woot.

Okay so i'm extremely happy that on the 6th of June when i yet again went to do a detailed check up on my mushrooms, i found mould and white spots i think might be mushrooms starting to grow! So i didn't fail my experiment which is fabulous:) And i probably will have results to work with for the results and the discussion so that's awesome. I'm more confident for the report now that i may have mushrooms before the report is due.

Until next time...
Bond. James Bond.

oh my deary dear.

On Sunday 30th of May, i made the same trek as every Sunday and went to check up on my beloved mushroom boxes, only to be disappointed yet again. Not totally though, i am being a bit wishful now and this Sunday i discovered the light green or white mould that was supposed to appear 3 weeks ago (this is my fourth week) has only started to appear now and i'm worried if my experiment will work because i only have two more Sundays left, it was going to be only one Sunday left but i think i might need the extra week. The most mould has appeared in the box i put in the garage and not even that box had very much mould. The corner was filled with the mould and a bit of the other corner. The box under the stairs had only a few spots of mould and the box on the balcony had none, the fertilizer in it just looked moist. So, hopefully, next week we might be on to some mushrooms in the box in the garage.

Until next time...
Jeffrey.

oh dear.

Okay so, i never got to update the observations i made for when i checked my experiment on the 23rd of May, my dad really likes to annoy me by taking the computer away, anyway, on the 23rd i was disappointed yet again. No changes had appeared and i was still mushroomless and mouldless, which is an even bigger problem. The cultivation kit i bought said that after 7 days a light green or white mould should appear over the moss and that would be the first sign my mushrooms are growing, 3 weeks later and still no mould or mushrooms. The fertiliser looked the same as when i first put it in the box so hopefully next sunday, i will have some mould at least.

Until next time...
Mischief managed.

third week.

So it's the third week and i've just gone to check up on the mushrooms. There still hasn't been any changes i can point out in any of the boxes of mushrooms. I did take pictures today though so i can show you what it looked like before they start to grow and i'll probably post them in a day or two as my mum has taken the camera and gone somewhere :S

Until next time...
Like a boss.

gargh.

sorry it's late Ms. Zhang but my dad took the computer away to get Windows 7 and he only just got back D: Sorry! But yeah, here's the method and materials!

Materials
• Mushroom Cultivation kit
• Garbage bags
• 3 equally sized cardboard boxes
• Water mister

Method
1. Three boxes of equal size were obtained.
2. Three garbage bags of equal size were put into each of the garbage boxes so that the boxes were totally covered.
3. The mushroom compost from the mushroom cultivation kit was weighed and equally divided into each box.
4. The peat moss from the mushroom cultivation kit was weighed and equally divided into each box.
5. The boxes were all sprayed with the same water mister 5 times each, in all the corners and in the middle.
6. One box was put in a place with a constant shade.
7. One box was placed where the sun could reach it during daytime..
8. One box was placed in the garage, with another cardboard box over it to keep it totally dark.
9. Step 5 was repeated every day.
10. Results and observations were recorded.
11. A photograph was taken of each of the boxes.
12. Steps 9-11 were repeated for another 4 weeks.

Okay, well that was that:)
Until next time...
AVADA KEDAVRA.
Mwahahaha, now there is no next time.

whuuaat?

So a week passed since i started my experiment, and on the 9th of May, i came back to observe the mushroom compost i had set up a week before and nothing seemed to have dramatically changed or grown. There was a slight change, where there seems to be less moss, but other than that, it looks the same.

Until the major blog is due...
Snivellus.


P.S. I liked your Harry-Potter-Essay example in science today. We could use with one of those essays rather than one on Pride and Prejudice...ew.

just sayin.

Okay so i started my experiment on Sunday, May 2nd and i equally divided the mushroom compost and the peat moss into equal sized boxes just to keep the variables totally controlled and i put a garbage bag in the box so when i spray it won’t make the cardboard box soggy and wet. I put the compost and moss into 3 boxes and placed one in the garage with a box around and on top of it to keep it dark, i live in a unit so i put another one under the stairs and the last one under the barbeque on the balcony. I sprayed them with water 5 times (using the same sprayer) each because the instructions told me to spray it. So i was planning on leaving it for 35 days because the kit said that the mushrooms should be ready by then, depending on where i put it, we’ll see in what environment mushrooms would grow the quickest in. Ill be checking them every 7 days so ill see the progress 5 times and on the 35th day, ill probably just throw them away, or sell them to a grocery store.

Until the 9th of May...
the Half Blood Princess.