~ Day 65 ~

Okay, late again. Sorry...

BUT~! Now the sunflower in the bottom left-hand corner of Box 1 has grown a flower!! YAY!!!
I'm not even sure if I'm supposed to be happy, seeing as the allelochemicals are supposed to kill my plants (besides the sweet potatoes)... Either way, I'm proud of myself for being able to grow a plant that has actually flowered. :)


On the other hand, Sunflower 1 has not flowered - allelochemicals, maybe? More like please??


So yeah. The other plants in Box 1 look fine, as usual. But because I want to show you my new flower, here's a photo:

Now on to Box 2 - it looks the same as before! :'(


The small pot - the sunflowers haven't flowered here either, but they still look healthy. 


See you tomorrow!

~ Day 62 ~

This is one day late. I'm sorry - my posts are now consistently late! But at least I'm taking the observations when I have to, and I'm just posting them late. Anyhow, here's yesterday's observations:

Box 1: The sunflower in the bottom left-hand corner has begun to grow petals!!! I see them now, all curled up in the middle of the furry green spiky things. :) Funnily enough, it doesn't seem as if Sunflower 1 has developed the petals along with the sunflower in the bottom left-hand corner....weird. Allelochemicals, perhaps?? Yay. Uh, the sunflower in the top left-hand corner looks as if it's wilting. Maybe it's the pouring rain that has been going on for a few days now, but it doesn't look so good.... The sweet potato, carrots and watercress look fine, as usual. 

Box 2: Most of the sweet potatoes look the same as before, but I've just noticed a small leaf in the sweet potato in the top left-hand corner! It looks like it's getting bigger! However, that's basically the only sign of growth in this Box.

Small pot: The sunflowers in this pot look fine. It's an important observation, though, that they don't seem to be developing petals either. Perhaps the sunflower in the bottom left-hand corner of Box 1 is simply an "early bloomer"? Hahaha.

~ Day 60 ~

Whoooo! Two months! Just half a month to go, and then I can begin work on the evilly long science report....

Anyway, in Box 1 looks good. Sunflower 1 is still significantly smaller than the other sunflower in Box 1, I'm proud to report. Because that's just about the only thing in this experiment that proves my hypothesis that allelochemicals affect plants...Sigh. Hopefully I'll be able to unearth some other evidence of allelochemicals working.

In Box 2, everything looks good. The leaves are green and healthy-looking. It's all fine.

In the small pot, the yellowing leaves of the sunflowers are beginning to scare me. They look really unhealthy - and that's simply by itself! That is, there's nothing that I put there purposely to make it die. Oh....hopefully it'll clear up. 

Okay, that's all for now! 

~ Days 55 - 58 ~

~ Day 55 ~ 
Box 1: The leaves  of the sunflower in the bottom left hand corner are becoming so big that I can't really fit them into the photo anymore! The spiky green things are stretching upwards still, and it looks as if a flower may soon develop! Can't wait. The carrots and sweet potato look fine, but the water cress' bottom leaves are looking brownish...

Box 2: Looks fine, as usual. But there is still no further growth.

Small pot: The sunflowers look okay. Their bottom leaves look a bit water-deprived, so I will make sure to water them as per usual.

~ Day 58 ~
Box 1: It rained over the weekend. Hopefully this will help my plants to grow! The green spiky things are bigger than ever, man. They're huge. Awesome! Everything else looks fine.

Box 2: Same as before, basically.


Small pot: Pretty good.


Because I seem to be saying a lot of "it's the same as before", I'll upload some photos. Just wait and let me grow old while waiting for them to finish loading...


Here we go! 

Box 1

 Box 2

Small Pot

~ Day 53 ~

Box 1: Sunflower 1's spiky green things are getting longer and stretching upwards now~! I would upload a photo, but my internet connection's as slow as possible today. 

:| Not fun.


Anyway, the carrots are looking alright - taller, even. Sigh. Perhaps they aren't really affected by allelochemicals. The watercress looks fine as well, and the sweet potato is growing as per usual. All is well in the land of Box 1!


