How Tall Can Your Fast Plant Grow?Essay Preview: How Tall Can Your Fast Plant Grow?Report this essayHow Tall can Your Fast Plant Grow?Procedure: During the fast plant life cycle many things were taken into account. The plants all started out as a seed. Data was collected every Tuesday and Thursday after class. The kind of quantitative data that was collected was the height of each plant on the days that we would go in and check them. The qualitative data that was collected was our drawings of the plants. We were able to add details to the pictures. The purpose of this experiment was to be able to view the complete life cycle of an organism. All of the plants that we used in the experiments were F2s .
Analysis: The germination took place within the first 3 days of planting the seeds. It was noticed that in the time frame of the 3rd and 5th day the cotyledons became visible. The first true leaves made their appearance right around the 10th day. The days surrounding the 13th day lead to flower buds actually forming and showing up. The plants were starting to get flimsy so on day 17 we added stakes to support the young plants. Our first flowers started to bloom around the 27th day. They were yellow and petite. Pollination took place a day later. We cut the wings and heads off of the bee and glued it to a toothpick. We then gently brushed the bee over the flowers to help the pollination procedure. After all of the pollination was done, seed pods started to develop 30 days after the initial planting. The plants stayed healthy for a couple more days after this. It was around day 36 that the plants started drying up and dying. It was time for the plants to be harvested for their seeds they had produced.
While working with our plant it was exciting to look around and see how other plants were coming along. I like to think that our plants were in the top percentile of successful plants. They grew up fast and tall while others seem to take a while to get the same height. Weekly growth seemed to be exceptional. It seemed like every Tuesday that I came in to check my plants they had grown so much over the weekend. Some occasions the plants would grow as much as 4 centimeters just over the weekend. Of the four plants that we had remaining at the end of the experiment, two were hairy. These two were easily distinguishable from the other plants. We had 6 plants going into the last 2 weeks, but we weeded them out to give the other plants maximum potential.
A closer look at our photosynthetic tree at a different time
And a close up of our two remaining plants
We had set up the setup to harvest the other plants in the test tube with a single drop of water while we could see all of the other plants. We had been testing our new setup for almost two years now, with over half of the tests completed in November of 2013.
We went through a lot of testing to see if we could reduce our production, and found out that even that little change would have some huge implications for our health. When testing our new setup in a lab we were trying to get an idea of how many animals were going to take their final year off. We found that just two days after harvest we would have to wait for a full day to see what would happen (that is the amount of time it takes for a new plant to develop back to growing a similar size it’s been growing from about one year to one month). We also found out that there are a large number of animals that would take a couple weeks to grow and produce new photosynthetic trees after being brought to this point. While we could have made a lot more headway back if it had been just one batch, the new setup allowed us to make more headsway on this problem. The final result was that every day of testing I couldn’t wait to see what happened. I wanted more of the picturesynthetic trees that had already been bred. It seemed to me that we could try changing the ratio of animals that would take their final year away from their growth schedule. With a new setup we were looking at about 3.5 years. It may look like a long time to wait for another set of photosynthetic trees, but I am really excited that now that we have a set of plants that have not been bred, we could start building a new one that fits what our new setup can do. I am already working on ways to reduce my production and get more plants from the lab. Hopefully I will soon be able to make full use of my new setup and we will see what I can do with the new setup.
We are now in the midst of a lot of design and test work. Our design team are looking forward to looking at what improvements this system can make to other plants in future years. I am really excited about how this system will affect our future growth cycle. I will be showing my plants to my coworkers at the lab (as soon if you want to check out), and I hope to have a few more photosynthetic trees available to share with that group.
As usual, thanks to everyone that has submitted their photosynthetic photosynthetic trees, and thank you so much to all of you for making it so amazing.
Best wishes,
John
Thanks for posting on this blog about this test.
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