Pumped Up For Pumpkins

Lesson 4 & 5: and Water the virtual pumpkin project Outreach Team: Ryan Puckett, Cayci Allison, and Julie Pedraza

Acknowledgement: Jeff Dahlberg, Tracy Newton, Katie Wortman, Gwenn Conville, and Keith Byrum Zoom Etiquettes

Video Chat Audio

Mute How to yourself Turn off Raise your your hand Be camera if Ready to Use the needed Unmute chat box your mic Crop Report

Pumpkin Farmers: What work would you Community Pest Control like done to Sivanto your plot? What is ? What did your team find?

Where did you find it? Three things need to germinate:

1. Water The process by 2. Temperature which 3. Light something begins to grow or develop What part of the emerges first? What did your team find?

Where did you find it?

What did your team find?

Besides pumpkin seeds, name three other seeds we eat.

Where did you find it?

What three things do roots do for the plants? What did your team find?

Where did you find it? • Make food through photosynthesis • Stomata absorbs carbon dioxide and release oxygen • Support leaves, flowers, and fruit • Transport fluids between the roots and leaves • Store nutrients • Absorb water and minerals • Anchor and support the • Store food What did your team find?

Where did you find it? What is photosynthesis?

Chlorophyll

Carbon Dioxide Water What did your Sierra Shadow team find? Spooky Shadow What part of the plant absorbs ?

Where did you find it? What part of the plant absorbs sunlight?

Leaves and Stems absorb sunlight

HELIOTROPISM Moving with the sun What is chlorophyll?

What did your team find?

Where did you find it? What is chlorophyll?

Photosynthesis happens inside Chloroplast. Chlorophyll captures light energy. GREEN What is xylem? What did your team find?

Where did you find it? What did your What is phloem? team find?

Where did you find it?

West Fresno Sweet Potato Pumpkin Patch

Where did you What did your find it? team find? What part of the plant is the vine? Reedley 4-H Pumpkinology

Where did you What did your find it? team find? What is a perfect flower?

Contains Male and Female Flower Parts What did your team find? What is an imperfect flower?

Where did you find it? What did your Where did you team find? find it? Male and What is an imperfect flower? Female Flowers are separate

Female Flower Male Flower

Pollen attached forming to the Stigma on the anther

Pumpkin Pollen shape

Chemotropism Bumblebees Response to don’t like chemical pumpkin compounds pollen Dissected Pollinated Flower Base Flower Base

Unpollinated Different Female Flower flower stages What are and what do they do?

What did your team find?

Where did you find it? What are tendrils and what do they do?

Specialized plant part for Support and Climbing

Thigmotropism moves to respond by touch What are trichomes and what do they What did your do? team find?

Where did you find it? Protection What are trichomes against pest, c wind and heat. and what do they do? Attract species

Different shape and sizes. Sometimes glandular liquid

Pumpkin Trichomes

Water Cycle

when a vapor or gas cools enough to form droplets and become liquid

Water droplets become heavy enough to fall from when a liquid such as water the sky towards the earth. becomes a vapor or gas. the loss of water by a plant through the leaves, a natural cooling process

Check out this diagram for the water cycle!: https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/weather/thewatercyclediagram.html Water Movement from Soil to Atmosphere Capillary action in your pumpkin vines is responsible for moving water through the

https://ussromantics.com/2018/02/05/how-do-trees-transport-water-such-long-distances-part-2-the-mechanism-remains-a-mystery-to-me/ https://springtolife.weebly.com/biomimicry.html So how much water does A full-grown a plant or tree need a day? almond tree may drink up to By Ryan’s calculations, It all depends… 50 gallons of on a hot day, each of • How hot it is per day water in a day! your fully grown • How dry the air is pumpkin vines drink • How much wind there is about 4 gallons of • The size of the plant or tree • How big the leaves are and if water. the plant is drought tolerant

Small tomato vines in the A succulent like an agave garden possibly need one gallon per day, until it is big could go a month on just enough to need two gallons. a gallon of water. Water Earth's water supply

Most of the fresh water 96.5% salty is tied up in ice at the 1% other salt water poles and in glaciers. sea water About 30% of fresh water is in the ground, About 71% of the surface of leaving only 1% of the our planet is covered with world’s fresh water at 2.5% fresh water water. the surface of the planet. Most plant do not like Review: Soil that has a lot of salt. Plant won’t do well Soil that is too Soil Lesson clay holds on tightly sandy can’t hold where the soil contains to the water. It has the water you high levels of salt and so much surface give it before it when the irrigation area in contact with drains below water has high levels of water molecules. the roots. Adhesion, making it salt. This is a big hard for the roots to problem on the west uptake water. side of the Central Valley.

¥ Igor Shiklomanov's chapter "World fresh water resources" in Peter H. Gleick (editor), 1993, Water in Crisis: A https://is.muni.cz/www/burianova/comet/hydro/basic_int/runoff/navmenu.php_tab_1_page_4.2.0.htm Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources (Oxford University Press, New York). What are organic pesticides?

What is pollination? KARE-ing Volunteers: Cayci Allison Kelsey Galvan Ryan Puckett Christian Basulto Javier Herrera Jose Reyes German Camacho Bryan Heyano David Rodriguez Acknowledgement: Valeria Cisneros Brady Holder Alma Romero Tyler Colombero John Lake Meuy Saechao Jeff Dahlberg Evenia DiCicco Mike Lopez Reva Scheibner Tracy Newton Jesus Ferreyra Victoria Morelos Vincent Silva Katie Wortman Marvin Flores Luke Paloutzian Jaclyn Stogbauer Julie Pedraza Patrick West Gwenn Conville Keith Byrum