Plant the Moon with Team Rainbird! EP 1
Hello all! This is the first video of a (hopefully) weekly-ish series documenting our work on the Plant the Moon Challenge(1), where teams from across the world are working to test growing plants in lunar soil simulant. In this video, we show how we prepared our setup to get started with this challenge.
We hope to provide some interesting content about this project, as well as some general information about plants and other nerdy things. We're not youtubers or skilled at video editing, but let's all learn together!
The Experiment:
We are using 3.8L of Lunar Highlands Simulant(LHS)(2), a fine, dusty, and nutrient-deficient regolith. Our experiment involves exploring the impact that bacterial and fungal inoculants will have on the growth of plants in this soil. Our experiment will use Micro Tom tomatoes, a tiny dwarf tomato plant specifically made for use in scientific experiments. Leave a comment below and if there are still plants that haven't been named, we'll bestow the name upon one of our pots :)
We will grow plants in similar conditions with normal garden soil and the LHS. There will be three conditions: plants with bacterial inoculants, fungal inoculants, and both. We will have controls with no inoculants added. For this experiment, we have chosen our inoculants and the plants carefully to meet the specific challenges of growing in this challenging soil.
About us:
We are a Chemical Engineer and Sociologist by profession, but we're also gigantic nerds and plant lovers.
Languages: English / French
Check out our instagram! https://www.instagram.com/rainbirddelalune/
(1) Plant the Moon Challenge (#plantthemoonchallenge): https://plantthemoon.com/
(2) Lunar Highlands Simulant (LHS-1) fact sheet: https://sciences.ucf.edu/class/simulant_lunarhighlands/
Buy us a coffee to support our project! (small payments in support of the project): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rainbird
We hope to provide some interesting content about this project, as well as some general information about plants and other nerdy things. We're not youtubers or skilled at video editing, but let's all learn together!
The Experiment:
We are using 3.8L of Lunar Highlands Simulant(LHS)(2), a fine, dusty, and nutrient-deficient regolith. Our experiment involves exploring the impact that bacterial and fungal inoculants will have on the growth of plants in this soil. Our experiment will use Micro Tom tomatoes, a tiny dwarf tomato plant specifically made for use in scientific experiments. Leave a comment below and if there are still plants that haven't been named, we'll bestow the name upon one of our pots :)
We will grow plants in similar conditions with normal garden soil and the LHS. There will be three conditions: plants with bacterial inoculants, fungal inoculants, and both. We will have controls with no inoculants added. For this experiment, we have chosen our inoculants and the plants carefully to meet the specific challenges of growing in this challenging soil.
About us:
We are a Chemical Engineer and Sociologist by profession, but we're also gigantic nerds and plant lovers.
Languages: English / French
Check out our instagram! https://www.instagram.com/rainbirddelalune/
(1) Plant the Moon Challenge (#plantthemoonchallenge): https://plantthemoon.com/
(2) Lunar Highlands Simulant (LHS-1) fact sheet: https://sciences.ucf.edu/class/simulant_lunarhighlands/
Buy us a coffee to support our project! (small payments in support of the project): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rainbird