Sorry for the delay. Ive been under the weather.
That's a good eye my friend , no so I took one of the pots and literally flipped it upside-down and slid over the top and what that did was make it bulking on the top basically where the shape is round " it's the bottom of the pot " and the I cut a whole on top for lid .... So I made 2 because I couldnt decide what was better lol and u just sealed the deal I'm going to just do it this way it's cleaner .
I use hot glue to stitch together pots for my chamber. Just a dab every few inches is all you need some times. Other times you need a long stretch to hold parts together. Its a fast way to tack fabric in place to itself or to other things.
Ya so im having trouble with finding a convenient way to actually point the misters the way I want and making sure they don't accedently move on me i
Ive tried several different ways to solve that problem. Early on I just stuck the HPA misters through a small slit on the fabric and used zip ties and swivels to get them "close enough". Later I decided I wanted more control over height, and vertical and horizontal directions. Part of that is to be able to move them to respond to root growth and to help keep them from being over grown.
Here are some of the ways Ive done it.
I do not recommend this technique. Its more trouble than its worth
For the last several grows I have been attaching the nozzles to PVC pipe. Some times fixed, but mostly set up so I can raise and lower the pipe to adjust the height, plus being able to turn the pipe to adjust the horizontal angle the nozzle points. In some cases I added a way to adjust the vertical angle, but lately Ive just been leaving the nozzles at aprox a 45 deg angle, but still able to turn the pipe/nozzle combo from side to side and raise and lower it. It helps to be able to raise it because I like the nozzles as close to the floor of the chamber as possible. This give the spray the longest travel distance, but the roots can pile up in the bottom and they go straight for the nozzles. It helps if you can raise them a bit if that happens.
I just took the entire root chamber apart to replace the fabric pots - they had too much salt build up and dead roots in the fabric. Im also making the chamber slightly larger in diameter - from 24" to 29.5". Im going to reduce the height slightly from 29" to about 26-27" and see how that goes next grow.
This is my current nozzle holder. The air line feeds up through the PVC pipe - which extends to just above the lid of the root chamber. The water line goes down through the bottom of the chamber and over to my siphon tank - which is just outside the fabric pot. I can raise and lower the PVC pipe as well as turn it from side to side. The vertical angle is fixed at aprox 45 deg. I heat the ends of the PVC pipe with a heat gun until about 3" is soft, then clamp that part between some boards and bend it to the angle I want until it cools. You can use a propane torch too but go slow - the pipe melts and burns easily.
Ive also tried this trick. The blue part is just a plastic lid with a screw in the center holding it to the PVC pipe. The screw is just tight enough to hold the nozzle but you can still change the vertical angle by hand. It turned out to be too much trouble reachiing down into the chamber and I never did really use that much once it was set. Turns out that 45 deg was about right.
This was my first try. The nozzles were pretty much fixed, but I could turn them if I wanted to - none of these PVC joints on any of the above are glued in place. That makes it easy to make changes, disassemble, etc.
- for measuring hangtime it's really hard to see in through one of the 2 " netpot whole and I'm thinking holding maybe a flashlight in one while putting my eye to the other IDK how accurate I can get this way I feel like u need a lot of light to really see it floating around , I seen people using the camera scopes but I don't have one maybe I should invest in one , anyway that was my idea for trying to get hangtime ....
I find cat toy lasers work great. You should be able to point the laser down at an angle thru the same hole or a different hole and use your phone (no flash) to video thru the hole at the same time. The video will make it easy to measure the speed the mist disappears.
Your phones flash is an LED and that will also work well for watching mist hang. To do that just lay your phone over one hole and let if record with the flash ON. I use both because each gives you a different idea of how the mist is doing.
Actually, for the phones flash to work best, you need to be recording from the side. That way you can see the mist slowly drop down from thje top oif the chamber. If you are recording from the top with the camera flash ON, you cant really tell how low the most is getting.
Here are a few of mine using both ways.
In this one, the l;azer toy is pointing down at an angle thru the same net pot hole as the camera.
I will be back lol
