i'm trying to find info on data on how to grow a plant (baby's breath) for my daughters science project! HELP!
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Baby's Breath (Gypsophila elegans) is very easy to grow and does not take a lot of care given the right conditions.  \n\nFirst make sure to get the annual variety (the species I listed above is the annual species and the one talked about in my second source).  They will need full sun (an extra light source will be necessary this time of year), a warm environment, and care not to over-water them.  After planting them far enough apart to allow for growth (about 6-8 inches indoors) just make sure to water only when the soil is drying out and they will grow quickly.\n\nGood luck on the science experiment.  Some of my students have used Baby's Breath before and found it very easy to grow indoors.
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Have a look at these sites:\nhttp://www.dbg.org/sammy/growth.htm\nhttp://www.kactus.com/tips.html#care\nhttp://windowsillcactus.com/growinginfo.shtml\nhttp://www.cactusweb.us/photoalbum1.html\n\nHope you can find the details you need.♥
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http://www.sciencemag.org
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Try http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
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http://www.livescience.com\n\n\nHope I Helped!
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try - - - plants.usda.gov
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How much time do you have?  If you have a few weeks....\n\nGet 5 of the same type of plant.\n\nMake sure they all have the same conditions.  Same type of soil/amount   Same amount of light/temp.  If using lamps, make sure they get the same amount of lamp time.\n\nThe goal is to keep all conditions the same aside from the one variable you will be testing... \n\nSo on to the variable.  Pick 5 different substances that you will give them for fluids... IE...\n\n1. Water  2. Soda   3. Bleach   4. Miracle grow or other plant food mixxed with water.   5. Orance juice.\n\nOkay.  Water will be your control group.  You will use this as a base line to compare all of the others to.  You can of course pick whatever you want for fluids. Those are just some ideas pick whatever fluids you want.  Always make sure to have a control group (the one with water) so you have something as a base line.\n\nGive them all 25 milliliters of the subtance each day. The amount you give them depends on what plant you pick, and its size, adjust accordingly. Make sure to feed them at the same time each day.\n\nBefore you start, write down your hypothesis.. \nHow do you think each plant will do? and why?\n\nTwice a week write down how the plants look.\nHow much they have grown.\nThe plants overall health.\nAlso, write down anything else you have noticed. i.e change in color, a plant dying.  \n\nThen compare it with the plant just getting plain water.  It is doing better than the control?  worse?  same? \n\nAt the end of each week make a theory on how you think the plant will do over the next week.\n\nMake sure to factor out all variable, and keep everything aside from the substance they get the exact same.\n\nWhen done with the experiment write a conclusion.  Was your hypothesis correct? What were you right about? What were you wrong about? How did each plant fair?  What could you have changed to make the experiment more accurate??  Did you do anytyhing wrong? ie mistakenly change something?  If you repeated the experiment, do you think the results would be the same? why or why not?\n\nMake sure to fully explain all of your statements. Charts or graphs of the results are always nice.\n\nThis would work the best if you started them from seed, but you prob don't have that kind of time span.  \n\nIf this is to childish of an experiment, maybe do a plant stem grafting experiment, or a cross-pollination between plants of the same species. i.e make a hybrid plant from 2 differnt types of tomatos or different flowers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_life
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My kids use this website to get their science fair ideas http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/ It has project ideas, tip sheets, step-by-step instructions on basic science fair setup, etc.\n\nGood luck!
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I ran out of answers last night just as I was about to post this; I thought you might find this link helpful:\nhttp://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html
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Here are the links to the diagrams :\n\n1)http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~simmons/images/lb7fig8.gif\n\n2)\nhttp://www.science.siu.edu/plant-biology/PLB117/JPEG%20files/PhotosynDiagram.jpg\n\n3)http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ip/christerhogstrand/courses/hb0223/images/clip_image034.jpg\n\n4)\nhttp://www.fofweb.com/Subscription/Science/Life/L0427.jpg
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Try \nhttp://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html\nmay give a little of what you looking for...
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http://www.seedwiki.com\nhttp://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/project_team_6/project_team_6\n\nCheck out the wiki I made for my group project this semester.  Seedwiki is sweet!  & FREE!
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This website is quite helpful:-\n\nhttp://www.sciencebuddies.org/\n\n\nThis website contains a few sample projects and related theory at different levels.
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Hmm, you are in luck.  I am a biologist/chemist with a little ecology and botany knowledge and I might be able to help you out here.  But in the future, procrastination is not the answer.  Trust me, I know.\n\nAnywho, on with your project.  And, kudos to your teach.  He is getting you ready for college.  Lets see, you are wanting to germinate seeds.  It would be feasable to choose seeds with very quick germination times as probably you don't have a very long time to perform this experiment.  Some grasses will germinate in as little as 7 days.  With a little research, you can find your own seeds to use.  Next, you are going to have to decide what treatments you want to apply to each group.  And by each group, you need to have more than one "cup" of seeds, more like 4 or 5.  That is for replication.  By treatments, you could use things like adding different types of fertalizer in each group.  Use fertalizers that differ in the amount of phosphourus, nitrogen, and potassium (3 primary nutrients required by plants.)  Then, with multiple groups recieving the same kinds of fertalizer, vary the amount of sunlight (preferably artificial, like an incandesant lamp) and amount of water given.  What you will end up with is something like this:\n\nfertalizer A - 15 cups; each cup gets 1 tb of fertalizer\n      Cups 1-5 get 10mL of water and 12 hrs of "sunlight" daily\n      Cups 6-10 get 10mL of water and no "sunlight" daily\n      Cups 11-15 get no water and 12 hrs of "sunlight" daily\nRepeat this for say, 3 or 4 different types of fertalizer over a 10 to 15 day period.  Also, have 15 cups that follow the above procedure but get NO fertalizer.  After the 10 to 15 days, compare growth of the plants by measuring (probably in mm) the amount of growth produced.  \n\nBy performing a little research of your own and whatever plant seed you decide to use, you can base your hypothesis on how each fertalizer "should" affect your seeds and how much they "should" grow.\n\nFor example, lets say nitrogen is the main nutrient needed by grass.  Any of the fertalizers used that are low in nitrogen would not grow as much as the ones that get the nitrogen.  And those that do get the nitrogen, the ones that get water and sun will grow more than the others that get only sun or only water.  So, your hypothesis would be something like this:  The seeds that recieve adequate amounts of light, water, and nitrogen will have more growth after x amount of days than the other plants.  Then, you perform the experiment and see what you get.  \n\nGood luck on your experiment and if you remember, let me know what your teach thinks and what grade you get!
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See the links\nhttp://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/2/1/14 \nhttp://nistads.res.in/contents/genart/ga-rkk1.htm \nhttp://www.rmh.uwyo.edu/species/wybiblio.pdf \nhttp://indiaclub.com/Shop/SearchResults.asp?prodstock=12981 \nhttp://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/zafeer.htm \nhttp://www.univnorthco.edu/biology/SRMIF/SRMIFChecklistFeb04.pdf
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look in a library book or a science book...