A few weeks ago, I transplanted several spider plants (genus Chlorophytum) into a spare pot we had in the lab. For soil, I used some of Dan's old compost (that we also had around the lab...).
I returned to the lab this week to find that we had some suprise guests growing out of the compost! It looks like they may be cucumber leaves (Cucumus sativis perhaps). I thought it was pretty cool.
What's also neat is you can see that the plants are growing toward the sunlight to maximize utilization of the available energy. This phenomenon is known as phototropism. Phototropism is not to be confused with heliotropism, a mistake I made yesterday. (Heliotropism is the movement of a plant toward the direction of the sun over the course of a day, whereas phototropism is just growth toward sunlight in general).
I think we're going to rotate the plant 180° to see if the leaves adjust and grow toward the sun. We'll take hourly photos to see how long it takes.... More on that soon.
I returned to the lab this week to find that we had some suprise guests growing out of the compost! It looks like they may be cucumber leaves (Cucumus sativis perhaps). I thought it was pretty cool.
What's also neat is you can see that the plants are growing toward the sunlight to maximize utilization of the available energy. This phenomenon is known as phototropism. Phototropism is not to be confused with heliotropism, a mistake I made yesterday. (Heliotropism is the movement of a plant toward the direction of the sun over the course of a day, whereas phototropism is just growth toward sunlight in general).
I think we're going to rotate the plant 180° to see if the leaves adjust and grow toward the sun. We'll take hourly photos to see how long it takes.... More on that soon.
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