FREQUENT Q&A FOR PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
Fan set up and humidity:
The fan is supposed to be placed to push the air down and out. The little arrow on the side of the fan must point downwards. The humidity in your classrooms may be very low during the wintertime and that is ok. We want to observe the growth of crops in not ideal environmental conditions. Robust crops which grow well in difficult conditions are high in demand for space travel.
Herb Seeds:
Due to supply issues you may not have received 15 seeds of each crop. Please plant all the seeds of each cultivar you will find in one seed tube and keep the second tube (in a separate packet with fertilizer) for the second trial. It is important however that you adjust the number of seeds planted accordingly in your spreadsheet.
Data collection:
All data collection sheets were emailed to schools, please check your Spam folder as well. If you have not received your email, which also includes your light group, please let us know. If you have more than one grow unit and want to add your data into the GBE data pool, please send us an email so we can provide additional spreadsheets.
28-day trial GBE number:
The fields B 5 – B 10 are connected to your plant position tap and cannot be filled “by hand”. If you do not use the plant position tap leave them blank.
Light setting:
With your data collection sheet you also received the light setting for the 28 day misome trial in the body of your email. You will find the respective controller setting in the protocol under the column controller.
