Category: Greenhab Report

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 07-03-2020 GreenHab Officer: Valentin BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open

Average temperature: 24.5°C
Low temperature: 20°C
High temperature: 30°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9 P.M to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 7.9 gallons
Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallon

Water in Blue Tank— 135.2 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: As it was a day-off, there aren’t many things to report. I watered the GreenHab at noon. This afternoon, I carried out day 3 of Music For Plants. Nothing to report now about the experiment.

Before dinner, I harvested Radish and Basil to make soup for the rest of the crew.

Harvest: 70g Radish / 10g Basil

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 07-03-2020 GreenHab Officer: Valentin
BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open

Average temperature: 24.5°C
Low temperature: 21°C
High temperature: 26°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9P.M to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 10.5 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallon

Water in Blue Tank— 143.1 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 3 (1 only for tomatoes and radish)

Changes to crops: Two pots of lettuce were harvested totally, I am going
to replant some tomorrow.

Narrative: This morning, I watered the GreenHab quickly before doing the
HabCom for the EVA. For lunch, I harvested zucchini flowers to make a
deep fried recipe. After lunch, I carried out the Day 2 of the
experiment Music For Plants. For the moment results are not visible.
Before dinner, I harvested Wild Rocket, Lettuce, Basil and Sage.

Harvest: 3g Zucchini Flowers / 10g Basil / 5g Sage / 100 g Lettuce /
100g Wild Rocket / 20g White onions

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 223 GreenHab Report - 06-03-2020 GreenHab Officer: Valentin
BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open

Average temperature: 22.5°C
Low temperature: 15°C
High temperature: 25°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9P.M to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 12.6 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallon

Water in Blue Tank— 153.7 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 3 (1 only for tomatoes and radish)

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: This morning, Aurelien MURE watered all the plants, as I were
on EVA. After lunch, I carried out the experience Music For Plants. I
decided to use both young and advanced radish plants. I mounted the UV
chamber and the speaker and did the first UV incubation and listening
for the batch of plants. For dinner, I harvested basil, oregano and
cilantro.

Harvest: 3g Basil / 3g Cilantro / 4g oregano

Support/supplies needed: NA 

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 05-03-2020 GreenHab Officer: Valentin
BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open

Average temperature: 23.2°C
Low temperature: 20°C High temperature: 26°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9P.M to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 15.8 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallon

Water in Blue Tank— 166.4 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 3 (1 only for tomatoes and radish)

Changes to crops: I planted green spinach to replace the ones that I
harvested two days ago.

Narrative: This morning, I watered all the plants as usual. I planted
spinach in the free pot under the strawberries. I also did the cleaning
and marked well all the plants with new tags. After lunch, I carried out
the experiment Music For Plants. The radish which were transplanted
yesterday didn’t grow well. I had to find another solution. I decided to
transplant other advanced plants of radish. I hope those ones will
recover from transplantation. For the dinner, I harvested basil to make
a soup and lemon balm for the dessert.

Harvest: 10g Basil / 5g Lemon Balm

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 04-03-2020
GreenHab Officer: Valentin BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open

Average temperature: 23.6°C
Low temperature: 20°C
High temperature: 26°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9 p.m to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 21.2 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 1 gallon

Water in Blue Tank— 180.2 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 4 (2 only for tomatoes)

Changes to crops: I transplanted the cucumber in -to 4 separated pots. I also transplanted the radish into 6 different pots for the experiment Music For Plants.

Narrative: This morning, Marion LEBRUN took care of the GreenHab, as I were on an EVA. She watered all the plants as usual. For lunch, I harvested Sage, Oregano and Basil to make some pizzas. This afternoon, with Blandine GORCE, we transplanted the fours plants of cucumbers which were together into 4 separated pots. We notices that two of them have fruits. We hope that we’ll be able to eat fresh cucumbers after the end of our mission. The experiment Music For Plants dried in the GreenHab. I had to find another solution. I decided to carry out the experiment with Radish. I transplanted some from the big blue tank into sported pots. I
hope they’ll survive from the change.

