I was traveling to Costa Rica's cloud forest sometime ago. Wonderful place except if you have to drive around. Lot's of times you cannot see more than a few feet in front of you. Many different kinds of orchids in the forest.

They sell a small deccorative cloud maker/waterfall for your living room. I think it uses ultra sound to turn the water into clouds. I suppose that may work.

dcarch

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Some large gift shops have them. They're ultrasonic but leave a heavy white film on everything unless you use distilled or RO water. That can get expensive. They're like big humidifiers. The same things people use in their homes when they have a cold - only much larger.

They is what greenhouser described.
Thanks.

dcarch

For a terrarium or if you want the fog to sit right on some water ultrasonic foggers are a good choice, however if you want to fill your house with fog I would suggest that you get a high pressure misting system. Mist king

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By cloud forest do you mean those eternally cool places with extreme humidity.? Check the average temps at Monte Verde . If you attempt this be sure to put in your own power plant lol. Or maybe you live on a mountain top.??
Now if your talking lowland rainforest that's attainable.
Since I live in S Florida it is almost easy .
One gigantic problem . My "rainforest " quickly becomes a "jungle" lol
I only started integrating my shadehouse in 2000, before that it was mostly used for hanging baskets.
Put in a 8x10 seep wall last March and my ultimate goal is to use no pots at all.. I seriously don't think this will be attainable in 12x25 but eventually it will expand to 25 square.. I'm not allowed to have the roof above 9 feet
which is not nearly enough room.
I really don't care if it's a "replica" of a rainforest just so it works well and each segment compliments the others. I'm an epiphyte freak and to me this is what "rainforest means.
It will never be a "Cloud forest" due to the heat nor will it ever be a representation of a lowland RF with specific species. But the fantastic "growth on growth" one sees in these forests is achieveable.
None of the problems have so far been insurmountable.
Requires very careful selection of species with such limited space.
I'm going to start adding birds during spring. Very carefully selected species lol. gary

Gary I would just love to see pictures of your jungle. LOL that sounds very neat.... If you wouldnt mind sharing. Thank you Barb

Barb
I lost my camera and have been using those dispoables.
When I started the seep wall I took two rolls and would you believe not one came out!! I made this waterfall from painted expanding foam with various pockets and recesses for planting and I wanted so much to keep the ideas in steps. So all the pix are from after it was overgrown. Two years ago had a hurricane that ripped the roof off the shadehouse and 50 percent sunburned though I only lost two
orchids. Ever try putting a new roof on a structure full of plants?? lol. Anyway last year had a record rainfall and I had my first "mudslide"lol
Have been unable to get any underwater pix at all. Can't get back far enough to get the whole view and the glass causes reflections .
All that is growing there now are mostly leftovers from the redo. These are experiments to see what problems I encounter and how well the heating system works how effective the hydroponics works and what type medias to use. Hopefully come spring barring any other disasters I'll be ready to start "landscaping" lol
I was saving my money for some new birds so opted to not get a new camera.
So all the pix are really from the old setup and then mostly individual flowers than overviews.
Almost none are from what it looks like now. lo gary

Hurricanes can be a problem. I have been in two that were in the top 10 for the LAST 100 YEARS.
Donna in 1960 put 8 feet of salt water in our back yard.
Andrew in 1992 huffed and puffed and blew my house in. Well, not really the insurance adjuster was from Mass. and did not have a clue about hurricane damage. So he totaled the house when it was no where near that. $139,M in the pocket. Plus insured and covered gun colletion.

I should take the money and ran. Hind sight

1eyedJack and the Dawg

there are ultrasonic humidifiers that work very well but as said above any minerals in the water collect on the plate and stop it from working. and it is hard to get the crust off. our is from universal co. and is just a home version but i bet a couple of them would work great(covered a 10x20 room in the middle of winter). ours was second hand so i dont know the original $. deffinately use distilled water though.