Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Fast Plants: Day 8
Getting bigger...
...and growing taller!
Not quite tall enough to be very photogenic from the side, but getting there. The tallest plant in each pot is about 7/8", but Bug's tallest is in a depression in the middle, while Bean's is on higher ground. Yesterday, the tallest in each pot was 5/8"...how's that for fast?
...and growing taller!
Not quite tall enough to be very photogenic from the side, but getting there. The tallest plant in each pot is about 7/8", but Bug's tallest is in a depression in the middle, while Bean's is on higher ground. Yesterday, the tallest in each pot was 5/8"...how's that for fast?
Monday, March 2, 2009
Fast Plants: Day 7
The plants continue to grow. Each kid has several plants with real leaves by now and they continue to grow. I imagine that they will start getting taller very soon!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Fast Plants: Day 5
The plants look a lot like they did yesterday. I suspect that they were putting most of their energy in to recovering from being poked, prodded, and moved around yesterday. They are a little bit taller and each kid has at least one plant getting a third leaf.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Fast Plants: Day 4
We have cotyledons! Bunches of 'em. When we started today, Bug had 11 and Bean had 9.
You can see their planting "styles" here, too. Bug is big enough to be able to listen to me tell him to spread out the seeds and follow the direction, while Bean is a bit short in either the listening or the coordination needed for sprinkling and wound up with all the seed in (mostly) one spot.
After counting and drawing pictures of what the cotyledons looked like, we thinned and transplanted to get six seedlings with decent spacing. I did most of the thinning and moving work and I tried for a balance between picking the largest and healthiest looking seedlings and picking ones that could stay where they started.
You can see their planting "styles" here, too. Bug is big enough to be able to listen to me tell him to spread out the seeds and follow the direction, while Bean is a bit short in either the listening or the coordination needed for sprinkling and wound up with all the seed in (mostly) one spot.
After counting and drawing pictures of what the cotyledons looked like, we thinned and transplanted to get six seedlings with decent spacing. I did most of the thinning and moving work and I tried for a balance between picking the largest and healthiest looking seedlings and picking ones that could stay where they started.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Fast Plants: Day 3
We have seedlings! A total of five to be exact. Bug has four and Bean has one. The leaves are just barely peeping up through the soil, so the view should be better tomorrow and I expect these five will probably have friends by then too!
You can click and go to Flickr to see the full sized picture, but the view isn't really that much better. You'll just have to take my work for the arrows pointing to the seedlings for now!
You can click and go to Flickr to see the full sized picture, but the view isn't really that much better. You'll just have to take my work for the arrows pointing to the seedlings for now!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)