Adapt Your Plant To Low Humidity

[Paradoxic]

Salvia Divinorum can adapt to survive in an environment with low humidity.

An easy way to get your plant used to the environment outdoors (or a new indoor environment with low humidity) is by taking it from a humidity chamber or tent once each day and leaving it outside for an hour to start. Make sure the plant is not in direct sunlight at any time (under a tree is good) and is well-shielded from wind. When you take the plant outside give it a good misting with purified water (you can also use rain water). Each day extend the time it spends outside by one hour and within two weeks it should be ready to live outside. The permanent location for you plant should be shielded from wind and in filtered(indirect) sunlight.

[tator547]

i live in southern indiana all 4 seasons would this still work if i started say feb or march, would the plant be big enough to handle winter which gets about to o 20F ish?

[Paradoxic]

No, anything below freezing will kill your plant almost instantly. You want to keep temperatures between 60-80˚F, but it can get as low as 45 F or so without problems. You could keep it outside when its warm enough, but you would need to take it inside for the winter.

[cechmangoal]

i found a really easy way to acclimate your plants to low humidity. take it out of the humid environment and spray it. it will most likely NEED aother spray in 30-60 minutes. now all you have to do is increase the amount of time that it is without spraying. you will be able to gauge what length of time is good. trust me though, just keep on extending the time between sprays and you will soon be checking it ever 10 or more hours, I'm currently at 10.5 hours and increasing almost every day. it has been around a month or so since i started, probably less.

[Paradoxic]

Thats interesting, if that works and you have the time for it that seems easier. How humid do you think it is where you are adapting your plant? Because I think if it were too dry this method may not work as well.

[cechmangoal]

i would say 30-40 humidity. it's my bedroom with central air conditioning which creates a dry environment.... not like nose bleed dry or anything . it does require time to look after it, waking at odd hours to spray, etc., but so far it's working great, i couldn't be happier

[Paradoxic]

Oh ok, yeah thats a pretty decent humidity for Salvia. Your plants look great by the way 

[tcamdg]

A couple weeks ago I got sick of worrying about the humidity and just removed the tents from my plants (no acclimation). I barely misted them, and they're doing great (I don't mist at all now). They went from ~90% humidity down to ~35% (I have forced-air heating, I used an electronic hygrometer to measure the humidity). Just wanted to give me experience, YMMV.