Rise,+I+say!

After growing a beast in a jar of room temperature water, I wanted to find a way to make my next grow beast (GB) get bigger faster stronger. I thought that if I were able to find a way to put my next GB in turbulent water or somehow pressurize the container that it was in, that would do the trick. Alas, I was unable to find ways with my limited budget and time to do either of these experiments.
 * __The Grow Beast in the Yeast!__**

The next thing that I thought about was a way that I could deform the little GB as it grew. To that end, I put the next GB in a bowl of water with two teaspoons of quick-rise bread yeast and two teaspoons of brown sugar. I kept the bowl with its contents covered and on top of my toaster oven in an effort to help the yeast grow as well as possible. Here are the results of that experiment compared with the results obtained from the original grow beast in room temperature water (note that the measurements were made in inches, then converted to centimeters):
 * = Hours ||= Yeast Solution GB ||= Room Temp Water GB ||
 * = 0 ||= 4.29 ||= 4.13 ||
 * = 1 ||= 4.22 ||= no data ||
 * = 2 ||= 4.76 ||= no data ||
 * = 3 ||= 4.76 ||= 4.76 ||
 * = 5 ||= 5.08 ||= no data ||
 * = 6 ||= 5.08 ||= no data ||
 * = 7 ||= 5.24 ||= 6.03 ||
 * = 8 ||= 5.72 ||= no data ||
 * = 9 ||= 6.03 ||= no data ||
 * = 11 ||= 6.03 ||= no data ||
 * = 22 ||= 7.14 ||= no data ||
 * = 23 ||= 7.62 ||= 9.52 ||
 * = 30 ||= 7.79 ||= no data ||
 * = 31 ||= 7.4 ||= 10.16 ||
 * = 37 ||= 8.26 ||= no data ||
 * = 46 ||= 8.57 ||= no data ||
 * = 48 ||= 8.89 ||= no data ||
 * = 52 ||= 9.21 ||= 10.80 ||
 * = 56 ||= 9.53 ||= no data ||
 * = 70 ||= 10 ||= no data ||
 * = 75 ||= 10 ||= 12.07 ||

Sadly, no deformities were present on the this GB. Additionally, I am left to conclude, based on this data, that a GB does not grow as quickly nor as large with yeast and brown sugar in the water as does a GBt in room temperature water alone. As can be seen from the above table, the GB in room temperature water started out smaller than the GB in yeast water, yet it grew to be the same size in three hours and larger in under seven hours. At 31 hours, the greatest difference in size can be seen. After that, the GB in yeast caught up a little.

I'm still interested in the effects of growing a beast in turbulent or pressurized water, but that will have to wait until next time!