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Hydroponic Flowers

4/28/2015

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Hydroponic Flowers
Did you know you could grow flower bulbs using just water?  It's called hydroponic gardening and I accidentally stumbled upon it while I was at walmart. They had clear vases with tulips in them and you could see the bulbs and the roots. I bought one to have in our classroom so the children could see how the flower bulbs grow.
hydroponic flowers
I plan on making our own hydroponic flowers as I believe this will be a wonderful science activity for the children to work on and observe over time. I have been doing research online and have found these helpful links:

hydroponics - how to force tulip bulbs

how to force tulip bulbs in water

how to grow tulips in glass jars
Hydroponic Flowers
Hydroponic Flowers
The hydroponic tulips that I purchased from walmart are just leaves at this point but they should have flower buds soon and then of course those will open into beautiful purple flowers (my favorite color).

Let me know what you think about this for a science center and if you have tried this activity and how it went.
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Connie Otten
4/28/2015 12:08:33 pm

Thanks for the idea of growing hydroponic tulips. Today I was visiting our Amish neighbors and they were growing hydroponic sweet potatoes in their window ledge. They will plant them once the weather warms up. I thought to do this in my classroom and have the children measure the largest slip and keep records.

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Shelley
4/29/2015 12:25:22 am

I think it is such a cool idea. We really love observing the changes in the bulbs and roots and waiting for the flower buds to appear. Your classroom activity sounds great!

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Willow
4/29/2015 12:33:41 am

I've never seen this before. I going to do this in my class. Thank you Shelley for posting about hydroponics.

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