Skip to main content

Blog Post #3

Our Brussels Spout plants have grown A TON it's actually insane how cool it is when plant grow. When we first planted the Brussels Sprouts they were just barely poking out of the ground with little thin brown arms that looked almost like grass. Now after a couple weeks they're really starting to look like real plants, they have some leaves and even a couple of flowers, not to mention that now the plants are actually green.

There are a couple of different cycles that our Brussels Sprouts go through, one of them being the Water Cycle. The plant consumes water that it may get from rain and it gets used by the plant. Water is also evaporated off the plant and is put right back into the atmosphere to restart the cycle. This cycle just keeps repeating over and over in a perfect system.

Our plant also goes through the Carbon Cycle, which is how carbon flows through the atmosphere. Our plant participates in this through a process of photosynthesis, which occurs when plants take in carbon and in turn release oxygen into the atmosphere. The plant uses the carbon dioxide to make different kinds of sugars and proteins, these give the plant energy to live. In making these sugars and
proteins the plant also puts some of the carbon into the soil which eventually makes it's way back into the atmosphere.

The last cycle that our plant is apart of is the Nitrogen Cycle, which is a little more complicated than the Water Cycle and Carbon Cycle. Through rain, nitrogen is absorbed by the soil and rest in it until its taken up by the plants. Plants use nitrogen to make DNA and proteins that help plants thrive. This helps the plants stay healthy and also contributes to chlorophyll which gives plants their green color.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Blog post #7

Fertilization occurs in flowering plants through the process of fertilization. The center of the flower has long thin filaments with anthers at the top. This is called the stamen. Four pollen sacks are located in the plants anthers which contain MMCs, Micro Mother Cells. Each of the pollen sacks produces eight pollen grains, the sperm cells from the MMC. Once the pollen grains inside each of the sacks are ready the anthers will burst open vomiting the sticky pollen onto the flowers stamen in a process called dehiscence. The flowers bright colorful pedals lure insects inside to drink its nectar, located at the flowers base. Once the insects climb into the flower the sticky pollen from the anthers gets stuck on its feet, legs, or body. In the process of cross pollination the insect that collects this sticky pollen will transfer it to another flower pollinating it in the process. In the process of self pollination the pollen will be moved from the stamen to the pistol/carpal of the flowe...

Blog Post #5: Lauren Shearer (By Colin Mccombs)

For the Story of the Seed project I interviewed my very close friend Lauren Shearer. She talked about all of the experiences that she had while she was working on the project and her thoughts on the project. She learned about the different variables tat need to be considered while growing the plants. The process of a growing plant differs with each plant, if you change pretty much anything when you tried to grow multiple plants. She was amazed at how fast and tall their "Control group" plant grew. It not only went quick, bit also with the right amount of soil;water, it would be healthy. Sadly, what surprised me that shouldn't have, was that the last pot with Dr Pepper did not grow at all. Lauren was forced to stop and think harder when her team had to figure out the watering schedule for our plants. We had to map out the correct days and the amount of water for each pot so that the project would work successfully. Her entire experience of her project made her laugh be...

Blog Post #8- A Matter of Selection (Jesse Zalk)

1)  The   Brassica oleracea plant, a seemingly boring specimen, does manage to have variation in itself. My team, seemingly lazy at the moment, did not want to join me to the garden excursion, so I went by myself to measure data. The data I decided to record was the width of the Brassica Oleracea and the length of the leaves on the plant (Both Kale and Brussel Sprouts). I decided that the leaf lengths had more variation then the plant height. Here is the data that I collected. Leaf Length Plant 1: leaf 1 - 11,5 cm Plant 1: leaf 2 - 9.5 cm Plant 1: leaf 3 - 13.5 cm Plant 1: leaf 4 -  10.5 cm Plant 1: leaf 5 - 11 cm Plant 1: leaf average - 11.2 cm Plant 2: leaf 1 - 9.5 cm Plant 2: leaf 2 - 8 cm Plant 2: leaf 3 - 8.5 cm Plant 2: leaf 4 - 10 cm Plant 2: leaf 5 - 11 cm Plant 2: leaf average - 9.4 cm Plant 3: leaf 1 - 14.4 cm Plant 3: leaf 2 - 13.4 cm Plant 3: leaf 3 - 12.8 cm Plant 3: leaf 4 - 13.7 cm Plant 3: leaf 5 - 14.1 cm Plan...