Germination Lab

Seeds require moisture to germinate. By presoaking a seed, it strips of the protective layer of the seed and speeds up the rate of germination. But the longer someone presoaks a seed, the greater the chance it has to rot. When presoaking seeds, one should avoid planting them in dry ground due to the risk of the moisture being taken out of the seeds instead of sticking with it to germinate, leaving the seed back to its original state. purpose - There are many factors that affect germination, however this lab will determine how moisture, specifically presoaking seeds will affect germination.
To achieve the purpose of the experiment, one group of seeds will presoak for a required amount of time, for example, fifteen minutes to half an hour,
Then place the seeds about an inch and a half away from each other on a dry piece of paper towel . Then place the seeds and the paper towel in a plastic baggie . Repeat the same procedure with seeds soaking for six, twenty four and forty eight hours Then on a different piece of paper towel, soak the towel thoroughly with a dropper and place six seeds on a paper towel , an inch and a half away from each other. Place in a plastic baggie. place each baggie where they will be exposed to the same amount of light. After forty eight hour , record if any germination
This supported the null hypothesis that states presoaking seeds will have no effect on germination. However , the experiment gave no data on how moisture will affect germination.It also didnt give any definative answer as to if presoaking helps germination in any way. Errors in the way the experiment was designed may explain why the lab bared no results. All of the seeds were placed in inconsistent amount of light, which means that was another variable in the lab. It is possible that in the procedure, all of the paper towels should have been soaked to allow the seeds to obtain more moisture. Then ,presoaking would just determine which sees germinated faster.
Presoaking seeds might not have triggered germination because radish seeds need a sustained period of germination, because water washes away chemicals that prevent germination that block the passage of water to the endosperm. This is to make sure that one shower of water to plants in a normally dry season doesn't trigger germination. This is similar to what occurred in the experiment. The seeds were soaked, but were placed on a dry paper towel afterwards. This means that the radish seeds need a very sustained amount of water to