Category: Greenhab Report

Hi all,

Here is today’s Christmas Greenhab Report:

Crew 201 Greenhab Report 25-DEC-2018

Greenhab Officer:

Walter Calles

Environmental Control:

Heating

Cooling w/ ambient air (1hr)

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:

Low: 24.7°C

High: 34°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:

5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:

18.5 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):

42%

Times of Watering for Crops:

1300

Changes to crops:

Re-planted salad beds (mix and blend) growing good

Tomatoes in better shape, specially on 2 pots

Baby greens showing excellent progress

Sunflowers showing better progress

Peas keep growing good

Lettuce growing good

Narrative:

General review of the progress on all plants. Onions and spinaches not showing progress yet. Hopefully will see first sprouts tomorrow.

All plants in good shape, except from cucumbers. Will think about re-planting tomorrow

Experiment Results:

Date: SOL5 (SOL10 overall)

New results observed! First checkpoint tomorrow.

Control Pot: Progress observed.

Soil Sample Type 1

@10%:First radish leaves

@20%: First radish leaves

@30: First radish leaves

@40%: No progress

@50%: No progress

Soil Sample Type 2

@10%:First radish

@20%:First radish leaves

Soil Sample Type 3

@10%:First radish leaves

@20%:First radish leaves

Harvest:

NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:

Merry Christmas!

Best regards,

Walter A. Calles

Greenhab Officer & Co-Journalist

Crew 201

Crew 201 Greenhab Report 24-DEC-2018
Greenhab Officer: Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating
Cooling w/ ambient air (1.5hrs)

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: 19°C
High: 38°C

Hours of Supplemental Light: 5

Daily Water Usage of Crops: 12 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs): 48%

Times of Watering for Crops: 1230

Changes to crops:
Re-planted salad beds (mix and blend) started to grow
Chives looking good, first sprouts growing
Peas growing good
Baby greens showing excellent progress
Tomatoes growing slow
Excellent progress on lettuce
Fennel looking better
Carrots growing slow but fine

Narrative:
Some harvesting for Christmas Eve dinner today. Plants are in good shape. Spinaches and onions still with no changes, hopefully, they will grow properly.

Experiment Results:
Date: SOL4 (SOL9 overall)
First results observed!
Control Pot: No results yet
Soil Sample Type One
@30%: First radish leaves
@20: First radish leaves
Soil Sample Type 2
@10%: First radish leaves

Harvest:
Salad Blend: 153g
Radish: 87g
Cilantro: 25g
Basil: 7g
Oregano: 1g

Support/Supplies Needed: none

Merry Christmas!

Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: 25°C
High: 38°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
10 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
55%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1630

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes growing slow. No significant changes
Baby greens showing good progress
Fennel looked better today. Salad mix in excellent shape.

Narrative:
Changed almost all sticky papers on blue flat.
Medium watered all plants.
Tomatoes still going. Will add some plant food tomorrow.
Spinaches for re-plant still pending.
Cucumbers in terrible shape. Will plant onions instead.

Harvest:
NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:
More sticky papers needed

Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: 25°C
High: 38°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
10 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
55%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1630

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes growing slow. No significant changes
Baby greens showing good progress
Fennel looked better today. Salad mix in excellent shape.

Narrative:
Changed almost all sticky papers on blue flat.
Medium watered all plants.
Tomatoes still going. Will add some plant food tomorrow.
Spinaches for re-plant still pending.
Cucumbers in terrible shape. Will plant onions instead.

Harvest:
NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:
More sticky papers needed

Hi all,

Here’s the Greenhab report for today:

Crew 201 Greenhab Report 21-DEC-2018
Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

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

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: 25.1°C
High: 35.1°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
8 gallons
4 gallons + plant food on blue flat
4 gallons + plant food on salad flats

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
58%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1240
1600

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes growing slow. No significant changes.
Baby greens showing good progress

Narrative:
Half flat for both salad mix and bled were harvested today. I replanted them again and will review progress during following days.
Cucumber and spinach not showing progress, I’ll re-plant them tomorrow.
Radishes showing good progress, will harvest them on Sunday.
Carrots and fennel growing very slow.
I will plant some more cilantro, parsley and basil tomororw on the blue flat.

Harvest:
Salad mix: 1/2 flat
Salad blend: 1/2 flat

Support/Supplies Needed:
Looking forward to test the new scales!

