Understanding the mould growth

From the experiment i did a few weeks back there seems to be quite a few results, one major one being mould.

Mould growth

At first I assumed the mould was growing just on the pineapple - maybe i didn’t sterilised the tissue i had collected well enough, maybe it was too much coconut water or liquid fertiliser? After a few days of keeping an eye on the other samples I made I noticed that the same type of mould was growing in dishes with a different media. But it had also started to grow on the daffodil tissue that I had ‘planted’ and nothing showed up in the test tubes, only the petri dishes.

I still dont know what could’ve caused this but have left them to see what develops. The one dish, that contained non sterilised seeds, moulded over. I decided to leave this alongside the other seeds to see if anything will come from it - there are currently two little sprouts coming up!

Mould watch

Written on March 27, 2019