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| Explore | We know plants like sunlight and water. We also know that plants need good soil to grow good. From our research in class, we know that photosynthesis is when plants turn sunlight into energy. One question that interests us is how plants get stepped on and not die. |
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| Research Question | What kind of liquid substance does a pearl millet seed thrive best in? |
| Predictions | I think that the seed will thrive best in the tea because it is more than just water. But i think the seed that will have the most flause is the coffee, and I think that the plain water and dye will grow almost the same because it is just water mixed with dye and then it is just plain water. |
| Experimental Design | 1. We will label the cup according to the liquid that is watering the plant 2. We will fill the cup up to the line 3. push the seed in 1/2 an inch deep 4. Then we will water it and see when it sprouts. |
| Conclusion | Our conclusion is that watering the plants with coffee was the best. These plants grew the strongest and grew the fastest as well. Pickle juice was the one who did the worst, all the plants molded and only a few of them actually sprouted. But even then they didn’t grow very tall. And water... |
| About this Project |
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Hey we wrapped up our project and we are working on sending you data graphs!!!
Hi Maris,
I'm looking forward to seeing those graphs!
Thank you,
Ruby
Why did water #2 mold and no other water plants?
Why did dye #4 and dye #9 sprout before every other plant?
Hi Maris,
I sincerely apologize for not responding to these posts. Were you all able to answer these questions in class?
Ruby
Why did tea #6 not grow after day 15 when the rest did?
Pickle Juice Plant Questions-
How come half of the pickle juice plants sprouted and the other half mold?
How did the pickle juice sprout even though it was covered in mold?
Tea Plant Questions-
Why did tea #6 not grow after day 15 when the rest did?
How come half of the pickle juice plants sprouted and the other half mold?
How did the pickle juice sprout even though it was covered in mold?
Why did the Coffee Plants take less days to sprout than Water Plants?
Why were some Coffee Plants stronger than others?
How are Coffee Plants better in our charts than water?
Why aren't people using Coffee to water their plants rather than water?
Hi, good morning
Good morning! Today we learned about phototropism, tropism, geotropism, and thigmotropisms. Our plants reacted to phototropism when they because they grow up towards the light.
Hi Ava,
That's interesting that plants have these abilities to sense and respond to certain aspects of the environment! Do you all have a graph or table of your final results? I'm assuming your experiment is finished and you have given up on any plants that did not sprout? Or, are you measuring plant growth?
Ruby
No, we are still collecting data everyday. Most of our plants have sprouted actually except for a few pickle juices.
Our plants are growing up so I think that is a responce to Geotropism. The stem is growing up and the roots are not trying to grow out of the ground!
Good morning Matea,
I think you might be right that the plant is exhibiting geotropism (negative geotropism for the roots!). There are multiple guiding forces for these plants :)
Happy Thursday!
Ruby
Today we learned about thigmotropism. Though we learned about this none of our plants are in the state of thigmotropism.
Today pickle juice #10 sprouted
Only one new pickle juice sprouted, #5.
nothing too new today
we watered our plants
Hi Bad Bees,
You all have some interesting data! It looks like you have mold in multiple treatments, but it is most common in pickle juice. Why do you all suppose that is?
So, which treatment(s) seem to be doing the best so far, and which one(s) the worst (in terms of how long they took to sprout)... water, tea, coffee, pickle juice, dye?
Great work. I look forward to seeing how each group fairs on your health chart.
Ruby
Water and coffee are the healthiest. Pickle juice is moldy and not growing so well so that is probably the worst.
I think coffee is doing because the plants are about half a centimeter above the rest of the plants. I think the worst one is pickle juice. This is because only two have sprouted and the rest have mold.
Pickle Juice I think is defintly the worst so far, only two have sprouted and their all moldy. I think the reason is because all of our substances are mainly water mixed with powder or tea bags and the pickle juice is half and half so... I think the ones that are doing the best are water and coffee. They both are thriving and strong. Coffee- 4/10 sprouted by day 4, then they all sprouted by day 5. Also the health chart has mainly C's and D's as well as water. Water- 2/10 sprouted by day 4, then 7 more sprouted on day 5, and today(day 6) all of them have sprouted.
This is our chart that we go by to collect data for qualitative. Also how we are measuring strenght.
Hi Bad Bees,
I love how diligent you were to make it clear how you classified health. This is great!
Ruby
We split up the different treatments
Qulitiative:
Coffee: Maris
Dye: Ava
Tea: Metea
Pickle Juice: Metea
Water: Ava
Qunitative:
Water: Maris
Coffee: Maris
Dye: Ava
Tea: Metea
Pickle Juice: Matea
Love that teamwork!
We planted two seeds in each cup. Both of the seeds have sprouted for all the plants other than tea four. This is an update on one of the plants.
This tea three is the best one that has sprouted over the batch of tea plants. All of the tea have sprouted.
The rest of my pickle juice plants have mold. Like this one.
This is my one pickle juice that sprouted. It is very small, but healthy.
Coffee 6 and 2 are the best coffees, and water 3 is the best water.
Water 2 is molding I don't know how or why but it is.
Dye 4 is the tallest sprout and dye 1 is the smallest. Today is day 5 of planting.
The substances we are using are pickle juice mixed with water, dye, tea, water, coffee. This is from Maris, her laptop died.
We re-planted on Friday! We are collecting data today.
Hi, only some of our plants sprouted over the weekend. Coffee and tea, also water and dye sprouted. All of those plants are very small, but healthy. All pickle juice started to mold, even though we put water in the pickle juice. Some of the coffee also started to mold, this mold is green! We will water the plants tomorrow, and see if the plants grew more.- Follow up on what Ava said.
We are going to restart we relized that we didn't have a control and that the salt and pickle juice wasn't working. So we are now only doing water, tea, coffee, and dye-water.
Hi Bad Bees!
Oh okay. Well, mistakes and the unexpected are all part of doing science, just as they are part of life in general! It's okay when things like what happened with pickle juice happen and it's not necessarily a reason not to include it in your experiment! You are doing this experiment to learn about what happens in each situation/treatment, right? So, I think that mold caused by pickle juice is a very interesting finding!! I certainly learned something. Great job!
So, how are you all measuring strength?
Ruby
We are still doing pickle juice but we are putting water in it instead of just flat out pickle juice.
All the pickle Juice ones have mold everywhere but we ran out of class time today so we'll have to send them to you tomorrow! Also we are collecting data by what day they sprouted and how strong the are.
Tea 8 just sprouted today so it is almost so small that you cant see
Coffee 7 has mold but it is strong and is still growing
Yea so we sent you pictures of all the ones that have sprouted.
1. dye sprouted- 2 days to germinate
4. Coffees- 2 days to germinate
2. Teas- 1 day to germinate
Good morning Bad Bees!
I'm sorry for the delay in responding. I've been out of town since Thursday.
Thank you for the pictures! So, is this all of your treatments (dye, 4 types of coffee, and 2 types of tea)? Do you all have a control (just water without anything else)? What about pickle juice and the other treatment you all discussed earlier? Just curious.
I'd love to hear how things are going this week!
Ruby
we will show you pictures tommorow!!!
Thank you.