Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Greenhouse Report #2 - Jason 7A

Introduction: We have recently started a project called the iGrow Project in which every student contribute to the greenhouse one way or another. I have chosen to do blogs about the greenhouse. I will post updates to this blog weekly. 

Grow Bed System: I saw many successful, and healthy plant growth in the grow bed system. The grow bed system is particularly for plants that requires a lot of space. For example, if the plant has big leaves, then it would cover the other smaller plant and would block out the sun. While in the grow bed system, there are big plants such as pumpkins, which I think is the reason to why the grow bed system is so successful. The bigger the plant, the more it can endure. Most of the plants in the grow bed system is pumpkins and they grow very big. As you can see in the photo (picture #1) 
underneath, the pumpkin leaves are taking over the system, and growing at an exponential rate. No plants in the grow bed system is having trouble in growing. 



Picture #1

Greenhouse Fixers: The students in the picture (picture #2) below volunteered to fix leaks, and algae issues in the greenhouse. In the picture, Stephen and Steve are sharing the silicon, stopping leaks. On the other photo (picture #3), it is a picture of Aldous, and Min Woo cleaning up the algae that grew in the rubber tube, which was a big problem and harmful to our plants growing in the greenhouse. Thanks to the 4 people, the greenhouse is slowly recovering from leaks, and the algae is being cleaned continuously.

Picture #3
Picture #2









Another Problem: The plants are still in very dangerous conditions because the big plants in the horizontal system is about to snap off, which is not good. We need farmers that can help me fix the problem by using wires, and plastic strings. This problem is also from the last post, and this problem seemed to occur once again when I visited the greenhouse today. Please help me by fixing the problem with the method I've used, or if there are any other better methods you can think of, then you are always welcome to use it.

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