By far this has been the best help, it's much appreciated. Last night I went and got some 11 ppm R/O water. I left about 3 gallons of my old water in the tank and then mixed in the R/O water until I had 150 ppm's. I added nothing else and will let that sit for a few days. Already 12 hours later the leaves have picked up and they give off good vibes. I'm not sure how to explain it but you can sort of just tell when you finally get it right, the plant gives good vibes.

This is now the 3rd crisis I have gone through and I have to wonder what else is waiting. I have a feeling even before reading today's posts, that the timer was going to be the next thing. I still don't have definitive advice on how long to set the timer for. Now today it looks like I should be increasing the watering timer every week or so.

As to the watering issues, tell me if this will work. I have a single chamber fog system so it's inevitable that the roots will grow down to the bottom of the tank. They will eventually touch the water and will be able to use that as their source of water. Will I even need to increase the fog if I allow the roots to grow down to the res? I have bubblers in there already so it's kind of like a DWC system at that point.

I have thought long and hard about whether to put my original spray heads back into the chamber. I used a homemade aeroponic system while I waited for the fogger to arrive. The problem I have with putting the sprayers back in is that my misters hit the bottom of the net cups which means that I wont have a fog zone any more so why even use fog in the first place. I know a lot of people use fog for only the first few weeks and then switch to another system. If I were to include sprayers then the best way to include them would be towards the middle of the res. Then I would have a fog zone, spray zone and finally a DWC zone. I think fogbox does something like that. My point is that I don't even have enough roots to allow the misters to even make contact with roots and if I raise the misters then I negate the fog. All the problems associated with fog tend to be with the later stages of plant development with the plants incessant need for massive amounts of water and I'm no where near that point. My issues seem to be with my retardedness more then anything. First the lights too low, then late night timer issues, now the water.

If I did include spray heads, wouldn't they best be used towards the middle of the root zone which means that I don't even need to worry about that for at least another week or two?

Thanks for the great info fellows.
Prodaytrader Reviewed by Prodaytrader on . What now??? A few weeks back I built a pure fog system. Plz no suggestions about switching to a new method. I have my reasons for doing fog. At any rate, about 4 days ago I dialed in the system and was getting really good growth and nice green leaves. 3 days ago I decided that the water was too dirty and that I should probably lower the ppm's in the water anyway, so I changed it out. I believe I took too long on the water change which was probably in the neighborhood of an hour. I wasn't careful Rating: 5