Fast Plants: Day 19 and 21

Day 19...lots of pods growing!



Day 20...Sunday again. Apparently we are hopeless on Sunday...

Day 21...flower petal almost gone...pods growing like crazy.

Fast Plants: Day 18

The seed pods are growing!



And here is a fairly bad picture of the roots...lots of 'em. They caught my eye as I was refreshing the water reservoir, so I took a quick picture.

Fast Plants: Day 17

We did our third and final day of pollination today! Then we pinched off any unopened buds and will now watch and wait for seed formation.

Here is yesterday's picture:



And today's:



They are a bit spindly post-pinching today.

And a closeup of the flowers, since my little camera tends to focus on the background...

Fast Plants: Day 15

Today was the first day of pollination. We have been reading about flowers and bees and pollination and discovered that the scout bees go looking for nectar and pollen and then come back to the hive, where they do a dance to tell the other bees where the flowers are. With the proper mood music in place, we did a rather rowdy and enthusiastic bee dance. Beeb even got in on the action with Mama's bee. Then we "flew" downstairs and pulled out our plants and started pollinating.



We will be pollinating for the next couple of days. When our bees aren't busy pollinating, they hang out in their honeycomb condo. Amazing what you can do with three blank index cards and a little glue stick, eh?



My bee is not pictured as she is temporarily indisposed behind the barrister bookcase. And our obligatory side view. The tallest ones are over 8" tall!

Fast Plants: Day 14

Whoopsy-daisy! With daddy home over the weekend, things can occasionally get away from us. We forgot to check our plants yesterday. Well, remembered when everyone was finally settling down to bed, but everyone was going to be sleeping late anyway from the change to daylight saving time, so we waited and checked first thing this morning. Lots of excitement to see though! The tallest plants in each grew over three inches in two days and Bean has the first flower. We should have more flowers by tomorrow so we can start pollinating!!!

Fast Plants: Day 12

Today's big excitement was making bee sticks in preparation for flowering and pollinating. We improvised since real bee bodies are scarce this time of year. We used a small yellow pom-pom, a black pipe cleaner, and a pair of stick-on google eyes for each.



Rapid growth continues...

Fast Plants: Day 11

We are starting to get some buds (embiggen photo to see them) and stem growth has really taken off!





And since the plants are a bit more photogenic than either top or side view reveals, a couple of vanity shots: