Right, I've just about had it up to here with my aerocloner... Its really giving me the shits, and producing nothing... So I've had a bit of a rethink after I chatted with Eight and my hydro guy....
I came home and took it apart and some of the misters were blocked and there was a strange whitish slime in the water so I lightly bleached everything, rinsed it thoroughly and let it dry naturally...I put it in my bath tub to test it and the pump has more than enough grunt to do the job but the misters were letting me down...
Then I had a bit of a sook, and a think and there's always a simpler way to do things... I am the ultimate lazy gardener, so I thought what creates mist with water without mechanical means????
BUBBLES!!!!!... DUH,
I could have kicked myself in the arse for not apply the technique earlier...
Out came the PVC frame and the black hosing mister I made and I replaced all that shit, with 2 x 30cm airstones and a water pump... Submerged in 35 litres of water in the aerocloner, the huge amounts of bubbles create a microfine mist, when the bubbles pop... Its genius I tells ya...lol.
... I put everything back to gether again and let it run for ten minutes... I used new neoprene sleeves that were totally dry, and when I checked it, they had such a fine mist covering them... BLOODY EUREKA....
I also managed to get the ultrasonic humidifyer inside the lil cloner tent, and the temps and the humidity are perfect....I am using cloning solution from Growth Technology Australia again, because it was the only thing giving me hope last week.....lol...When I run out of the Clonex Solution, I am going to try super thrive, I've had success with that before in humidity crib situations...
Pamela the Blue Cheese seems to hate my guts, I've given her the best of everything and she's been nothing but an moody bitch.....
She looks lovely in the mother tent, but as soon as I try to clone her, she turns on me...
And to prove how much she hates me, I took eight cuttings today... Four from Pamela Blue Cheese and four from the Super Lemon Haze. They have all been put in the aerocloner and I checked them 15 mins ago... The SLH are loving their new environment, standing straight up and you wouldn't even think they were clones, but the Blue Cheese have fallen straight over, flat on their arses... I know they will improve tomorrow, but it just goes to show, some strains like it better than others...
I will take pics but I've made a pact with myself not to do anything but check temps for 4 days... Will let you know how it goes....