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Food of the Future: Window DIY Spirulina Superfoodby
SpirulinaFan on July 23, 2013
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Step 1: Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 2: Tank Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 3: Hardware Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 4: Medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 5: Adding your culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 6: Mark you water level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 7: Cover tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 9: Growing Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 10: Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 12: Harvesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 13: Enjoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Intro: Food of the Future: Window DIY Spirulina SuperfoodHaving
your own spirulina window farm is one of the easiest most
satisfying things you could ever take on. It is an environmentally
friendly way to produce and consumea complete protein and
nutritional source! Algae Spirulina is 25 times more efficient per
squared foot than any other plant, which makes it optimal for
indoor growth.Integrating algae into our homes can be one of the
most significant things that can impact our nutrition. It is truly
the food of the future as it contains all of the amino acidsand is
a complete protein!
Step 1: HardwareTo grow Spirulina at home you are going to need
some hardware to optimize and automize the process. Most of it is
readily available at your local pet or fish store.
10-20 Gallon Aquarium TankAir PumpHeaterAir LineBubble
WandThermometerFood Grade Harvesting tubePh StripsBi
ValveHarvesting Cloth
The only thing that you will need to get from a specific source
is your initial spirulina culture. SpirulinaSystems.com is the most
affordable source.
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Step 2: Tank SetupFind a south facing window for your tank. You
can either use a table to place tank, or you can place a piece of
wood on the window sill to make a shelf for the tank. Placetank on
top. You can also grow spirulina in a greenhouse!
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Step 3: Hardware SetupStart by arranging the bubble wand around
the wall of the tank. This will aerate the spirulina. Suction cup
you heater to the wall of the tank. The clear harvesting tube
isalso suctioned to the glass of the tank. Now, run your air line
to the bivalve: then to the bubble wand and the bottom of the food
grade tube.
Step 4: MediumThe growing medium is the water solution that
spirulina can grow best in. Since spirulina grows in alkaline
environments, you have to make your water alkaline. This canbe done
by adding 16 grams/liter of sodium bicarbonate to non-chlorinated
water along with other nutrients: Ammonium Phosphate, Sea Salt,
Potassium Nitrate. Themost important of those is of course the
sodium bicarbonate that creates an environments that resembles the
ash lakes in nature in which spirulina grows.To simplify the
process, you can buy these nutrients pre mixed like I did. Again,
SpirulinaSystems was pretty affordable.2.5 Gallons of
non-chlorinated water along with 1 of a cup of pre-mixed nutrients
is the recommended amount to start the culture.
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Step 5: Adding your cultureOnce your starter powder has
dissolved and your water has reached room temperature or higher,
you can now add spirulina to the medium. Adding spirulina to
coldwater can shock it, its like taking a cold shower! Only pour in
3/4 of your bottle so that you may have some in reserve in case
anything happens to your first culture!
Step 6: Mark you water levelA simple step to record your water
level is to use a book mark. This is used because water naturally
evaporates so you need to replace the water that
evaporatesperiodically.
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Step 7: Cover tankAdding a glass or plastic cover can decrease
the amount of evaporation and help keep in the heat at night. This
will also prevent contamition from any airbourneorganisms.
Step 8: At this point you can add Chelated Iron. It completes
the nutritional needs of spirulina. Iron deficiencies are
noticeable, just as they are in plants. Slight yellow shade is
anindicator of iron deficiency.
Step 9: Growing PeriodThis is where spirulina will begin to use
the sun, CO2 from the air and the nutrients you added! Its nice to
know that CO2 sequestration helps the environment AND itfeeds your
spirulina, which will feed you! In a time lapse anywhere between a
few weeks and a month, it will begin to get more populated.
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Step 10: RepeatRepeat the previous steps to double your culture:
Add another 2.5 gallons with Starter and Iron. Do this until your
tank is full. If your culture is a good performer you canadd 5
gallons at a time! Once your culture is well populated it
replicates far quicker. In ideal conditions, it replicates
(doubles) every three days! Much faster than mostplants and it can
do it year round!You can now officially can call yourself a
spirulina Farmer! Take a moment to understand the monumental
significance of this! Spirulina superfood is being produced inyour
own home in an environmentally friendly way that does not require
transportation, excessive water, and does not create runoff like
most commercial plants! A pat inthe back is well deserved!
Step 11: Harvesting SafetyYou are just a few steps away from
easy harvesting. Over the last two years of research and
development, I have been eating spirulina with healthy outcomes.
Toreplicate that, you just need to follow simple steps. Spirulina
has an advantageous characteristic that allows it to grow in highly
alkaline environments, meaning pH levelsof 10 and above. This
dramatically decreases the chances of foreign organisms growing
your culture because they just can't survive in that kind of
alkalinity. To safelyharvest you simply have to wait for your
culture to reach an approximate pH level of 10 using readily
available pH strips.
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Step 12: HarvestingOnce at the safe pH level you can set up your
Integrated Harvesting Tube. It is important to only use a material
that meets FDA standards because you want to use safefood grade
elements in your spirulina farm. I got my kit from
Spirulinasystems.com.Once you open the valve leading to the
harvesting tube, fluid should begin to rise and flow.You can now
tie your harvesting cloth to the end of the tube with a rubber band
to catch the spirulina flowing through the tube while letting the
clear medium flow backinto the tank.
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Step 13: Enjoy
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Comments3 comments Add Comment
Kiteman says: Jul 24, 2013. 3:32 PM REPLYWhat, you just eat it
raw and unprocessed?
SpirulinaFan says: Jul 24, 2013. 3:59 PM REPLYYes, exactly.
Live!The Aztecs used to make fresh spirulina cakes from local
lakes.
Drying destroys much of the essence. Live spirulina also tastes
nothing like powder spirulina. People say it has a fishy taste when
you eat processed.That is because the cell wall has been ruptured.
Cost is another benefit of growing it yourself. Average cost of
powder spirulina is 30-40 dollars a pound.I have been able to grow
it live for about 2.5 dollars a pound.
SpirulinaFan says: Jul 24, 2013. 3:55 PM
REPLYhttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spirulinasystems/food-of-the-future-home-grown-spirulina-superfoodJust
another link with resources.