Need advice for small orchidarium - little space, little cash

[Brotherly Monkey]

Ultrasonic Water Fogger-The Mist Maker

[Paul Mc]

Yup, that's what I have!

[silken]

I'm not sure how much space you have, but I have the in-expensive part covered! I bought one of these small plastic greenhouses for about $15.00 last summer. It is 26 inches wide by 19 inches deep and 3 ft tall. As the picture shows, I use a cheap kitty litter pan full of water on the bottom shelf. I keep my 2 masdies in there and my 10 miltoniopsis. I have a small fan running inside the door as shown 7/24. My humidity/thermometer reader is cheap but it shows between 60 and 70% humidity most of the time. I hung 2 4ft T5's above and on the outside of the structure. This is in our greenhouse that is heated, but kept fairly cool in winter (65/55F). Come summer I may have to place it on the floor where it is cooler and near our air cooler. But for the moment the plants in there love it. I have 2 milts in bud, 1 in flower and 1 of my two masdies that I got last fall has a bloom spike on it.

Cheap and easy to move around!

[Tindomul]

ebay for ultrasonic foggers.

[plantaholic]

Thanks to all of you I now have a pretty good setup. I bought the fogger yesterday along with a few bags of glass marbles. Marbles went across the bottom with about an inch of water but not enough to touch the bottom of the pots. The fogger is in a plastic 4" deep container and on a timer so it comes on every few hours. There's a tiny computer fan that keeps air moving just slightly. The temp so far has been staying at 70 or lower and the humidity never drops below 70%.
The masdies and scaphosepalum seem to be already enjoying themselves. Just wish it was big enough to put my miltoniopsis inside. The miltonidium is sitting on the plastic grid above the tank so is also staying cool and fairly humid.

[plantaholic]

I have one of those plastic greenhouses which I have used in the past but it was heating up too much, too big for my space, and didn't keep enough humidity inside. This little tank is just right and doesn't block the view outside. Now...I just need to get a little bigger tank so I can put a few more inside....

[plantaholic]

Well, my wonderful setup isn't working the way I'd wanted. So, rethinking the entire thing....I'm wondering if putting something like a plastic grid material over the fogger water would keep the spitting down....Also, my timer isn't working so need to get a new one. Got tired of refilling the water also, so, filled the base of the entire tank with three inches of water (marbles are still there), turned a plastic container upside down with a small plastic cutting board on top of that and set my three little orchids and the temp/humidity gauge on it. Left the fan and the fogger off overnight and still have 85% humidity. The tank is partially open but no real air movement. I've found that the fan reduces the humidity down to the upper 40s - not good. Not sure what I'm going to do now but I think it's going to stay like this until Monday anyway

[Paul Mc]

Yeah, it's been quite the process for me as well!

I think I may have solved my splashing issues though. Testing again today see what happens.

Still have to get a fan of somesort though.