Misting System in the Greenhouse

Summer is here is force throughout Southern Oregon, and with it high temps. All the recent rains has lef the humidity higher than normal also, so its hot and a tad muggy. This has caused a bit of stress in the greenhouse. The outside temps reach 100+ during the days (highest so far was 111 degrees). To help counter these extremes we installed a misting system in the greenhouse.

Not wanting to spend more money than necessary I purchased 4 sets of backyard misters from a local store. Each set has about 10 feet of misting from a flexible tube. I hung simply connected thee together and hung it from the top support bars in the greenhouse in a back and forth patter using wire ties. All the misting nozzles pointing down toward shte plants. Then I put a digital timer on the water hose coming in and set it to run about 6 hours a day, through the hottest part of the day.

hopfully this will provide enough evaporation to cool the interior of hte greenhouse for hte plants, but also provide enough moisture to keep them watered.

First thing I noticed is that 4 is too many to string together, After the third one pressure is so low that it's creting a very light and uneven mist. I plan on getting a T connector and using some old drip irrigation pipe to connect the water intake  to both ends of hte mister hose. That should even out the water delivery.

Tonight I installed a remote thermometer and humidity meter to track how its going throughout the day. If the balance between water vapor and ventilation is right, we should be able to drop the temp by 10 to 20 degrees.