Here are some updates and observations on my controlled plant…

Day 6: Growing well.

Day 7: Growing tremendously

Day 8: Growing more, buds starting to sprout

Day 9: Buds are clearly visible, and the plant is growing

Day 10: Buds growing and so is the plant

Day 11: Flowers starting to sprout

Day 12: Flowers growing little by little and the plant is still growing

Day 13: Flowers clearly visible and I am seeing yellow on the flower

Day 14: Everything is the same

Day 15: Growing a little

Day 16: Flowers are growing

There has been a lot of fast growth and the plant has been thriving.

Here are some observations of my manipulated plant…

The plant is still growing a little and weeping but sturdy. Some buds are  visible and the plant is still alive. Not much growth but the buds are still visible. The buds have not grown and the plant is still weeping more. The manipulated plant is not doing very well but my group will see what will happen.

As for the controlled plant, I think these things happened because it has every variable and is healthy. Also, I think that the outcome of this happened because it was a healthy plant in general, we gave it the same amount of water per day and this plant could handle this routine.

Now, to the manipulated plant. Before this we took away the variable air from this plant. In order to do this, we put a plastic bag around the plant. Now to my conclusion. I think these things happened because it was not used to having no air and it might have needed it. Although it has still survived, it can clearly not be a healthy plant in this stage. I think that the outcome was this because the variable (air) missing mattered, the plant was not used to this type of life, and in general, the plant was not healthy for those reasons.

These were some of my thoughts and I hope to learn more about plants.

The proccess of making the plants was this…. First we used quads, that is a styrofoam square with four cells. Then, in each cell we put dirt and put five drops of water in each cell. Then we put a wick in each cell. Right after that we put three seeds of fertilizer and two plant seeds in each sell. Then we put a little more dirt on top of it. Then all we had to do was wait.  

We also manipulated one variable, air. We made a hypothesis about this manipulation and this is what it was. The plant will survive without air because it has no way to contain it and therefore it does not need it.

My plant observations of my controlled plant were…

Day 1: Cell three was starting to sprout.

Day 2: Cell three is growing a little more and others are starting to sprout.

Day 3: Cell two is thriving.

Day 4: Cell three is thriving and cell two is growing. Cell four is growing too.

Day 5: Cell three is thriving, cell two and four are growing.

My plant observations of my manipulated plant were…

Day 1: Doing well, no growth.

Day 2: Starting to weep just a little and doing well.

Day 3: Weeping a little more and still is doing well.

Day 4: Doing well and weeping,

Day 5: Weeping more but still has survived.

We will see if we are right about our hypothesis and we hope to learn a lot about the plant process.

Controlled: Has sunlight water dirt

and other normal details.

Minipulated: Does not have normal details.