Greenhouse Report - Jeffrey 7C

Reports- December 10th

Farmer's Report- Today there was a problem in the vertical system, so we had to fix it, but we didn't have enough tubes. That is why we decided to use the tubes that we already used. We realized that in those tubes there were too much green algae. Algae are just like other plants. They need water, sunlight and nutrients for it to grow. Algae are growing inside those tubes because they receive water,  receive sunlight and receive nutrients that goes through the tube. I will talk more about algae in the Research Biologist's Report.

Engineer's Report- There was a problem in the vertical system. The water pump was running too fast making the pipes filled up with water. The pipes were filled up with water and that made the bottles overflow too. Then the 4 rows of the system was destroyed. For now, we stopped the whole system and we are fixing the system and trying to find out what made this happen, so this problem wouldn't happen again. As I mentioned in the Farmer's Report, algae was stuck in the tube. We fixed this problem by putting a small piece of tissue inside the tube and pushing the tissue with a wire. If you push it all the way through, the tube would be perfectly clean. With those tubes, we fixed the vertical system. We tried to try out the product that Ismail made for the Vertical System.

Trying out Ismail's product

Cleaning up the tubes

Research Biologist's Report- Algae is a simple nonflowering plant that contains chlorophyll but no true stems, roots, leaves, and vascular tissues. Algae can grow anywhere. Algae only needs sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and a few inorganic nutrients to grow. It was possible for algae to grow in the tubes where because it received sunlight in the greenhouse, had water because water flowed through the tubes and in the water we put nutrients. We can stop this from happening by covering the tubes with duck tape or foil to stop sunlight from coming through the tubes. If we do this, algae wouldn't grow in the tubes because they need to sunlight to survive.