Crew 305 GreenHab Report 14Dec2024
GreenHab Officer: Hunter Vannier
Environmental control (fan & heater): Heater and fan on automatically.
Average temperatures (last 24h): 88 F
Maximum temperature (last 24h): 91.8 F
Minimum temperature (last 24h): 73.6 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): 142 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: 8:55 am, 2:30 pm
Changes to crops: Transplanted and thinned tomatoes; only one tomato per pot now. Thinned scallions.
Narrative: Today there was no wilting in the cucumbers. When the high temp in the GreenHab is lower than 95 and it’s overcast, it seems that the cucumbers are much less stressed. I added another string that hangs from the bar on the ceiling so ambitious cucumbers grow up rather than into the tomatoes. Since their transplant yesterday, the sunflowers are doing great and show no signs of stress. The broccoli microgreens began to sprout today, the second of the crops during Crew 305’s stay. Today I spent an hour thinning, transplanting, and adding cages to the tomatoes. All of the tomatoes in there are rainbow cherry varieties, so I thinned them to one per pot, transplanting the more mature plants. Though it pained me to uproot some of the tomatoes, they were crowded, and it would not have been sustainable water-wise to have that many tomato plants. Given the volume of the pots, they need to be one per pot in order to bear any fruit down the line. Scallions were thinned and used for dinner tonight, SPAM fried rice.
Harvest: 4 g scallions
Support/supplies needed: none