Reports- December 5th
Farmer's Report- As I mentioned in my previous blog, some plants were growing slower than the other plants. After we tried out the rectangular foils on some of the plants, it actually worked. That is why we decided to put these on multiple plants that were not growing fast enough and need more sunlight. Today, the farmer accidentally put too much fish food in the tank for the fish. Unluckily, it was a problem. The fishes didn't eat all of the fish food so the fish food was ripped apart and it landed on the bottom of the tank. This would make the tank dirty. Another problem was the the fishes were so full. If this happens, some fishes might die, which we don't want.
Engineer's Report- On the previous post, I said that there was a leak and we fixed it by putting hot glue gun on it. It did work for a short amount of time but it started to leak again after a short amount of time. The Engineer put even more glue gun on the leak and the leak stopped. Even if the leak stopped, it is really fragile and one touch can make the leak start again so we have to be really careful.
Research Biologist's Report- Today the Research Biologist decided to check which plants were growing the best in which system. The pumpkins were dominating the Grow Bed System. In the Horizontal System, there were multiple plants that were growing pretty well. The super sioux tomatoes, beans, snow peas, and pumpkins were growing really good in the Horizontal System. In the Vertical system, there aren't any plants that are growing really well. We realized that the pumpkins were growing really well in the Grow Bed System because the pumpkin plant's roots are enormous. They need a lot of room to fit their roots in and the Grow Bed System had a lot of room for the roots. I feel that there aren't dominating plants in the Vertical System because the vertical System doesn't have enough room and it doesn't have the space to make plants sprout their roots. I also think that there were many leaks and other problems in the Vertical System that affected the plants.
The tinfoils were actually a great idea. My first decision was to place the tinfoil on the walls but there were not enough space and I knew that all the plants won't be able to receive an equal amount of sunlight, so I thought it would be a better idea if I put two tinfoils directly to the plants which was actually a success.
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