What Liquid makes a Rose live the longest

Question: What liquid makes a Rose live the longest?

Hypothesis: For this experiment i predicted that water would be the liquid that makes a rose last the longest because most people water and grow their flowers with water. Flower are successfully grown with water, that's why i chose water as the best liquid.

Procedure

• • Collect Materials (cups, roses, notebook, liquids, and a camera)

  • The liquids include water, soda, salted water, gatorade, and sparkling mineral water.

  • Will need 10 Roses in total

  • Will need 10 cups

  • 5 liquids

  • Cups with roses need to placed in room temperature

  • Take all of the leaves off the roses

  • Will need to cut 1 cm off each flower to get them all to be the same height

  • 5 flower will need to be cut slanted at the bottom of the tip of the flower, and 5 flowers need to cut straight across on the tip of the flower

  • Each cup has to have 1 cup of each liquid

• After each flower is in its liquid, take a picture, wait two days to pass and take another picture

Straight Roses Data

Slanted Roses Data

0= terrible 1= not so successful 2= looks ok 3= looks good 4= looks great 5= looks good as new

Graph

Abstract

What Liquid will make a Rose Live the Longest?

For my science project i’ve chosen to test different types of liquids that may make a flower live the longest and rather if a slanted or straight bottom tip of the flower affects the way on how long it gets to live. I chose to do this project because I was curious on what type of results I would get. For my hypothesis I expect for water/slanted to be the one to live the longest because water is what flowers live on. Roses grow up to absorb water, which allows the rose to grow.

My experiment was a simple thing to do, that anyone can do it at home. At first I got roses from my local grocery store and bought plastic cups that were all the same size. After I was done collecting all of my materials I made sure that the flowers were the same size, after that I made sure that all of the leaves that were on the flowers were off. In total I used ten flowers, five were cut slanted from the bottom, and the other five were cut straight across. I labeled each cup to say what the liquid was and if the flower was slanted or straight. My liquids were, Water, Salted water, Coca Cola soda, mineral water, and powerade. Each cup had the same amount of liquid in it, so that the experiment would be fair. In each, it had one cup of each liquid. When my measurement were all fair, I placed each flower for where they belonged. I left the flowers, to sit there for seven day (one week). Each day I would take a picture of if to see the timeline it had, or to see on how they developed.

On my first experiment, results started to show quickly. On the first day the flower in the salted water was already down, both slanted and straight across were down already. As days went by, like the fifth day the mineral water flower was starting to die. On the seventh day (last day of experimenting) the soda and powerade flower were the ones that had survived the experiment. Water had died like the salted water and the mineral water. Over all the liquid that made the flower last the longest was soda, slanted. On my second experiment or my retest the results were a little different. The flowers didn't bloom as well and the flowers ended up dying sooner. On the third day of my experiment the soda, straight was down already, on the fourth day it was dead. On this experiment the soda flowers did sooner, and so did the powerade ones. The only one that really lasted the longest was water, slanted. The salted water ended up Lasting longer than the soda, but dies quickly as well. Mineral water was in second place.

What I learned from this experiment was that, whenever I get a rose or roses I will put them in water or soda and the tip will be cut in a slanted way, I've learned this because of my experiment. My hypothesis was kinda correct because I predicted that water would make a flower last the longest, because water is what they grow on, but soda tend to make it last longer, although on my second test, water was the winner. I believe that my experiment was accurate because I measured everything the same way so that it would be a fair test and I did everything the same on the second test like I did on the first. Although my roses were different colors, I don't believe it was a huge difference or reason on why I got different results.