GROWING
Humidity in the Grow Room and VPD
Knowing these two important cultivation factors can help you master the art of growing cannabis.
Humidity can be a tricky thing to understand when you are first starting to grow cannabis plants. After setting up the lights, watering system, and air handling system, humidity might not be at the forefront of the beginning growers’ attention. But experienced growers know that humidity is really the key to getting the best yields from the healthiest plants if you can just get it right.
Vapor Pressure Deficit, VPD for short, is another term and concept that gets thrown around a lot nowadays. Currently, it’s become something of a buzzword in the cannabis-growing community. But what is it really and how can understanding it help you grow better cannabis? To better understand how humidity and VPD play a role in plant development, let’s review some of the key concepts.
Relative Humidity vs. Absolute Humidity
To really grasp the fundamentals needed to understand how and what VPD is, we need to start with the difference between Relative Humidity (RH) and Absolute Humidity (AH).
Every grow should watch their humidity and VPD within their grow whether simple or advanced. photo credit
RH is what you read on a hygrometer, it’s shown as a percent along with the temperature. RH tells you how much water vapor is in the air relative to what the current temperature is. RH changes with temperature, as warmer air holds more moisture than colder air. As temperature rises, the RH percentage lowers due to the air’s capacity to hold more moisture. Air with 100% relative humidity is considered “saturated”, holding as much water as physically possible at that temperature.
Absolute humidity refers to the total amount of moisture in a given quantity of air. Absolute humidity does not change with temperature. To help us understand this, let’s visualize a glass box with a hygrometer inside it. Looking at the hygrometer, it says the temperature is 60 degrees with 100% RH.
If we raise the temperature in the box to 70 degrees, the RH gets lower. The air can hold more water now that it is warmer, but the same amount of water is still in the box, it did not disappear with the increase in temperature. This amount of moisture is the absolute humidity which is usually expressed as a weight per volume.
VPD Explained
Most growers rely on relative humidity to tell them how much moisture is circulating in the air of their grow room. While knowing the RH is useful, reading and adjusting the Vapor Pressure Deficit is a much better, more plant-oriented way of dealing with humidity. Vapor pressure refers to the total weight of the moisture in the air exerting force on an area.
In a high humidity environment, the vapor pressure will be high. In a low humidity environment, vapor pressure will be low. The inside of a plant’s leaf has its own vapor pressure that is different from the outside environment. VPD is a measure of the difference of the vapor pressure in the leaf and the vapor pressure outside the leaf.
To figure out the VPD, you’ll need a hygrometer and infared laser thermometer to measure the temperature of the leaf. photo credit
This pressure difference is extremely important to the basic functions of all plants. In cannabis, on the underside of every leaf there are tiny, microscopic pores called stomata. These pores open up to transpire moisture from the plant, which keeps water and nutrients running through the plant like a wick.
In a high vapor pressure environment (high humidity) these stomata are forced closed, limiting the amount the plant can transpire and slowing the plant’s metabolism. In a low vapor pressure environment, the stomata are open, increasing transpiration and speeding up the plant’s metabolism.
To figure out what the VPD is in a grow room you’ll need a hygrometer and infrared laser thermometer to measure the temperature of the leaf. All you need is the room temperature, the room’s relative humidity and temperature of the surface of the leaf.
There is a somewhat complicated formula to plug these numbers into, but for the sake of simplicity we’ll just link one of the handy dandy VPD calculators available online. Since VPD is the measure of weight over an area, it can be measured in pounds per square inch, but it’s more often measured in kilopascals (kPa).
If you don’t have an infrared thermometer, there are many VPD Charts available online as well that will give you a pretty good guess as to what the VPD is based on just temperature and relative humidity. For cannabis it’s recommended to have a VPD of about 0.8 kPa, but there are many other things to consider.
Looking at the chart, if a grow room is sitting at 73℉, to get a VPD of 0.8 you’d need 70% relative humidity in the room, which is high enough to start causing mold problems. At most temperatures, the optimal VPD for cannabis requires high humidity, which really isn’t optimal for producing a clean final product.
