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Sarah Cate N. 2011-2012
 * WATERING PANSIES WITH FOOD COLORING**

This experiment was done to see if pansies would change color if they were watered with food coloring every day (excluding weekends.) If they did change color which would change the most, or not change at all. It was hypothesized that the container of pansies watered with red food coloring would change fastest over the course of the week. It was also hypothesized that the container watered with yellow food coloring wouldn’t change at all because it is too light of a color. The three containers were watered with 500 mL per day with four drops of food coloring in it. A picture of the pansies was taken and the changes were recorded over a course of 12 days (excluding weekends.) After the experiment it was found that the pansies didn’t change color at all. The leaves were a little yellower in all of the containers but it was most likely old age. The soda was found to change the color of celery better and quicker than plan food colored water.
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 * CONCLUSION AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

If this experiment was done again, a container of the pansies wouldn’t be watered with food coloring so there would be a better control. There would also be another side experiment. That experiment would have only one container of pansies watered with only food coloring, no water mixed in. If there was more time, the experiment would be done in several different climates. Like put the flowers in an incubator, and a refrigerator, also darker colors would be tested.