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__Dyed Water Vs Regular Water for the Outcome of Plant Color__

**Problem:** What will happen if you add colored water to a Radish seed?

 * Background/Purpose**: Radishes have numerous varieties, varying in size, color and duration of required cultivation time. Radish can sprout from seed to small plant in as little as 3 days. The descriptive Greek name of the genus // Raphanus // (ῥάφανος) means "quickly appearing" and refers to the rapid germination of these plants. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking. Due to its safety and general availability, food coloring is also used in a variety of non-food applications including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, home craft projects and medical devices. The food coloring will not harm the plants in any way. Because of the Radish's ability to grow quickly, we will start the project by watering the seeds directly. I think that if you water the seeds with different colored waters, that the leaves of that plant will look that color. The independent variable is the our food coloring and our dependent variable is the the color of our Radish's once grown. The control is our plant not being grown using dyed water.

**Hypothesis:** If you water the seeds with colored water, then they will turn that color when they sprout.


 * Materials: **
 * ==== Water- (Free) ====
 * ==== Radish Seeds- ($2.28) ====
 * ==== Liquid Red Food Coloring- ($4.37) ====
 * ==== Liquid Blue Food Coloring- ($4.37) ====
 * ==== Liquid Yellow Food Coloring- ($4.37) ====
 * ==== 4 Plant Pots- ($42.80) ====
 * ==== A window that distributes light evenly- (Free) ====
 * ====Soil- ($9.99)====
 * Procedure: **
 * 1) ==== Fill pots with soil ====
 * 2) ==== Plant seeds equal amount of soil ====
 * 3) ==== Water each pot with their set dyed color water (except the first jar, which is regular water) ====
 * 4) ==== Place pots by window where an equal amount of light was distributed ====
 * 5) ==== Let them grow ====
 * 6) ==== Water an equal amount of water each day ====

**Bibliography:**

==== "PlantingScience.org." // :: Fostering Student Research through Scientific Inquiry and Online Mentorship //. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2013. . ====

====Harding, Louise. "Plants & How Watering Them With Colored Water Would Affect Them | EHow." //EHow//. Demand Media, 19 Feb. 2011. Web. 26 Oct. 2013. ====