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title: "To mist or not to mist…what’s the consensus? Do I follow the plants…"
description: "To mist or not to mist…what’s the consensus? Do I follow the plants app and mist a good number of plants or not. I mist with distilled water. Someone…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Tara 🪴👶🏻"
published: "2023-12-18T16:15:17.741Z"
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# To mist or not to mist…what’s the consensus? Do I follow the plants…

_Posted by Tara 🪴👶🏻 on 2023-12-18_

To mist or not to mist…what’s the consensus?

Do I follow the plants app and mist a good number of plants or not. I mist with distilled water.

Someone previously posted that I shouldn’t be misting my Alocasia…what about calatheas, pothos, pilea, etc.?

I just added a diffuser to help with humidity and had my husband adjust the humidity level on the furnace.

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## 7 comments

### PlantLady commented on 2023-12-18

I mist my Calatheas frequently and they are thriving. For me it helps keep them cleaner than when I don’t mist so it’s more of a maintenance thing for me

### Plant queen commented on 2023-12-18

I don’t most any plants as I personally don’t think it does anything if anything it can make leaves soft if air circulation is bad. With stand on the left what glow light are u using underneath each shelf ?

#### Tara 🪴👶🏻 replied on 2023-12-18

It’s a Barrina plant stand. 30W 5000K 1FT T5 Grow Lights and there are 2/shelf

#### Plant queen replied on 2023-12-18

Do you find they give off enough light?

#### Tara 🪴👶🏻 replied on 2023-12-18

No issues so far. I run them on a 12hr timer.

### Emily 🪴🤍 commented on 2023-12-18

My Calathea is the only plant I’ll mist religiously. I’ve noticed since running a humidifier by it once a day that the leaves look a lot healthier than they did previously. I don’t mist my Pilea, i used to but it started dropping leaves like crazy when i did so i figured it didn’t like it

### William commented on 2023-12-19

If you have a diffuser I wouldn't think you need to mist but I never mist my plants bc a botanist I saw on youtube said its useless but I've heard both so when my plants are struggling I put them in a humidity dome

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