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Phototropism via Time Lapse Video

Have you ever put out your seedlings only to find them all leaning the opposite way next time you look? It's no conspiracy and your mental faculties need not be questioned. It's phototropism: the act of plants bending towards the light.

Here's a time lapse video of what you're seedlings are doing behind your back.





Posted by Stuart on May 10, 2008 5:49 PM | | Check to Subscribe to this Comment:


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Very Cool! Thank you for sharing the video.

Posted by: naturehills | May 11, 2008 1:53 AM

Great. I might show that to my children!

Posted by: Melissa dilly dalley | May 11, 2008 5:04 AM

It's kind of like a little flower dance, isn't it? Neat how plants can move like that.

Posted by: Cinj | May 11, 2008 9:35 AM

I love that! Have you done any other gardening time lapse. I have been considering mounting an old camera to my kids wooden swing set (that they don't even use anymore)to get time lapse footage of the entire vegetable garden growing. It would be a long process but seeing your time lapse is making me want to do it again!

Posted by: Marc @ Garden Desk | May 13, 2008 12:59 AM

That was great to see. Thanks for sharing that =)

Posted by: Jen | May 14, 2008 5:25 AM

I was trying to explain this to Deb @ Aunt Debi's Garden. She lays her tomato plants on their side and lets the sun turn them. Then she plants them with the stems being planted in the soil too. Roots will grow on the stems and give a 20% increase in tomato production. I'm going to send her this link. I could not think of the word phototropism. I was trying to tell here this is what her plants were doing when they turned toward the sun---thanks Stuart!

Posted by: Anna | May 15, 2008 4:04 AM

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