| How Plants Propagate With Recycled Water From Home |
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| My hypothesis was right. We can irrigate our plants with recycled water and they will grow, may be not so fast as if we irrigate them with pure water but they will tolerate it. And I don’t recommend that you mix the recycled water with fertilizer or root growth regulator because the mix of these substances may burn or weaken the roots. * And do not use recycled water that contains: 1. Toilet Bowl Cleaner 2. Hand Soap (if mixed w/ fertilizer or root growth regulator) We can propagate Aglaonema ‘Silver Queen’ in water and the roots should grow 1cm per week. This may mean that may be other foliage plants can be propagated in water too. I don’t recommend to propagate these plants in recycled water because it will take longer for the roots to grow. |
| ABSTRACT: The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate that we can recycle water from home to propagate and irrigate plants. I got sixty cuttings and put two plants per cup with the different types of recycled water from the different activities done at home. The solution was changed every two weeks, observations were made daily and data was collected weekly. There were ten different solutions of recycled water used in this experiment, group one is the control group, and there was a control plant for every group, and two different groups where the solution was mixed with fertilizer or root growth regulator. During the first two weeks, the only plant that grew roots was the one in water only; it grew about one centimeter per week. Then, the control plants in group eight and four started growing half a centimeter per week after the third week. My hypothesis was right, and my conclusion is that we can propagate Aglaonema ‘Silver Queen’ in water, but I don’t recommend using recycled water with high concentrations of detergents to propagate them. Adding fertilizer or root growth regulator in the water solution will not cause a positive effect because it may burn or weaken the roots and the plants. Home plants can be irrigated with recycled water, but it may not be used to propagate cuttings because they will not grow as fast as they will do with pure water. |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: 1. Thanks to Mr. David Love (Batson’s Greenhouse Inc. 1871 Niles Road, Mt. Dora, FL 32757 *Phone: 352-516-0427 *Fax: 352-383-1870) for the information on Aglaonemas and for providing the plants for this experiment. 2. Thanks to Maria T. Santos (Mom) for teaching me that plants are very important, for providing me with information about plants, for driving me to Apopka, FL to meet with plant growers and visit their facilities, and for supporting me on my experiment. |
| 1st Place winner in the Alachua Region Science and Engineering Fair went to the Florida State Science and Engineering Fair and won 4th Place. |
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