Newbie here, currently in the ideation stage of building an HPA setup. I understand the need for an accumulator tank in an HPA setup. However, since I am just starting out, I do not want to spend too much money initially. Where I live, I can buy a decent diaphragm pump capable of 120 PSI for about $9 but a tank costs almost $100. Is it possible to hookup a solenoid ($5) between the line and the pump output, run the pump with solenoid valve closed, open the solenoid for 5-10 seconds once the pressure builds up to about 100 PSI and close the pump and solenoid after. I am guessing the resulting spray should last for 5-10 seconds at 80-100 PSI pressure. This entire sequence will be controlled by an Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

Appreciate any input about pros/cons of this approach. I do understand that the pump will wear out sooner with this arrangement but since I am just building a proof of concept, I am ok with that. If everything else works out, I'll definitely add a accumulator tank.

So i recently saw ads of tower farming by agrotonomy on Instagram. I want to start this in a commercial way but it is not introduced in Pakistan. The setup cost is too high so i am thinking to make a tower or two DIY. I was thinking to try and copy the agrotonomy tower as much as possible.But i want to do it as a business. any recommendations on how to start and all. I plan to do it outdoors. Is it feasible to do in Pakistan as pretty much most of the farming here is traditional and i plan to introduce this type of farming in Pakistan. My plan is to slowly make my own aeroponic farm and once i learn it i make setups for people as well. suggest what to do and any tips and caveats in the whole process. I dont have any farming experience but my father has had a career in the agriculture sector.
any help and guidance would be appreciated.

I posted a video the other day and for some reason it violates Reddit filters. I've been sending messages to the moderator to find out why but I get no response.

I came to Reddit 4 years ago and a bunch of kids where talking trash on adults so I replied and got bombed with down votes. I later found out that this affects your ability to post. In other words it's a social credit score just like they use in China. I said to hell with this I'll have no part in a system that operates this way. In the last year I was looking for info on HP aeroponics and ran across this site, completely forgetting that this was the place with the communist style system for posting. I have been posting r/aeorponics without any problems until I put a video of my system up only to find out it had been removed by some filter with no explanation, I haven't been able by searching to figure what it's for. In closing I'd like to say I brought more to Reddit than I took. No one had a complete list of what it took to build a HPA system for the newbies without expensive pumps and the like, I spent hours putting one together, no one had a way to get rid of algae and other pathogens easily and no one was growing food on a large scale. Lots of weed but no food, no one seemed to know where to get a pressure tank with a high internal bladder pressure but I figured it out. I was glad to contribute.

I've deleting my post's and leaving this communist version of a social credit system. You can leave all the comments you want but I won't see them I gone. Reddit can play their communist games with someone else. There's to many good places to post to but up with this crap.

Link them if you have

Hello I’m doing a diy aeroponic cloner with a diaphragm pump outside the container so the water doesn’t get heated up. What should my timer cycle for misters

Hey all… I am fairly new to aeroponics. I have two 24 cell Viagrow systems. My first experience with aeroponics was extremely successful with several houseplants including tradescsntia and pothos. Yes, those are easy to propagate, but the root growth rate after one week was astonishing.

Anyway, hoping I can get some type of definitive answer on what nutrients I should (or not) be using. I also want to know the order to add to the water. I know silica goes first, followed by cal-mag, but after that, there is little info online.

Here is everything I have available to utilize - and I know I would not use ALL of these at once - but some of these I may have purchased for regular houseplant watering or LECA and not aeroponics, but I include here anyway … so which of these should I use in combination with other things and in what order? I also don’t want to use something if another might be duplicated … just hoping to learn and understand. And if I am missing something, let me know, too. Thanks.

TPS Silica Gold Bless Your Soil Big Green Leaves GS Plant Foods Yucca Wet Vivosub Nutrients Cal+Mag+Iron (2-0-0) TeraGanix EM-1 Soil Conditioner Concentrate Clonex Clone Solution TPS Nutrients Billions (microbes for plants) Microbe Life Photosynthesis Plus SaferGro Humax (liquid humic acid)

Looking for advice; Plants that have huge root masses at the time of full maturity, will using 5 gallon buckets with a HPA system become defective and cause issues with roots?

What would be some plant box recommendations?

