Month: May 2013

OUR PLANTS ARE HEALTHY AND HAVE GROWN!

When we went to check on our plants today after the weekend, to our surprise, the plants were healthier and bigger than ever! The first and third plants have grown and the third plant had grown a white flower. Once the flowers begin to bud on the strawberry plants that mean that the plants are ready to be pollinated and then the strawberries will the begin growing. If we were to have another month or so left to work on this project, we would have potentially had some strawberries.

For our final pH recording, the pH read at 5.9 and we decided to leave it at that pH.

 

We think that it is safe to say that the second cup is officially dead. After dropping the second plant there was really no bringing it back to life no matter how hard we tried by adjusting the light, the pH and the nutrients; the leaves were too damaged to even try and rejuvenate them.

As for the first and third cup, they were beginning to brown so we decided to turn the light down to 6 hours to hopefully make the plants green and healthy again. However, we did not adjust the pH because it was at 5.9 and that is in the ideal range for hydroponic strawberries.