change of plans...

URGENT NOTICE MISS ZHANG!
Actually I don't know how urgent it is but, my seedlings are not growing, and I have no idea why. That's why, today, instead of getting seeds to sprout, I bought from GardensR'Us some plants that are already growing. They are 15 purple violas, however they have not bloomed and are still very small.

So, if it is okay, I have decided to start off with those young plants :)
I don't know if that will affect anything though.

Will it affect anything, Miss Zhang?

RAIN !!

Well, as you can see from today, the weather was POURING !
and today, as i was checking up on my plants and was getting ready to water them, i realised that the soil was SOAKING wet! not moist as I had left it a few days earlier...

Now I'm afraid that my seedlings will die or because the soil is drenched.
Can plants just drown like that? I'm really scared now.

:(

Let's just hope that the pouring rain just acted as the supply of water that they required for today.

EXPERIMENT - Method.

Yes, I know I haven't been posting up blogs until today.
I shall make this months resolution to post a blog at least three times a week.
Sorry if I fail, but I'll do my best.

Oh, is the experiment meant to be third person past tense? Just a question.

Here's the experiment:

AIM: To determine whether water temperature affects plant growth.

HYPOTHESIS: When water is too hot or too cold, the plant will wilt or its growth rate will decrease.

EQUIPMENT:
- 15 pots
- flower seeds
- fertilised soil
- thermometre
- measuring cups
- tap water
- refridgerator
- kettle

METHOD:
Steps...

1. All 15 pots were filled with fertilised soil.

2. A single flower seed was buried in the fertilised soil in each of the 15 pots.

3. Each pot was watered with 5mL of tap water (all water temperatures remained the same)

4. Pots were placed outisde where shelter is available, therefore sunlight is able to reach it however, rainy weather will not affect it.

5. Step 3 was repeated every two days for two weeks.

6. After two weeks, the pots were organised into 5 groups - 3 pots each group.

7. A certain amount of tap water was attained and then put in the refridgerator so that the temperature lowers to 5 degrees celsius.

8. While waiting for the water temperature to lower in Step 7, another amount of tap water was attained and, with the use of the kettle, was boiled.

9. Thermometre was used to measure the temperature of the water amounts.

10. The first group was watered with very cold water, approximately 5 degrees celsius.
The second group received water approximately 10 degrees. (approx average temperature of tap water)
The third group received water approximately 35 degrees.
The fourth group received water approximately 50 degrees.
The fifth group received water approximately 80 degrees.

11. Steps 7-10 were repeated

12. Plant growth was examined and information was recorded.

Climate Graph.

WEATHER FOR SYDNEY

(Rainfall / MAX and MIN Temperature)

If it makes things easier, I'll also include the information that Ms Zhang gave us so, Ms Zhang, if you're checking it, you don't have to continuously press Alt + Tab to check the climate graph. :)

(I've also taken out the unnecessary information i.e. Daily Maximum and Minimum Farenheit, etc)

Changing flowers.

Well, it turns out that the fastest growing flowers grow in TEN weeks
(according to the flower shop assistant) so instead of Lilies, we've received another type of flower, but other than that, nothing has changed in this experiment.

Also, to water the seedlings, I will make sure that each flower receives the exact amount of water each time. However, for the first week or two, the temperature of the water being watered to each plant will be the same (tap water temperature). This is because I want to know whether the plant GROWTH will be affected, not whether a plant will sprout slower/quicker/not at all.

When the plants are around two weeks old, I shall start changing the temperature and examine the growth of the plants.