Overall report summary (week 1-week 4) Ballerina Butterfly Pea

Week 1 = no germination rate ( Balsamina Ballerina replaced by Ballerina Butterfly Pea)

Week 2

Table 11: Germination rates of Ballerina Butterfly Pea

Pots	Germination Rate (%)
1	10
2	40
3	30
4	40
5	40

Figure 12: Germination rates of Ballerina Butterfly Pea

The lowest is pot 1 with 10% of germination rate. There are 3 highest germination rates with 40% which are pot 2, pot 3 and pot 5.

Week 3

Table 13: Germination rates of Ballerina Butterfly Pea

Pots	Germination Rate (%)
1	30
2	70
3	60
4	50
5	60

Figure 13: Germination rates of Ballerina Butterfly Pea

The lowest germination rate for this week is pot 1 with 30%. The highest germination rate is pot 2 with 70%.

Week 4

Germination in week 4 is still the same as week 3 and some plants have been taken to study growth.  In pot 1, 1 plant were taken while another pots 2 plants were taken.

Discussion

    Based on the both tables and the figures, germination rate for each pot increases. As we know each pot are provided with the songs that have different genre. This shows that music do affect the germination rate. Certain music can stimulate the plants growth but some music also can insulate the plants growth. But this result also shows that if there is no music provided the germination rate also as well as the plants with the music provided. We also can see that pot 2 is the one with the highest germination rate which is 70%. This shows that Borneo Bamboo Instrumental Music really affects the rate of germination. This proves that Ballerina Butterfly Pea do like this kind genre of song. Meanwhile, this Ballerina Butterfly Pea shows that Tinsagu No Hana (Japanese Folk Song) can insulate their growths. From the graph the germination rate with this genre of song only 30%. It shows this plant response towards the song provided either the song help to stimulate their growth or not. Differences of the germination rates also prove that sound or music can influence the ability of the plant to absorb nutrient from the soil. As we can see this Tinsagu No Hana (Japanese Folk Song) really insulate the growths of Ballerina Butterfly Pea which means it is disturbing the absorption of nutrient process. This lead to the lowest germination rate for the plant because the plant with no music has higher germination rate than this one. However, Borneo Bamboo Instrumental Music can stimulate the growths. Thus, it shows this song can generate the absorption of nutrient from the soil because plants that provided with this kind of genre of songs has highest germination rate among all which is 70%.

 Discussion

   The Macronutrients that had been taking were sulfate, nitrate and phosphate. These macronutrients are the main macronutrients in the soil for growth of plants. Sulfate is a constituent of amino acids in plant proteins and involved in energy for producing processes in plants. Nitrate is the key element in plant growth. It is mostly found in all plant cells. Phosphate helps transfer energy from sunlight to plants, stimulates early root and for plant growth. Overall, the result shows sulfate has the highest macronutrients in the soil and phosphate has the lowest macronutrients in the soil.
   Based on MIT System of Soil Classification, the mass of soil retained in 2mm sieve simply belongs to gravel as their range of particle size between 2mm and 60mm. It shows high frictional resistance. Sand has a particle size ranging from 0.06mm to 2mm. It is grey in colour. It possesses high strength in confined state and has considerable frictional resistance. Also, it has high permeability and low capillarity. Silt particle range in size from 0.02mm to 0.06mm. Silt have high capillarity and very low dry strength. Since particle size ranges in between that of clay and sand thus possessing properties of both sand and clay such as, it shows slight cohesion and also friction. The colour of silty soil is mostly brown. Clay is composed of very fine particles (less than 0.002 mm in size). They are flaky in shape, thus having considerable surface area. They also have high inter particle attraction and thus having sufficient cohesion. Other than that, they are susceptible to swelling and shrinkage, and possess low permeability. Commonly brown in colour. It can be said that there were already not much soil left to pass, thus the sudden fluctuation.

     There are 2 dilution factors that have been used which are 50ml and 100ml. Size of sieve that were chosen is pan, 63mm and 125mm. The top 3 heavy metals shows in the result are Fe, Ca and Mg. Fe inside the soil is very important for plants. Fe is most important for the respiration and photosynthesis processes. Fe also implied in many enzymatic systems like chlorophyll synthesis. Because Fe has high absolute amount in the soil, our plants does not have the deficiency. The second larger amount is Ca. Ca is responsible for holding together the cell walls of plants. In this result Ca is less absolute amount than Fe in the soil because the soil has lower soil pH. When Ca is deficient, new tissue such as root tips, young leaves, and shoot tips often exhibit distorted growth from improper cell wall formation. Mg is the third larger portion for heavy metals in the soil. Mg is important for photosynthesis process. This is because it needed for building block of the chlorophyll, which makes leaves appear green. In low-pH soils, the solubility of magnesium decreases and it becomes less available. Due to the large hydrated radius of the Mg ion, the strength of its bond to the exchange sites in soil is relatively low. Acidic soils increase the tendency of Mg to leach, because they have less exchangeable sites. In addition, in acidic soils, elements such as Mn become more soluble and result in reduced Mg uptake.