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Am I to assume that you are fogging the roots and not the plants?
To my understanding and I will find out this week the foggers will warm up the water they are sitting in. Cooling what they are sitting in I assume will help but as you mentioned I have planed to generate my fog in a 5 gallon bucket and then by use of a PC fan pushing it thru a 1-2" line into the root zone.I had heard of the high temps coming from the actualfoggers themselves around the root zone can cause problems.my thought was if u could use a small fan to draw the fog away from the foggers into a seperate cooler compartment were the root zone is.
im really curious to see how this works out.good idea for a thread.sharing your findings will help others avoid the problems u may encounter and overcome.
Sounds like youv put ALOT of thought into this.good for u man.i strongly beleive that if u can get the fog at a good temp (between about 70/74 degrees) that the high humidity and highly oxygenated fog will produce some tremenbous results,u just gotta keep the temps down.To my understanding and I will find out this week the foggers will warm up the water they are sitting in. Cooling what they are sitting in I assume will help but as you mentioned I have planed to generate my fog in a 5 gallon bucket and then by use of a PC fan pushing it thru a 1-2" line into the root zone.
My current thinking was to make sure the outside air being forced into the fog bucket was at an antiquate temperature to make 60-68f range. If lighting /room heat impacts the root zone that should only be filled with air and fog when its time to cycle. Then the incoming air can be cooled enough to compensate. Currently I am going to be placing a sealed duct over the output of a 5,000btu AC and drawing air from that to push conditioned cooling air 24/4 to the root zone. the fan will run non stop with the compressor connected to a thermostat.
.....(between about 70/74 degrees) that the high humidity and highly oxygenated fog will produce some tremenbous results,u just gotta keep the temps down.
Im talkin about rooting cuts.is that no wat we,r talkin about?Elaborate 70/74??
Are things different in Areo/fogging. I had serious issues when my NFT res was running that warm. I was advised to keep res. temps 60-68 with 70 being borderline too warm for root zone.
As far as my vision that I am working on now for a res. that will hold the fogging units. It is a 10 gallon cooler that I plan to install the evap exchange from the AC on/in. I plan to cool return air/fog from the root zone. In vision this unit will put out a temp controlled fog to the top of the root ball area of a separate container and draw air back from said container, cool it down, and recirculate it back again with fresh fog.
I almost feel a water chiller on an NFT or HPA would be an easier system to build. But I can't help reading #s. Plants absorb elements most efficiently in the range of about 1-25 micrometers. The Foggers I choose are cheap units for testing but they all produce 1-30 micrometer mist. I have no idea what HPA spray size is but I cant imagine its in the micro scale. and there should only be disk cleaning/replacment to deal with Vs unclogging sprayers or feed lines.
Im talkin about rooting cuts.is that no wat we,r talkin about?
I had heard of the high temps coming from the actualfoggers themselves around the root zone can cause problems.my thought was if u could use a small fan to draw the fog away from the foggers into a seperate cooler compartment were the root zone is.
im really curious to see how this works out.good idea for a thread.sharing your findings will help others avoid the problems u may encounter and overcome.
The system is for Veg-Flower. Basically all I am building is an expandable temp controlled closed loop fogging system that will only ever touch the established plants root zone. For clones this may be a bit complicated and over kill as mist/fog don't work until there are some good roots and that can be done in a DWC, turbo Cloner, or rockwool on a heat mat. I can see now why you said 70-74. It does bring up an interesting thought as to using a dense fog in root area to root clone. I may have to try that my next clipping cycle.
The smalle tote setup I mentioned was thought out for clones/seedling with already established roots to help them get to the 12-24 in height and past snapping.
Now you got me thinking about a start to finish system and wondering if mist can make clones root faster/better.
Take a look at your roots. IF your fog on time is too long it will over wet the roots. They respond by closing up shop, meaning they will not feed. Fog/HPA you need to dial in o/o times using a deep cycle timer. ON times are usually lees than 30 seconds and more like less than 5 seconds
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