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Plant Experiments (Week 2-3)

Our controlled quad is doing great. Since there’s no bees in the classroom, we have been taping the plants for pollination. We observed that the petals of the flowers are falling off. Mrs. Luciano told us that it was normal. “The flower petals are falling of so it can grow seed pods” She had said. Our plant is green, bright bright green. It has a few yellow leaves, but that’s okay. Our seed pods are turning brown and it is getting ready to fall. The plant is almost at the end of its life. We are going from seed to seed. Our manipulated plant has no flowers, is dying and looks like it got zapped by lightning. There’s buds, but I don’t think their going to be flowers any time soon.

Our experiment is over, we got our conclusion.  We put our manipulated plant on a diet of regular water, not dyed. But the second round of flowers just came, and there’s flowers galore. I looked today and I saw something horrifying, our manipulated plant dyed! I am so sad. But it proved our experiment. I’d like to say a thank you to Mrs. Luciano, for teaching us and helping us along, the school district, for the seeds. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!  

Plant Experiments (Week 1)

Our class has been studying plants. We have been doing experiments. We got two quads and put soil and seed in each hole. A quad is a box with four holes in it. We have a controlled quad and a manipulated quad. The controlled quad has everything, water, light, dirt, etc. But our manipulated quad, we have dying the water red before giving it to the plant. Our hypothesis was, “If we dye the water instead of giving the plant regular water than the plant will cease to grow and will become unhealthy because the water has chemicals in it.”  

    We have been dying the water strongly but we kept giving it the same amount of water, three drops. Over the week I noticed that our manipulated plant was turning red and brown. Then, one day one of the manipulated plants became crunchy and red, and it died! But our controlled plant was fine and now has flowers. Our manipulated plant was about 5 ½ cm and grew to 7 cm. But our controlled plant was 4 ½ cm and it grew to 10 ½ cm. Our manipulated plant is reddish greenish brownish and our controlled one is green and has yellow flowers.