PGP 10

This is my final post of my beautiful plant that will not stop growing. I once again continued to water it and give it enough sunlight. The plant has to be about 8 inches now. I did not know that peas could grow that tall. I am so happy that I did not give up on my plant because I feel very accomplished for being able to grow one. I did feel discouraged when my first attempts did not go so well, but I learned from failure and it made me successful. I am so happy that my peas grew so well.

PGP 9

I could not be any happier with the way my plant is growing right now. It is about 6 inches tall. Right now it is so tall that the plant needs something to lean on because it keeps falling over. The peas can barely hold its self up. All I have done was continue to water it and make sure it gets enough sunlight. My peas have turned out extremely success and I am so proud of that. I felt like giving up a couple of times because it just took me so many tries to successfully get my plant to grow. 

PGP 8

I am so extremely excited that my plant has finally grown!!! It has taken me multiple tries but I am so happy that this one finally decided to work. I continued to water it and take care of it so that it would grow more and more every day. Now that the peas have finally started to grow, I feel like there should not be a problem keeping them alive. My problem was just getting it to start growing. I am thinking that maybe I might have watered them too much or just not paid enough attention to them. It is okay because my plant has finally grown.

Final Post

My plant continues to keep making progress which is good. I really did learn a lot from this project. It requires a lot of responsibility and hard work. I will definitely use what I learned in my life. I hope my plant continues to grow so that I will be able to take it out of the cup and actually plant it in my backyard. I will have to continue to keep taking care of it and just not forget about it. If at first you don’t succeed try try again and that’s exactly what I did. I didn’t give up. I learned from my mistakes and made progress.

Success at last

My plant is making progress. I’m so happy it is growing. I made sure my plant got enough water and sunlight. After having failed once, I did not think my plant would grow, but I guess I was wrong. I really do hope my plant continues to grow and gets really big. This is the first time I have ever grown something and to see it making progress is just great. Now that I’ve seen I can actually take care of a plant, I want to grow some fruits or vegetables and have a little garden.

Here are some fun facts about pea plants.

Final Post

Well its been a fun run so far with my plant. i started off pretty bad with the whole killing my plant thing, but in the end my plant came through strong even though i forgot to water here and there. I know my plant isn't done growing that's for sure. I know that i still need to take care of it in order for myself to get great looking produce from it. Hopefully everyone who still have their plants keep it alive! I had a good time growing my plant and it taught me a lot of responsibility and that i need to be dedicated to what i am given. I hope everyone had as much of a good time growing their plant as i did! click

The End

So this is my final posting and things arent looking to well. My flowers have been at this stage for about a month now. I dont know whats wrong with them, i even tried seeing if some of the roots bad. Even then, the roots were still healthy. I am going to continue to take care of my flower after this blog is over. Hopefully theyll blossom in the next couple of weeks. Here is a website that i thought was interesting while i was looking for gardening tips. Best of luck to the rest of you.

Pulling out My Flower

So I pulled out one of my flowers to see how the roots were looking, and to me they are looking pretty good. They are not brown and they look healthy. So this only confuses me more of why my plant hasnt made any progress in a while. Maybe it just takes a long time for the flower to grow? I have no idea but im just going to have to keep at it and hopefully Ill see results soon. The roots look exactly like the ones in this picture. Nice and healthy. I guess i just have to give it more time. 

Update

My plants are still looking the same, im starting to think that maybe the roots have died and they can not take in any more water. But before I take them out, i want to give it a little more time. Maybe one last day, one last chance for my plant to show me a sign of growth. Hopefully that will happen because I want to see the end result of my flower. Maybe Ill just pluck one little sprout out and see how that ones roots look. I will do another post on that. But for now things arent looking to great. Hopefully they dont look like this.

Final Posting

For the last time, I'm thankful that my phone gives me the date for my pictures. I've been really busy and I completely neglected my Butterfly Wildflower. I forgot to water it. Once day I came home to see how disgusting my plant looked. It turned into this moldy green color.  It was still standing tall and had leaves.  The stem grew this nasty fuzziness to it. The soil wasn't fresh and looked supper dry. The soil I used had this chemical in it to keep it moist at times. I don't think it dead because it's still standing and has leaves. Maybe it;s just sick. I think if I watered it again it might come back to it's natural color and the soil will look better. This photo was taken November 6, 2012.

