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?