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Yesterday, I suggested that I had decided not to do a selection experiment after all–I felt the plants were too far along, I was lazy, etc.  Mostly, I was lazy.  Hedi from the Fastplant program must have sensed this reticence on my part because later in the afternoon she sent out a post to the…

Perhaps I should have counted trichomes earlier this week.  The plants are now so large and packed in that I tend to damage plants if I take them out to do something like count hairs at this stage.  I checked on the water/fertilizer levels over the last few days.  I mentioned earlier when the plants…

Not much to report.  The plants made it through the Labor Day weekend with no problem, but it turns out I checked on them each day any way.  Here’s a photo from day 8:   And a photo from about an hour ago.  These plants have numerous flower buds.  Many of the leaf tips and…

If you recall, I planted this group of fastplants last Sat.  (That was day 0).  Today is day seven.  Here’s a poor photo from Day 5   Note that in some cups there are way more than the two plan to raise per cup and some cups have none.  I have only a few ideas…

Here it is Wed., day 4 of the this time through a Fastplant lifecycle.  I planted last Sat. which is not a day that works in a classroom.  I used to plant mostly on Mondays to time out the life cycle so that the students could pollinate their plants on days 14-16.  We’ll see how…

Since many AP Biology teachers are trying to grow Fastplants for the first time, I thought I’d do a few blog posts that follow a generation of Fastplants in my lab.  When I was in the high school classroom I always had a surplus of seed stock available because I was always growing the plants.…