Video Update: LED Lettuce week 2

I'm a little behind with this update, but here we go! Another week of timelapse video. Things are looking a little more conclusive this time.

A couple of things:

-You'll see quick strobe of the whole background now and then. These are times I was down in my garage doing something with the lights on.

-The baffle that was keeping each color of light contained on its side of the experiment fell down and flattened a couple of plants, but they recovered nicely.

-Some plants have fallen over on their own. This seems to happen at night. Sometimes they pop back up the next day, sometimes they stay down for a while.

-Neither set of plants appear to be as happy as they'd be under other light sources, but that side-by-side experiment is waiting for the results of this one.

Video Update: LED Timelapse, week one

Below you'll find the first timelapse video of my Red/Red-Blue LED panel experiment. The camera has run from Sunday until today (Friday). So, less than a full week but still interesting. Honestly I couldn't wait any longer to look at the video myself.

Every 13 or so hours the video skips, this is when the lights shut off for the evening and the camera sleeps until the lights come on the next morning.

This video was made using a PlantCam, which I received as a Christmas gift from my wife.

The lettuce isn't exactly growing quickly, but it does a lot of moving around. The root systems did develop quite a bit this week so hopefully that will lead to more vigorous growth in the weeks ahead!




Hrm. I didn't know that Blogger would shrink the video so much. I'll have to upload a hi-res version to YouTube, I suppose;