Blog Post #2 Plants Post

Our plants have grown so much over the weeks.  We have been doing this for 14 days. The tallest controlled plant is 16 cm, It is green and the size is still pretty small. But definitely not super small. It is cell 3 controlled. The smallest is 9 cm from this week is is green too and it has no buds. Yesterday the tallest controlled was 15 cm. The day before the tallest controlled plant was 14 cm. A week before the tallest was 13 cm. The smallest last week was 4 cm. It was small. But not as small as the first week where the shortest controlled 1 cm.  

The tallest manipulated is 15 ½  cm from June 5th. The tallest from the day before was 15 ½ cm. It hadn’t grown at all. The tallest from the day before that was 14 cm. The smallest from June 5th was 8 cm and just a few buds like 4 of them. Most of our manipulated and controlled are growing buds or flowers. But one thing is bad news : They are dying!! The flowers are all flopping down. I couldn’t believe it when I saw what happened the other day. Also we actually pollinated our plants! All we did was touch our fingers on the flower to get pollen on it and touched it on the other one for both manipulated and controlled.

I think that the flowers started to flop down because we only added 1 drop of water to each cell. It was kind of like my hypothesis. My hypothesis was If we only add 1 drop of water to our manipulated plant it won’t be as tall because we only added one drop of water. But I said it wouldn’t be as tall and not the flowers would flop down. Maybe it happened also because there wasn’t enough lamp light?

My mom kissed me goodbye and so did my Sara, I was sad I was leaving them and dad. But I was happy I was going to go to camp with Alice. I got on the bus and saved a seat for Alice we chatted and the bus finally started moving. There was a girl that had a bunch of candy I definitely was in for it. I was hyper that bus ride, and we started watching the movies they played. I got interested so for 3/4 of the bus ride I was just watching the movies. We had to make a stop and then I made a new friend Emerson, she let me call her Em because I couldn’t remember her full name later I did but we had finally got to camp and I hoped and hoped that Emerson and I would be in the same bunk or Alice and I. When we finally made a stop at the camp, I saw signs and they said “HideAway, Angel’s Roost, Drop Inn, Pineknol, Tepee, Cabbage Patch.” I was confused about what the signs were for. I got off the bus and a person told me that I was in HideAway. I was sad because Alice was in Pineknol, and Emerson was in Drop Inn. I followed my counselors, Emily, Meghan, and Kedesha to my bunk.

This is plant post #4. The plants grew tremendously through all the weeks. Basically 20 days! Seed pods are seeds inside a pod. Seed pods are kind of moon shaped but thinner. They have little bumps on them and that means there are seeds inside the seed pods.

The life cycle is first you need pollinate them with the flowers pollen. Then the seed pods starts to grow. You have to wait about a week for them to grow not big but not small. After the pod starts to grow it gets bigger and bigger.

Here is the process to grow seed pods with Wisconsin Fast Plants:

1. Plant the Wisconsin Fast plant seed.
2. Put it under sunlight or a lamp for the sunlight.
3. Water it everyday to make it grow taller.
4. Record the data (Optional)
5. Manipulate (Optional)
6. When there are flowers pollinate them.
7. Pick off the seed pods.
8. Open them.
9. Repeat the process over again.

Yesterday we took the seed pods off our plants. Then we put them under a lamp to dry them out. The next day we opened our seed pods and we had a pretty big one that had 3-4 seeds!  Then we taped them onto index cards and we get to plant them again, if we want to.

Here are our plants.