The Experiment

So there were these seeds. They were put into an 3 by 6 egg carton, with soil filled to each depression's rim, 3 seeds per depression. We watered it. Nothing happened. Only one had grown after three days time, but we accidentally killed it.

Part 2

So there were these seeds that didn't grow. I hypothesized that it had something to do with the carton, for two reasons: it is porous, and it looked much more brittle than the first time we used the carton. What I thought happened was that the soil had not caught all the water, and so it seeped into the carton, which the sun evaporated, which caused the carton to shrivel and become brittle. This prevented the seeds from growing, the lack of water. And I was right.

To see if the carton would become even more shriveled up, I put appoximately the same amount of water as before into the egg carton and waited a day. It became more brittle. With the seeds that did not grow as its respective soil, we put it in a new container, and observed what happened. They grew.

So there were these seeds that didn't grow because the egg carton was absorbing water and letting the sun evaporate it which caused the seeds to not grow, however when the same seeds were placed in a new container, they grew.