Month: March 2011

We still can’t tell if our plants are growing or not and they don’t appear to be very healthy. Our plant in the middle appears to to still look healthy so we hope that one will pull through, but we believe the one on the end is dead. Since we think it is dead we pulled it out and put new seeds in it and we also added seeds to the first one as well. Hopefully the new seeds will grow and the middle plant will live.

Our plants still apear to be the same size, and we don’t know if they are still growing. Last time we measured the water in the bucket and we found that the over five days the water went down about three and a half inches. We put more water and nutrients in the bucket and we increased the angle at which the water flows down the pipe. We’ll wait and see what happens.

The system is still the same, and two of the plants are still growing. The plant we had in the middle is dead, so we took it out and put new seeds in it. We also put more water in the bucket because it keeps going down fast, and we don’t want our pump overheating again. Other then having our one little plant die, everything is still growing well and we are still seeing improvements.

Today we checked how our system was doing, and everything is still flowing well. Really we just wanted to make sure the water level stayed high, because we didn’t want to have our pump overheating again. All the water we added last time is just to help insure that the pump stayed submerged underwater. There will be more pics to come, and sorry you couldn’t comment before but we forgot to click on the box, but we went back and fixed that so you should be able to comment on any of the posts now.

We got back from spring break and our plants are growing great. We did have a problem with our pump though. The pump was starting to overheat because the water evaporated and most of the pump was no longer underwater. The pump is still working though, and we added three and a half gallons of water to the bucket, and we can check on it now to make sure that problem won’t happen again.

We have our seeds planted finally, and we added the nutrients. So far everything is going good and we will see how it turns out in a week when we come back from spring break.

We have finished building our design but unfortunately we need to wait another week to start growing the plants. The reason is because the door to the seeds is locked and we have no way of getting in. Other then that we tested the system and it works great.

Day 1

We have begun building our project with items we found around our houses, as well as a water pump that I went out and bought. We are building a nutrient film technique and the design will be a pipe with the plants in that flows into a bucket. The pump flows the water back into the pipe and it cycles back into the bucket.