| So it's been almost a month and our Dead Stuff Jars and Columns have done some pretty amazing things. All this activity is helping us better understand what happens to dead stuff when it seemingly disappears. UPDATE: Dead Stuff Jars. Not much happened in them other than them looking kinda squishier and less red. Many of them the juice came out, and because of the lack of a tight seal on our |
jars, much of the juice leaked out. Since we didn't see much of a weight change, and our strawberries didn't appear eaten, we're thinking that no really small organisms got in the jars through the glass. Now that we've learned about mold and other types of fungi, we think there must not have been any in the air when we made the Dead Stuff Jars. If we were to do this again, we think we should have used "older" strawberries that maybe could have come in contact with more mold before we seal them up in the jars.
UPDATE: Dead Stuff Columns. Boy, do we have some interesting stuff going on here. First off, practically all of the living organisms we put inside the columns are dead. The crickets and worms, although they got bigger, seemed to run out of food. They're all dead now. Everything is pretty much darker in color and smaller. We even see some new things growing inside, like mold, new plants (were there seeds in the soil?), and algae in the water below. The soil inside looks really rich and dark like the soil we saw from the worms that were eating the dead plant parts form before.
UPDATE: Dead Stuff Columns. Boy, do we have some interesting stuff going on here. First off, practically all of the living organisms we put inside the columns are dead. The crickets and worms, although they got bigger, seemed to run out of food. They're all dead now. Everything is pretty much darker in color and smaller. We even see some new things growing inside, like mold, new plants (were there seeds in the soil?), and algae in the water below. The soil inside looks really rich and dark like the soil we saw from the worms that were eating the dead plant parts form before.