1. Growing Seeds
One of life’s little wonders…

2. Things to ponder… What are the 5 major plant growth requirements?
Nutrients
Light
Moisture
Carbon Dioxide
Temperature

3. It’s just a seed right?
Dry
Small
Ugly
Who cares?

4. Or is it? All Different Alive Little promises of growth!
Hold Potential
Impressive
Neatly packaged

5. What is a seed?
A seed is a fertilized, ripened ovule of a seed-producing plant…
Containing a living plant embryo capable of germinating and producing a new plant!

6. More simply…
A seed is a guarantee of another plant!

7. How are seeds formed?
Flowers are pollinated and seeds form within the drying flower.

8. What’s in a seed?
A tiny living plant embryo suspended inside.

9. What’s viability?
This ability for the embryo to wait suspended is called “viability”

10. Epicotyl: (in the embryo of a plant) the part of the stem above the cotyledons.
Hypocotyl: connects the cotyledons to the radicle.

11. Radicle: The part of a plant embryo that develops into a root.
Cotyledon: the primary leaf of the embryo of seed plants. (Like the sepal of a bud… for protection.)

14. What is the length of a seed’s viability called?
“longevity”

15. The 2 Seed Categories:

16. Monocot One seed leaf Flower parts are in 3’s or multiples of 3
Leaves have parallel veins
Vascular bundles are scattered in the stem
Tap Root System

17. Monocot
Seed Coat
Endosperm
Cotyledon
Embryo

18. Dicot Two seed leaves (cotyledons)
Flower parts in four or five multiples
Leaves are net veined
Vascular bundles in stems are arranged in a circle
Fibrous Roots

19. Dicot
Seed Coat
Endosperm
Cotyledons
Embryo

21. Can you tell them apart? A B

22. Can you identify the parts?#3 #1 #4 #2