Category: Greenhab Report

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 09-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (3 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 17.6°C

High: 28.9°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 6.5 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 226.0 gallons

Crops watered at 0830 hours (2.2 gallons) and 1830 hours (4.3 gallons):

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

1) 08.30 AM 19.1° C / 28 %
2) 11.30 AM 22.5° C / 26 %
3) 15.00 PM 26.1° C / 20 %
4) 18.30 PM 21.6° C / 22 %

Changes to crops: Tomatoes planted last week are starting sprouting (3 seeds sprouted)!

Narrative:

Since we put the mercury thermometer in the Greenhab, it is easier to monitor the heat. I opened the door from 0830 to 1130, and it was not really hot in the afternoon.

I did my experiment this afternoon and made some interesting observations about my radishes, I will see in the next days how it goes.

Harvest: None.

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 08-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (1 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 16.3°C

High: 30.4°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 4.3 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 232.5 gallons

Crops watered at 0830 hours (2.15 gallons) and 1830 hours (2.15 gallons):

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

1) 08.30 AM 23.5° C / 37 %
2) 12.00 AM 26.9° C / 20 %
3) 15.00 PM 23.6° C / 20 %
4) 18.30 PM 20.4° C / 22 %

Changes to crops:
Here are the notable changes from the last week :
– One sunflower is in flower, an other one is also flowering
– The fenel planted on 15 JAN keeps growing (~ 3 cm)
– Still no sprouts from the tomatoes planted last week
– The cucumber is still very weak, almost dead
– The cress planted this week is now ~ 6 cm
– The sugar peas are still yellow, even with a bit of fertilizer
– Two lettuces are almost ready to harvest. The other are small (leafs
of ~ 2 cm)
– Microgreens and savory mix in tray almost ready to harvest

In the blue gardener :
– Basil, parsley, and sage are still abundant !
– Fenel is getting wider
– The tomatoe still has one sick branch
– Cilandro is now ~ 10 cm

Planted today :
– In a gardener : one row of Savory Mix, one row of Lettuce, and one row
of microgreens
– In a pot : chives

Narrative:
– Today I planted new crops in the greenhab : chives in a pot, and
savory mix + lettuces + microgreens in a gardener.

– I also made an inventory of the current plant in the greenhab and
their changes since last week.

– I opened the door 1 hour this morning, between 1000 and 1100.

– I put a bit of fertilizer on the tomatoe in the blue tray, and on
sugar peas.

Harvest: 8 g of basil and 1.6 g of sage

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 07-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (7 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 16.1°C

High: 40.8°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 4.3 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 236.8 gallons

Crops watered at 0915 hours (2.15 gallons) and 1830 hours (2.15 gallons):

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

1) 08.30 AM 25.3° C / 26 %
2) 11.30 AM 24.4° C / 29 %
3) 15.00 PM 20.4° C / 31 %
4) 18.30 PM 21.3° C / 28 %

Changes to crops: None.

Narrative:
– Cress planted this week sprouted only in one of the two gardener, because in one gardener the water couldn’t flow. I resolved it. – Since we harvested some salads for lunch (savory mix), a gardener is empty, so I hoed it and prepared the soil, to plant new lettuces tomorrow.
– The door was opened from 0830 to 1500, and the fan was turned on for almost 3 hours (by short periods of time), but even with that the heat increased in the greenhab to reach 40°.

Harvest: 64 g of savory mix, 22.7 g of radish, 2.7 g of parsley, 1 g of cress, 34 g of basil.

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 06-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (1 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:
Low: 17.3°C
High: 36.9°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 4.1 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 241.1 gallons

Crops watered at 0915 hours (1.3 gallons) and 1830 hours (2.8 gallons):

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

1) 09.15 AM 18.9° C / 42 %
2) 11.00 AM 22.6° C / 40 %
3) 15.00 PM 27.9° C / 23 %
4) 18.30 PM 21.3° C / 37 %

Changes to crops: Cress keeps sprouting but only on one gardener.

Narrative: Today the greenhab planning was quite disturbed due to the journalists : I did my experiment the morning, but on the afternoon I couldn’t go there to monitor the temperature.

Harvest: Parsley : 3g

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 05-MAR-2019
GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (6 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 17.0°C

High: 25.4°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 4.38 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 245.2 gallons

Crops watered at 0830 hours (1.73 gallons) and 1815 hours (2.65 gallons):

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

1) 08.30 AM 18.8° C / 30 %
2) 12.00 AM 22.5° C / 24 %
3) 15.00 PM 19.4° C / 30 %
4) 18.15 PM 18.9° C / 38 %

Changes to crops: Cress is sprouting.

