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help with science fair project please
my 7 year old is doing a science fair project on capillary
action. he's doing the usual dye a celery & a white flower thing, but he's also trying to grow seedlings in different colors. he's using white stemed swiss chard as his vict^^ test subjects. he put the seeds in Jiffy pellets & waters them with food coloring. he has one control plant & one each yellow, red & blue. he's doing this at school & there seems to be a problem with damping off and/or mold growing on the Jiffy pellets. i was suspicious that the mold might be growing on the food coloring, but the control is also getting 'fuzz' on the peat pellet. anyway, if the plants keep damping off, he can't really prove anything with his experiment. the peat pellets are in an 8" x 8" tray, so they are not touching. the tray is not covered. the pellets were watered to expand, & are now only given one drop of food color (or water for the control) per day. any suggestions to get the poor things past seed leaf stage gratefully accepted. also, has anyone ever tried starting seeds in that polymer gel crystal stuff that is sold as Soil Moist? i was thinking of trying some white radishes in dyed crystals... lee -- Last night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. |
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