It's ALIVE!! Spirulina Algae Growing with On The Grow!!
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2021
- Do you want to grow your own Super food Algae🤔?? Well, your in luck because this is our step by step grow guide on how we grow Spirulina in our mobile grow space alongside our microgreens!! The main goal is to monitor your pH and keep it between 10.5 and 11 and keep the temperature at around 80F!! Watch that water salinity too!! We aim to keep our salinity at around 2 using a BRIX meter.
Some of you may be asking, what exactly is Spirulina? And why would I consume that green stuff? Spirulina is a blue-green algae, used in ALL KINDS of products now a days. From various consumables such as powders for smoothies, chocolate and even added to some foods for additional nutrition. To Hair and skin care products and so much more... It is believed to be one of the oldest life forms on Earth, alongside Fungi and Lichen (moss). It was said to first be used by the Aztecs as an endurance-booster, spirulina is considered a superfood - an all-in-one source of nutrients including protein levels comparable to eggs. If you want to learn more about Algae, we highly suggest doing a good'ole Google Search as there are TONS of research articles on the health benefits that Spirulina offers.
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****2/15/22 VIDEO UPDATE**** - Hey y'all! We've had a TON of people asking about our algae project from this video and how it's doing currently, so we wanted to give y'all an update! At the time of filming this video, we were really excited (obviously!)
Everything was going wonderfully with our algae, then we transferred the cultures into new jugs, switched to new air pumps and sadly, the air pumps caused half of them to die from too much agitation... we also had a few new types of algae's show up in our batches, which rendered them unsafe as no longer had a monoculture...
Luckily, we still have all of our supplies and are very eager to get back to Cultivating Algae again soon! It was so much fun learning about it and experimenting with new living organisms in our grow-space.
Yehh! Measure timing for perfect ageing. Science u know 😉! Upload video for successfull batch. I really inspired by u guys. Keep going.
@@sohampatel7096 i agree and hope that they continue this project as well and learn and grow from it! Please keep us posted guys!
Sorry to hear that went down like that!
Just FYI, water chlorination has been steadily moving on to using chloramine instead, which to my knowledge doesn't just evaporate out like chlorine does. Luckily I think aquarium water conditioner should deal with this without harming the algae.
Chances are if you need something for one of these setups, looking through the aquarium hobby stuff might help, perhaps airstones or bubblers, something along those lines, they may get clogged, but they'll do two things, add weight so that it goes to the bottom, and also create finer bubbles. The area where the bubbles meet the water is where you get movement, more surface area = more movement. I also have to wonder if the larger bubbles are too aggressive for them?
Oh another idea I just had, I've seen chemistry channels use these magnetically powered stir bars, you could potentially use one of those to aid in moving things around, it should pull things to the bottom and circulate if you can get a vortex going, relies on a magnetic base though, maybe something you can attach to one side? Should pull in plenty of air on it's own.
Some other thoughts, lights on the sides, and or reflective tents/mats, would probably help your yield, make sure all that light stays where it needs to be rather than just bleeding out into the room.
Watching your video gives me a ton of ideas but I don't wanna blab about them all here haha. I look forward to getting a new place where I can perform experiments like this, I have my own unique use for algae that I want to try out.
Thanks for all the awesome tips and info I gained from this!
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Any thoughts on the new setup and how you like it? The jugs in the video here, are these the ones causing the agitation?
Can’t wait for a Spirulina series. Amazing. You guys are really growing.
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So there wasn't a spirulina follow up or ?
@@riverside321sadly no so far
Your infectious enthusiasm made my day. You are my favorite teacher. As a note of interest, our church presented a "prepared event" for our members and our family's assignment was to talk about food preparedness. Our microgreens and our solar oven got quite a bit of attention. We invited people to snack right from the growing trays and they liked them!!! They even ate the roots they pulled out of the tray. I think we've got something here. But you already know that. Thanks so much for enriching our lives.
Waited ages for this. Time to get excited!
Btw Algae can also be used to isolate. There is an architecture that uses an algae tank as a wall and uses its product as fuel. The science part in me is hyped!
Triple tapping the like button - for science.
Do you know what architecture that is please? I would like to have a look at it. Thank you.