Box 2: Same old, same old. As said in previous posts, I believe the sweet potatoes have stopped growing. I mean, they look healthy and fine - they're not dying or anything. But they're not growing visibly, either. I've compared the photos...


Small pot: All is also well here. The sunflowers are following the same growth pattern as other sunflowers. It's good!

I really would upload photos, but I don't have time. I'm sorrrryyyyyyy!!!


Seeing as this will be my last blog post before the next marking, I'm just gonna mention a few things. 
First of all ~ I'm going to continue this experimenting & observing until about Day 75 - 2 and a half months. So I'm well on my way to finishing this!! Whoo!
Second of all ~ I have my Evolution science test tomorrow and am currently cramming as much as possible. Wish me luck!!

~ Days 46 - 51 ~

~ Day 46 ~
Sorry about the late updates. Exams are really getting to me!

Anyway, Sunflower 1 in Box 1 is beginning to sprout little green thingos that seem to be the base of the flower. You know that funny, green, almost-spider-like thing at the back of the actual petals? Hmmm...that explanation wasn't all that scientific or coherent. Sigh. Well, here's a photo - that I painstakingly uploaded. 

As you can also see in the photo, the carrot plant and watercress are doing fine. They don't seem to be affected by the sweet potato as much as the sunflowers. Oh well - it's perfectly logical that some plants are affected more than others by allelochemicals.


Box 2: the sweet potatoes don't seem to be growing at all! I swear! Strange.


Small pot: Funnily enough, no sunflowers are as big as the one in the bottom left hand corner of Box 1. The sunflowers here are doing fine - following the same structural developments as the rest of the sunflowers - but are simply smaller. Furthermore, seeing as I have never actually mentioned this, only two out of the five sunflowers I planted in this small pot have actually grown. I have no idea what has become of the rest...


~ Day 48 ~
Honestly? Not much difference in all of my boxes/pots. Honestly - I checked the photos and compared them side-by-side. So sorry, no important updates here.


~ Day 51 ~
Perhaps today will be different. I definitely hope so. Let's take a look at the photos...


Box 1: The spiky green things in both the sunflowers (spider-like, as from earlier in this post) have grown longer. I hope the actual flowers begin to grow soon! Luckily, Sunflower 1 has stayed smaller than the other one. :) Everything else looks pretty much similar to before, except that the watercress has begun to show slightly yellowed and brownish leaves nearer to the sweet potato. Let's hope it's the allelochemicals! I'm not sure at all, though, because the rest of the plant looks A.OK. 

[Did you understand that olddddd expression?]


Box 2: Nothing much. Sigh.


Small pot: The little spiky green things (refer to "Box 1" paragraph) are also growing. They look really cool and furry. Yay!

~ Day 44 ~

So! Day 44, huh? It's been ages since I started this experiment...I just realised how long. But that's good, right? I mean, I'm freaking posting 3 times a week. Dedication! Whoo!

Anyway, to today's observations. I think the sunflower in the bottom left hand corner of Box 1 will flower soon!!!! Whoa - I dunno why, but I never really thought about the sunflowers actually flowering. But now, in the middle of the plant's leaves, there's a little furry grey bit which looks like pollen. Wow. The sweet potato in Box 1 seems to be matching the sunflower's growth - they're both really tall now, with verdant green leaves. Yay. The sunflower in the top right hand corner of Box 1 is still recovering from our "pruning", with leaves beginning to grow from the stem. The watercress looks unaffected by the sweet potato, though. Aw. I thought there would be more plant death afoot. Oh well.

Sunflower 1 is still small, though. THAT IS GREAT.

The sweet potatoes in Box 2 - all of them - appear not to be growing taller. That's worrying...perhaps the allelochemicals they release actually do affect those of the same species?? Maybe they don't begin to kill the other sweet potatoes outright, but simply stunt their growth when they grow closer to each other? Because their leaves don't appear to be dying - they're healthy-looking and green. So maybe only their growth is affected.

The sunflowers in the small pot are also beginning to flower!!! The one that's always been in the small pot has also developed a small grey furry patch in the middle of its leaves. The smaller one (the one that was transplanted from Box 1 ages ago) doesn't seem to have reached that stage yet, but may be well on its way. 


The end :)

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