Building a kiln/ humidity control

[redline8225]

Hello all,
First time posting. Love the forum, tons of great information.
I was just wondering if this is a dumb idea, and feel free to let me know if it is lol. So I was thinking of buying one of these small misting units, wire it to a humidity controller, and place it in the corner of a small kiln I was going to make. Around the size of a beverage fridge. These units produce around the same mist as a essential oil atomizer.
Would this be too much maybe? Thanks in advance

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Hi, welcome to the forum. Feel free to start a thread specific to an introduction.

I have considered about those, myself, and I think it would work fine - so long as it's on a humidity controller. If it just ran all the time, you would probably run out of water quickly and it would be too humid. I'm pretty sure those units are also the same as that which is in an ultrasonic humidifier.

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum. To avoid personal injury (from kicking yourself), I would suggest initially setting up a much larger kiln. As @ChinaVoodoo has said, your envisioned kiln would likely do its job, but if you grow more than a handful of tobacco plants, it will be way too small to handle the quantity of leaf. A junk refrigerator from somewhere would be a more useful starter kiln. (I have a 7 quart Crockpot in my current kiln, and sometimes find it a chore to keep up with the water, especially in winter, when the ambient temp makes the Crockpot work more of the time.)

Bob

 

[redline8225]

Hi, welcome to the forum. Feel free to start a thread specific to an introduction.

I have considered about those, myself, and I think it would work fine - so long as it's on a humidity controller. If it just ran all the time, you would probably run out of water quickly and it would be too humid. I'm pretty sure those units are also the same as that which is in an ultrasonic humidifier.

Awesome, thanks for the response! I'm new at this so your feedback is greatly appreciated

 

[redline8225]

Welcome to the forum. To avoid personal injury (from kicking yourself), I would suggest initially setting up a much larger kiln. As @ChinaVoodoo has said, your envisioned kiln would likely do its job, but if you grow more than a handful of tobacco plants, it will be way too small to handle the quantity of leaf. A junk refrigerator from somewhere would be a more useful starter kiln. (I have a 7 quart Crockpot in my current kiln, and sometimes find it a chore to keep up with the water, especially in winter, when the ambient temp makes the Crockpot work more of the time.)

Bob

Thanks for the warm welcome. I've been considering this and you're right. This year I planted 30 plants so I'm thinking this is a better idea. I'll start looking for a fridge. Thanks for the response Bob!

 

[Alpine]

Welcome to FTT. You can build a kiln in a week-end starting from cheap insulation and recovered wood planks. An old refrigerator is a good starting point too. My only advice is: build it BIG, waaay bigger than you think it’s enough. Once you start growing your own, it’s hard to not “try that interesting strain I read about… just a couple of plants” (you end up with no less than ten), “oh… and that other strain that did so well last year” and “of course I have to refresh that seeds I have…” “and what about those seeds sent by xxxx (insert name of a forum member) that I MUST grow this year since he was so kind” and so on. A kiln is never too big, if you’re lucky, it’s just big enough.

pier

 

[jclif43]

Welcome!

 

[redline8225]

Welcome to FTT. You can build a kiln in a week-end starting from cheap insulation and recovered wood planks. An old refrigerator is a good starting point too. My only advice is: build it BIG, waaay bigger than you think it’s enough. Once you start growing your own, it’s hard to not “try that interesting strain I read about… just a couple of plants” (you end up with no less than ten), “oh… and that other strain that did so well last year” and “of course I have to refresh that seeds I have…” “and what about those seeds sent by xxxx (insert name of a forum member) that I MUST grow this year since he was so kind” and so on. A kiln is never too big, if you’re lucky, it’s just big enough.

pier

Great information! I needed this! Thanks Alpine!

 

[redline8225]

Welcome!

Thanks jclif43!

 

[Red Lime]

Welcome!

 

[redline8225]

Welcome!

Thanks, Red lime!