CJ's enthusiasm is really contagious!
this stuff is going to be super important in the coming years. thank you for this content
Recommendation...Bobs Mill baking soda is food grade. Arm and hammer has heavy metals.
I used to dissolve Sodium Carbonate for my Reef/Coral aquariums. Warming the water when dissolving it helps a lot to speed up the process! Just warm up the couple of litters where you dissolve it, then mix it with the rest of the colder water. I can't wait to see the filtering and drying process to extract that Spirulina. I hope everything goes well!!!
Yay, I caught a new video! I've been binge watching all your old videos!
PLEASE never stop the campy performances ... we love the Cube Dance.
YES!! I LOVE THIS! I've totally been wanting to do algae as well, i also grow microgreens. I really am inspired by you guys. Very professional, keep up the amazing content please.
Wow this looks really interesting! I look forward to seeing more once you get things up and running again on this project.
Love your excitement! Rock on!
I am so happy for you! You have found your passion in life and can make a living from working at it. I just love your enthusiasm. Congratulations. I wish you success.
You should use a cover slip/glass on top of the water (the small glass squares). It will keep the sample still (less shaky image), and it will protect the lense from touching the specimen. Remember to use the "brake" or stopper on your microscope as well, if it has one, so you don't end up pushing the lense into the slide and break it when focusing. :)
I'm excited to see follow up videos. :)
He tried that and thought it pushed out all sample
Thank you! So great!
Thanks for all your videos , you are making a great job!!!
Thank you so much for your support!!! We really appreciate it! 🤗🌱
Very interesting there man.... u can't wate for next weeks video. Cheers for the info 👍
I love your excitement! Sooo contagious!! It makes me giddy and wanna geek out with ya! How freaking much fun!! Cool!!
You guys rock!!!
i admire your energy
Such a beautiful setup! I just started growing algae last year. This is gorgeous
can't wait for the harvest!!
Looking forward to more Spirulina vids!
Just ran into your channel, I absolutely love it! Great work you do.
i guess it did not go well? there is only one video...
I would be interested in finding out what happened as well.
Must have tasted it...
I've been doing it for a few years, stowaway is a cool movie to bring awareness to bio-reactors and bio-CO2 scrubbing. Did research many moons ago about using it as food and a way to increase available O2 in house and it came in handy during the pandemic. I split intake air with a ozone generator then pumped it through a activated carbon bed then through spirulina cultures to help keep our apartment air healthy. It also acted as a humidifier.
I love your setup and it's nice to see someone get excited about spirulina like me!
Thank you so much for the support!! Lol, yeah, it was hard to hide my excitement with this one!!
Wow amazing
This is so amazing.have liked the whole stuff..the knowledge in it is so amazing
Great!!
Watching this 2 years later and I'm as excited as you. I'm screaming and giggling 2
really good project! keep growing!
This is amazing
Thanks for the support Ray! It’s been a whole new experience learning how to grow these fun algae!
This guy is for real geek but so for real geek, it's cool. The bucket dance pressed me over the comment or not line lol
Watching these guys makes me feel as if I can do what they do (lol).😃
Look at those Spirulinas amassing , well done with your testing and sharing with us. This could be proprietary information , so don't shear all your secrets. 🧬
Feel blessed to see you brother, like look at the mirror of my self
Sooo cooool! GOD bless you guys 💥
Well done
Wow man what an amazing video
You are so nerd, loved it 😃 subscribed
Can’t wait any longer for a Spirulina series....!!!
Your excitement is infectious 🤣this was awesome 👍🏽💯💥I need to grow this to aid in any nutrients I’m missing especially loosing weight
A lot of effort from you sir 🙏 keep it up 💯
Love the micros
when he hit that dance, i was like omg subscribed with that enthusiasm for science
Great vid! Subbed
Finally this is what I've been looking for God bless you
Thank you so much for the support!!! We greatly appreciate it! 🤗🥼🌱🌱
And Allah with you
maybe put a dispersion stone at the end of the bubblers so the bubbols...disperse!..more and dont just come out as 1 big bubble at a time :D
Amazing, very interesting, please do updates.
SO coooooooooool!!!!
amazing!!!
Thank you so much for the support!! 🤗🌱🌱
Woah!