Harvest: 2g Basil / 2g Sage / 4g Oregano

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 03-03-2020 GreenHab Officer: Valentin
BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open

Average temperature: 23.8°C
Low temperature: 19°C
High temperature: 26°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9P.M to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 16.6 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0.25 galons

Water in Blue Tank— 201.4 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 4 (2 only for tomatoes)

Changes to crops: I harvested all the Green Spinach. I’ll plant some
more plants in the pot.

Narrative: This morning, Clement PLAGNE took care of the GreenHab, as I
were on an EVA. He watered all the plants as usual. For lunch, I
harvested zucchini flowers and sage leafs to remake this delightful
Italian recipe. This afternoon, I carried out the experience Music For
Plants. I planted wheat and watercress seeds in plates. I put them in
the GreenHab and I hope they won’t dry there because of the mack of
moisture. Before dinner, I harvested the whole put of Green Spinach, as
they were starving. I also harvested some baby plants of butter crunch
lettuce to make more space in the pot.

Harvest: 3g Zucchini Flower / 3g Sage / 100g Green Spinach / 20g
ButterCrunch Lettuce

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 02-03-2020 GreenHab Officer: Valentin BELLEMIN-LAPONNAZ

Environmental control: Ambient with Door open / Door closed

Average temperature: 23.2°C
Low temperature: 19°C
High temperature: 30°C

Hours of supplemental light: 4 hours (from 9P.M to 1 a.m.)

Daily water usage for crops: 16.8 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0.5 gallon from loft tank

Water in Blue Tank— 218.3 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 3 (one only for tomatoes)

Changes to crops: I planted lettuces in the pots where lettuces had been harvested yesterday. I transplanted zucchini plants that ware in common pots into two separated pots to allow them to grow better.

Narrative: This morning, I clarified tomatoes to give them more space. I also planted lettuces, as I harvested some yesterday. For lunch time, I harvested zucchini flower to make an Italian recipe and basil to make homemade fresh green pesto. This afternoon, we took care of spirulina with our commander. We refilled the left tank and fed algae them with nutrients. After this, I worked on my personal experiment : Music For Plants. I moisturized dry watercress seeds with Murashige and Skoog to plant them tomorrow. After watering the plants at the end of the afternoon, I harvested Zebra Mint to do some moroccan tea.

Harvest: 6g Zucchini Flower / 18g Basil / Spirulina / 8g Zebra Mint

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 223 GreenHab Report – 01-03-2020 GreenHab Officer:

Environmental control: Ambient with door open Average

Average temperature: 21°
Low temperature: 19°
High temperature: 22°

Hours of supplemental light: 30min

Daily water usage for crops: 14.8 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0

Water in Blue Tank— 235.3 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 1

Changes to crops: all the suspended lettuces were harvested.

Narrative: I didn’t have time to take care of the GreenHab during the
day, because we all were in formation.

I watered all the plants at 1800 p.m. Quite a lot of water on aromatics plants and tomatoes because they were dry.

I harvested 100g of lettuce that was yellow-green because of
mack of space. I’ll harvest lettuce or other plants on these pots
tomorrow. I also harvested spirulina for the desert of this evening.

Harvest: 100g Lettuce / Spirulina

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 222 GreenHab Report - 29/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Both heating and ambiant, door open during
the afternoon

Average temperatures: NA

Hours of supplemental light: 19h30 PM to 00h

Daily water usage for crops: Non known

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 0 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative:Today, Dr. Ruppert took care of the GreenHab and i don't have
all the informations

Harvest:

Support/supplies needed: NA

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 28FEB2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Both heating and ambient, door open during the afternoon

Average temperatures: 21°C

Hours of supplemental light: 19h30 PM to 00h

Daily water usage for crops: 10,6 ( 6 from the static tank since the Blue tank is empty)

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 0 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative:This morning, I went to the Greenhab to water plants, I uses water of the blue tank until it was empty so I started using water from the static tank.

Tonight i watered again plants, I also harvested some herbs for our tonight pie.

Harvest:

Oregano: 10g

Chives:8g

Sage:2g

Basil:13g

Raddishes:7g

Cilantro:5g

Support/supplies needed: There is no water left in the blue tank and I’ll have to use water from the static tank again tomorrow.