Will bush beans grow faster if we water them with water or Fresca

 

A)

I think the beans will grow faster with Fresca, because the carbonated drink club soda helps plants grow because it has nutrients like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur and sodium that are good for plants, but sugar isn’t good for healthy growing plants because they will often reject it, stop drinking it and die off. But Fresca has no sugar. So, that’s why I think Fresca will help bush bean grow faster and taller.

 

Tips to help me grow bush beans:

• try you make sure the soil isn’t wet all the time
• try to keep beans out of the shade
• try to water the bean in the morning
• don’t over water

 

B)

The plan is to buy bush bean seeds and plant them into their own pot and to watch them grow over the next couple of weeks.  Water three with Fresca and three water, to see which beans will grow faster.

 

1. Buy the beans, soil, paper cups as pots, Fresca and a bottle of water
2. Poke holes into the bottoms of the cups
3. Fill the cups with soil
4. Plant the beans by using the hole method
5. First stick your middle and index finger about an inch and half into the soil
6. Put the bean right beside your fingers, so when you take your finger out of the soil the bean will fall in by its self
7. After that tap the seed softly just so it position firmly in the soil
8. Last step is to cover the hole by putting a little bit of soil over the hole and patting very softly.
9. Water the seed with about one inch once a week with water/Fresca

 

 

What equipment will I use to record our data?  To record our data I will take a picture every day to show the beans growth. I will also measure the beans every day and make a chart to record the growth.

 

The risk is that the beans might not grow because it’s getting colder outside and it will be fall when I do my project. There are no safety concerns.

 

I think it’s ethical to see if Fresca makes bush beans grow faster because Fresca isn’t harming anything. There are no environmental issues because Fresca bottles are recyclable and Fresca has no harsh chemicals. I think that the First Peoples might not like that I’m using Fresca because it’s not natural like water.

C)

Line graph: this graph shows the beans growth in 18 days and how they drop in growth and grew clearly, because it is one big line. On the x axis it shows what days they are growing at but you don’t really need that because it’s in one line, it also show which bean belongs to which color. The y axis shows the height of the bean measured in centimeters. The relationship between the variables are the days and the height and this shows that between the 7 and 12 days  the bean grew really fast and started to slow down afterwards, it also shows when the beans start to shrink near the end.

Column chart: This chart shows the beans growth over 18 day and how tall they grew or how much they shrunk in centimetres. The x axis shows each day the beans grew. It also shows what color goes with what bean, for example the color yellow goes with fresca 1. The y axis shows the height of the beans measured in  centimeters. The beans that were given water had more inconsistencies then the ones that were fed Fresca, for example bean 1 was doubling in size every day until day 10 where it started to slow down, on day 11 it grew an even smaller amount, then we got to day 12 and bean 1 had a big growth spurt and shrunk the next day. On day 14 the bean got back on track where it was a little taller than it was on day 12. On day 16 it had another drop in growth, the next day it grew a little more and shrunk again.

Conclusion  

Overall I think my findings didn’t support my hypothesis because the Fresca didn’t make the beans grow faster, but it did make them grow more consistently so if you are in a the jungle and all the have is Fresca and bush bean seed use the Fresca to water your bean and you should have healthy growing bush beans. My evidence based conclusion is that I first asked my partner questions about what is our question going to be and after that who is going to look after the plants.  I ended up looking after the plants by watering them once a week, taking pictures every day and measuring them every day. The research came next, I first had to research if Fresca would help the plants grow faster and it should because of its nutrients and it doesn’t have sugar. After that I had to look up what method we would like to do.  We picked the hole method because it seemed like the easiest one to do and I want to see the beans sprout out of the soil. Then we had to make an hypothesis.  Our hypothesis was will bush bean grow faster, if we water them with Fresca or water. We tested are hypothesis by doing our plan, which was to plant six beans and water three with Fresca and the other with water and see what beans grew faster. How we would see which bean grew faster. I took pictures and measured the beans once a week. When we were done testing our hypothesis I analyzed by making and line graph and column chart to see how much they grew or shrunk. I concluded that the chart worked well with my data I used because it shows the beans beside each other growing so you can see the difference in height. But I think the line graph shows a better understanding of the beans growth because you can see it growth in a pattern, rather than how much it grew each day like the column chart, you could almost see it like a time line. I think the chart shows their measurement in growth better and the graph shows what happens in the bean overall like what beans shrunk or grew more. I shared my results by putting it on Edublog. It was kind of confusing that Fresca 3 starts as one of the smallest plants and ended up as the tallest one in the end. If I could do something differently I would measure the plants in centimetres first, not inches because it was annoying to have to convert it and I would also rotate the plant so they could get equal sunlight.

 

Sources

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