Nice build. I use a diy bubble cloner. Yours is more high tech 
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This is sick! I have a bubble cloner myself, been looking into a cheap way to maybe convert to an aeroponic cloner and I think this method might work. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you, @Foreigner. I’ve definitely never thought of mine as “high tech”! But the bottom line is, it works. And I know your bubble cloner works, too - or you would’ve changed it already, right?!
Excellent! That’s exactly why I made the thread! If you have questions, please let me know. Otherwise - good luck!
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If I were to do it over I would make some changes but it works so I don’t care 
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I’ve thought about building a bubble/aero cloner, mostly for those strains that take 2wks or longer to root. I’ve had more failures due to mold or stem rot with those stubborn strains when using rooters/peat pellets under a dome. Or if I want to try and root a branch that is in bloom.
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Here are 4 rather important clones that I didn’t want to risk putting into jiffy pellets, so I put them in my 15 site bucket…
Day 1:
Day 12:
From there, I transferred them to solo cups / organic soil. Not only was it 4/4, but you can’t get that root structure in that amount of time in jiffy pellets.
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Any ideas in how to reduce the overall height? The pre made 24 site clone box I bought is the square kind, so not as tall as the 5 gal bucket.
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Smaller or low profile pump. Check pet stores (make sure to get the right size tubing) and hardware stores (fountain/ponds) for pumps too, not just the grow shops.
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Use a 3.5 gallon bucket. I use them in my ebb and flow grow bucket system, and the bucket lid net pots fit the top of the 3.5 gallon bucket the exact same as the 5 gallon bucket. Both are 12 inch in diameter. The 3.5 gallon is 11 inches tall, and the 5 gallon bucket is 14.5 inches tall.
If you go with the 3.5 gallon bucket, you should not use the 1/2 barbed straight that I used in the build above. Just connect the manifold directly to the barbed adapter on the pump using about an inch of tubing.
Edit: Wait, after reading @Seamonkey84’s reply, which he posted while I was still writing my reply, I thought you were referring to the overall height of the bucket setup. If it’s the pump / manifold, the store bought manifolds are not as tall as mine.
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Nice this is great, I should have specified I was hoping to reduce the overall height of the pump assembly to be able to use the pre-molded 24 site box I already have, wasn’t sure if there was a way to like lay the pump on its side and use a 90 degree bend from the barbed fitting or something, but @Seamonkey84 mentioned lower profile pumps, seems like that’s the best way to go. I think I found my next rainy day project! Thanks for all the info
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Nice post @Purple-N-Hairy
Is that spray fine enough to work well?
i started making one of these last weekend and thought my spray didnt have enough flow and that it wasn’t fine enough so I ordered a larger pump. my first was 200 GPH, the one i got in but havent tried is 300 GPH. for some reason i thought these needed to push more water to make a finer spray. If yours works good with the spray level you have in your vid then im gonna return the bigger pump and save a few $$$ 
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Yes. You don’t need a super fine mist, but if you’re concerned about the droplet size or height and you’ve made a similar manifold to mine, you can just use fewer spray nozzles.
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cool man thanks! i’m going to go ahead and return the bigger pump because my spray volume looks pretty close to yours! thank you for the write up and for saving me some $$$!
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Nice, I’m building a bubble cloner in the next month or so. Will keep this bookmarked for reference. I was just gonna do a tote up with a few air stones.
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I made one of those 10 or 15 years ago. From my personal experience, this setup blows that away. I mean, I wouldn’t have built my first aeroponics cloning bucket if my bubble cloner gave me 100% success!
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I’m lazy 
and so long as it’s successful enough I’m not gonna trip about a few cuts not rooting, can always take more. I feel terrible when I fail a seed though especially if that mf came from $100 pack. shit makes me wanna cry.
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For seeds, I now start them like this:
After a few days of hanging vertically, I have this:
So I transfer them to the bucket, and they look like this:
The next day, they all look like this:
You’ll notice that there are now 11 seedlings in the bucket - out of the 11 seeds I started with.
One week after cracking open, they look like this:
BTW - that arrow points to the last seed to crack and the last one to be put in the bucket. It’s a miracle baby! 
And now the fun begins. The real growth will start to show over the next few weeks. Like you, @EugeneDebs420, I don’t want any seeds to fail, especially the $100 pack seeds, or the ones that go for $500 or $600+, which is what I’m working with now. 
Anxious times, for sure - but I have trust in my bucket!
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I’m finding I did way better in rockwool and peat plugs than I do popping tails and putting in dirt. Went from 90% success to 60% 
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just thought i would add a pic of the one i just did since its a diff style…
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the middle joint is a T that goes straight down to the pump. (probably obvious to you all but just in case)
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