Hey there Loc Nar,

Good idea for a 5 gallon bucket set up, using the 8" net pot lid!
For growing single large plants that is an excellent way to go, plus you could easily make it expandable by just adding more buckets.

Also MainlandMart is an excellent source of pond foggers. I have not seen a source that is cheaper.
Not too long ago I built a small 3'x3' grow tray with fog and areo for someone and I used a 5 gal bucket, plus a 3 head pond fogger in a bouy (like you said the water level to the transducers is important) and a plastic "splash guard" and moisture proof muffin fan and a flexi plastic hose. A real "bucket of fog", but it works real good.

The idea behind using two methods is redundancy, and that is a good thing when your growing a high value crop. Hopefully a well designed system would work with either the fog or the areo alone so that if one of them decided to crap out on you, theres no catastrophy or major panic to try and get something fixed.

So come on Loc Nar, I think you have a decent plan for an inexpensive fog set up. I'd love to see you do a "fog" grow log, don't think there's been any of those here yet, you could be the first!

oldmac