Greenhab Report – March 4th

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 04-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (8 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 17.3°C

High: 36.5°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 4.65 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 249.55 gallons

Crops watered at 0830 hours (2 gallons) and 1830 hours (2.65 gallons):

TIME NOTED TEMPERATURE(° C ) / HUMIDITY(%)

1) 08.30 AM 24.4° C / 31 %
2) 12.00 AM 26.1° C / 22 %
3) 16.00 PM 24.8° C / 0 %
4) 18.30 PM 18.5° C / 25 %

Changes to crops: None.

Narrative:
This morning, we harvested some mixed green salad and radishes for Aurélien’s birthday. We also prick out the 8 radishes pots of my experiment, to allow the best radishes to grow;

In the afternoon I performed my experiment in the greenhab, placing each pot in the growtent, with UV light and specific music for 6 minutes. However, the UV lamp found in the science dome doesn’t seem to be powerfull enough, I think it won’t be good for the experiment.

Other problem we faced today : the heater thermometer is placed on the cooling fan’s metal side. When it is hot, we put on the fan, so the heater thermometer decreases a lot more than the greenhab, and its temperature reaches 15° while it’s 25° in the greenhab, so the heater turns on.
Today, both the fan and the heater were turned on, although the temperature was high (31°C). We should re-monitor the heater thermometer.

Harvest: 89 g of mixed green salad, 1 g of watercress and 35 g of radishes.

Support/supplies needed: None.

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