Is dinner a study in the effect of fertilizer and fruit growth he uses six tomato plants placing it in a garden where they get equal amounts of sun and water one plant is giving no fertilizer the other fiber given five 10 15 20 and 25 g of dissolved fertilizer for each day for 3 weeks at the end of the experiment the tomato fruits are weighed what is dependent variable in this experiment the amount of fertilizer sun exposure water fruit weight