Tuesday, December 20, 2011

December 20

More Sketchuppery on the redesign this morning.
Took some more Pak Chi and Pak Boong from the garden and put in the DWT raft.

Think the water is getting too warm in the DWT, may need to divert some from somewhere else to increase the water flow.
Also planted some Pak Chi and Pak Boong, again from the garden in plastic cups and put them in the bamboo NFT.
Most of the tomatoes and lettuce that were in the NFT died, either I put them there too early, or the sun is too hot, I put a shade cloth over the NFT.

Am trialling some polystyrene food packaging for use in the DWT's, seems to work well, at least initially.
The foliar treatment I gave seems to have been too strong, lots of the leaves appear burned, need to dilute it more before using it again, overall the plants look better, but hard to tell.
Stuff in the dirt continues to outperform the stuff in the AP system, but it's early days yet.

Two of the 4 new Guppys in the micro system died within 24 hours of buying them, interestingly both females survived and the fattest one gave birth today.
I've isolated her, but that seems to have stressed her and she has stopped giving birth despite still being very fat.


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