❤ so cute
Can't wait to see how this goes
Have you tried to use Spirulina as a bio fertilizer in your microgreen crop? If so, have you noticed any difference in their growth? Really cool video, regards from Croatia!
This is the best imaginable future of food!
any news on the spirulina? I absolutely love this! Covered all topics well in depth. 10/10
I subscribed your channel because of this particular video. Can’t wait for more episodes of this series! 🥰
Glad to hear it! More coming on algae soon! 🤗🌱🌱
@@OnTheGrow :( did you abandon the project?
Interesting video! thank you for sharing, just a little question if that processed and dried spirulina found in the market today can be cultured?
To get the tube to stay on the bottom, you can also use stainless steel welding rod which is 36" long and get at least 0.065" in diameter so when you bend it it maintains its shape without the air tube bending it. Insert it into the tube which will allow you to bend the tube and maintain it's shape so you can direct it to the bottom and put a hook at the top to hold it in place at the bottle opening
😍😍 such a beauty
Try to keep pH slightly under 10, add some chelated iron, slow down a little bit the agitation and you will have longer spirals 😁✔
Love your enthusiasm 😉 keep it up
Thank you so much for the support and suggestion! We will give that a shot and see how it goes!
What is the promise of deodorizing/ neutralizing spirulina odor? This is such an amazing organism. But the smell makes it hard to meaningfully incorporate into any kind of diet!
Good job sir 👍👍🙏
Thank you so much for the support!!
I came for the spirulina, stayed for the excitement.
Have you considered using the 5 gallon water jugs offices use? Here in Kentucky, they cost $10/ea (at Wal-Mart) and are effective for our use/cultures. :)
You may already know, but when it comes to opaque surfaces and screen material, the slightest bit of opaque and the even the largest holes in a screen, still block a significant amount of light or air flow or liquid flow.
Of course light manufacturers use opaque plastic or opaque glass, to more evenly distribute the light, at the expense of a portion of the light being absorbed behind the plastic/glass, which makes the light appear dimmer.
So for growing algae, opaque plastic would more evenly distribute the light, which may reduce hot-spots and get a more consistent temperature and more even light exposure, but at the expense of getting a significantly lower amount of light.
When you are dealing with direct sunlight, opaque white plastic helps block some of the light and heat and because the sunlight is soo intense, it is fine.
However, when you are using low wattage artificial lights, the amount of light that is blocked is very significant.
You can take a LED light with an opaque white plastic lens cover and cut or pry off the plastic lens, and you will notice a HUGE difference in light output. However, you will also make it likely dangerous, since the live electric circuit board is now exposed and could be lethal or start a fire, so I don't recommend it for anything other than testing for educational purposes.
Hi, nice video! I have a question: do you know under which spectrum algae grow fastest?
Excellent video as always. I’m trying to find the follow up. Any chance you could do a starting from zero, step by step?-)
You guys are adorable :D Microbiology IS exciting AF. The shakes will wear off eventually, so using the microscope will get easier hahaha! I studied microbiology for 4 years and worked in a microbiology diagnostics-lab for 3 years. Loved every second of it, but it paid 💩. I'm growing my own spirulina soon as a home-project. I want to use them as an air filtration system.
Hey, how long does the spirulina last for? I'm planning of cultivating oxygen from algae+phytoplankton.Do you think it's a feasible idea?What could go wrong? and could really use some help.
Thanks much 😀
I like that The big bang theory vibe they have.
Wow This looks like just right out of a Space lab! So awesome!!! Im sure since you’re growing these you know about the pseudo vitamin B12 issue. What do you think about that?
Please elaborate. Could google myself, but meh...
u could also consider doing the blue colored spirulina type (idk if they r harder to grow or something), their selling price is astronomical 😲
There is a special type of microscope slide called a hemocytometer, it's normally used for manually counting blood cell concentrations, but people use them for counting all kinds of things. It might help you count algae concentrations and give you a good idea of grow rates under certain conditions. They aren't expensive, so if it turns out the spirulina is too large, well you probably only lost like $20 for the slides.
Hey, what happened was looking forward to harvest and what your doing with it and how this fits into our food?
This is so cool! Did you figure out how to grow the Spirulina from the movie or did you get a book/guide? I have been really wanting to try this at home, but haven't found any information in English.
