What you need is a "repeat cycle timer". You can find a multitude available in the net. I think I found an Encore © for ~75 bucks a couple years ago. One link is below: Here is a link that might be useful: One example picked at random

I have started using a battery operated timer, called the Raindrip Digital Water Timer (model R673C). I bought this from Lowes, in the Drip Irrigation section. Strangely enough, I could not find this item on the internet, not even from the Raindrip website. My guess is that it has been discontinued? or is too new that the website still has not featured it. This timer connects directly to the tap source and the other end connects to your garden water hose (or whatever item you need to supply water to). It has 16 programmable timed events. Each event can be programmed with the following parameters: 1. Start Time. 2. Length of run time, hours + minutes 3. Days to activate (you can toggle each of the seven days on or off so you can specify which days you want it to run. It looks like the timer on this kit, but the face and controls are digital: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=192395-13598-R559D&lpage=none I hope this helps :)

Well, I saw a good price on a new Green Thumb timer, model 5945. It's pretty. Snazzy even. It's got a diaphram valve for longer battery life, nice. Quieter than the ball valve models too. It's going back to the store tomorrow. The older Green Thumb timer with the cranky ball valve was actually better. You could set any program of any length, then press the secret key combo and the Mist Mode would activate. The new timer takes two big steps backward. First, you can't set any one program longer than three hours. That's it. There are seven programs, plus Mist. You can ONLY use Mist on that 8th setting. And of course it's limited to three hours. No way around it. You can't set Mist on two separate programs to extend the time. So, I need to have the Misters running from 11AM to 5PM, and that's impossible without buying a SECOND timer ! Maybe that will turn out to be the lowest-cost way, but I don't like it.

Hi, Marleah, Since you're in Oregon, I assume you don't have or need an irrigation timer or drip irrigation? I ask because a standard drip irrigation timer for hard-wired irrigation valves is just fine to use as a timer for "misting" cuttings here on the NorCal coast. My timer has 3 programs for each valve and 2 or 3 start times/cycles for each program (I can't remember all the details of that clock). I set up the timer so that it sprayed cuttings with a micro-sprayer at 10am, 11am, 12PM, 1PM, 2PM and 3PM. I found I didn't need mist every 10 minutes and I didn't have to use a mist emitter. I used a specialized Israeli-made micro-sprayer that produces a perfect globe of spray (no dry spots). Everything in that little greenhouse (it was constructed of heavy clear plastic sheeting over white pipe) rooted like crazy. In fact, I left one end open for improved ventilation. It got nice and hot but didn't fry the cuttings. Depending on the scale of your propagation, I know a non-misting propagation alternative for you. Read about Jill Perry and Mel Hulse's Rubbermaid Terrarium set-up. You'll notice that Mel grew his cuttings in 3 inches of potting soil in a closed Rubbermaid box. The brand is important because sunlight degrades these plastics. Rubbermaid lasts longer than Sterlite. I propagate in Rubbermaid boxes in a slightly different way: I put my cuttings in small pots of potting soil, using only Supersoil. The pots are either bands, 4 inch pots or the slightly larger 4 x 6 pots (taller that 4 inches, obviously). Depending on the heat and humidity, I do one of two thing. I place the pots inside the Rubbermaid right side up, with the top on. If I overwater, I can pour out the excess. Or I place the pots on the ground under an arbor where they get filtered light and turn the Rubbermaid upside down over them, without the top. My method requires periodic watering, but it also provides better drainage. In summer, with softwood, cuttings took about 4 to 6 weeks. Softwood cuttings are labor intensive but very satisfying. The very small plants produced take a lot of irrigation and care after they root: grow out takes a lot of time, space and irrigation. Three boxes is about all I can handle at a time. One additional benefit of the Rubbermaid issue is that it gives young plants a very controlled environment after rooting but before they really take off. Softwood cuttings in the terrarium (with the top off). Cuttings aren't beautiful, don't worry how they look: After rooting, newly potted cuttings in the terrarium (with the top off) are provided moisture control while they adjust: HTH, Cass Here is a link that might be useful: Rooting roses in a terrarium