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Misting system for cuttings

 
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Anyone know where I can get a setup that i can use inside an insulated grow room (shed) that will mist some cuttings maybe 4 times a day?  
I do not have any water pressure in there but I do have 120V power.
I have water barrels that I can refill and a small plastic greenhouse.
 
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I have 12 volt in my greenhouse and I use a boat bilge pump, a live well aerator timer/switch and these brass misters from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Sywon-Misting-Nozzles-Replacement-Landscaping/dp/B07D1J3J6H/ref=sr_1_25?dchild=1&keywords=brass+garden+mister+fitting&qid=1607641622&sr=8-25 The live well aerator timer has several settings on when it powers up the boat bilge pump to mist my plants. These particular misters are a 10-24 thread that I place in 1/2 inch pvc, but they have different ones with hose barb fittings as well.

 
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Robert,  that sounds fantastic.
Any chance of some pictures?
To be clear, is this a "cloning" set up where the bottoms of the cuttings are misted?
 
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I'll get some photo's of my set up this weekend. There are several you tubes on aeroponic clone generators using pond pumps and sprinkler heads. I'm using it to generate clones for transplanting with just H2O. I am in Oregon and there is a lot of 420 cloning in the area so I get to see some elaborate set ups. Since I have never run 110v to my green house I'm running 4 125 watt solar panels and batteries to run fans, pumps and lights, in winter this year I'm doing a test run With one of those 12volt Chinese diesel heaters and I am very impressed so far.
With nutrients you can take the veg plants to harvest. I'm also fiddling with Kratky barrels this season. I had great success with self watering buckets (Gardening with Leon) with cukes and tomatoes.
 
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i have the DIG 710AP timer for misting cuttings. it's good because it can do short duration mistings (5 seconds) and short intervals (5 minutes), which is nice because with regular garden timers it's easy to both overwater cuttings every time you water them and also dry them out by going too long between mistings (say a duration of 1 min every 20 mins).

if you don't have water pressure but do have electricity, i would get a pump and a pressure tank and set up a small pressurized system just for the cuttings and use a good misting timer. Off-the-shelf 120v or 220v outlet timers that can do custom short intervals are kind of hard to find, but they are easy enough to build with an arduino and some relay boards. if you want to go arduino route, then you can avoid the pressure tank and just set a timer where you switch the pump on/off at whatever interval you want.

if you want to go super lo-tech, you could set up a water drip that drops from a decent height onto a hard surface that causes a splash that "mists" the cuttings. Kind of like what plants growing next to a waterfall would experience. Like each drop of water would splash on the cuttings in the immediate vicinity. A slow drip could be set up with a needle valve, or several.
 
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I just heard of the diesel heaters recently, very intriguing.
I'm a big fan of sub-irrigated planters, I've built quite a few.
Looking forward to yer photos!
 
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Ran across MistKing systems which is a complete setup.  Will have to use very clean water but my scale is small maybe 10 cuttings.
Would love to learn more on your cloning methods.  I am trying to grow some golden kiwi which seems overly difficult to do.
 
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