The words I picked up on are: "if I run it by staff"; to me this indicates that your living situation is not a single family, owner-occupied building.
Humidifiers (properly used) counteract the dry air in a building during the winter months when the heat can cause dryness to the air, furniture, woodwork, doors, etc. The purpose of the humidifier is to balance the humidity in the room, not to saturate the air with moisture.
Using the humidifier to the extent that there is mold forming can be a danger to your health and to the health of others living in the building.
with purpleinopp that it may be better to confine the plants to a terrarium; controlling the humidity in the terrarium would help the plants and not harm the building or the health of the occupants.
(Sorry to be so passionate about the subject. My father was a painter and wallpaper hanger and he hated
excess humidity.)
