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Question
Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.
- Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
- When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
- Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
- Also, observe how many days the same flower took to dry.
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Solution
It takes about 4 to 5 days for a bud to bloom into a flower.
- It was a rose plant.
- When I first saw this bud, the date was 1st February. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is 5th February. It took 5 days.
- The bud of a hibiscus takes about seven days and the sunflower’s bud takes about seven to eight days.
- Hibiscus takes about 30 days to become dry and sunflower takes about 30 to 40 days to become dry.
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