I've been growing aeroponically for over 2 decades in a desert greenhouse. 4 crops a year regardless of heat. I've redesigned everything from pumps to containers to require less maintenance and produce better. Everything's automated. I've looked silently for years, nothing out there comes close to what I do. But quite honestly it's too much information to compile for free. And I'm not even sure what platform would allow it. Would you drop a few bucks to peruse over the brain dump of a bigger better aero grower? I've done the math I know what I'm doing produces more for less than industry, and the startup cost doesn't have to be any higher if you know what you're doing. Feels like I'm stuck somewhere between consulting for industry or helping the masses level up out of tents to better take down industry.

@AdamHayden Who Found This On A Patrick Murray Good Research If It's Him Seems To Addup..

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/PublishingImages/Patrick_Murray.jpg

On February 24, 2009, New York City police, acting on a tip from an anonymous informant about a marijuana-growing operation, went to a home in the Bellerose neighborhood of Queens, New York. When they arrived, 34-year-old Patrick Murray, a New York firefighter, was sitting in a rental truck in the driveway of the building.

The officers detained Murray and took a set of keys from him. They went inside the building and, using the keys, opened the doors to the boiler room and to another room that contained 100 marijuana plants.

The house was owned by Matthew Cody, who was also a firefighter and worked out of the same firehouse in Queens. Cody and Murray were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to manufacture marijuana, manufacturing marijuana near a school and endangering human life while cultivating marijuana.

Cody pled guilty to the conspiracy charge and received probation in return for testifying against Murray, who went on trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in August 2010.

Cody testified that Murray proposed growing marijuana at Cody’s house. Cody said Murray came to the house a few times in late October or early November of 2008 to help Cody convert the basement into a rentable apartment. Cody testified that when he realized he would not be able to rent out the basement, Murray suggested they grow marijuana plants there.

Cody testified that Murray provided the plants, decided which room to use, and gave directions on how to set up the grow room and tend to the plants. Cody said Murray also purchased light bulbs for the grow room and liquid plant food.

Cody told the jury that in February 2009, Murray decided to move the marijuana plants out of the basement because the smell was detectable outside of the room. Cody said they planned to meet at the house in the early morning of February 24—the day Murray was arrested—to use Cody's truck to move the plants, but when Murray failed to show by 9 a.m., he left.

Murray testified in his defense and denied any involvement in or knowledge of the marijuana found in Cody’s house. Murray testified that in the fall of 2008, at Cody’s request, he went to Cody’s house approximately five to seven times to help Cody with construction work to convert the basement into a rentable apartment. Murray said that the keys the police took from him came from Cody, who lent them to him so he could get into the house to borrow Cody’s tools.

Murray denied that Cody ever told him that he had decided it was not practical to rent out the apartment and denied that he knew there were marijuana plants in the building.

Murray testified that on February 23, 2009, the day before his arrest, Cody asked him to come to the house on February 24 to help move some heavy items and get rid of some garbage.

Murray testified that on the morning of February 24, Cody called him at about 9:00 a.m. and asked him to rent a van because Cody's truck was full of debris. Murray said he rented a van at about 10:30 a.m., got something to eat, and then drove to the house. He said that when he arrived and didn’t see Cody’s truck, he began to turn the van around in the driveway and was stopped by police.

On cross-examination, Murray testified that he did not spend much time in the Bellerose area from late 2008 until the day of his arrest. He said that he had some acquaintances in the neighborhood and visited a few pubs and bars, that his mother lived nearby, and that when he visited his mother he sometimes he went to the bars as well.

In rebuttal, over objection by Murray’s attorney, the prosecution introduced cell site records for Murray’s cell phone through the testimony of a Drug Enforcement Agency agent. The agent testified that cell site records identify the cell tower that a cell phone signal bounces off of during a call. The agent said the tower identified in the records would have been the tower closest to the cell phone at the time of the call.

The agent told the jury that the records showed that from November 2008 through February 2009, 97 calls from Murray’s cell phone bounced off a tower approximately four blocks from Cody’s house. The agent conceded that if the tower closest to a cell phone is busy, a call might be redirected to another tower as much as five miles away. The agent also admitted that the records did not show whether the calls that bounced off the tower near Cody were in fact redirected to that tower from another tower further away that was busy.

Murray’s attorney sought to call a witness to rebut the agent’s cell phone testimony, but the judge excluded the testimony on the ground that the agent’s testimony did not meaningfully incriminate Murray–given the testimony about the redirection of the calls during busy times–so rebuttal was unnecessary.

During closing argument, the prosecution repeatedly referred to the cell phone records and contrasted Murray’s testimony that he was at Cody’s house five to seven times with the 97 times his cell phone calls bounced off the tower near Cody’s house.

