In my class we have been studying plants and now we are growing our own. We are also manipulating one plant quad. My group is manipulating the other plant quad by giving it boiling hot water instead of normal room temperature water. My hypothesis is that it will grow faster but live a shorter life because on the weekend they get feed normal water which might cool them down a bit and with all the boiling water at the end it will not survive because it cannot withstand the heat. I we have two quads. One quad is the control, in which it has everything it needs, like water, soil, light, and air. But in the experimental we will be feeding it hot water. I am looking to see that if the boiling water will change the color, height, and number of leaves and buds.
So far the first part of my hypothesis is right! The manipulated quad is 4 cm tall with 13 leaves! Our control plant is just growing normally. I wonder what would have happened if we used cold water instead of hot?