Month: June 2011

After coming to class today Joe and I have found that all our plants are dead. We are really not sure what went wrong or what we could have done differently to help the plants grow. Our solution of reducing the size of the rockwool did not help either.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what they think would have been a solution or why our plants started out good then just died.

Today we got to class after our weekend, only to find another dead plant, and half of the other plant dead.  Neither of us can come up with a good solution to our problem.  The pH and temperature both seem to be fine, and the rockwool is still saturated, so the plants aren’t drying out.  All of the plants around ours seem to be growing too, so we doubt that there is too much light.  I had a thought in class today though.  Our rockwool is very thick, more so than most of the other groups, so I thought that maybe if we cut the rockwool in half and make it thinner, maybe the roots will be able to grow better.  We also planted new seeds in the rockwool.  There is not enough time left in class to really grow much, but we’ll see what happens.

Our possible solution to the problem of the meslcun not growing did not seem to help much.  Our plants do not look very unhealthy, but they don’t seem to be growing at all.  There is definitely something wrong with our system, so if anyone has any suggestions, please let us know.