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Day 14 Discussion, Pictures and Data
Well! It has now been a full two weeks since I planted my fast plants, and today, with the aid of Dan (Lauffer) and Paul (Williams), we discovered a few things! Firstly, the plants in the dirt only cells are a lot more robust than those in the cells containing vermiculite. Could it be that vermiculite inhibits growth or reduces the impact of fertilizer? We don't know the answers to those questions yet, so it looks like further experimentation is on the way. Here is a comparison photo:… Continue
Posted by Ben Smail on September 30th, 2008 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments
Day Nine and More Pictures
We are now in the 9th day of the trial run "Growin Fast Plants in the Fast Plants Lab." Not too long ago, I posted some information about the plants after a week, and today, I provide some more pictures. Here's the setup again.
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ContinuePosted by Ben Smail on September 25th, 2008 at 1:53pm
Plant Measurables
Today is the day I said I would post the plant height after 7 days, and also the width of the largest cotyledon. Those can be found in this link, to an excel document. Plant data.xls Yesterday and today I went through and belatedly plucked out surplus plants. It felt a bit depressing, as some of the ones I had to pull were quite vigorous, but suc… Continue
Posted by Ben Smail on September 23rd, 2008 at 1:30pm
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