Vegetating cannabis plants need more humidity than flowering plants. photo credit
For this reason, it’s recommended to try and optimize the VPD during the beginning vegetaive cycle, but stray away from optimal VPD during late flowering. Younger plants tend to do better with high humidity environments, so optimizing the VPD in the early veg stage helps get vigorous growth. Dialing back the humidity by the third week of flower helps to increase transpiration and move nutrients through the plant, increasing yield. This also helps reduce the chance of molds and mildew forming on the precious buds.
Managing VPD
Having the ability to lower or heighten the humidity when necessary in your grow area is key to controlling VPD. In dry climates, you might not need to dehumidify as much and can get away with just using a humidifier to increase humidity.
Vice versa with wet climates, you might just need to dial in a dehumidifier to get the desired relative humidity. Keep in mind that air conditioning units by nature dehumidify the air, so if you are using lots of them you might need to add moisture to the room with a humidifier.
Also having a hygrometer is essential to getting your desired VPD right. A simple cheap hygrometer from your local grow store will do just fine, so if you don’t have one just grab one of those. More advanced models can connect to a smartphone and have features that allow you to track temperature and humidity over weeks and months. Using this data you can dial in your equipment to efficiently and constantly keep your desired environmental conditions.
Master cultivators know the importance of VPD and humidity. photo credit
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Across from him, CROWLEY WOLF, 50s, dressed in a threadbare velvet smoking jacket, paces slowly, holding a small, leather-bound director’s script. He stops, turns, and his voice booms, filling the vast, empty space.
CROWLEY WOLF
(Not shouting, but with immense, theatrical volume)
You’re late. The curtain rose an eternity ago. You think power makes you immune to time? Here, time is the only critic that matters. And it has found your performance… lacking. You’re playing the role of “Crown Prince.” Act like it. Sit up.
Mohammed shifts, his arrogance a physical shield.
MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
I do not answer to stagehands. I am the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. This… interrogation is a mistake. A grotesque misunderstanding.
CROWLEY WOLF
(Waving a dismissive hand)
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MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
(Icy)
I am the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. My destiny is not a matter for your… amusement.
CROWLEY WOLF
(A cruel smile)
Better. A flicker of something. Not belief, but the memory of it. Good. We can work with that. Let’s talk about your props. Your toys. This… “Directed Weapon.” Don’t look at me like that. We have the schematics. We have the usage logs. We have the encephalograms. I want the monologue. The scene where you, the great visionary, describe your creation. The soliloquy of the god-maker. Go!
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It was a tool for national advancement. A shield. A way to…
CROWLEY WOLF
(Slamming his script down)
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Mohammed’s composure cracks. A memory surfaces, unwanted.
MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
(Quieter, almost a whisper)
It was… clean. Like the moment after anesthesia, but with perfect clarity. No grogginess. Just… light. A motivation that didn’t end. I could run for hours. I didn’t need to sleep. One press… and the deepest sleep. Movies weren’t on a screen, they were… real. Music wasn’t sound, it was… a color. A feeling of being loved by the universe itself.
CROWLEY WOLF
YES! SEE? THAT’S ACTING! The truth! And what else? What did it do to your perception of the little people? The ones outside your skull?
MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
(A flicker of the old arrogance)
It clarified things. It showed me what was… necessary. The distance between me and… others. They became… smaller. Insignificant. Like insects scurrying on the pavement kilometers below. Their concerns… microscopic.
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Magnificent! The god-monologue! Now, the next scene. The difficult one. The casting call. You have this divine tool. You need a court. A government. But the best minds, the strong-willed, the ones who might actually help you… they see you for what you are. A tyrant. They wouldn’t come. They wouldn’t love you. So what did you do, my brilliant casting director? What kind of actors did you settle for?
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My advisors were chosen for their loyalty. Their commitment to Vision 2030.
CROWLEY WOLF
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You did what was easy. Now. The final scene. The one that earned you this stage. The private performance. The young student. What was her name? The one you practiced on.
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MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN
I… there is no one.
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CROWLEY WOLF
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MOHAMMED/LAYLA
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