Indoor should you spray a flowering plant

[sparrowhawk]

Hi there.

Just want your opinions on spraying or misting. When i grew indoors i always use give the plants a little misting when lights come on and i done that to my plants even in flower, i didnt soak them just a light mist as i know you dont want them wet, now some other growers i knew at the time use to tell me off for this practise, but what about a plant grown outside and you have a rain shower?

 

[Hugo]

You can't do much about that can you? Personally I think that the plants will be ok if, after a couple of rainy days, the sun lights up after so it dries the plant. If it doesn't... well, that sucks! It can lead to mold and diseases.

 

[sparrowhawk]

Yeh totally agree thats what i was saying, if i sprayed them lightly as lights came on then they would be dry very soon after wards so no mould would occurr.

 

[BigBuddha]

Hey, sparrow.

I think you've already answered this question by-proxy. Does it rain in nature? Is sure does. Does cannabis have an oily, water-repellant coating on its buds? Yep.

So why all the panic about misting flowering indoor girls? Pretty much it's to limit the risk of budrot. However, if a grower can give an occasional misting yet mnage to keep the room humidity low, and also has plenty of ventilation then a misting does no harm.. and can in fact do good (cooling off the girls / washing away dust / opening the stomatas etc).

It's budrot that's the concern.. and of course coating the buds with crap if using watter-wetter or whatever.. but just plain water is perfectly ok to do in my experience. but I have excellent ventilation / ARH so I never see budrot anyway. But does misting in itself actually hurt them? Not at all as they like it.