Narrative:
Today wasn’t as hot as yesterday. I turned off the fan earlier, and only opened the door until 15.00.
I continued my experiment in the greenhab this afternoon. Everything went well.

Harvest: None.

Support/supplies needed: None.

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.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 03-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (3 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 19.0°C

High: 28.8°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 3.2 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 254.2 gallons

Crops watered at 0900 hours (1.05 gallons) and 1800 hours (2.15 gallons):

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

1) 09.00 AM 24.9° C / 29 %

2) 12.30 AM 26.4° C / 26 %

3) 16:00 PM 22.3° C / 33 %

4) 18:00 PM 23.7° C / 36 %

Changes to crops: None.

Narrative: Today was a rest day, so we didn’t work on the greenhab. We only harvested some herbs for our delicious meals.

Harvest: 8 g of basil and 2 g of parsley.

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 02-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (2 hrs)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 18.5°C
High: 26.1°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 5.3 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 257.4 gallons

Crops watered at 0900 hours (1.3 gallons) and 1830 hours (4.0 gallons):

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

1) 09.00 AM 24.2° C / 27 %
2) 11.00 AM 25.4° C / 30 %
3) 15:00 PM 22.1° C / 45 %
4) 18:30 PM 23.8° C / 47 %

Changes to crops: We planted some new cress, with Aurélien and Benjamin, and also the tomatoes seeds.

Narrative:
Today, with the rain, I had to close the door at 1100, and to shut down the fan monitoring system.

As we couldn’t go in EVA, we planted two gardeners of cress with Aurélien and Benjamin.

In the afternoon, I planted the new seeds of tomatoes.

Harvest: None.

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 01-MAR-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

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

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 17.5°C

High: 29.8°C

Hours of supplemental light: 0 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 6.4 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 262.7 gallons

Crops watered at 0900 hours (3.2 gallons) and 1830 hours (3.2 gallons):

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

1) 09.00 AM 20.1° C / 32 %
2) 12.00 AM 25.7° C / 25 %
3) 15:00 PM 28.6° C / 20 %
4) 18:30 PM 21.3° C / 30 %

Changes to crops: I removed the tomatoes and prepared the soil for the
next seeds.
I harvested carrots.
Radishes are germinating.
Red lettuces have some problem growing up, and are still not red.

Narrative:
The monitoring of the fan that I made yesterday worked well today, and
helped control the heat, even if it is still really hot when the sun
shines. Maybe, in the next weeks, I will put on the cooling system.
Indeed, it appeared that for a moment the temperature increased even
with a fan at max speed.

I also discovered that the "Crew 205 ‘s mystery seeds" were… radishes
! So I pulled out some radishes from this planter to allow the biggest
ones to grow.

Radishes from my experiment have a great germination : more than 75% of
the planted seeds have germinated, with an average of 2.6 cm of height.

Harvest: 9.0 g of basil, 2.1 g of parsley, 31.4 g of radish, 2.3 g of
lemon basil

Support/supplies needed: None.

Crew 206 Green Hab Report – 28-FEB-2019

GreenHab Officer: Norbert Pouzin

Environmental control: Heating and Cooling w/ ambient air (9 hrs 30 min)

Shade Cloth (40%)

Average temperatures:

Low: 17.8°C

High: 29.5°C

Hours of supplemental light: 3 Hours

Daily water usage for crops: 6.4 gallons

Water in Blue Tank: 270.1 gallons

Crops watered at 0930 hours (2.1 gallons) and 1830 hours (4.3 gallons):

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

1) 09.30 AM 21.4° C / 25 %
2) 11.30 AM 26.3° C / 21 %
3) 15:00 PM 26.7° C / 22 %
4) 18:30 PM 22.3° C / 32 %

Changes to crops: I removed the tomatoes and prepared the soil for the next seeds.
I harvested carrots.
Radishes are germinating.
Red lettuces have some problem growing up and are still not red.

Narrative:

After the morning EVA, I harvested some herbs for our lunch and some carrots for our dinner.

In the afternoon, I prepared the soil for the next tomatoes seeds and removed the old ones.

Finally, I monitor the fan in the Greenhab to avoid high heat in the morning. It will now be turned on from 8 to 16, for 15 min every 15 min. It worked pretty well today!!

The door was opened from 0730 to 1700.

Harvest: 8.1 g of basil, 1.3 g of sage, 270.6 g of carrots.

Support/supplies needed: None.