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Plant Experiment #1

My class has been learning about plants. For this project we have to come up with a question we are wondering. My group and I want to know if a plant can still grow using sand instead of soil. My hypothesis was that the plant could still grow because the sand is soft enough to suck up the water. For this experiment we had two plants, one is the control and one is the manipulated. The control quad has everything it needs like air, water, sunlight, seeds, fertilizer pellets, and soil. For my manipulated quad, I put in water, air, fertilizer pellets, sand, sunlight, and seeds.


After the first week I am noticing that all my control plants are growing very well! Each of the plants have two or three leaves. They are green and 3 cm tall already! The plant has been watered everyday daily from the top and overnight it’s getting watered from the bottom. My manipulated plant is starting to grow in cell 3 but not that much. I think it’s because when we water it the sand gets hard so it’s hard for the plant to push itself up. I wonder why?