Steve Taylor wrote in message ...
Abdul Ahad wrote:


That's very interesting and encouraging to know that lunar soil is
"growable" in without too much effort. I also read somewhere the
Apollo astronauts took sycamore and other tree seeds with them to the
Moon and back and that they were subsequently germinated and planted
as Moon trees at certain locations around the states. Astronauts and
"tree-nauts" have equally ventured to the Moon and back!

Abdul,
What did you use as your "soil sample" in your experiment ?

Steve

Just ordinary soil of the garden variety, unfortunately. I had much
higher hopes for my astroculture project though with aims of enclosing
the "shed" into a truly isolated bio-hab and using lights of varying
colour temperatures, output, etc. to evaluate the different growing
conditions and possibly measure the levels of oxygen production. I was
even going to attempt simulating a world bathed in continuous sunlight
from red and blue suns... like the Antares or Rasalgethi systems (talk
about sci-fi fantasies getting carried away)!

Its actually quite a sore subject now looking back, as I had to pull
the plug on the whole thing shortly afterwards because of money and
other priorities.

Abdul Ahad
"What do you get when you cross Astronomy with Geometry?"
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