 Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is the zombie plant grow kit And I'll go through everything that comes with the kit and how long it's gonna take to be able to see it But at the end it's incredible because when you do touch the leaves the plants do play dead, which is pretty cool So now this zombie kit is affiliated with the tickle me plant company. I also had this also So what I do is go through this now All right, so in the description I'll show you where I got my zombie plant grow kit And I'm gonna go through the box and what comes with it It has everything you need and plus more so you can grow it multiple different times Though I'm only on my first set. So When you first go through it, this is the seeds so the pack sealed and it's got the seeds in there And then it has the directions on how to get them going which was really right on tee said 21 days And it was so you follow those instructions and then on the back They have some fun activities, which I'll be going through some of them to observe and what you can do for experiments with with the plant So the kit comes with a little greenhouse here that has six potting soils For the seeds so you have plenty of seeds as you see There's a seed pack there and then inside will be able to see you have enough to do it a couple times They give you a generous amount of seeds with this So I'm gonna start off a little bit more than six because I like to have a little bit extra and then you'll see here that We're going to get the water very very hot. So we're gonna boil it right before it gets all the way boiling We're gonna take it off the burner and then we're gonna put it into a coffee cup And then let it there for 48 hours. So I put it my favorite coffee cup the St. Thomas Virgin Islands That was a gift of mine for a really good friend. So that's gonna give it good luck So I'm gonna put those seeds in and I'm gonna let them stay there for 48 hours and then I will check back From there. Okay, it's been 48 hours and we're ready to plant our seeds So we're gonna ask that add a half a cup of water to the soil pellets in the growing kit tray And we're gonna wait until the pellets expand about an inch and a half And then we're gonna pour off any excess water after that so you can see it's a lot of water in there, but those Pellets are going to absorb a lot of the water and then if there's any extra we're going to pour those off So it took a little bit, you know a couple minutes to get them all expanding. You can see they're expanding right now And then after that we'll go to the next step So a little bit of fast motion here You can see that half a cup was exactly what we needed They expanded all the way up and there was no excess water for me to have to pour out And I was ready to go to the next step So I'm taking the pencil and it says them are three holes in each pellet about an eighth of an inch deep I'm only doing one Per pellet, so I'd have other seeds for another time So once you get those each of eighth of an inch deep hole in there You're gonna pour your water out that the seeds have been soaking for 48 hours And you're gonna place your seeds if you did three holes, you're gonna put three in each one In my case, I'm gonna put one and most of them and maybe a couple in the others So then you just grab your seeds and you put them in each of the holes that you made was your pencil After you get all the seeds in the next step is to take your pencil and kind of just kind of push the dirt Just a little bit over each one of them. So they're all a little bit covered right there now We take a little greenhouse Top and we're going to put it on top and then we're going to put it in a warm location not by windowsill Something that's about 70 to 85 degree Fahrenheit. You want to keep your seeds moist So you're going to continue to put water in there and then remove the cover once two seeds sprout And here I've got a couple seed sprouting so I'm going to remove the cover and keep it going from there Now they aren't going to be able to play dead until you get that second set of leaves in there So you can see the smaller little hand leaves Those are the ones that can actually start moving when you touch them and I'll start showing that when they get there closer Here they are sleeping. So what it's really cool is every night they go down They go to sleep and then they wake up in the morning So you can kind of clock what time they do do that Mine woke up at 7 30 every morning and I'm in california time But here's a time lapse I took with my iphone And you can see the sun coming up as it comes across the pool table And the leaves start to open up as the sun gets there So every night every morning 7 30 they got up and then they went to bed around 8 30 What was cool about these zombie plants is so you can take a toothpick and just touch one leaf And only that one leaf Would actually close up see I got that middle one right there every touch it right now it actually took two there um And that side goes and so they'll close all the way up as they touch or hence You know play dead right so it doesn't work on the bottom leaves just the top leaves, but they are sensitive To when you touch it with the toothpick over your hand I even blew on it and they closed And then it took about it seemed like it took a little over five minutes for them to reopen again So they keep getting bigger and bigger. So I can't wait to see how how large they actually get So this is pretty cool They're all um With with these plants here with my hand You can see I even touch it and the whole the whole stem goes down and the leaf starts to close up to Just playing dead just as it's as advertised So this experiment they already woke up It's about 10 a.m. And I hid them in a dark area and uh, so they would think it was nighttime and it did work It does not clock orient a damn low at 7 30 in morning or 8 30 at night And so they all closed up because it was dark, which was pretty cool Here's about 30 days in now. My plants have multiple different You know Play dead leaves there. So they're getting bigger and going Only four of them came up out of the six, but I was pretty happy with that. I have other seeds and so It's overall this was a great experiment a lot of fun great interactive activity for the kids As I enjoyed it myself So I hope you enjoyed this video. 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