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Mung Bean Sprouts

The diary documents interesting steps in the growth of the Mung Bean Sprouts.

The usual notes apply. This page contains a series of reduced images for preview of each step. Click on the link beside each picture if you would like to download the full size image. A broken image means that the image isn't there yet - I've just pre-prepared some links.

The camera is an old industrial camera setup and is not the best. It requires some very bright lighting and is either getting worn our or not properly adjusted. The green plug you can see is actually red. Anyway, the camera is being asked to capture a 640x320 colour image and these are the full images you see when you click on the link. The preview images have been sized reduced by XV on Linux. If you want to know how I set the camera up, this link tells it all. I'm using webcam from the Xawtv package for the capturing for the Sproutcam web page. A cron script just copies the current image aside once an hour for the time lapse that I'm currently looking at making.

Visual Diary

2000-12-11-17:00 A quarter of a cup of mung bean sprouts were put into a bowl of water to soak. Sprout diary 1 picture 000
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Clean sprouting tray
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Soaked sprouts are added and allowed to drain
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Soaked sprouts are flushed.
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Soaked sprouts slightly redistributed.
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A giant hand has spread the sprouts around.
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Soaked sprouts further redistributed.
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First coat cracking is happening, but a bit hard to see.
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Over 50% have cracked their coats.
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2000-12-12-14:23 #009
Midday watering results in a few floaters and redistribution again.
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2000-12-12-17:29 #010
Shoots can be clearly seen.
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2000-12-13-00:53 #011
5 mm shoots are clearly visible.
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10mm shoots now visible.
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A mass of shoots are now becoming evident.
Disjointed shoots from tumbling with watering.
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Shoots have reached 20mm
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2000-12-14-07:38 #015
The first of the leaf shoots are emerging.
Root shoots are commonly 25mm.
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Before apparatus change
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After apparatus change
Twin leaves about 2-3mm are clearly visible, but hard to spot amongst all the discarded seed coats.
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Twin leaflets have emerged for 5mm
Root shoots have now extended to 35 mm.
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Twin leaflets have emerged to 10mm
Many root shoot have burnoff due to drying from incandescent light.
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Leafshoots are around 15mm
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Leaflets are starting to stand proud of the tray
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A lone shoot starts to lead all the other shoots upwards towards the light above.
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It's leaflets are open
Other shoots are now starting to grow upwards. Although some will also thrust roots upwards in what has been a topsy-turvy world.
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Other leaflets are full emerged
Other pairs of leaflets are now open to the light and will soon begin a thrust upwards.
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Left hand shoot has started to shoot up
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Shoots 55mm above tray
A large number of shoots are now starting to stand erect above the tray.
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