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Hi Cari,
Sorry. Its been a long time since we updated you. Today we stopped trail 2. The room temperature waters radicle grew up to16cm, 12cm, 14cm and 2cm! The hot water had some radicles that reached up to 10 and 11cm. Weirdly enough, the trail 3 seeds are growing faster than trail 2! Maybe its because out box fell and the seeds in trail 2 fell out of the Petri dish. For the room temperature water for trail 3 the radicles are 8.5, 9, 13 and 16 cm. Some of the seeds even have stems! For the hot water the radicles are 17, 13, 10 and 3.5 cm. They also stems that have grew a ton! The cold and unsoaked seeds haven't grown as much. So it looks like the room temperature is growing faster, but the hot water seeds are still growing fast!
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This team shows enthusiasm and thoughtfulness in this post. They are excited about their growing plants and also speculate on why they may be getting the strange result in one trial that they aren't seeing in the others.
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