Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Mint Squad!

    • Mint Squad! 
      Created By - Rachel, Lily, Sam, and Natalie

      Variables:
      • Independent: Amount of nutrients (tsp per gallon, will be adding 3 tsp in all) (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium)
      • Dependent: Growth of plants
      • Controlled: All besides nutrients
    • Hypothesis
      • If we add 1.5 times the recommended amount of nutrients, then it will grow bigger and stronger faster because having more nutrients will promote more growth.
    • Steps - 5-2-17
      • STEP 1: prepare the bucket
        • Look at step one bucket drill vid.
        • Drilled Bucket
      • STEP 2: Add clay beads
        • Look at step two rinsing and adding clay beads to our drilled bucket.
      • STEP 3: Label the buckets
        • Labeling...a very important step
    • Steps - 5-4-17
      • STEP 4:
        • Planted the plant
    • Steps - 5-8-17
      • Step 5: Take the Ph levels.
        • The Ph level in our bucket is a 6
          z Rachel shows the PH testing tube. Our precious mint plant!!

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12 comments:

  1. Wow! It's crazy how fast our mint is growing! I hope that our hypothesis of adding 1.5 times the correct amount of nutrients is correct! I think it should work very well because the more healthy nutrients that the mint gets, the more it should grow faster!

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  2. Wow thats really cool guys. I find it really interesting how in depth you went about your procedure and how everything you are doing works. It really fascinates me how you thought about manipulating the amount of nutrients versus the amount of sunlight or water, showing how creative you are. I hope your project pans out well, and that adding 1.5x the amount of nutrients makes your plants bigger! This would also benefit other people all around the world to know whether or not this works. My one question for you guys is if this does work, do you think that this amount of nutrients (being 1.5x) would make ALL plants grow better or just mint plants? Thanks and nice work!

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  4. Wow, that's really cool. I'm curious why you chose to say 1.5 times the amount of nutrients. I'm also curious if adding 1.5 times the nutrients will make the plant grow 1.5 times as well. That is hard to measure for qualitative data, but in terms of how tall it is, and things like that. This is a very interesting hypothesis.

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  5. I really liked how specific your posts are. It makes it much easier for someone who is reading it to understand exactly what is happening with your plant. This will probably be useful for you, the writers, too because it will allow you to track and remember everything that you have done in the past.

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  6. Your posts are very detailed and informative, I also really liked the pictures, they are very nice.

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  7. The photos help follow along with what's going on very well!

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  8. The instructions are very detailed and therefore it is very easy to follow along. Additionally, it is very helpful that you included so many pictures. I'm very impressed with how fast your mint is growing!!

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  9. It seems like you guys had a lot of mint from the start! Do you guys think that the amount of the mint you put could have affected the growing process?

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  10. Did your hypothesis come true? Your plants looked really good last time I saw.How did you get them all to have access to the water? I'm curious because some of our group's thyme died because it didn't have enough water.

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  11. Did your hypothesis come true? Your plants looked really good last time I saw.How did you get them all to have access to the water? I'm curious because some of our group's thyme died because it didn't have enough water.

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  12. This ecosystem isn’t as realistic as a real ecosystem that would be found out in the real world primarily because it only has one trophic level: plants. While our plants have abiotic factors such as “soil,” water minerals, air and “the sun,” it also lacks many other factors. Our buckets are in a controlled environment which eliminates predators such as herbivores. In a real ecosystem, there's an ecological pyramid which has a food chain and trophic levels. Because our buckets are in a controlled environment, this also prevents weather and disease from killing off our plant. If this happened in a real ecosystem, natural selection wouldn’t happen. Natural selection also wouldn’t occur because of a fundamental factor: us. We’re providing everything our plant needs to live. OUR goal is to keep the plant alive whereas, in a real ecosystem, its goal is different. Plants live and die feeding into the food chain, adapting and evolving. Overall, the main reason why our ecosystem buckets isn't like a real ecosystem because it's in a controlled environment which means its main goal is staying alive. It's provided with water, minerals, air, “soil” and “sun” and protected from herbivores, weather, disease and anything that could threaten its existence. This isn’t realistic since a real ecosystem would have all these factors which would allow natural selection to happen.

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