How a greenhouse grows in 3 and a half minutes

[bbhaag]

My brother and I put this together. Its pretty cool. This is a time lapse over a four month period.
Enjoy

 

[Jodell88]

What's in the pots that are suspended?

 

[bbhaag]

Many things. Begonias, geraniums, petunias, calibrachoa, portulaca. We grow a lot of hanging pots. Over 5000 this year.

 

[John Connor]

Can't seem to be able to watch. Says, "Sorry, something went wrong."

 

[bbhaag]

Hmm sorry about that. I think I fixed it.

 

[allisolm]

Can't seem to be able to watch. Says, "Sorry, something went wrong."

This.

 

[bbhaag]

I fixed it now.

 

[Nograts]

Nice. Is this at a home depot or something or is this your greenhouse? Any maryjane growing in the back?

 

[CraKaJaX]

Pretty cool - thanks for sharing. Is this a family run business or something?

 

[Markbnj]

Pretty cool - thanks for sharing. Is this a family run business or something?

Agreed, that was neat. Watching the hanging plants you can see them repeatedly drooping and lifting... reacting to changes in the amount of light?

 

[Drako]

I don't get it. The greenhouse did not grow at all, just the plants. 😕

 

[John Connor]

Reminds me of the movie The Time Machine. Not the new bastardized version, but the 1960's? version. Even has the glass above.

 

[DrPizza]

Cool video. Neat to see some of the plants following the sun a bit.

 

[edro]

Cool video. Neat to see some of the plants following the sun a bit.

I heard Neil Tyson say they lean towards the light because the side opposite the light is actually growing more.

Quote from random google search:

How does a rigid plant bend or grow to one side? Plant cells contain a substance called aurins. This substance has a tendency to move away from the light. Aurins make the cells on the darker side grow faster than the cells on the lighted side.
This causes the stems and the leaves to bend or lean towards the lighted side. The concentration of aurins on the dark side may be due to the fact that sunlight slows or kills these aurins when light falls on them. However, as long as one part of the plant gets sunlight, it can make food and the whole plant survives.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That was cool. It's neat to actually see the plants growing over time. What did you use to do the time lapse? I want to grow a blue spruce in a pot over the winter just for fun, was thinking it would be neat to setup a super long time lapse, something that just stores images on a server or something.

 

[bbhaag]

Thanks for all the feedback. It's neat to see other people enjoy it to. Too answer some of the questions.

Yep we are small independent garden center. This location was started in '93 by my parents.
When the Illinois legislature passed a medical marijuana bill there was serious talk between all of us about switching to a cash crop. Ultimately the cons outweighed the positives so we decided to shelve that idea.

The roof isn't made of glass. It's actually two 6 mil sheets of plastic that form a tube. The tube is then inflated with air to act as an insulator during the colder growing months.
The plants are moving in conjunction with the sun light as it moves from east to west over the greenhouse. Some of them are going up and down as they wilt and need water. We run our plants dry at the beginning so they develop a better root system.

The camera we used is a Brinno TLC200PRO. The camera specs can be found here. We also purchased the weather resistant case due to the high humidity in the greenhouse, water, and extreme heat.

 

[John Connor]

That's not a bad price for a time lapse camera. I have always bought JVC and what I find about JVC is that they all have a time lapse feature.

 

[bbhaag]

Yeah that's why we went with it. It got decent reviews and snapped shots in HD. The price was right too which never hurts.🙂