Sunday, September 30, 2012

Experiment Prep

On Friday we finally began the execution of our experiment. For this experiment, we are experimenting with how the density of the plants affects the germinating of the seeds. For this experiment, we used two lights, 36 pots, some water and dirt, and the seeds, which we haven't planted yet.

For the experiment, we have finally set up our lights, (or light, the second light isn't working yet) on a set of pipes and set the small flower pots beneath the lights then filled them with  dirt.

The lights are strung up on the pipe stands with S-hooks and chains that connect to the light and hold them up.
The light rigging with poles, chains and hooks.
Beneath them are the 36 pots, size 4 standard filled with dirt. To add the dirt we found a smaller pot, a 3 standard and filled them to the top and poured them into the larger 4 standards.


The small, 3 standard cup we used to measure dirt amounts
Size 4 standard cups we are using for this experiment under the lights

3 comments:

  1. This is great-- I would love to see more biology students blogging about their experiments.

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  2. Thank you for sharing this. I am doing a similar thing in my Biology class but not a blog yet.
    Dr. Micheal Hotz--Wyandotte High, Kansas City, Kansas

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  3. Nice blog post, Shay. You provide a good overview of your work so far. Your pictures are quite useful, especially because you added text to each one.

    Include another picture soon, after your set-up is complete. You have a complicated arrangement, which is best presented as a picture, I think.

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