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.