{"id":90,"date":"2014-01-03T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-01-03T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:54:47","slug":"teaching-idea-forcing-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceman.com\/blog\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Idea – Forcing Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"updated\"<\/a>Over Christmas, I had the pleasure of lounging around in a house that is loaded with plants… including blooming ones. Usually I just keep my mouth shut and leave anything associated with plant material to the very capable care of my wife. But I couldn’t resist asking about the hyacinths she had made bloom during the holiday season. I thought that the growing bulbs might be of use to science teachers who want a novel way of studying root systems, especially in the dead of our nasty winter – so even though this isn’t technology related, I’m going to share the technique! Let’s work backwards for a moment; when the whole process is done, this is what you end up with;<\/p>\n

\"bulbs_01\"<\/a>Just those clean roots alone would be worth the effort for teachers trying to prepare root tip slides! So how is this accomplished? How do you get a bulb to bloom when it’s not supposed to? Well, it’s pretty simple really – just follow these steps;<\/p>\n