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/problems/how-to-tell-if-a-plant-is-dead-and-how-to-recover-an-almost-dead-plant.htm

Update

So im still seeing minimal progress. They seem to be the same size. I havent seen a change in about 3 weeks. It seems like theyve been on this stage for forever. Im going to continue to look after it, im going to move it into the sun again before I leave for school. Hopefully Ill see some progress soon. Im thinking they need more sunlight because Ive kept them in the house for such a long time. Ive also noticed their getting a hint of brown on all the leaves which obviously is never a good sign, hopefully all goes well for the next few weeks. This website helped me understand why my plant is turing a very light brown color. 

insects

Oh no something new is attacking my pumpkins. This was a very recent discover just two days ago I began to notice there were holes in the leaves of my pumpkins. At first I didn’t think much of it cause it was only like two holes. I simply thought that maybe it was just an accident or something just ate a few bites and left. Now though almost every leaf is having several holes in it. I am not exactly sure what type of creature is eating my plants and even if I did know I am not really sure how to deal with it. Time toGoogle it.

sunflowers

So unfortunately my thoughts were correct. I had hoped I was wrong but I was. I wanted to see if you could grow sunflowers from the bags of sunflower seeds that you eat but this far into the project and nothing has begun to sprout up out of the soil. I read that since the seeds are roasted it kills the seed. The only way they would grow was if you ate raw sunflower seeds. I did not plant raw seeds but lightly salted seeds that were lightly roasted. Now all I have as a result is this nice empty space in my garden.

fence

So these pesky peacocks have not been leaving my pumpkins alone. They have actually eaten one of my pumpkin plants. So real quickly I went to The Home Depot to pick up chicken wire. Then using some poles I have managed to build a quick and very useful make shift fence. It has taken about an hour to put up since no one in my family wanted to get their hands dirty. Now that the fence is complete it should save me from having to go out and chance the peacocks for trying to eat all my pumpkins. Also I found that they find the fence so strange they don’t even go near anymore.

Final Post: Personal Growth Project #10

My plant seems to be doing well I guess but it doesn't seem to grow as quick as I expected. I doubt this plan will survive another month but I will keep taking care of it. This plant is one of the first plants I have actually grown instead of making my dad grow it for me. I hope it does grow big so that I can grow other ones around my backyard; however, I just hope my dogs don't ruin it in anyway. Other than it taking forever to grow; I have changed its soil which is something I forgot to do a while ago. This plant hopefully survives the winter; I have been told that it does but I don't know. Well then since this is our last posting I hope everyone's plant doesn't die and keeps on growing. Weather for the viola.

Post #10

My plant isnt to sure if he really wants to grow. i did all i can do. I have watered it like they said. I have taken care of my plant like they said on the package. for someone reason they never did anything but grew like little grass. I hope if i ever am to make my own garden i now know what not to grow! I hope everyone else had a great exoeriance with their growth project cause in the beggining i loved it all is well. Love Michael Garcia

Some Progress

This is my new plant that I planted. This time I planted it in a cup. I started off with a small cup where I put the soil and planted the seeds. I inserted a hole at the bottom of the cup so water could drain out. There is another half a cup under the smaller cup which is where the water drains into. The soil consists of some mulch and other dirt. I water this plant every Tuesday and Thursday. I put it near the window so it could receive plenty of sunlight. After a week of watering it and letting it get sunlight I saw a little sprout. I hope it continues to grow and maybe this plant will be successful.

Week 9

Once again, thankfully my phone allows me to see when I last took a picture. After a few days of watering and monitoring my plant, it finally grew a stem and some leaves. The other seeds I planted also grew a little. The steam and leaves came out to be a bright green and it looks really nice. I realy am glad I put this plant in a better spot. It receives sun when the sun is out and it get's shade when the sun starts to go down.  I usually water it when I get home. When I do water it, I water it a lot to make sure it has enough for the next day until I come back. This photo was taken on October 29, 2012.

http://hiddenvillaclassroom.org/curriculum/curriculum-for-your-school-garden/fifth-grade/why-are-plants-green

PGP #10

   

This is my final and last posting for my personal growth project. I believe that I learned a good amount of things from this project because it taught me to care, grow, water, and be responsible for something that needed personal attention. I thought that I did good with my plant even though it did take quite some time for it to grow because of the plant that I chose. This week I went outside to look at my plant and noticed an orange from my orange tree fell on it and you can see it crushed one of the sprouts. After one of the sprouts being crushed it seemed to have damaged my plant but I am now in the process of recovering it and being able to transplant it into my garden. 

PGP Post 7

I am growing Peas now as my last attempt at growing a plant. I started off with a little cup and inserted a hole at the bottom so the water could drain out. I cut a bigger cup in half and put the smaller cup into it so the water could drain into this cup. I put soil and mulch into the cup and mixed it up well. I than put the peas in far enough down and separated them out. I than watered my plant and stuck in the window sill in class so it would be able to get enough sunlight.