Wow Chris - this is pretty awesome to see. Please keep sharing photos over the next few weeks - I’ll be keeping an eye on the seedlings too while you’re away.
P.S. If anyone is interested in using the same germination recipes that Chris is using, they’re available to everyone for selection now through the user interface:
If there are a few students in particular that are really interested, or a spokesperson for the organization, I’d like to encourage them to join the community forums. Here’s a link you can send them that they can use to create a new account: MARSfarm Community If they create a new post and are interested in touring a hydroponics facility, I can try to connect them with a plant guru in the UK named ‘Glyn Stephens’. He works for Jones Food Company, a pretty large / seemingly successful vertical farm. Here’s an article with more information about Glyn: Gloucestershire vertical farm is one of UK's 'most advanced'
I wonder if they would be interested in building a $50 countertop greenhouse so they can at least germinate seedlings in their classroom. I just added a reply to that thread with some links to source the LED (most difficult to source part) for that project in the UK as well.