Friday, September 30, 2011

Week FOUR

NEXT WEEK WE PRESENT IN DETROIT! I'm really excited and nervous and everything else.
My project this week is a Hydroponic garden system. I'm in the clay studio about to make Ex-Clay or expanded clay, which is clay fired at a certain temperature
1,200 °C (2,190 °F) to make it expand like popcorn, but not shrink back. This leaves the clay in a porous state, and it is the soil alternative we have chosen for our system. Most plants respond well to hydroponic growing, but you have to add nutrients to the water, which seems like a low cost venture, and definitely easier to deal with for indoor growing than soil.

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