Mimosa pudica (touch sensitive plant) Time Lapsed, Touched, and Heated in HD

My friend (thanks Phia) bought this for me at Target for $1; it came with the pot, soil pellet, and 20 mimosa seeds! The Mimosa pudica is a pan-tropical weed, but these are my babies!

I planted 10 of the seeds in the pot, and 9 grew. I planted the other 10 seeds outside, and only 4 grew. The noticeable difference between the indoor and outdoor Mimosas is that the outdoor ones have red stems and red trimmed leaflets. I am guessing that this difference is due to insects. 3 of the 4 Mimosas outside have one of their two cotyledons chewed up a bit by insects. I think the red coloration is a byproduct of a natural toxin/insecticide, or a physical appearance meant to scare away insects. I think the red color makes the plant look pretty cool. Sorry, I do not have photos or videos of the ones outside.

After I made this video, I transferred the 9 indoor Mimosas to a larger pot and put it outdoors. I did this because some of the new leaflets were not very green. I am guessing that they were too crowded in the small pot and need more nutrients. I gave them a lot of new soil and exposed their roots for around 5 minutes during re-potting, so there may be some problems. Right after re-potting, all the leaflets were closed and unresponsive to touch, probably because they were in shock. However, an hour later, they were re-opened and did respond to touch. I will be gone for about a week at socal, so I will be hoping that they will be okay when I come back. The sprinklers in my backyard better do a good job.

And just some cool things I've noticed about the Mimosa:

1. At night, all their leaflets close up, and the cotyledons also close up, so the plant is standing all thin like a pencil.

2. During the day, if you place them near a window with indirect sunlight, the stem will bend toward the light source (the sun) and rotate throughout the day. At the same time, the cotyledons will rotate like satellite dishes, also chasing the sun, to absorb as much sunlight as possible.

(add on: I planted these on May 10th, 2009 - thanks Winston)

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Education

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• Mimosa pudica
• touch sensitive plan
• t tickle me plant
• in HD
• time lapse
• touched
• heated
• germination
• baby mimosa
• germinating
• green thumb

[smurfboywv]

This isn't time lapse, its photos lol.

[waaaangtaaang]

@smurfboywv you are so dumb. time lapse videos are made up of photos taken over time. the more photos you take within a time period, the more it seems like a moving picture. all videos are time-lapse. time-lapse videos just usually mean there is a lot more time (minutes/days/weeks) between each picture. regular videos have fractions of seconds between pictures. can you not be so dumb before you post? thank you.

[smurfboywv]

@waaaangtaaang WRONG a time lapse camera records at hundreds of frames per second, and then is sped up to show a faster video in less time.

[waaaangtaaang]

@smurfboywv why are you so stupid? a regular video camera records at like 60 frames a second. a high speed camera records like thousands of frames a second.

do you know how to use wikipedia?

"Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that which will be used to play the sequence back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. "

[ToYouWhoHaveEars1]

@Martha344b Actually these are NOT TickleMe Plants. These are called mimosa pudica or 'sensitive plant.' A "TickleMe Plant 'TM'" is a PPAF-trade mar(r/k)ed, intellectual copyrighted abominable TERM that exists only in the mind of some corporate minion and those who decide to believe that God's intellectual property can be appropriated by man for his lowly ends. "TickleMe Plants TM" is an invasive, weedy meme that will meet it's RoundUp soon. Say it with me- Sensitive Plant. There, that's better

[waaaangtaaang]

@ToYouWhoHaveEars1 correction: Mother Nature's intellectual property.

[joedude967]

@waaaangtaaang Why are you such an asshole? You resort to insulting him without kindly explaining, in both of your replys. ie "you are so dumb" and "can you not be so dumb before you post? Thank you", and "why are you so stupid?" Grow up.

[ashatan11]

Great video. Tnx for tips.

[jackvincent90]

@smurfboywv this is time lapse, just not very good thats all, if they wanted to they could have took 500 pic every day

[000jzjz]

@smurfboywv It is time lapse photography. Many other time lapse photography out there is just well organized and more short lapse time like a frame per 15min. For this video it seems like each frames are taken fairly far apart (i think it is taken a frame per day) and the pots and camera were constantly moved.

[swat007jp]

Wow $1! I payed 8 for mines n it only came with 19 seeds I lost some of the seeds already I planted only 4 how long till the grow and become tickle Lish??

[danklown]

I hate this song, cool plant though.

[MimiHare44]

The best version of this song that I found was on mp3ify.com and you can download the mp3 or import it into itunes.

[sensitiveplant]

just search TickleMe Plant to get the complete book to grow you own mimosa . True tickleme plant is a very sensitive plant for sure and kids love it

[tom123216]

@smurfboywv i agree with you but that pimple face is calling others dumb,stupid....... and he wasn't that clever,not cleverer than any scientist