Tomatosphere Journals 2006-07

Grade 6R students recorded these observations in their journals.  

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  Group R Group S
Date    
m/d/y		 Day Total #
 Germinated		 Notes Total #
 Germinated		 Notes
03/21/07
03/22/07
03/23/07
03/24/07
03/25/07
03/26/07
03/27/07
03/28/07
03/29/07
03/30/07
03/31/07
04/01/06
04/02/07
04/03/07
04/04/07
04/05/07
04/06/07
04/07/07
04/08/07
04/09/07
04/10/07
04/11/07
04/12/07
04/13/07
04/14/07
04/15/07
04/16/07
04/17/07
04/18/07
04/19/07
04/20/07
04/21/07
04/22/07
04/23/07
ReportedTotals:
05/17/07
New Totals:		 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
33


57		 0
0
0
0
0
0
2
14
19
23
-
-
29
32
32
32
-
-
-
-
34
-
34
36
-
-
37
37
-
-
-
-
-
37
37/40 = 92.5%
38
38/40 = 95% 		Planted (40)
24°C
24°C changed to a high dome
Saturday
Sunday
23°C raised light 10 sprouts
17 sprouts 
23°C  5 sprouts
20°C  6 sprouts, PD day
21°C  3 sprouts
Saturday
Sunday
21°C 5 sprouts
21°C 2 sprouts

22°C 5 sprouts
Good Friday
Saturday  
Easter
Easter Monday
20°C 3 sprouts cut a double


23°C 2 sprouts
Sat.
Sun.
22°C 1 sprout
22°C 1 sprout



Saturday
Sunday
1 sprout not germinating

after reporting 		0
0
0
0
0
0
3
7
7
9
-
-
1 8
19
20
2 1
-
-
-
-
28
-
29
30
-
-
30
30
-
-
-
-
-
3 0
30/40 = 75%
32
32/40 = 80% 		Planted (40)
25°C
24°C changed to high dome
Saturday
Sunday
22°C raised light 2 sprouts
4 sprouts
23°C  0 sprouts
21°C  2 sprouts, PD day
20°C  7 sprouts
Saturday
Sunday
20°C 2 sprouts
21°C 1 sprout

21°C 0 sprouts
Good Friday
Saturday  
Easter
Easter Monday
21°C 2 sprouts
School closed water/propane

22°C
Sat.
Sun.
22°C 0 sprouts
23°C 0 sprouts



Saturday
Sunday


after reporting

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:
R -- Control Group
S -- Seeds exposed to a simulated space environment.