Alaska Pea Seed Experiment

An experiment was taken that used corn and if the depth of the planting affected how many bushels grew. Seeds were planted ½ inch below, 1 inch below, 2 inches, and 3 inches. According to the Demonstrative Report, 2008, corn that was planted 2-3 inches below the surface had the best results and seeds just ½ inch below had the worst. This is a little different from the experiment being tested today. The experiment being tested is when you plant Alaskan Pea seeds deeper will they grow the same height just as much as the seeds just below the surface of the soil. Germination is defined as a plant which has begun to sprout and is starting to grow (“Biology Online”, 2008). Planting seeds deeper may be necessary depending on the season of being planted (Rodriguez, 2010). According to Cornell University, n.d., Peas are a plant that’s ideal planting temperature is 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit. If a pea is not planted deep enough, there is the factor that the plant will not grow and be as The bigger the seed is, the deeper it should be planted. So if a seed is three times the size of another seed, then it should be planted more than three times deeper. A pea plant should be planted at about 1.5 times itself deep in the soil (“Cherokee NCSU”, n.d.). In some plants …show more content…
The depths were 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9 cm. The seeds were tested for eight weeks and six random plants were selected from each group, tagged, then measured each week throughout the experiment. At the end of the eight weeks, the tallest plant was the seeds planted five cm below the surface, the second tallest was 3 cm below the surface (Aikins, Afuakwa, Nkansah, 2011). This proves that a seed that is planted deeper in depth can still grow to be taller than the seeds nearer the surface. Also, if a plant is deeper in depth then some reports claim the plant will be healthier and grow faster because it has more roots than the