Hii again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm and I hope you're in the mood for a plant
propagation project today because i've got a good one for you i'll be installing timed mist
above this cutting bench to improve my chances with rooting cuttings i'm doing it on a bit of
a shoestring i'll be saving hundreds of dollars as compared to installing a professional system and
i'll be doing it with parts that you can hook up just onto the end of your hose and buy the parts
on amazon so very very easy now the reason i'm doing this is to improve my chances with cuttings
of course the dome that you see above here right now or i'm sorry the cage you see above here right
now was initially built to tent the plants to keep humidity in of course when you take cuttings
they have no access to moisture through their roots so they're very susceptible to drying out
you have to keep some humidity around them to keep them in the game if you do that with a with a tent
like this if you keep the humidity right around them you sacrifice air circulation and that can
make your cuttings a little more susceptible to rotting so the benefit of using an open area
with timed mist is that you get the benefit of keeping that humidity up but you also get the air
circulation that staves off the the susceptibility to rot and so your overall chances improve so this
project here is relatively easy if you take it step by step and i'll take you through it today
starting with a quick description of the parts i'll be using usually the most expensive part
in a setup like this is an irrigation cycle timer and if you get the professional models
they can set you back anywhere between three and four hundred dollars this one here is sold at
amazon it's less than twenty dollars also the ac adapter is the other part that will be used to run
the solenoid valve and the combination of the two of them is under 40 so big savings there this is
the solenoid valve you'll be using i chose one of the most commonly available ones that people use
for sprinkler irrigation in their yards so it too is very inexpensive for the mist itself
i've chosen some of the cooling mist setups that you can find again inexpensively on amazon this
is the kind of thing that people would set up on their back patio during the hot summer
to provide some cooling mist and it will suit our purposes just fine and then to make it all
work there's a couple of fittings just to adapt between the hose end that i'll be hooking it up to
into the solenoid valve and then out from the solenoid valve back into this misting system
these home misting kits are super simple in their setup you have
the misting the heads over on the left there you have the fittings the
tube and then you have the place where you attach the hose so let's get started here
what you first do is you cut off a piece of the tube to reach your first the place where you want
to put your first mister so the distance from the hose end to your first mister this piece here came
like this i just detach it like this i'm taking this part and sliding it over the end of the black
tube and then i take this and slide it all the way in and then use this
to fix it in place and then i take my filter and my grommet and place them back into the end
there and attach them to the hose when you come to the place where you want a misting nozzle that's
pretty easy to put in you take this t compression fitting push the tube into one side push
the nozzle down into the bottom and then take your next piece of tube and attach it to the other side
and then just run them in series like that
here it is attached to the hose end and i have the hose on right now because i want to show you that
it's easy to tie off the end and check the pattern while you're doing the installation you can see
i've got one running over there and one running over here but to me it looks like there's quite
a gap between them so i'm going to install at least one more in between those two heads
and get my spacing down and now with the spacings all sorted out i hope you can see
that i've got a nice relatively even mist that covers the entire bench
from end to end and without any major gaps in between
well the main point of all of this is to make it so that you don't have to stand around and try
to control this valve all day and run that mist yourself so we're going to use a solenoid valve
that's the black thing you see in the center there to switch the water on and off it's going to react
to a signal it's going to get from that timer and that ac adapter so that it will turn on and off in
cycles that to me the first setting on this that i'm going to try is somewhere in the range of 10
seconds every 10 to 15 minutes that seems about right in my climate my greenhouses and with my
previous experience it may vary in your climate if you have shade or any other circumstances
so if you look at the solenoid valve itself it shows an arrow on that input end of the solenoid
that means that that's the end that's going to connect to the hose the source of water
the other end is going to have to connect to the misting system so i have to adapt
the left hand side of this or the input end to connect to the male end of a hose and i
have to adapt the output side to connect to the female end of the misting system
happily those fittings are easy to come by i found them in my local hardware store
but i've put a listing of those on my amazon store as well just so you know exactly what i'm talking
about this to make the female end to connect to the male end of the hose screw this in you can
see that i've applied some teflon tape to these npt threads just to avoid the risk of leaking
see so you can see that would fit onto the male end of a hose
and then on the other side to fit the female end of the misting system adapter screw that in
and now it's ready for installation here is the final setup we just have regular
household power running through to that timer and the timer then has the
ac adapter running on it that provides 24 volt power all the way through to our solenoid here
we have a water supply on one end and we have the output being this misting system
i'd like to give you a quick tutorial on this timer because although it is a fantastic savings
it's kind of a pain to run so i'm hitting the reset button so we can start in the same place it
defaults to 12 am hit the confirm button and hold it until it flashes and you hit the hour button
to move to your current hours it's on a 24-hour clock so i've just moved it to 2 p.m and now
it's actually about 2 15 where i am so i'm going to hit that and then confirm
now for some reason that i don't know and can't understand it has a bell on
the right hand side that means there's alarm set somewhere and of course i don't know when
that alarm is set for or what it will do when it gets there but i'm going to turn that off
you hit the confirm button and the minute button at the same time and that turns off the alarm okay
i'm going to proceed to set this up the way i would like for a cycle timer and to do that i'm
going to hit the switch button and then hold the timing button and when it gets that command it's
going to divide it into a top portion of the screen and the bottom portion of the screen
the top portion of the screen is going to have the number of seconds it's going to run and the
bottom portion of the screen is going to have the number of seconds or minutes it delays between
running what's kind of funny about this is that it has an hours button and a minutes button but
no seconds button so for this setting this cycle setting you're going to use the minute button
four seconds i've got that up to 10 seconds now and when you hit the timing button between them
goes to the bottom there and now you hit the hours button to set minutes of delay confusing right
okay so now we have uh 10 seconds every 10 minutes i like that so i'm going to hit confirm and it
springs right into action it starts sending power to the outlet and it's timing down from 10 to 1
and then off and now it's running a 10 minute delay which is a beautiful timing if i plug that
in right now it would work like a dream except it would be working all day and all night and i
actually don't want timed mist at night so i'm gonna have to set hours of operation for this
to do that i'm going to hit switch and then timed so switch on the upper right and then timed and
now it divides it into a top and bottom as well but the top really is the beginning time of your
of your cycles and the bottom is the ending time so in this case i'm going to use the hours button
to say i would like this to start at 9am enough time in the morning for the sun to get on the
plants evaporate what's remaining overnight and then i want it to continue running and i'm going
to use the timed button to move between the upper and the lower and i wanted to continue running
until about five o'clock at night which would be 1700 hours and hit confirm to accept
and
then to run the program on that cycle so to run the the cycle timer within those hours right now
it's saying yes i'm on because i'm within those time limits so to apply the cycle within that time
i have to do a long hold of the timing circulate button and then confirm
and now it's running the cycle within the window
thanks so much for watching today as i built this misting system for propagation on the cheap and
just incidentally this bench that you see it uh mounted on now this was one of the first projects
i ever did on youtube it was a heated bench heated with uh heating cables to help the uh the young
cuttings and young seedlings uh to develop roots much much faster i'll also link that one above in
the video here it's a bit of an older video so i apologize for the quality but you should be able
to get the point if you have any questions on this project or anything else regarding propagation
please drop those down in the comments of the video and thanks again for watching