Sadly, this week offers more questions than answers.  We've got a number of experiments going at the moment, with some puzzling conclusions.

The CO2Boost Experiment has taken a very surprising turn.  The control plant is now larger than the supplemented plant.  I'm not sure how to explain it.  However, I'll give it a shot...  As much as I attempted to keep the experiment fair and balanced, there is a difference in the plants.  When the experiment started, we grew 12 seedlings.  From the 12 seedling, we selected the two that were the most equal.  Although these plants were as similar as possible, the difference may be explained by the variations in the plants themselves.  Additionally, I've got one other unproven theory... I don't know enough about eggplant biology to say for certain, but I suspect that eggplants may not get much extra growth from CO2 supplementation.  My "food" eggplant (in the "mark 1") is doing very well, without any CO2 supplementation of any kind.

Secondarily, the outdoor strawberry experiment isn't going very well.  I didn't take any pictures, but things aren't pretty.  Most of the plants are very weak, and don't seem well acclimated at all.  I don't have a better explanation at the moment, but my theory is that they are too young to tolerate the temperature swings in the cold nights.  Their indoor brothers are performing much better.  Here's a photo of the indoor group:

Lastly, here's a quick photo of the "food" eggplant in the "mark 1".  It's performing very well, with lots of fertilized flowers.  It's huge, and very happy.  I think I'll be using more House and Garden (Van de Zwaan) nutrients in the future.