only works for really tiny stuff. I can't keep anything taller than 4 to 5 inches in them, and I have some orchids that are blooming right now where their flower stalks are being bent over. Someday I also hope to install a whole-house humidifier, attached to the furnace, but that would be mainly for my own health and only secondary for the bonsai.
-Centaura