Friday, December 19, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Why Sweet Potatoes?
Well why not?
"...Nutrition
Sweet potato is high in carbohydrates and vitamin A and can produce more edible energy per hectare per day than wheat, rice or cassava. It has an abundance of uses ranging from consumption of fresh roots or leaves to processing into animal feed, starch, flour, candy, and alcohol..."
(taken from International Potato Center at http://www.cipotato.org/sweetpotato/)
Plus lets not forget that Sweet Potatoes are delicious!
"...Nutrition
Sweet potato is high in carbohydrates and vitamin A and can produce more edible energy per hectare per day than wheat, rice or cassava. It has an abundance of uses ranging from consumption of fresh roots or leaves to processing into animal feed, starch, flour, candy, and alcohol..."
(taken from International Potato Center at http://www.cipotato.org/sweetpotato/)
Plus lets not forget that Sweet Potatoes are delicious!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Day 24 - Surviving
I've been gone for about 5 days and came back to some better roots and some new leaves, yay! some of the roots are now touching the water which kinda goes against my aeroponic pride. This Hydroponic/Aeroponic combo is working well for getting the roots to come out. I will go back to the pure Aeroponic setup once all the plants are better rooted.
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Day 17
Friday, December 5, 2008
Day 16
Day 10
Day 14 Intensive care unit
Fogger Clean
Fogger after 1-week teflon disks get a little yellowish from the nutrient water combo
Ghetto home made fogger float - I use this same float and fogger in the other system too.
Fogger just starting
Fogger off- floating on the water/nutrient solution
Fogger after 1 min running
side view of intensive care unit
I decided things were going bad enough with the plants to create an intensive care unit. I think that my experimental prototype system is not very good at cloning plants but may be good at growing plants with good root systems. This intensive care unit is a closed system. No fan blowing fog into a grow chamber. The water, nutrients, fogger and plant roots are all in the same, smaller, chamber. The fogger bubbles the water and sort of splashes little droplets all over the chamber, as well the fog seems more dense. The plants have been in this intensive care unit for 24 hours and the plants seem to be responding.
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