Best regards,

Walter A. Calles
Greenhab Officer & Co-Journalist

Crew 201 GreenHab Report – 20-DEC-2018

Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating
Cooling w/ ambient air (5hrs)

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
High: 37.4°C
Low: 23.1°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
8 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
65%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1210

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes growing slow, but showing progress.
Baby greens keep growing ok on one flat. The other one, not so good.
Carrots and fennel are growing really slow.

Narrative:
First soil mixes with martian samples + growing ground for research. Tomorrow, raddishes will be seeded on the samples and the experiment will start.
Total ground sample: 234g
Soil samples & quantity:
Control: 100% ground (200g)
Sample Type 1: 10,20,30,40 & 50%
Sample Type 2: 10,20%
Sample Type 3: 10,20%
Soil samples will be categorized tomorrow on science dome.

Harvest:
Cilantro: 15.3g
Basil: 8g
Oregano: 1.7g
Sage: 6g
Parsley: 7.5g

Support/Supplies Needed:
Carrots and fennel growing very slow. Any suggestions or input about this?

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Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

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

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: 26.6°C
High: 43.4°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
16 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
75%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1800

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes keep growing. 2 of the pots present the best performance.
Baby greens growing good, but one of the flats is not presenting good progress.
Cucumbers growing a little bit slow.
Lettuce starting to grow in good shape. Will keep track of them.

Narrative:
Temperature is growing a lot, we need to adjust down the heater.
Heavy water to all plants today. Humidity overal is a little bit low, maybe due to the increase of temperature.
I think that shade can be reduced a little bit (maybe to 30%)
Salads and raddishes looking in great shape! Will do an amazing meal for Christmas

Harvest:
NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:
Due to the increase of weather temperature, we need to adjust the heater to reduce the temperature around 20-25%. Can I do it by myself, or I can get some help on that?
I recovered our first soil samples today on the EVA. I’ll start with my soil mix tomorrow, with a 30% of sample + 70% garden soil.

Hi Atila,

Thank you for the question. Tomorrow early we will check if restarting the thermometer gives different measurements. The ones we are recording are the whole day temperatures. Can you give some advice about the situation?

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Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating
Cooling w/ ambient air

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: -4.7°C
High: 37.4°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
8 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
85%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1220

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes still growing, the difference is clear.
Baby greens keep growing good

Narrative:
Light water to all the plants performed today. Humidity levels were a bit low by the time I checked. Tomorrow I’ll perform a heavy watering to all the crops.
Changes almost all sticky papers. Added two additional ones.
Tomatoes keep growing, is now clearer that the heating is working. Will continue to monitor them.
Baby greens growing good.
Cilantro, basil, and cilantro are in great shape. Will harvest some tomorrow.

Harvest:
NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:
Shannon gave a great suggestion to start mixing the organic materials with the soil samples. I’ll gather the first samples tomorrow to start the testing.
I’m starting with a 70% growing soil + 30% sample soil to grow some seeds. Any suggestion on which seeds should I try?

Crew 201 Greenhab Report 17-Dec-2018

Greenhab Officer: Walter Calles

Environmental Control:

Heating

Cooling w/ ambient air

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:

Low: -4.°C

High: 37°C

Hours of Supplemental Light: 5

Daily Water Usage of Crops: 3 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs): 90%

Times of Watering for Crops: 1500

Changes to crops:

Tomatoes starting to show some progress on their growing.

Recently planted baby greens starting to grow.

Narrative:

Light water to all the plants performed today. Humidity levels are in a good shape.

The big blue growing pot is full of bugs. Tomorrow I’m adding more sticky papers and replacing the existing ones.

Tomatoes keep growing. Probably the heating is working. Will keep tracking on this progress.

Baby greens starting to grow. Will keep them wet enough and review their progress.

Harvest: NONE

Crew 201 Greenhab Report 16-DEC-2018
Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: -4°C
High: 31°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
3 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
100% (refilled today)

Times of Watering for Crops:
1800

Changes to crops:
NONE

Narrative:
Water Tank refilled to full capacity today.
Quick review of the humidity on the crops and watered them enough to keep them in a good shape.
Salads looking good, will keep them on high priority for next week harvesting (Christmas Dinner plans).
Raddish growing in good shape. Hopefully, ready for harvesting by EoW.
Tomatoes starting to grow, due to increase of heating. Will keep tracking of them to see some progress.

Harvest:
NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:
Planning to clean up some soil samples left by previous crew and replanting some spinaches. Any suggestions?

Best regards,

Walter A. Calles Glass
Greenhab Officer & Crew Journalist
MDRS Crew 201 MEx-1