How much Water?

Justice won 1st place in his 6th Grade Science Fair.

He did his Science Project with Kidney beans that we sprouted. He wanted to test if  the amount of water made a difference in how well it would grow. 

Every other day he would water his plants.

Plant A- 1/4 c water

Plant B- 1/2 C. water

Plant C- 3/4 C. water

Every day he would record what was happening to the plants. Pretty quickly we could see a difference in their growth. Plant A always seemed too dry. Plant B definitely grew the fastest. Plant C got water-logged pretty badly. We had to add a bowl to catch all the excess water.  It was fun to watch them. 

December 30th

Jan 2nd

 Jan 15th

February 6th

The flower buds were cool to see:

The bean pods got to be over 5 inches long:

And with the excess water in Plant C- it mutated it's roots to try to compensate. Crazy!

Now he is onto Regionals in Butte. We'll see how that goes. Great job, Justice!





P.S. So.... once Justice's school had their Science Fair- I stopped bugging him about watering them and keeping track. Unfortunately that meant that he didn't water or keep track. ;) Oh kids without their mother!! ;)  It only took a couple of days and his once beautimus plants started to turn yellow and shrivel. Oops! Hopefully we can revive them some before the Regional Science Fair but they're looking pretty sad. Well... except Plant C that has been thriving on it's excess water! LOL