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Here are the photos for the 12th June, 2010:

Toilet

Toilet

Growing Green Garlic Stalks

These are the photos of the plants after 3 weeks of planting.

Bathroom

Toilet:

It appears that the garlic stalks grow better in the toilet than in the bathroom. Awesome!

That means music does have an effect on plant growth.

Now I just need to write a report. The hardest part!

31st May 2010 - Love the difference!

Ok, so after about 2 and a half weeks of planting my garlic, there are some cool observations and results!

On 31st May, 2010, I took some photos of my growing plants. I have to say I'm quite impressed with the outcome, because I can easily see the height of the plants:


In the toilet, there are three stems altogether sprouting from the garlic.
In one bowl, there are two stems - 10cm and 4cm each.
The other bowl has a 4.5 cm high stem.








In the bathroom, there are three stems altogether emerging from the garlic.
In one bowl, there are 2 stems - 10 cm high and 3 cm high.
In the other bowl, there is a 1cm high stem.







So far, the plants in the toilet seem to grow the fastest. That means the plant with the music in the same room is growing faster than the other plants in the other room. Well done, guys!

I Can See the Resemblance!

I took these photos on 25th May, 2010, which means 9 days after the first day of the experiment. The garlic show some hint of growth, but the ones from the toilet and the bathroom look similar; that is, they grew about the same height.

Toilet

Here I can see a stem emerging from the soil where the bottom garlic is planted on (sorry I cannot edit and put an arrow to show you where I mean!).

Bathroom


There is a growth there too!

So there are two bowls with growth of garlic in the soils, but the other two plants are still pretty much the same as the beginnign of the experiment.

Day 4 - not much progress

Yesterday was my fourth day of planting the garlic in the soil. There was not much difference to the first day of planting, but I can tell that the garlics grew a tiny bit.

Here are the photos I took yesterday:

Bathroom - no music

Toilet - music

So far, I've played a handful of classical songs for the plants in the tiolet for apporximately three hours, usually from 6-9p.m.

Garlic Experiment

Don't worry, my experiment is still about the effect of music on plant growth. It's just that for the plants I am using garlic since I think it grows quite well and easy to observe with.

So yesterday, I started my experiment (I know, it's very late since it's due in A MONTH!).

That's what I did:

I planted 3 pieces of garlic in each bowl of soil, and there are 4 bowls of them.

The pieces of garlic were buried in the soil, so that only the top of it is still visible, like the photos I took of them on their first day of planting.

I placed two bowls in the bathroom, the other two in the toilet, where I decided to put classical music on for three hours each day.

Photo 1 - In the toilet: 3 pieces of garlic planted in each of the two bowls of soil.

Photo 2 - In the bathroom: 3 pieces of garlic planted in each of the two bowls of soil.


This is NOT my method, it is what I did for my experiment so far. My method is in the previous post.

I better start moving with my experiment.

Yours truly

Michelle Zhang

Blog 2 - Method

Here is my method for my Student Research Project. My climatic graph is in a previous entry.

Step 1 - A pot of plants is placed in a quiet room for 8 weeks.
Step 2 - A similar pot of plants is placed in another room in the same duration and time as the other pot of plants.
Step 3 - Music is played throught the speakers for 3 hours in the second room.
Step 4 - Step 3 is repeated daily.
Step 5 - Both pots of plants are watered every day.
Step 6 - Observations (appearance, height) of the plants in each room are recorded weekly.
Step 7 - The experiment (steps 1 to 6) is repeated.

The plants is most likely to be beans.