Germination Lab

According to the book “Raising Seedlings of Tropical Trees,” a seed should have a certain amount of space between itself and another seed. “No closer than 1 cm to each other, and often 5–25 cm apart, to allow each plant enough room” (Longman, 2003). The thing the author is talking about leaving room for would be germination. For our group’s experiment, we hypothesized that putting a seed next to another seed will have no effect on the rate of germination. Germination can be defined as the development of something, in particular a seed. Basically, whenever you see the first sprout of a plant that means it has germinated. In my group’s experiment, our goal was to test whether or not placing seeds next to each other or spacing them out would have a greater impact on germination. Materials and Methods The start of our experiment began on a Monday and with various materials that our experiment needed. An item that we used for our test were ten aluminum foil trays to hold the seeds. The trays were about eight inches long, three and three-fourths inches tall, and two and three-eights inches wide. Each …show more content…
Our data from trial one and trial two did not support our hypothesis because the group without space did not germinate at all during the course of our experiment. The seeds that were spaced further apart saw more germination. In our first trial, our group monitored our seeds over the course of five days, Monday through Friday. In this experiment we only used a total of eight seeds. We spaced the seeds one inch apart from each other except for the group without space. On the first three days, the seeds with space saw no germination as well as the seeds without. On days four and five however, there was some development of the seeds with space. On day four, there were three seeds that germinated, one from each tray. On the final day five, the same three seeds grew