Tomatosphere Journals 2004-05

Grade 6R students recorded these observations in their journals in 2004-05   

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  Group X Group Y Group Z
Date    
m/d/y		 Day Total #
 Germinated		 Notes Total #
 Germinated		 Notes Total #
 Germinated		 Notes
03/23/05
03/24/05
03/25/05
03/26/05
03/27/05
03/28/05
03/29/05
03/30/05
03/31/05
04/01/05
04/02/05
04/03/05
04/04/05
04/05/05
04/06/05
04/07/05
04/08/05
04/09/05
04/10/05
04/11/05
04/12/05
04/13/05
04/14/05
04/15/05
04/16/05
04/17/05
04/18/05
04/19/05
04/20/05
04/21/05
04/22/05
04/23/05
04/24/05
04/25/05


05/25/05 		0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32



63 		0
0
0
0
0
0
4
7
3
2


6
0
1
0
1


2
0
0
0
0


0
1
0
0
0


0


27/30

 Planted (30)

Good Friday
Sat.
Easter
Easter Monday
1st germination
20°C

22°C
Sat.
Sun.
22°C.

23°C
21°C
Inservice
Sat.
Sun.
19°C

20°C
20°C

Sat.
Sun.
20°C
23°C Last

21°C

Sat.
Sun.
22°C 

 0
0
0
0
0
0
3
7
4
1


2
1
3
0
1


0
2
0
0
0


0
0
3
0
1


0


28/30

 Planted (30)

Good Friday
Sat.
Easter
Easter Monday
1st germination
20°C

21°C
Sat.
Sun.
22°C.

23°C
21°C
Inservice
Sat.
Sun.
20°C

20°C
20°C

Sat.
Sun.
21°C
23°C 

22°C
Last
Sat.
Sun.
22°C 


 0
0
0
0
0
0
4
4
4
2


5
0
1
2
0


0
0
0
0
0


0
0
0
1



2


2
28/30 		Planted (30)

Good Friday
Sat.
Easter
Easter Monday
1st germination
20°C

21°C
Sat.
Sun.
22°C.

23°C
21°C
Inservice
Sat.
Sun.
20°C

20°C
20°C

Sat.
Sun.
21°C
23°C 

22°C

Sat.
Sun.

22°C 

Discovered

Once the "blind test" was completed and we had e-mailed our results NASA responded with the following information:

The seeds we planted were Heinz 9478 F1 seeds.

They were grouped as follows:
X -- Devon Island Seeds
Y -- Control Group
Z -- Space Environment Treated Seeds