I QUIT!!!

I took it all back or will at least. I exchanged the pump for a submersible 1500 gph pump. I dropped it into a 30 gallon container and plumbed 10 x 360 spray heads like what Farmer mentioned and called it quits. The higher gph rating ensures that I have at least a moderate amount of pressure going to the spray heads which is allowing them to create a finer spray then would be possible on the sub 500 pumps.

My build was too much and I failed too damn many times in the process. My wife and kid were threatening to leave me. I have spent nearly every waking hour of the past 2 weeks shopping, connecting, discovering a problem, returning to the store, then rinse and repeat. I am not kidding you when I say I have a pile of receipts probably 6 inches high. I was probably 1000 bucks into the system by the time I gave up. I could have bought a professionally built system for half what I was about to spend, or did spend until I took back most of the pieces. Most came from Lowe's, but I still have parts left like the fogger which I can't return.

For now, I'm even quitting fog. I have seen enough of the fog to know what I am giving up; it was a very agonizing decision to pull it, but ultimately the entire project lost my interest several days ago. I am tired of asking questions and researching the intricacies of ultrasonic-ponics. I am comfortable saying that I learned enough in this process to put together a low pressure aeroponic system that will in all likelihood not require another minute of my time from here to harvest at the least. So the whole process wasn't a total waste of time. Obviously there is a reason to why I am building this system in the first place and up till now, I have done a piss poor job of reaching that goal. At some point I had to make the decision of which was more important; the entertainment factor of learning and implementing the intricacies of cutting edge aeroponics, or getting to a harvest. From everything I have read even the most rudimentary of hydroponic systems, when tuned properly, will deliver at least a 1/2 inch of growth per day. I have had my original 3 plants for at least 6 weeks now and they aren't much taller then when I started. I should be well on my way into flowering right now, but I am not because I designed piss poor systems that were from the start overly complex and poorly engineered.

I did get a working high pressure system built at least to a point that I felt mildly comfortable leaving the plants in it overnight. However when I discovered that the mister heads were once again clogged, this would be the 6th time in 24 hours, I had finally had enough. I was either going to spend the day another 100 bucks in the hole and likely no closer to my goal, or I was going to tear it all down and slap together a functioning and proven system. I decided the harvest was more important. I have up till now, jostled, elbowed, jolted, pushed and transplanted those poor girls at least daily for the last month as I learned what the hell I was doing. I'm done and my family is done.

Tonight the girls are tucked into their comfortable bed. I will know tomorrow for sure if they like their new home, but from what I have been able to observe in the last few hours, they like their new home.

Should I start a grow log? I'm not really growing anything interesting anymore. Seems like everyone is doing low pressure aeroponics now, aren't they?

Farmer, can you give me an idea of your layout and what times your using for your sprayers? Since I am using 10 360 sprayers like yourself, I suspect we have very similar systems now. So what kind of watering times are you using? 1 on / 4 off - veg, 1 on / 5 off - flower?