Student Blog Post Assignment #5: Seed Stories, Semester 1 Isaiah Pelascinca

Isaiah. He learned a lot more about plants in general. He also learned techniques for planting them. How fast his plants grew amazed him the most. Nothing made Isaiah laugh during his time working on Story of the Seed. Whenever he thought about the tiny cell within the plants that make the whole entire body work. A question he frequently asked himself during tstots is where the seeds themselves derive from.

For this blog I'm interviewing Beatrice, and she learned how plants grow. The cells of a plant are completely different from an animals cell. What made her think a little deeper was how much plants needed care. Her teammates were very helpful and cooperative, she had a very interesting experience in the project overall and enjoyed the fact that she help grow a plant

An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and Your Plants. Aidan Decremer

Some abiotic factors that our plant depends on are is the sunlight, the soil its planted in and the water it gets. The sunlight gives the plant the energy to photosynthesize. The soil gives the plant support for its roots, and it gives the plant nutrients. Then the water helps the plant survives. Some biotic factors that effect the plant is human activity and insects. Humans can accidentally step on plants causing the plant to die. And insects can eat plants.
Our plant is in competition with the plants around it for sunlight.
The plant that is bigger usually wins the competition for sunlight. It is sometimes hard to have a clear cut winner, but eventually you will see which plant better adapted to the conditions it was put in. Its hard to determine the winner because it takes a little while for plants to die and they can always somehow recover.
Our plant is also involved in a food chain. In this case our plant is a trophic level 1 being a producer for bugs and other small animals.
I think that secondary succession is occurring in the garden because there was soil in the boxes before we planted the saplings.

Biogeochemical Cycles and Your plants, Anthony Angeles

     The changes in my plants were that the leaves grew in size and it also grew in height. More plants (weeds) started to grow around the plants. In the water cycle the plant goes through transperation in which it "drinks" water through the roots and then goes through evaporation through the pores of the leaves, and it also receives water through precipitation. While the plant also go through the carbon cycle by taking in the carbon dioxide and converting it into sugars and other necessities. The nitrogen is getting to the plants through the soil which the plant absorbs the nutrients.

Biogeochemical cycles in your plants. Aidan Decremer

Our plant has not significantly  grown sense the last time I saw it. It has grown though. It has spread out a little more and has also made its leaves bigger. You can even start to see a little broccoli flower forming. Overall I think our plant is healthy and will start producing food soon.

Our plant plats into the water cycle by absorbing water from its roots and using that in the process to create glucose sugar. Our plant plays into the carbon cycle by taking it out of the air and and uses it in photosynthesis. Our plant also participates in nitrate fixation which involves bacteria in the plants roots to break down nitrogen into ammonia. The plant then absorbs it through its roots. 

About our project

          Our project, the story of the seed, is a project where we watch a tiny seedling grow and develop into something so much more valuable. In the beginning the Seed Germination lab is the very first part to this wonderful journey, we grew Broccoli and watched them grow for a span of two weeks. We had to choose the ten healthiest seeds from the bunch of 0%, 1%, 4%, and 8% salt concentration, and to our surprise the 0% and 1% hand the healthiest. So we grab the seeds and put them in cups, and watch them grow to see there full potential (hopefully). Once they have grown to their adequate size we switch them to the raised beds out in our gardens, then we watch them grow to the vegetable giving size they should be.      

I am Anthony Angeles

I am Anthony and I'm from willow glen, CA. I live in the Santa Clara county when until I was 2, my parents are from Mexico and my sister were born in Santa Clara where I was born. My mother loves gardening and my sisters like to compost.

I haven't done gardening except for what my mother teaches me, and my sisters don't let me help with composts bins and my other sister has flowers and she has let me help her garden I have help with also our fruit trees in our backyard when I was younger. We have lemon, apple, fig, orange, and avocado. My mother has been a great inspiration to gardening, she hasn't officially taken a class in botany but she has gathered her knowledge through a variety of books of gardening. She has orchards in our sunroom and takes very good care of them, she also believes the conservation of the plant so she also has a bunch of  ferns and palm trees(mini) in and around the house