Aeroponic setup with root support

*Red nozzle = 360 degree mister
*Green nozzle = 180/90 degree mister
*Triangular support - round cone made from chicken wire, attatched by rigid supports to the lid of the chamber IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE SUPPORT CONE, LID, AND PLANT/MEDIUM ARE RIGID TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO THE ROOTS WHEN YOU ARE OPENING THE CHAMBER. get a second chamber (unrigged) for the use of putting the plant/lid/cone into if you have to do any maintanance on the rigged chamber.
*Purple on support - shade netting or other low gauge netting to prevent/severely reduce root growth directly above 360 degree mister nozzle (red)

This system is intended to be small with a single plant. chamber approx. 50cm in height. Here you can make use of the chambers width by spreading the roots out horizontaly across the cone.

looka good to me... is this root suport thing your own idea?

Yeh sure is. The one thing ive noticed from lookn at everyones aero setups is the roots are all growing very close together forming like a bushy rope as gravity pulls them directly down. This would mean there is more root on root contact and less root to nutrient solution contact.

Also with this setup you would get alot less root growing down into the resevoir and going into the pump.

Well you use a filter bag to stop roots from going into your pump propellor in aeroponics so thats not an issue when you do it right .The thing I see that might be an issue is the roots wont follow the support real and if they do they will be spaced taking much more room and not in a good mat type formation which catches and filters the nutes and water. This way will make it harder to get nutes as fast making it slower like soil as the roots have to search and then get together to trap the particals.

roots need to grab on to nutrients? interesting.. would it be good to take the roots once they're really long, and kind of weave them along the thing that he drew, so it would be thick and all that, and all the roots would be up and being sprayeyede rather than having some just hangining in the water?

how could higher surface area mean less nutrient absorption?? if your roots are bundled together you have less surface area for water and nutes to flow over. its a pain to get the roots to spread out but maybe its worth it.
The roots probably will need some guiding. Maybe a netting similiar to that of orange bags could be canvased on the wire to create some resistance from the roots growing directly down, but still allowing for water to pass through the netting from misters.
Increasing the slope of the cone would also promote root growth down the incline rather then through the netting.

I personally would rather have the upper aero misted and then the lower roots in a stream of nute water so they can uptake as much extra as they want.

whats thAt bird doing in your growroom on your plant?!?!

its the bird's design. not mine.

WHAT!? so just b ecause he came up with the idea he gets to put his dirty feet all over the buds?!?!
you got to teach that bird whos boss... hes making the ideas for you, not the otherway around...

Would having some sort of metal in your somewhat acidic nutrient solution lead to unwanted iron ozide or aluminum oxide in your nutrients?

thats a very good point. i might have to coat the chicken wire in paint or even try find some that has been weather proofed.
Even better idea would be to find a plastic alternative to chicken wire.Most plastic nettings are not maleable though, but il be able to find something.

that green guy is NOISY!!!!