Blog #10

Our organism and supplies have arrived! Last Wednesday, we were able to start setting up our experiment and plan out our first steps. To start, we found plastic containers (essentially small salad containers) to perfectly accommodate our corn seeds. We figured out the numbers and ratios for our containers so we would be able to properly fill them with the right amount of soil and fertilizer.
After we worked out the logistics, we took a cup of fertilizer pellets and ground them into a fine powder with a coffee grinder. We then filled each of the plastic containers with soil and mixed in the fertilizer. During this process, we weighed the containers in units of grams to make sure they had the correct amount. This was perhaps the most enjoyable part of the experiment thus far, as we really got to be hands-on. We labeled each of the containers according to the variation of corn we would plant inside. The final step of the setup is to figure out how many corn seeds should go in each container. Then, we will plant them at last! The research we've done has indicated that it should take roughly 3-6 days to start seeing growth. So far we do not have any pictures but stay tuned for an upcoming post!
Here is a picture of our newly planted corn seeds.