This is an exhibition that occurs during class to which other students and faculty are invited to view your posters in which the results of your experiments are shared and discussed with classmates and visitors. Choosing and planting your seeds Before the project can be undertaken, you must grow your experimental organisms. Each group will be given seeds from a different plant. You will plant your seeds in paper cups of potting soil. Each cup should be filled almost to the top with potting soil.
Rule of thumb is to plant seeds twice as deep as the longest seed dimension.
Gently press the soil down on top of each group of seeds. Each group should plant at least 10 cups of 3 seeds each. After the seeds have grown, you will thin the seedlings leaving one seedling per cup. Planting 10 cups will give you an experimental sample size of 10 plants. You may wish to have a larger group of plants on which to experiment.