Emily+&+Rochelle

=**What liquid makes plants grow the** **fastest?**=

aim
What we are trying to figure out is "Do any other liquids make plants grow and does it make them grow any faster or make it do anything else"?

hypothesis
We think that the one we are going to feed milk will change colour, for coke we think the highest leaves will go brown, for sprite it might go white,for beer it might wilt,for salt water we think it will grow as normal as it would if we feed it water. Water is our control plant.

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what we needeed:

 * 1) six plants
 * 2) coke
 * 3) sprite
 * 4) beer
 * 5) salt water
 * 6) water
 * 7) milk
 * 8) mesuring jug
 * 9) six planting pots
 * 10) ruler
 * 11) pencil
 * 12) topic book
 * 13) bottle opener
 * 14) rubber

what we did

 * first we brought the flowers (marigolds).
 * we planted them in pots.
 * we labelled the pots Water, milk, coke, beer, salt water, sprite.
 * We poured the liquids into the correct pots.
 * We checked them and measured them every day for 3 weeks.

Processing
water || water || coke || sprite || beer ||
 * || milk || salt
 * day1 || soil very dry grown 2mm ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * day2 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * day3 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * day4 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * day5 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

Water is the control. Beer grew normally, the same as water. Salt water had wilted and died after day 6. Milk grew mold on the soil by day 13, and it wilted also. Lemonade- by day 13 the top leaf had died, the rest of the plant had normal growth. By day 14 both this and the coke had wilted.
 * Results:**

Plants grow normally when fed water or beer. They do not grow if they are fed milk, salt water, lemonade or coke. The only plant that will survive in salt water is Mangroves, I know this because I have seen them growing in the sea.
 * Conclusion**


 * __Reflection__**

2. I think our experiment was well set up. 3. We learnt beer can feed plants as Salt water makes plants wilt quickly. The salt holds the water so it isnt able to be used by the plant. Sprite and Coke makes plants wilt too, but more slowly. The sugar in these drinks acts a bit like salt we think. Milk eventually caused the plant to go mouldy ,because it is a food whitch can grow mold 4. The other thing we could have tried is not to give the plant any liquid at