“There are times when those cell phone towers get overloaded and it pings off to the next tower,” the prosecutor told the jury. “That happens. There’s no denying it. But does it happen 97 times? …Accept the cell site records for what you want, but when the frequency is here, and the cell site records show 97 times on a [tower] four blocks from his house, it seems like corroboration.”

During deliberation, the jury requested a chart of the cell phone calls between Murray and Cody that included the cell tower information. On August 25, 2010, the jury convicted Murray on all counts and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Murray was released from prison on parole in September 2013. In November 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial. The court held that Murray should have been allowed to present evidence rebutting the prosecution’s testimony about the cell site records.

“Without the cell tower evidence, the case was essentially a credibility contest between Cody and Murray,” the court noted. “Cody had admitted his own involvement in growing the marijuana but placed the major blame on Murray. Murray denied any involvement. Cody had much to gain by blaming Murray as he thereby became a cooperating defendant for whom the government would advocate a reduced sentence.”

The Appeals Court also pointed out that the cell tower evidence may well have influenced the jury to reject Murray’s testimony, noting that the jury expressly asked for the cell tower records during deliberation.

“If Murray had had the opportunity to present clear evidence of his more frequent presence in the area serviced by (the tower near Cody’s home), that might have completely neutralized the cell tower evidence, leaving for the jury a straight credibility contest between Cody and Murray,” the court held.

Murray went on trial a second time in July 2014 and presented the evidence showing that he was in the area more often than the five to seven times he visited Cody’s house and that his calls could have been redirected to the tower near Cody’s house. On July 23, 2014, the jury acquitted Murray.

– Maurice Possley

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Posting Date: 7/31/2014

So i made this diy cloner but when i fill it up with water the sides of the tote expand and when i turn it on the water is almost flowing out . I can’t find wether strips where i live so that out of the question for now need any idea that can help keep the water inside

Hi,

what's the best way to get started on aeroponics. I want to do 1 plant at a time to learn about the process?

is there any amazon buy list that makes this process straight forward?

(Context)I tried buying agrotonomy ebook of 39$ from India but I don’t know my balance was credited but I did not get ebook nor I got a email. Tried contacting them from email but no results

If anyone has it can someone share with me

So this was supposed to be arugula but it looks different to me? Also some of the leaves are furry. Does this look like arugula to you?

I'm doing an aeroponics system as my final project for my university degree. I'm trying to bring in some image processing and automation (i'm studying robotics so that's fine), but I'm struggling with some of the more agricultural parts of the process. I'm going to germinate my seeds in rockwool cubes, but I'm assuming at some point I can take them out and have the roots be exposed to the air like I've seen so many times.

My question is do I need to germinate in a medium and if I do, when do I transfer it to bare roots?

I'm growing cabbage btw

For this TSO, is 40 psi the pressure at which it starts the pump or it turns off the pump? 40psi is labelled as the "off-setting" but I found conflicting information wether this means when the pump turns on or off, and there is no available datasheet on the internet I could find. In either case what the range other lower/upper range.

In most of the online available videos I have seen, the misters are placed facing down towards the surface of the container. Is this to encourage particle air time? How should misters be placed optimally?

When coming to Aero and even in Hydro methods where the roots are directly exposed to the solution It make years that i produce with boosters and some extras to find out recently that without all the bonus it give me better results more on quality side, i don’t see any serious bad review about the quality of Advanced Nutrients but the fact in Aeroponic bring more nutrient to the plants considering the roots zone are much more potent, the fact that the base is already complete i can bring my story with the people i met and told me the same during their journey about hydro/aero but the fact that some people report true benefits from some boosters i don’t see all the explosions of buds or even THC, it’s more like i’m giving a bit of excess each time. The fact that some boosters like kelp even the one for hydro can give some roots coloration that can bring some shit if not correctly applied in good dose.

The science of nutrition is complex and not perfectly clear for many of growers that use fert, for example i’m a believer of flush in the plants, those who call it ‘bro science ‘ i bet you fert your plants like your are always in flowering mode versus another grow with same nutes, clones lights etc… but with respecting all the dose each week with flush,you’ll definitely use the flush medicine in your vape or joints

So I work at an airoponic farm and we grow salad Rocket for restaurants and shops in central London. Recently we've been having issues with the final product that's ready to be harvested.

As you can see, on a lot of the leaves there are these spots. It looks like something from a pest but I'm not sure what it could be. It's not appearing on any other varieties that we grow. Would anybody know what the cause of this might be? I'm confident it isn't nutrient based

Hello, I am trying to create a aeroponics setup for potatoes. Whats the best setup for this? I was thinking between lpa or fogponics.