Fogponics 101 | How to use Ultrasonic Fogger to grow plants
Fogponics 101 | How to use Ultrasonic Fogger to grow plants
I don’t care if you are growing cabbage or fogponic weed, Let this video help answer any questions you might have about gardening with a ultrasonic fogger. Combining fogponics with your hydroponic setup is a great way to create a quick fogponic dwc or kratky setup. I will also cover the fully aeroponic moving air style fogponic garden.
The Ph meter with temp gage I use
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You can do moving air without an escape point for the air flow, but you need to use an inline fan that can handle being in an effectively 100% RH environment for its operating life. That’s usually done by keeping the motor out of the air flow, so a lot easier to find a good fit in a larger system with larger diameter piping. Either a squirrel cage or tangential style fan/blower would be great if you can find one small enough.
You note the reliability aspect of bubbleponics, and that is exactly why I’ve been playing with hybrid RDWC and fogponics. I keep the water level for the DWC aspect at roughly half of the grow chamber’s depth and feed fog straight from the RDWC feed tank. You can use the same line for the fog supply that is used as the overflow for the recirculating aspect, and as the water feed with some reducer bushings that have the stops bored out so you can pass a whole pipe through.. You can get the amazing root quality of aeroponics and once they grow long enough, the growth potential of DWC. If the fogger dies, you have the RDWC aspect to keep it going. If the power dies entirely, you have the half chamber depth water reservoir to keep the roots from drying out.
When I discovered these foggers I thought about trying this
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the mist just go out into the room?
Neat!
Moving In-Line Fogger System…MILFS. 🤣
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bubble? do you mean DWC?
One method I’m planning on playing with is multi-source foggers. Basically, have multiple kratky ponds, thermally separated, so that you turn off one fogger once its 15 minutes are up, and turn on another that takes over while the other cools down. Needs fancier timing electronics and you’re paying for more foggers, but it a) allows you to keep fog in motion for a greater percentage of time, but b) and here’s the important part, if one fogger fails, you have redundancy from the ones that are still operational and you’re less likely to have a nutrient build up at 5 am kill everything before you wake up.
I’ve been experimenting with moving air style for like a year. Separate reservoir with fogger, air stone and pump. So air moves through the fogger water to help keep it cool. Separate fog pipes to multiple plant containers.
Ultimately, the reliability of the fogger transducer is poor, requires extra electricity, and cost. It just doesn’t seem worth it. For fruiting and flowering plants it doesn’t seem like it really provided the amount of nutrients the plants can use. Maybe there’s a system that would, but unclear if there’s a benefit to finding it. Like, it would need to grow twice as fast dwc or something.
Long way of saying I agree with the dwc comment in the video.
Excellent content! Do you think a knockout pot or nucleation/agglomeration site of some kind would work to create a circulating fog system so that it doesn’t become a waste system? Maybe using HEPA filter material?