Milkweed Seed: The Different Germinations

This helps the problem of there not being enough milkweed for the monarch butterflies. By having more milkweed plants, that offers more resources for the population of monarch butterflies to grow. Milkweed seeds were placed in different environments to see how the germination process would be affected. Meant to find if there is a more optimal way to get milkweed seeds to germinate. By finding this it can be implemented in the real world in planting milkweed seeds. 20 milkweed seeds were placed in sand and water and another 20 milkweed seeds into hydrogen peroxide and water solution on a brown paper towel inside petri dishes. The sand and the hydrogen peroxide solution were used for stratification. The seeds sat for 6 weeks. The findings show that hydrogen peroxide is not a good environment for germination. Sand makes for a better environment but still is not the most optimal. In the future, it would be helpful to use a larger sample size and environment for the seeds. Overall, the sand showed more promising results and can be considered in the future.