Why Do Sugar Didn T Make Plants Grow Faster

Conclusions:
In conclusion, sugar didn’t make the plants grow faster it made them grow slower. Although the plants with added sugar at the end started to grow faster, the heights for the 1 tsp of sugar plants doubled in size. I think this is because the plants needed to get used to the sugar and once they did it acted as a steroid and made them grow faster. I think to prove my hypothesis I needed more time to carry out the experiment to see if the sugar acted as a steroid or if in the end it ultimately killed them. I also would’ve liked to have seen how tall the plants would’ve got and how long they would last in the pots, I was hoping some of them even bloomed. As weeks went on the plants with the sugar in them did not need to be watered as often (I still watered them daily) which was weird because I thought that with all of that sugar the plants would’ve gotten dehydrated faster because sugar uses significant amount of water, but when I did my research it said …show more content…
About four of my plants didn’t sprout. After doing some research, I think a few of the plants that had the added sugar in them didn’t sprout because plants make their own sugar (glucose) through photosynthesis, so adding sugar to them was basically providing the plant with a significant amount of extra sugar causing the plant to essentially overdose on sugar, killing it and it made it a lot harder for the plants to sprout into somethings because they were being harmed. As to why the other plants grew so well I think it was because the plants didn’t have to do that other step of making the sugar, the plants came reliant on the sugar and I was probably putting more sugar in than they were making using photosynthesis, which probably helped them focus on growing. Some of the plants responded very well to sugar others not. I think I would need to have more trials and more time on the sugar ones to get a more accurate result to truly see which one of my theories would be