Plant Status Update #4

 by Alyana Carrell

Some abiotic factors our plant needs for survival are water, soil, temperature, wind, light,and radiation. If we did not have these abiotic factors our plants would not be alive. Abiotic factors our a very big deal for our plant and if we didn't have one of the abiotic factors it would affect our plant tremendously.

I know that our plant is competing with other plants because some days our plant doesn't look as healthy as the other plants in the garden. I think our plant is competing for water, photosynthesis. Some other plants cover our plant which makes it not receive the right amount of water, and photosynthesis.

There is not really ever a winner or a loser between plants. I know that there is no winner or loser because one day lets say John's plant gets lots of water and mine gets none the next day mine will get some. Plants store there nutrients so they never really use them so its okay if another plant gets a lot of water. In my opinion no plant ever is a winner or loser because you can never control how much water or photosynthesis they get.

More interactions our plant has is mutualism because insects can eat our plant and both species benefit from it.

There was evidence that some sort of succession was happening in the gardens ecosystem. Soil in the beds before we planted means that there was already secondary succession in the gardens ecosystem.