My baby is a MAN:o spud grew up:(

Spud had grow to be 10.5 inches tall. He started out as a little seed who I loved. I never knew you could love a plant as much as I love Spud. Im sad Bud never grew, but he was defective. I still love him though. I was a good mom over this time period and I am going to miss my lovely plant children. I was going to teach them about the reproductive cycle of plants, but I got to lazy and decided they weren't mature enough yet:o That's why I didn't blog about that. I want everyone who reads this blog to know that being a teenage plant parent isn't easy, but it is possible!

Bud and Spuds second to last day at home:(

I haven't really seen any new developments in Spud or Bud lately. Spud just keeps growing taller and getting more leaves. This is what they look like on their second to last day home.
    -P.S. I can tell they are very sad to be leaving me because I was a good plant mom.

The Life of Spud and Bud.

So I did not naturally birth Bud and Spud, they were artificially implanted. Here is a diagram to help explain how this could happen. I'm sorry the diagram is confusing, but finding a better one way quite impossible.

A gametophyte is the multicellular structure, or phase, that is haploid, containing a single set of chromosomes.The gametophyte produces male or female gametes (or both), by mitosis. The fusion of male and female gametes produces a diploid zygote which develops from mitotic cell divisions into a multicellular sporophyte. The sporophyte produces spores from meiosis which then go back to be gametophytes!

Bud and Spuds blood related family (p.s.they love me most)

Spud (mr.tomato) is in the Solanaceae family. They are dicots which are a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. Other members in Spuds family are potato's, garden peppers, and eggplants. Members of the Solanaceae family provide fiber, vitamins A and C and
other nutrients when eaten, but I want it to be known that I would never eat Spud!!  In the picture are some of Spuds cousins!

Bud is more related to all the grasses and such.He is in the Poaceae family. Poaceae are a large family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. They have more than 10,000 domesticated and wild species and they Poaceae represent the fifth-largest plant family. That means the Bud has MANY cousins, but don't tell him that because I'm assuming they grew bigger then him and he will get intimidated. Some of his cousins pictured below are Timothy Grass, and Crested Wheat Grass.

but still remember....BUD AND SPUD LOVE ME THE MOST!

Why is Spud FUZZYYYY!

So I know this doesn't really have to do with the rubric I got, but I am very curious about the fuzzyness of my plants. I looked it up and it said that it was because if the stem was placed underground it would be able to work as a root. AND THEM IT CLICKED...the fuzz is root hairs...that are not even on the root! It kind of blew my mind. So if I put the stem under the ground the hairs would be able to help. Also I think the probably help with protecting from stuff hitting the stem. I am going to feel really awkward and all of this I'm writing is just wrong. Well, that's my update for today!

FOOD FOOD FOOD

This is Spud and the not so good looking Bud!

This blog is supposed to be on the food delivery process including the phloem and trans-location.I know I shouldn't be saying this since Mrs. Anderson is going to read it, but I really don't know that much about this topic because every time I type in food delivery system or cycle into Google I get results like how quickly Domino's can deliver pizza to me.....   I'm hoping that since this is a blog and I am supposed to express my opinions Mrs. Anderson won't take of point for my slight rant about the ineffectiveness of Google:D

Translocation is the movement of materials from leaves to other tissues in the plant.Plants produce sugars in their leaves from photosynthesis, but these sugars need to get to other parts of the plants that cant produce it. This happens by the phloem which is pictures here next to his similar cousin the xylem. The phloem is the actually tissue that the sugar and nutrients move through to get to the other area of the plants. It goes all the way from the roots to the leaves and is made of long continuous stands called vascular bundles. Really food delivery is simple. When parts of the cell need nutrients like sugar it is transported through the phloem to there where it is used to help with growth.

How Bud and Spud Get hydrated!

I wish I had a picture, but you can not really photograph the inside of a plant. The water is given to Bud and spud through their soil. I water them a little everyday, but not too much. The soil not only hold water, but also nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. The water is taken up by the roots and into the xylem. The casparian strip is what regulates how much water actually gets to the xylem. The xylem is a vascular tissue which means it is conducting. The water is pulled up to the leaves from pressure created from transpiration. Tugor pressure is what is created from the water pushing against the inside of the cell. As the water moves up the cell it can deliver itself to all the plants sections along with nutrients from the soil. When it gets to the leaf if transpires through the stomata of the leaf. These are little openings that open when the sun shines on them normally.

Tropism

Tropism is  a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a organism . Geo-tropism is a plants response to gravity. Positive Geo-tropism is what leads to stems growing up and negative Geo-tropism leads to roots growing down. Spud is experiencing this currently!

Growth Explained! - P.S. I don't know why the text is white

From this picture you can see that I added a cactus to encourage the growth of Bud and Spud.Spud listened......but obviously Bud didn't. Spud is growing towards the sun ! This is because of the plant hormone auxin which causes the elongation of cells in shoots and is involved in regulating plant growth. It causes plants to move towards the light because auxin elongates the shaded cells. Cytokinin is what causes the cells to divide. Theses to hormones need to be balanced with each other in order for cells to grow big and tall. Plant growth occurs in areas called meristems, that are the site of repeated cell division of nonspecialized cells. Apical meristems are located in the root and shoot tips of the plants. This is where primary growth occurs with mitosis. Thickening of the stem occurs in the lateral meristems which is required by perennial plants that grow year after year, and need the structural support to continue growing. Secondary growth is what causes the thickening and this occurs in the vascular cambium and cork cambium of the perennial plant. Vascular cambium grows outward in rings that thicken the plant over time. The outermost layer protects against pathogens and this is called the cork cambium.