:O !!!WOW
Questions: 1) have a link for the microscope? 2) how will you sell the spirulina?
Amazing project! Should be replacing oil and consume lot of co2 soon
..love this thank you! I just subscribed..unable to find the rest of the spirulina videos- help please! Also.. do you have a video on this souped-up amazing van? :D
cool
Great video! Where did you get your starter cultures from?
Wow this guy really likes spirulina 😂
Truth 😂😆🥼🌱
It is an amazing supplement though. There are studies that say it can help prevent cancer of the mouth.
Interesting how to grow algae but what is it used for, is it any good as a vegetable fertilizer, ?
add a canister of CO2 to your bubbler mixture and you can up the carbonic acid (lower pH) levels. this stimulates growth and allows you to maintain the desired pH. if you put it in a pressurized system you can increase the carrying capacity of the system aswell by increasing the cabon saturation per volume.
those carboys would pressurize nicely.
i dont have many videos on my youtube but i did build a photobioreactor. i had to post somthing showing a update lol. i love your setup btw. thank you for the video.
Thanks for the tip! I'm going to start trying to grow all this again soon. Took a break for a while, but it was so much fun growing these. I appreciate the advice!
@@OnTheGrow if you look at my channel think i have a video update to one of my professors laying out the design for a photobioreactor i made for my final in molecular biology. ignore the microscopy stuff, it is a bunch of videos i posted just to ask questions or have examples.
@@OnTheGrow ua-cam.com/video/QI50lObFEoA/v-deo.html
Hello sir,
I am Kiran from India.
I saw your video on spirulina growth on youtube, I really loved it.
I was planning to start my own small spirulina plant in my home and if worked then plan a large manufacturing and buisness of growing spirulina.
Sir, I have some questions and small query regarding growing in house.
1) what light(wavelength and intensity) should be use if there no sunlight?
2) If setup was done in garden but due to clouds if there is not sufficient sunlight is there then in that case which light (wavelength and intensity) should be used?
3). Which minerals should be specifically added from point of buisness and how to increase the pH ?
Please answer the question.
Thank you.
@@eugenejackson1358,
Hello sir,
I am Kiran from India.
I saw your video on spirulina growth on youtube, I really loved it.
I was planning to start my own small spirulina plant in my home and if worked then plan a large manufacturing and buisness of growing spirulina.
Sir, I have some questions and small query regarding growing in house.
1) what light(wavelength and intensity) should be use if there no sunlight?
2) If setup was done in garden but due to clouds if there is not sufficient sunlight is there then in that case which light (wavelength and intensity) should be used?
3). Which minerals should be specifically added from point of buisness and how to increase the pH ?
Please answer the question.
Thank you.
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The moment i saw the thumbnail for the clip i said to myself "He must have watched Stowaway". :)
They are pretty amazing little organisms; and we’re probably creating oxygen in our environment long before real plants really came on to the scene.
What's the model # of that microscope? Can't wait to be doing this at our home:)
Might want to invest in an oil immersion lens. Takes a bit of care to operate, but you'll see some spectacular stuff. Find most of your equipment at a homebrewing store.
I'd really love to know where you got your supplies 😊
Also, I think the food manaa from the bible is actually spirulina. So, I’m calling my dried product that.
When I was researching ‘13-‘16, there was minimal info out there. Went to Thailand, just to see raceways in operation in a tropical country.
You may very well become the foremost source of information. Your dedication to the process is more important here, than with Micros.
You planning a toxicity or heavy metal analysis at the end?
Mushrooms next? 😉
New viewer ❤
Should you have a 12 hour light and 12 hour darkness photo periods. We have an algae room with fluorescent bulbs.
👍👏👏👏showman
And you do all this in a trailer? Do you grow more somewhere else or is this space just for the videos?
Are you still working on this? Would love to hear how the harvesting is going.
The 5-Star stuff is no rinse for most applications, are the spirulina susceptible to a .01% drop in PH? Otherwise you are risking introducing wild yeast spores or other contaminants by rinsing multiple times (unless you are using RO water).
Any update on this one? Very interesting.
I was today years old when spirulina algae actually were spiral shaped hahaha