John+N+Joyce+Nutrients


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__Plant Investigation__ ** __The Problem:__ How do plants respond to variation in growing conditions? __Procedure: 1. fill 3 cups half way up with soil and 1 cup ¼ up with soil 2. put 1 seed half way down the soil of each cup 3. water all 4 plants 4. label plants with the names 10-15-10, 2-7-7, 9-9-6 and compost for the cup with less soil 5. add 10-15-10 fertilizer with water to one of the cups 6. add 2-7-7 fertilizer with water to a different cup 7. add 9-9-6 fertilizer with water to a different cup 8. add compost soil to the less soil one until the cup is half way full 9. water daily__ __Hypothesis: (John) 10-15-10, 2-7-7, 9-9-6, compost soil. I think that compost soil will work the best because it does not have chemicals and its really organic (Joyce)__ 10-15-10 2-7-7, 9-9-6 are the fertilizers. There is also compost. I think the 10-15-10 will be the best one for the plants because it is actually for all plants. The other fertilizer is for cactus and flowers. The purpose for the fertilizer is that it can feed the roots and leaves as you water you plant. And it is safe because it will not burn even in the hottest weather in Calgary. That is why it will be the best one for our plants.

__Materials: 3 different type of fertilizers, composted soil, 4 Styrofoam cups, seeds,. __ __Variables:__ a. Manipulated: The type of fertilizer we are going to use

b. Responding: the height of the plants

c. Controlled: __Same place, same amount of water, same amount of sunlight, same amount of soil, same environment. __

__Observations/Logbook:__ __Day 1: Date:__ Oct 3 2009 Today we planted our plants. We labeled each pot with 4 different fertilizers. We than watered and added them each of there fertilizers.

__Day 3: Date: Oct 5 2009

We water our plants again but there was no progress and no difference in our pots. __

Day 5: Date: Oct 7 2009

Today we watered each of our plants with 5 tsp of water. So far nothing has seem to happened but we are guessing that are seed has germinated.

__Day 7: Date: Oct. 9th

Today we have watered the plants and 1 of the pots has grown. The fertillizer that has been growing is the 10-15-10. It just started growing so i couldn't measure it exactly. It is 0.5 centimetes tall and around 0.5 centimeters wide. __

Day 9: Date: October 10th.

Today when i watered the plants the 10-15-10 fertilizer's plant has turn a bit green and also the compost pot has a plant growing and it quite small but i has been growing. __Day 11: Date: October 11th

When I watered the plants today, the fertilizer 10-15-10 has a bean sprout growing. This also happened with the compost pot. The fertilizer 2-7-7 has a tiny bit growing right now. You can see part of it because it is still kind of in the dirt. That is what happened today. __ Day 13: Date: October 12th I watered the plants fertilizer 10-15-10 has the seed coat of it is breaking off. The Compost one is starting to open up with leaves but not quite i think it will tomorrow though. The fertilizer 2-7-7 has been growing faster not it is small but not medium or tiny. The compost measurements are 4 centimeters. The fertilizer 10-15-10 is 3.1 centimeters. The last one that is growing is 2-7-7 is 0.3 centimeters. __Day 15: Date: October 13th

When I watered the plants, the compost one was 9.8cm tall and it has a few leaves growing out of the top of the bean sprout. For the 2-7-7 fertilizer one, the plant is about 0.4cm tall and the 10-15-10 fertilizer, the plant is 6.3cm. For the 9-9-6, you still cannot visibly see growth.

Day 16: Date: October 14th

When i watered the plants, the compost plant was 18 cm tall and you can see one leaf growing out of the bean sprout. For fertilizer 2-7-7 is 1 cm tall. Also for the 10-15-10 pot the plant is 12 cm tall and has a bean sprout growing but nothing happened yet. For the last fertilizer 9-9-6 there is no visible plant growing.

Day 17: Date: October 15th

When i watered the plants, the compost plant was 27cm tall and two leaves has grown out of the bean sprout. For the fertilizer 2-7-7 it is 18 cm tall. For the 10-15-10 plant is 2.5 cm tall and the 9-9-6 has no visible plant growing.

Day 18: Date: October 16th

When i watered the plants, the compost plant is 28.6 cm tall and has two leaves fully grown. The 10-15-10 fertilizer plant is 24 cm tall. The 2-7-7 is 5.6 cm tall and the 9-9-6 still has no visible plant growing.

Day 19: Date: October 27th

Today the compost and the 2-7-7 is 28.8 cm tall and the 9-9-6 still has no visible progress. the 10-15-10 is 31 cm tall. We also made a trial 2 and so far none of them has grown yet.

Day 20: Date: November 2nd

The trial 1 plants has died and 9-9-6 still hasn't grown. Although the compost is still alive without a top. Our trial 2 still hasn't shown any growth.

Day 21: Date: November 5

The trial 1 plants have shriveled and died and 9-9-6 still hasn't grown. The compost is still green and standing but has not changed. None of the trial 2 plants had grown yet.

Day 22: Date:__

===__One of the trial 2 plants had a growth spurt of 7cm (9-9-6) The other 2 still has not grown and the trial 1 plants has died and wilted. The 9-9-6 also started growing small leaves. Since the 9-9-6 grew we decided to fertilize the plants. Date 23: Date: November 16th One of the trial 2 plants had a growth spurt.(9-9-6) It was cm and now it is 11cm. It has 3 stems at the top on of them has a green leaf and the other 2 are starting to grow leaves. The other 3 plants still has not grown and the trial 1 plants are still dead.__===

(add additional days as necessary) Conclusion: __
 * Write a conclusion based on your findings that fulfills the “qualities of a good conclusion” posted on the bulletin board. **