Crew 305 GreenHab Report 10Dec2024
GreenHab Officer: Hunter Vannier
Environmental control (fan & heater): Heater and fan on automatically. I opened the door for 15 minutes to cool off the GreenHab; a lot of plants were wilting.
Average temperatures (last 24h): 82 F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 94.6 F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 68.2 F
Hours of supplemental light: 1700 – 2200
Daily water usage for crops: 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: None
Water in Blue Tank (200-gallon capacity): 163 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 925, 1730
Changes to crops: significantly thinned carrots in back corner, thinned fennel, thinned radish, pulled whole bed of overgrown microgreens and replanted with China rose radish sprouts (4 g), broccoli seeds (2 g), red cabbage (2 g), radish (2 g).
Narrative: The cucumbers were fairly dehydrated again this morning, but seemed to bounce back better today. Three cucumbers per pot is quite crowded and they are competing too much for water, so I may try to transplant a few to larger pots to see how they react. Some tomatoes are also overcrowded. I did major thinning of the carrots in the back corner, which yielded a lot of carrot greens. They were too crowded to actually grow the carrot root, so hopefully they respond well. It seems a lot of seeds were planted but were not thinned early on, which is recommended for healthy growth. The radishes were much less crowded, but some thinning was still needed. However, the carrot greens and radish greens were made into a fresh salad and not thrown out. The cilantro, dill, and parsley are doing great despite also being fairly tightly grouped, so they respond much better when crowded. We added cilantro to a lentil dish for lunch which again was delicious. One raised bed of old microgreens was pulled, ~1 gallon of soil added, and replanted with the following microgreens: China rose radish, broccoli, red cabbage, and radish. I began soaking sunflower (3 g) and pea (3 g) seeds to be planted in the next 2 days in the other raised bed, which I will also pull. In the next two days, I plan on pruning the tomatoes and cucumber, harvesting arugula (which is also overcrowded), and transplanting sunflowers, tomatoes, and cucumbers.
Harvest: 5 g cilantro, 160 g carrot greens, 20 g radish greens
Support/supplies needed: none