Cheap Greenhouse Ideas - How to Warm, Cool and Keep Your Humidity Perfect

[Music] [Music] [Music] hi guys today I'll be showing you guys how i cool down heat up and keep the humidity up Madelyn greenhouse so this is my lowland greenhouse I have some of my national affinities growing in ya lolling the pimpies it's a nice cross from exotic lands ventricles across Turkey I hear they're starting to vine some nice old pictures this is a young young Jack they brought it there red ball an unknown cross just called rainbow a lowland version of each year Martha's Berkeley boasts at the back and another one that you can just make art and smell STI here you know all these new twenties I'll have all groaning dulling conditions but some people especially myself struggle to set up these conditions as you know Loudoun the attendees they need warm days warm marks high humidity brat Laos constantly so I want to show you my techniques I'm keeping up with humidity and temperatures in the greenhouse so firstly the most important factor that everybody knows assume so that you have a fan as you can see in the right hand side there's a fan to be going there and just in front of that you'll see a tub of water that has a pump going up towards a west wall explain to you how that breath works and on a second so it's very important to ensure that you have a fan let's keep the air circulated prevents infections molds and how's that keep the air cool by circulating it around another way to keep air cool or much cheaper and much easier than you know using a air conditioner for example if you use a wet wall so this wet wall you can't see it very well for this wet wool has holes here and water trickles down from this path down the wet wall and this forces it to get evaporated with the help of this fan now forcing the air evaporates causes the air to cool down so when the greenhouse gets too hot this fan kicks on which blows their art or this flap that causes a suction force inside the greenhouse and the PAMP inside yes which is up in the water to close down the EGIS evaporation cools down the greenhouse nasty so when I first started offered the greenhouse I was really struggling to keep the temperatures down so I used above here you can see this black white shade cloth covering the greenhouse to help keep it less sunny and help to reduce the temperatures and I was also using the these sprinklers here go along the top of the greenhouse which was sprinkle on for the entire day but this became quite expensive as you can imagine with the amount of water that was being used and had a solid I have a solenoid which I'll show you later that is used to switch on and off the misting system and that's kept breaking had to find a better solution and settled up on the wet one this allows the temperatures to go from 50 degrees Celsius inside the greenhouse down to 30 degrees Celsius so it really does work it really works well and you don't really need a very fancy setup I don't have the most money so I have to make do with what I have this costs me around 400 South African Rand for this block which is just under $40 American this PVC pop I have I just found it and I drill some holes into it an old piece of pop which is very very cheap and the pub the most expensive part of this whole so I have a thermostat which switches on this pump and I find the same time causing this to switch on the water to roll down here and collect onto this plastic bag and go back into the reservoir so we don't waste any water some people they both hold a PVC pop button here or at the top which makes it look better and is that more attractive and works maybe a bit better because it will be sealed better than what I have it but this this does work and anyone who needs a good way to cool down their greenhouse who cannot afford such expensive equipment will definitely benefit in this one one thing to note is that you have to ensure that your greenhouse is attacked when you are using this under Sajha you can see that I have the plastic of the greenhouse tightly wrapped around the evaporative pad too sure there's no leaks that's that ensures that there's complete and suction being pulled out of the evaporative pad now another way which is you some people thermal math that's can be done by you know purchasing huge like 60 liters of buckets and paint and glass encased in energy now but I'm quite limited foot space in my greenhouse and that wouldn't really work for me but some people can do that you get a big big leap 16 each bucket those are all painted black and that will absorb heat during the day which helps keep the cooler inside the greenhouse and will help to radiate that heat off that nice to keep it being hot warm at night however but I've done is that I use old castor containers and hold them up with water and these containers serve as a form of thermal mass I'm starting to fill up my collection of parts that I'm gonna be moving very soon so I didn't eat all the space furthermore to heat up the greenhouse you can use thermal mass at Mat by storing the energy throughout the day in those black 2 buckets oh you could purchase a greenhouse heater this pre nasty to have had for about 2 or 3 years now it's being to being through a lot I've had to open it up fixed pieces of it to wire it differently but it still works fine you have to ensure that it's waterproof that it's safe for you you do not want to have any damages to pre-announce with your property but these workers rarely Wallis's 3 kilowatt meter there's a it's a big power draw but if you are able to insulate your greenhouse really Wow this heater will only kick on a couple seconds every maybe 10 minutes in winter like mine was just on now for about 30 seconds and that will keep it nice and warm for the day and at night when it gets really cold if you have enough thermal mass and insulation it will keep the greenhouse really warm another thing is that I have covered the floor of my greenhouse in dirt many people use pebbles and rocks this increases surface area and such but I can't afford rocks and pebbles so I just have to set some dirt and this also helps with humidity as you can see the ground is quite cracking moist quite wet so throughout the day when the sun and the sun rays ran into the greenhouse this evaporates the water in the soil aiding and keeping the greenhouse cold and humid which is what we need the other the bachata by is some people a Hager father this Hydra father probably the most expensive piece of equipment our own it optimizes water [Music] Lexia in this bucket and it spins at a high speed and keeps it out it's quite dry it doesn't wet my hands but it does help to cool down in the environment and to make it very humid and I'm just going to go outside to show you guys so that the back in of the greenhouse I have neither been out there that I bought but talking about the lowland greenhouse from now this is how I have the adapted Pat wrapped up to infer the water flows back into the bucket inside but this is the most important part of the greenhouse the thermostats humorous testing time so where exactly is going on yo I have ink bird thermostat ain't bird humidistat anatomic here so this ink bird thermostat is very simple you just set it up plug in your heater and your fan and pump which I explained earlier to cool down in the greenhouse so once it gets more than 28 degrees Celsius in the reno's it takes on the fan and the pump to help cool down the greenhouse when it gets too cold it switches on the heater over here the humidistat kids on when we get below eight relative humidity this switch is on the hydro father to help increase the humidity in the Reno's and now I do not have a lot of time as many people don't which is why I have this timer here this time it is just connected to your southern wood over here which kicks on it not towards my point of 15 minutes that sprinkles that spray system that you saw above OMA plants and waters the nasty all of these systems combined with the the fan the oscillating fan it just moves around all ensures that I have a perfect Nolan's greenhouse for my plants timer for watering thermostat for heating and cooling units that will find humidity and a normal oscillating fan these were very easy to get on Amazon as was this and you can purchase any and all of these items on Amazon fairly easily I'll touch descriptions and links to these items below that you may produce it for yourself furthermore the hydro father a water park yeah this water park goes down into the greenhouse and connects into the collecting bucket which I showed you earlier this keeps it filled up to ensure that the hydro father always has water another really good way justifying high-pressured fine mist up putting misting system but essentially it's just a misting system that has very fine nozzles where the waters pumps through those nozzles are a very high pressure but this usually means that you need a gas compressor and air compressor our water compressor fan nozzles which may all become quite expensive but in the future my end goal is to purchase one of these to help cool down the beep house when it's very hot in the summer and to help keep the humidity nice and hot although having the hydro father does help a lot you'll always be helpful to have something extra just as a backup and just to help keep the strain before what in the Box like this so there you have it guys now you know how I keep my greenhouse warm and during the winter cool during the summer and to prevent obsessive lads from entering the region to prevent burning funds and how I'll help keep the community high in my greenhouse hopefully these tips help you save money on your greenhouse and since all the best growing environment for your plants see you guys next time