kdubs
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Post by kdubs on Dec 7, 2008 8:46:19 GMT 12
This is for those of you who were present at the latest youth service and as a result have a very special connection with a little sunflower sprout. This channel of creation should be well on its way skyward by now. Which would make it awesome to have an update of how they are progressing in life.
Are you finding that this summer due to you're parental connection with said sunflower seed you are both "growing" together?
Let's have an update about that particulary precious plant and pic's too...
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Olivia
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Post by Olivia on Dec 7, 2008 13:36:35 GMT 12
My sunflower's grown 4 leaves now, i'm so proud *sob*! Not very tall yet, though. I call it Ammon. Ammon the sunflower  |
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chels
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Post by chels on Dec 9, 2008 11:26:40 GMT 12
I'm quite worried...mine died! I think it got drowned with too much water...
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Post by Jeremy S on Dec 9, 2008 12:21:34 GMT 12
I just looked outside at mine (it's sitting on the outside porch at church). I can see a pottle, but I can't see a flower. I think mine has drowned too. Sigh.
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Post by Christina on Dec 10, 2008 16:39:05 GMT 12
Mine reaches from the tip of my middle finger to the bone at the bottom of my wrist. The trick is to feed it aged water.
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Olivia
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Post by Olivia on Dec 10, 2008 17:19:24 GMT 12
Mine didn't grow for a few days, and I dug the seed out to check it was still growing. I saw a little root coming out of one end. Ammon is still growing, he's got 2 more baby leaves now. Height is from the tip of my little finger to my 2nd knuckle. So he's still a shortie.
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chels
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Post by chels on Dec 11, 2008 10:01:24 GMT 12
My vote on the poll was for "Mine's dead bro.. I can't even grow a CACTUS!" ...which, sadly, is true. I had a catus once. It died  |
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Post by Christina on Dec 11, 2008 10:03:56 GMT 12
You didn't drown the Cantus too did you?
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chels
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Post by chels on Dec 11, 2008 10:09:22 GMT 12
I think I might have. Actually I think I thought that they didn't need any water at all...and when I realised that it did need some, it had already died. So I tried to give it heeeeaps of water to make up for the previous lack of it but it was too late...
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Olivia
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Post by Olivia on Dec 11, 2008 10:13:16 GMT 12
lol nooo, you have to feed it at least now and again! Which reminds me, Ammon probably needs some water...
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Post by Christina on Dec 11, 2008 13:29:31 GMT 12
Just Imagine if you applied that philosophy to a human..... shudder.
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chels
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Post by chels on Dec 11, 2008 22:28:30 GMT 12
What philosophy? That if it's dead and you give it enough water, it'll come back to life? You'd have to have indoor cemetaries so that it didn't rain on all the graves...
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Post by Christina on Dec 12, 2008 16:54:16 GMT 12
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave increase" 1 Corinthians 3:6
I think God's in the Business of Bringing the Dead back to life.
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kdubs
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Post by kdubs on Dec 12, 2008 19:36:52 GMT 12
hha ya chels that one was just for you. mine is needing to be repotted in the next day or two he's giant! 6 leaves and almost double the pot height!
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victrosity
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Post by victrosity on Dec 13, 2008 21:59:21 GMT 12
hey, so since i am studying science at university i can tell you how our plants are growing.
you may notice that if your plants are in doors and on your windowsill that they are growing in one direction and getting a monster as bend in them this is because they are growing in the direction of their stimulus (the sun) this is known as positive phototropism. Photo(light) tropism(movement).
so light stimulates growth by converting light energy into chemical energy or else known as photosynthesis. this takes in the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and uses water to produce glucose (sugar). and oxygen is released as a by-product. this is represented by the equation below
CO2 + H20----->C6H1206(glucose) + O2
now how does this process, (the generation of sugar by utilizing light), aid in the growth of the stem? this occurs via a process called cellular elongation. where the cells on the shadded side of the stem are elongated by the increased volume of water in the vacoule (like a plastic bag filled with water inside the center of the cell)
and thus your plant grows taller and taller, overhead light will ensure the straightest growth.
Now there is something else going on in the plant that you dont know about the influence of plant growth hormones, the key one being auxin. This is found in the apicial meristem (the tip of the shoot) the high concentration levels of auxin in the tip of the plant prevent the laterial buds from growing (shoots closer to the base of the stem grow between the leave nodes) but as the plants get taller the concentration weakens and the laterial buds will grow (more shoots). so what happens if you break of the tip of your plant before the flower has formed? well you will get heightened growth at the base and middle of the steam and have multiple shoots and thus more flowers. by removing these laterial buds and lower foliage you will allow more energy to be put into the production of the flower and thus by theroy it should grow bigger.
so ther you go i hope you have enjoyed victors science lession on plant growth, development, and the influence of growth hormones.
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