Day Thirteen

The plants have lots of buds and some of the flowers have opened. I started pollinated the flowers today and will continue for three days. I have asked by kids to pollinate several times a day as well. Hopefully with a lot of pollinating there will be a lot of seeds produced.

Most of the plants are 10 - 12 cm tall, but there are also some that are taller and shorted. It seems that the older the plants get, the more variation there is in my observations. Some of the plants got flowers two days before the others. In the early part of the life cycle, they all seemed to be very much the same but now there is more diversity.

Read some excerpts from students' journals, Day 13

• Fallon, 5th Grade, Laguna Road School, Fullerton, California

  "On day 13, I found that my plants were smaller than some of the other kids in my class. I don't know what I did wrong. They look like they are dying, too. Maybe I did not water them enough."