As I look through the Story of the Seed Project, I learned several key components to help my plants sustain their life throughout the duration of the semester. Which overall includes, constant care, excessive weeding, and making sure my plants have maximum nutrients. It essentially all started when we began to test broccoli against various amounts and types of diluted vinegar. As the test ran through, we soon figured out that our plants were not able to germinate with any sort of acidic vinegar. More simply, the various types of vinegar were holding back the broccoli from growing to its full potential. We then planted our miniature broccolis in actual fertilized soil and saw a mass amount of difference. First off, the plants were able to grow so much more thoroughly and swifter without the vinegar preventing it from sprouting. Although the soil benefitted the plant quite a bit, another key element was beginning to cause a dilemma which was - Mother Nature. With the seasons taking a toll on the plant’s well-being, this made the seedling struggle greatly as they kept trying to sustain their lives. Something that honestly amazed me was how our plants were able to cope even when being eaten by small insects. To go along with that, we did not always water our plants every single day and without much of an effort, the plants did seem to still rise through. Usually plants aren’t able to survive for a long period of time when these elements come together and ultimately they take out the small seedlings. Something that personally made me laugh was simply how the plants were able to grow. They managed to get themselves together and push through their sufferings in hopes to stay alive in which they did. Even when being exposed to Mother Nature, they still made a broad effort to keep healthy and stay strong as they did. Something that made me think much more further about was the reasoning of the plants staying alive. Although they were neglected quite a bit, the mass amounts of rain helped them to strive along and hold through. Something that was a bit frustrating was mainly how several factors affected the plant and we had to precisely think about each and every one of them. Whether it was nature itself, insects and bugs, or the changing temperature.
While interviewing Olivia, she explained and pointed out her entire perspective of the experiment. Likewise, I learned from her experiences as she told me what was her troubles and contentments were throughout the semester. She also learned to be much more patient and wait for her plants to sprout at their own time. Not only that, but she learned to control her emotions and not get frustrated as her plants weren’t able to grow for awhile. She soon realized not to rush the growth the plants since they do essentially take time to germinate. Something that truly surprised her was how fast her plants were able to grow as she devoted more of her attention towards them. She began to realize that she must dedicate her time and effort to see the anticipated growth of her seedlings. She mentioned how she was “surprised by after a little while, how fast our plants started to grow.” The rapid results mainly came from the time and attention she put out to it. While running the experiment, something that made Olivia laugh was when the plants would grow for a bit then pause then continue to grow again. Olivia had to think deeper about how she was going to take care of her plants and making sure that they are thriving every step of their germination. She had to adjust her amplifying tactics to make sure the plants were growing to their full potential. Olivia got frustrated when her plants would have sort of like an on and off growth which really irritated her. She wasn’t able to figure out what her planted needed in order to survive which made things much more complicated. As I asked Olivia the question, she answered with the statement, “I couldn’t figure out why our plants have stopped growing.” Clearly, the process was difficult at first but through the difficulty, she overcame her obstacles and now her plants are thriving!
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