Honey, I think I killed the Resurrection Plant

How is it, that a plant that can remain dormant for 50 YEARS without water, a plant that is frequently referred to as the "plant you cannot kill", a plant whose very name infers that it can indeed "rise from the dead"----can apparently die in my hands, in the middle of a science project?

Oh, I had such big plans for our Resurrection Plant.
On the first day, I took them out and had the children inspect them. We put them in water and within an hour they started to uncurl! Although the kids didn't seem as enthusiastic about the uncurling as I was, I knew great things were coming.

The next day, we could see a little green---things were getting exciting now!

But now after four days, things are obviously NOT improving. Our plant is NOT a lush green. It still looks...well, it looks dead. An uncurled-sort-of-green-but-definitely-not-lush, dead.

To the right, I give you a photo of what my plant should have looked like within 24 hours.
Notice how lush, green and well, A-L-I-V-E it looks?

Below I give you our sad little Ressurection plants. What do you think? Dead? Dying?
Resurrected or rejected?





I can only hope that Pumpkin's life cycle of a plant
project goes better. Surely I can grow a couple beans and Teddy Bear Sunflowers from a kit, right? I mean, I only need the beans to sprout and the sunflowers to live for at least 3 weeks so we can measure it.

This is why I love my clay flowers so darn much.
Maybe we can chart how long it takes for our nice clay flowers to arrive via UPS once mommy hits send on the computer?