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Hypothesis: If I keep the seeds well-watered, then the plants will emerge quicker and healthier.
I conducted this experiment in our family garden with the following plants:
Tomatoes
Parsley
Green Beans
Basil.
Procedure: I monitored the plants for 14 days from the first day they came up. I planted all the seeds on the same day and carefully misted them each one time per day until I saw them come up. I continued to water them once per day and sketched them every three days. I monitored their growth in my sketches. I have attached a photo of the dissected seeds. For the dissected ones I did a bean seed and a pea seed.
Results: Tomatoes: came up in five days.
Beans: came up after seven days.
Basil: came up after eight days.
Parsley: came up after ten days.
Height of plants:
Tomatoes
day 3: 1.2 cm
day 6: 4 cm
day 9: 6.4 cm
day 12: 9.5 cm
Green Beans
day 3: .75 cm
day 6: 2 cm
day 9: 3.5 cm
day 12: 5 cm
Parsley
day 3: 1 cm
day 6: 2.3 cm
day 9: 3
day 12: 4
Basil
day 3: .75 cm
day 6: 1.5 cm
day 9: 2 cm
day 12: 3.5 cm
Discussion: I was pretty surprised by how early they came up. I believe that one of the reasons may be because I didn't plant the seeds deep enough. My parsley plants also began falling over once they grew taller which is probably also due to the fact of not planting them deep enough. So even though they came up quickly, they were not as sturdy as I had anticipated they would be.
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