Senior project consideration

[PsychoSarah]

I was considering making the topic of my senior project the cultivation of carnivorous plants from seed, in which I would measure how light, humidity, soil makeup and moisture, and various fungicides and pesticides impact the growth and germination success of various carnivorous plants. What do you guys think?

 

[RSS]

I'm not sure if I would go with seed, there can be a wide variation within the same seed pool not including environmental factors.

Leaf pulls or something similar would be a much better method to measure the impacts of humidity, medium, ect.

 

[PsychoSarah]

I'm not sure if I would go with seed, there can be a wide variation within the same seed pool not including environmental factors.

Leaf pulls or something similar would be a much better method to measure the impacts of humidity, medium, ect.

In order to do a proper experiment, one needs a minimum of 30 individuals (seeds or leaf pullings) per test group. I would need hundreds of seeds to do my experiment, which is why I am going to focus primarily on drosera. Where on earth would I get hundreds of leaf pullings from the same individual plant? Also, I want to focus on how it impacts germination, and leaf pullings don't really germinate.