Month: May 2017

Pollination

We learned about pollination. I learned that an insect would go to a plants petals and suck up pollen grains then go to another flower and put the pollen on. When the two pollen grains mix it forms a seed, the seeds go down the stem and when they are ready they go and burst out of the plant. Next the wind, an animal, or water may take to a spot that it can grow and the whole life cycle starts all over again. How do plants get the insect to go on the plant? Plants are smart they have a great smell and their petals make it pretty to attract an insect. Did you know that the female part of a plant and a male part of a plant have to be both touched by an insect to make a seed.

My Plant

This week the big difference was my plant grew flowers. We started pollinating the plant, but since our plants were growing inside and there was no insects everyone used cotton sticks and touched one female part and one male part as much as they could. After we were done pollinating the plants flowers started going away and the stigma started getting bigger. In each stigma there are seeds. My groups longest stigma was 4 cm I think they is 5 seeds in that stigma.

What Will Happen Next

I think in 2 days my groups plant will have no flowers and the stigma where each flower use to be will have 10 seeds. Then after the seeds come out of the stigma the plants will start dying .

Week 2

 

Controlled

 

The May 8th  the controlled was healthy. Cell 1 had 8 leaves and it had some buds the measurement was ½ of a CM. Cell 2 had 9 leaves the measurement was 2 CM. Cell 3 nothing was growing, and finally cell 4 had 4 leaves that was ½ of a CM. On May 9th was the same as the 8th. May 10th cell 1 has 7 leaves cell 2 has 16 leaves. Cell  3 nothing was growing – I think it was a dead seed. Cell 4 has 6 leaves. The only change was that  May 11th cell 2 grew 4 more leaves. May 12th the plant started dying.   

 

This is What it Looked like After a Week

 

Manipulated

 

Nothing is growing.

No Sunlight Compared to My Plant

 

The no sunlight looks not healthy. It is yellow and it only has a couple leaves. My plant is more healthy it has a bunch of leaves and is green. Also the no sunlight has a weird stem color

 

Realized

I realized that plants need water to grow . We realized that to drops of water was not enough so we changed it to 6 drops per cell. Also we realized that the lamp aka the sun was too low so we made the lamp higher, and it started growing again.  I also realized that plants will grow without sunlight but it won’t be as healthy without sunlight

Week 1

 

May 2, 2017 is when we planted our Controlled the controlled meant that we did not change a thing we had water, sunlight, soil, air, and fertilizer.

 

The next day May 3, 2017 we planted our Manipulated. Manipulated is when we took out one thing and saw if it mattered if we could have done something else. For example my group used soapy water instead of water. We planted it the exact same way just that we are going to water it with soapy water instead of water. By then there was a little leaf coming out of the soil in my Controlled. Cell 2 was the only one growing ,it had a bud. The rest were not growing. Cells are what we planted our plants in. We planted 2 seeds in each cell and there were 4 cells. We numbered them 1,2,3, and 4.

 

May 4, 2017 was the first day we started taking observations. For the Controlled cell 2 has 2 leaves the height of cell 2 is 1 CM. The rest of the cells have just dirt. For the Manipulated all the cells have just dirt nothing is growing.

 

May 5, 2017 was day 2 of taking observations. For the Controlled cell 1 has 7 leaves cell 1 is 1 ½ Cm long. Cell 2 has leaves which is ½ cm long. Cell 3 has 2 leaves which is ½ cm long. Cell 4 has just dirt. For the Manipulated it is still only just dirt in all cells.