**Lets fog it up : DIY fog cloner

[clowntown]

The donut float worked great; I bought it from MainlandMart.com along with the single-head fogger, some time back while attempting to build an aeroponic fog grow system. It worked fine with plain water, but with nutes it clogged way too easily, way too fast. Not sure how nutes / additives that would help in cloning, if you choose to use them (such as Rhizotonic) would go along with it for any length of time.

 

[bp420]

the key i believe is in the fog timing...something along the lines of 1minON / 10minOFF would be perfect i think

i have been tooling around now for a couple of months with one of those single head fogger units and have not had that much success...but i have had some.
of the 8 clones that i have taken only 2 of them have rooted, however once the first little nub of root shows - its takes off.
i had one show its little "nub" out of the cutting end 2 days ago, that little nub is now 12mm long - and growing at an increasing rate.

i also have a couple of plants under some fluros next to my fogger unit, and the fog has been drifting into some of the drain holes on the bottoms of the pots and i noticed today that the roots are super furry around the holes where the fog can get to....so yeah roots like fog.

anyways...i've smoked far to much to be trying to think..it so not gunna happen at the moment...but yeah, as i said..i think its in the timing..and if anyone could point me ina the direction of a timer that can do what i described above it would be much apprecitated..

 

[BudGood2006]

Look for a Cyclestat, it's a short-cycle timer.

 

[Guest]

Great Utilization..

Great Utilization..

I built a bubbler splash type cloner a while back, and hated it. Just hated it. Too much freakin noise.

This is a fantastic starting concept but I can think of a couple of cosmetic improvements to make it more compact and unified.

I'll wait til I'm drooling over your results before I build one heehee.

Man it seems like you take way bigger clones than me but that's probably just poor perspective. I'm currently just rooting my itty bitty clones in small dixie cups and soil, using rooting hormone gel very successfully, I just did a big batch and they rooted 100% within 10 days. But I hate handling a carcinogen, though, and I'm switching to hydro soon so aero is my future.

Fuck bubbler designs! I'm going with ultrasonic disks (which are cheap too btw, kickass).

Ahh, progress. It marches on.

 

[Guest]

I tried this once, couldnt get roots... I didn't think the stems stayed wet enough, then they just rotted away...

 

[clowntown]

More details please? What temperatures, how long on/off periods, etc?

I was planning on getting another ultrasonic fogger and trying this again, but now I'm not so sure.

 

[fuzygrowth]

hey clowntown.... i let it run 24/7 , think already posted the temps if i didn't then it's forgotten . it took a long while for it to show roots and shortly after it did the i let the water run out and they all died , haven't refilled it in a while but plan on it tomorrow or in a couple of days.

 

[clowntown]

hey clowntown.... i let it run 24/7 , think already posted the temps if i didn't then it's forgotten . it took a long while for it to show roots and shortly after it did the i let the water run out and they all died , haven't refilled it in a while but plan on it tomorrow or in a couple of days.

Ah, I was referring to strainwhore's post:

I tried this once, couldnt get roots... I didn't think the stems stayed wet enough, then they just rotted away...

Should'a

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[Guest]

I ran 24/7, had to use a dome at first cause they dried out too fast. Not sure of the temps, but no way over 80 or under 70. Probably right about 76-78. It has been a few years since I did this. Mine was a modified aerocloner with a fog producing disk at the bottom instead of airstones. TONS of fog, but until the plant developed good roots, the fog didnt do enough I guess.

 

[Sloppy Seconds]

I dig this!
question: do you need to put something in the water? you know for nutes or roots or something?
I have a "waterfall" humidifer but i dont think that will work.
great job. be cool

 

[Guest]

I dig this!
question: do you need to put something in the water? you know for nutes or roots or something?
I have a "waterfall" humidifer but i dont think that will work.
great job. be cool

I'm sure rooting hormones might help. This is something I might try again, if peat pellets werent so idiotproof.

 

[bhuddahat]

diy fogger / aero cloner

diy fogger / aero cloner

Hello all . Inspired by this post i got to work buiding a mini cloner using a mini pond fogger , purchases from maplins.co.uk but also available on ebay .





It disipates far to much heat to be used on its only but in conjunction with an air pump it really does the business.



I have it running 15 minutes on 15 minutes off at night and 15 minutes on 30 mintes off during the day when the house is warmer and the lights are on .

I cloned these bad boys just over a week ago



I learnt my lesson harshly at first because i cooked about 5 clones with really high res temps but i soon got it right and the ones that didnt cook have come along really nicely .







`ill keep you posted .

=== easy now .

bhuddahat

 

[clowntown]

NICE job!

What temperatures worked best?

 

[bhuddahat]

Its running at about 24 - 27 celcius at the moment .

It drops abit at night which i why i have the fogger going abit more then .

regards bhudadahat

 

[clowntown]

Is the fogger heating the water up considerably? What temperatures "cooked" them?

 

[Blunt_69]

Cool stuff guys!! Eventually i will be adding fog to the trays. However when it comes to cloneing...peat pucks just are way to easy for me to invest time in to a project like this for cloning. I made a bubble cloner once and found it to be a PITA. constant water checking and stems had to be all the same length. Peat pucks you wet em once, by the time they need water, you got yourself some roots.. Awsome DIY shit though!!

 

[Guest]

Great idea but does it work........

Great idea but does it work........

Some great ideas but the proof is in the green.... or white relating to roots.

Definately should work. I just buit one of those aero cloners from the DIY thread. I will have to mess with this down the road. Would like to know if it works though.

Clown thanks for the info... was thinking of a fog aero system also but the part about the build up on the disks makes sense. Too bad that was a great idea too.

Peace

 

[clowntown]

Clown thanks for the info... was thinking of a fog aero system also but the part about the build up on the disks makes sense. Too bad that was a great idea too.

The "build up" on the disks were from the unit running off of a nutrient solution, not plain water. I tried replicating this "NutraMist" device, which was an actual ultrasonic fog aero growing system, not just a cloning system.

I wouldn't anticipate clean water, particularly distilled or RO, having issues.

Remember that humidifier units using these fogging devices usually have a filtration system, oftentimes requiring replacing filters. I'm guessing that's to do a rough filtering of the larger particles found in some tap water.

 

[alphacat]

pH swings or nutrient dissolution?

pH swings or nutrient dissolution?

Did anyone who's built one of these things get the problem with crazy pH swings or nutrient dissolution as mentioned in other Foggerponic threads here?

 

[alphacat]

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