The water fed beans on cotton wool have surpassed all my expectations. One plant has reached the lofty height of 25cm, the second plant is at a slightly shorter height of 18cm. They both have many bright leaves and look healthy and strong. However, I do expect that the may have been a bit less spindly is they could have got some nutrients from some soil and had something a bit stronger to grab hold of than a pad of cotton wool.
Water Bean Autopsy
Even though I felt really guilty about killing a healthy living plant, I had to cut it open to see what it contained (all in the name of science).
The bean still had a little bit of the brown shell on it, and once remove there was a waxy feeling bean inside. Once this was cut in half I noticed three little white shoots (a bit like new roots) coming from the plant stem in to the bean and a small pale brown patch in the centre. There was one thick brown root coming out of the bean with many smaller roots coming from this.
I have enjoyed doing my bean blog and feel that maybe I have greener fingers than I first thought. It have been interesting observing them closely and my daughter has been excited at bery new development. Even though the bean blog has finished I will be continuing to grow the last bean to see just how far it will go.
This is the successful watery bean blog, signing off for the last time.
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