Blog 19 - Observations So Far

What have you noticed so far? Are you able to grow the E. coli reliably? Do you have results yet? If so, what are you noticing?

An apple with more sugar concentration, just to see the setup of everything.

So far we have been growing 8 separate dishes of E. Coli. So far, there have been ripples on the agar to show signs of the E. Coli. In the first dish that we tested to grow E. Coli in before we started the whole experiment, there are patches of growth. We have not noticed any direct visual results yet as far as the different in the apples and their sugar saturation, but at the end of the experiment, we shall determine which one decomposed faster based on their dry mass. The apples are doing curious things that we did not expect. They became a bit soupy in the dishes because we could not flip the dishes over. However, the day after they were soupy, everything seemed to have dried up again. This is one error in our experiment that through us off a bit but we are just waiting to see what comes next at this point.