Salinization

                For the salinization lab each lab table produced a bag with a paper towel that had been saturated with a water and salt mixture and wrapped around five red or five white beans. Our group was in charge of bags with 1% salt solutions; we made the solution in the quantity of 120 mL so we added 1.2 g of salt to the 120 mL of water. This was then dissolved and put in bags with the beans and a paper towel to wrap the beans in. We then observed the beans of the diferent levels of salt percentage over an eight day period. We found that lower salinization levels were better for getting the beans to sprout, but a small amount of salt was still tolerable to the plant. The bags that contained water and no salt produced the best sprouts from the beans with 0.5% being the next most productive solution. After the 0.5% the salt concentration was too high and the beans did not sprout. Based on this data we can conclude that plants will grow best in an environment with no salinization. Although some salt is survivable for plants, too much will cause the plants not to grow at all, which causes many problems for occupations like agriculture. If a soil had too much salt in it one might try adding more organic matter to balance out or dilute the salt; however, the best fix for it is to remediate the soil so that the water does not travel through it too fast and strip the soil in the first place and to stop the posibility of being faced with the problem.

The observations we had of our beans through out the experiment.

These were our beans, they did not have very much activity and one might have expected more of them to sprout, becuase our beans were older they might have lost their effectiveness.

These were beans from another group, though they also did not have as much activity as was expected, their red beans were more active and if our beans were more effective they may have been closer to resembling these beans.