Category: Greenhab Report

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 68-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 64-deg F – 76-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 195 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 80% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 2:30 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today plant food was added to the watering. Also, it was noted that the soil level was low on several of the tomato plants, exposing the top of the roots. More soil was added and additional supports provided to promote vertical growth (see pictures). Finally, a cage was added to one of the bean plants to provide support (see picture).
Harvest: 9 grams of microgreens and 21 grams of carrot tops (part of effort to thin carrot plot).
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 67-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 64-deg F – 83-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 200 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 80% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 5:30 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today two notes of interest, first, one of the distressed pea plants flowered, and second a correction to a prior report, the pea plant that sprouted is actually a bean plant (and is growing vigorously, already 6” tall).
Harvest: None
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 72-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 61-deg F – 81-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 205 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 80-85% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4:30 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today the positions of the pea plants and the tomatoes were swapped in an effort to move the tomato plants closer to the heat and the pea plants further away from the heat.
Harvest: 17g microgreens, 11g of “volunteer” plants
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

Crew 269 GreenHab Report 12-4-2022
GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 65-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 65-deg F – 94-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 210 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 80-85% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4:30 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today continued to monitor the distressed pea plants, noted that soil has dried out after reducing watering in recent days, so a soaking was applied. Newer growth at the top of the plant looks healthy, see attached photo.
Harvest: None
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 70-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 65-deg F – 88-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 0 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 3 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 215 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 85% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today a small test planting of prior season (2021) Radish seeds were planted to test the germination rate of seeds stored for an extended duration. Also of note, a sugar snap pea sprouted, joining his neighbors, see attached picture.
Harvest: None
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 77-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 65-deg F – 82-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 0 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 220 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 90% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today some thinning of the existing carrot bed was carried out, it will require additional thinning in a few days. Also of note, the bean plants are close to flowering.
Harvest: 28.3 grams of carrot sprouts harvested as part of thinning effort.
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 66-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 66-deg F – 87-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 0 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 225 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 90-95% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 6:30 PM
Changes to crops: Seeded an area of carrots and an area of onion (see Narrative below).
Narrative: Today 1 ½ rows of Black Nebula Carrots were planted in between the rows of tomato plants. In addition, 2 small rows of Scarlet Bandit Onions were planted in the bed formally used for Radish (stock of radish seeds exhausted from the seed bank).
Harvest: None
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 68-deg F at time of watering. Range prior 24 hours: 68-deg F – 85-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 0 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 3 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 230 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity, visually 90-95% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4:30 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today a small hand harvest of microgreens was carried out to provide fresh greens for crew dinner and to thin out the bed to promote further growth. In addition, the remnants of the radish bed were harvested (consisting largely of small stems), in preparation for reseeding the bed. Only limited water was applied to the pea plants as part of the plan to investigate if overwatering is the cause of the observed yellowing on the leaves.
Harvest: 1.00 oz of Microgreens, 0.55 oz of Radish stems
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

GreenHab Officer: Matthew Eby
Environmental control: Heater on, door closed, 20% humidity.
Average temperatures: 79-deg F at time of watering. Range since last monitor reset (uncertain duration): 56-deg F – 110-deg F
Hours of supplemental light: 0 hours
Daily water usage for crops: Approximately 5 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallons
Water in Blue Tank: Approximately 235 gallons (Based on a 250 gallon capacity-TBC, visually 95% full)
Time(s) of watering for crops: 4:30 PM
Changes to crops: None
Narrative: Today Dr. Rupert provided training on the GreenHab module, including watering, fertilizing, and harvest recording. Further, we discussed the desired plantings for this rotation, with carrots desired for the open space between the rows of tomato plants, reseeding of the radish bed, and testing the sprout rate for prior season’s open seed packets.
Harvest: None
Support/supplies needed: None needed at this time.

Sol 12
GreenHab Officer: Caitlyn Hubric
Environmental control: (heater, fan, door open?) heater on, door closed, 20% humidity
Average temperatures: 43.3ºC/13.5ºC
Hours of supplemental light: N/A
Daily water usage for crops: 25.2 L ≈ 6.66 gal
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gal
Water in Blue Tank ~230 gallons
Time(s) of watering for crops: twice, morning and night, 9am-6pm
Changes to crops:
-Today I spread the rest of the radish seeds (Radish French Breakfast) in the blue bin with the beans where they previously were. There are a few survivors of my harvest.
-I also spread some dill seeds in the big blue bin in the portion that I harvested from.
-Two of the beans in the single pots I planted have started to germinate and I can see them pushing out of the soil.
-One of the peas I planted in the single pots on the shelf has started to sprout.
-Today I fertilized all the plants following the instructions from Shannon.
Narrative:
-Today was my last day taking care of the greenhouse. I have greatly enjoyed watching the plants grow over the last two weeks and I hope the next crew enjoys the microgreens!
Harvest: (include which crop and mass in grams) N/A
Support/supplies needed: N/A