Growing Orange Trees From Seed Time Lapse

This is a time lapse of orange trees growing. A frame was taken every 60 seconds for twelve hours a day over the course of six days. The trees, about 16 months old are roughly a foot tall. The video was made with a Logitech webcam and Yawcam.

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Science & Technology

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• Orange
• trees
• seed
• time-lapse
• stopmotion
• time lapse
• stop motion
• growing

[slimnick6452]

@sxw0113 Hi. What temperature of bulb are you using? I live in OH—about half the year my trees are under lights. I've found I can spur growth by using a lower temp bulb (2700K-4000K). From what I've read, higher temp bulbs create a stronger, but slower growing tree. I'm impatient so I go with a 3500K bulb; when the low temperature stays above 60F I put them outside. Also, I give them about 12 hours of light a day. It took mine a while to go from a couple leaves to something more. Navel oranges

[sxw0113]

Cool, but why do they move so much in one hour? Was there a fan blowing?

[slimnick6452]

@sxw0113 The largest movement was right after I watered them. The other smaller movements are mostly jumps from when I wasn't recording. I only filmed from 6AM to 6PM. Thanks for watching.

[sxw0113]

@slimnick6452 I have some baby orange trees growing now, but they are taking a long time to make more than two leaves. I'm using grow lights and putting them outside when it's sunny and not too cold. I hope they will live until there is warmer weather and more sunlight! Mine are from some clementines, what kind are yours. I've also started two mango trees from seed. Your plants look really great. any advice is appreciated!

[slimnick6452]

@sxw0113 Thanks for watching!

[mackey087]

at 56 -57 it looks like the top leaf faints, i found it very funny.

[lesliesimpson10]

It is awesome,thanks for taking the time to do it, and show us!

[4GreenEarth2]

Very cool. I wish I have the camera to watch my lemon grow ^.^ Thanks for sharing

[XoBleedingHeartoX]

shit it looks like they r alive...............i mean i know they r but they have no heartbeat!!!!

[JoyfullJuneBugg]

How did you get the seed to grow? What did you do to germinate the seeds?