User:Andy Maloney/Notebook/Lab Notebook of Andy Maloney/2010/10/26/Tobacco seed chambers
Third style chambers
Since I believed that my chambers were causing the tobacco seeds to not grow, I made new ones. The one below is made with nail polish and beeswax.
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As you can see, the water did evaporate a small amount in this chamber. Evaporation would be acceptable except for the fact that I will be putting the miracle salt solution (Murashige and Skoog medium) that aids in tobacco seed growth. The movie was made over 19 hours.
The next chamber I tried was sealed completely with beeswax.
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You can see that in this one, I didn't get a very good seal and the water completely evaporated. The movies were made with Larry's time lapse software and stitched together with his .png to .avi program. Unfortunately the .png to .avi program false colors images and doesn't have a setting for not false coloring so, the original images are color but, they have been flattened to gray scale from the program.
I really hate having to melt paraffin but, it looks like I may have to try this out for the next installment of chambers.
