No need to mist if your humidity is around 50% or 60% or higher.
You got a humidifier, no need to mist.
Crown rot only happens when you allow water to sit in the leaf axils of the plant for a long period of time. Even when there is a little bit of water in there but the water doesn't dry out fast enough or drain out of there, it'll cause crown rot. In nature, the plants are adapted to avoid this. Some use the method of the way they grow to prevent water from sitting in the leaf axils. Some use the method of the way the leaves are arranged to that.
Research the way the plants you want to grow grows in nature. It'll make a lot of sense.
You can even try growing them the way they grow in nature and play around by watering their leaves, simulating a rainy situation, to see how the water runs away or in some cases towards the leaf axils.
I did this with a Dichaea sp. and a Glossorhyncha sp. just to see the difference of how water runs down the plant when it rains. What a surprise to learn that two plants that look similar in vegetation that grow pendulously in nature have two very different methods of water dispersal.
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