The first picture is our design. It is a NFT hydroponic system. The water is constantly circulating and distributed evenly. This works because the roots will always have new nutrients and water. It was designed to look like a water fall, this is because with the dripping of water it adds new oxygen to the water on each level. The water is pumped to the top and drains to each level. On each level there is rockwool that has plants in each piece. The top level has Burpee Spinach, the middle has Burpee Pink Beauty Radishes, and the bottom is Burpee Spearmint.
The second picture is of our radishes. We planted them on Wednesday 3/29 and today there were two that were about an inch tall. The spinach and spearmint showed signs of sprouting but were not as defined.
The system ran all weekend and we found out that we need to change our water supply. There was an inadequate amount of water in the basin and dropped significantly in three days. We will be adding a bigger basin to the project this weekend coming up.