A Plant's Life in Time Lapse: From Seed to Fruit

This has been a video a long time in the planning stage. Years, I would say. I really wanted to record the entire life of a plant from the seed to a ripe fruit but couldn't imagine how it would be possible. In the end, I had an opportunity when I saw the stirring of a little Peruviano Arancio seedling and set up the camcorder to start snapping Time Lapse frames. I didn't really consider that that camcorder would be there for over 5 months, but there you have it.

The first monkey wrench was a second little seedling popping up. At first I thought it would be cute to record but came to my senses, realizing that two plants in that little pot would just mean that neither plant would do well. Not my first rodeo, as the saying goes. I actually recorded myself repotting the second seedling into its own pot and was including that as part of this video. I just didn't like it, though. It didn't fit the story I was trying to tell. I think most people would assume that I moved it out without having to watch me move it out. I wasn't looking to make this video longer.

I kept second guessing myself on the best way to record, which is why the angles and perspectives kept changing. I hope that doesn't detract from the flow of the video. I was painfully aware, as well, that the fluorescent lights flickered against the white wall. I didn't know how to deal with that. I am just a guy...not a professional guy.

Add to that, the plant slowly tipping to the left until, to my horror one day when I popped in to see how things were going, that the plant was lying flat on the table. You can see the plant slowly falling. Suddenly, it's staked. And I tried to figure out which flower would become a pepper, but I was wrong more times than I show. You see a flower or two just "disappear". Remember that the frames were being shot once every 80 seconds. Lots of time for a flower to fall off and just "be gone" in the video. Then I saw a tiny pod that looked promising and the ending of the video was in view.

Five months, from April 4th until today, September 12th. Every 99 hours the camcorder would stop recording and I had to start it going again, but this was my dream. I hope you enjoy watching it. Your enjoyment in watching this video is really the reason that I dedicated myself this Summer to making it.

The music, as always, was provided free of any charges and royalty free as well by the amazing Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com:

"Montauk Point" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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