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Mung Bean Sprouts

The diary documents interesting steps in the growth of the Mung Bean Sprouts.

The usual notes apply. This page contains a series of reduced images for preview of each step. Click on the link beside each picture if you would like to download the full size image. A broken image means that the image isn't there yet - I've just pre-prepared some links.

The camera is an old industrial camera setup and is not the best. It requires some very bright lighting and is either getting worn our or not properly adjusted. The green plug you can see is actually red. Anyway, the camera is being asked to capture a 640x320 colour image and these are the full images you see when you click on the link. The preview images have been sized reduced by XV on Linux. If you want to know how I set the camera up, this link tells it all. I'm using webcam from the Xawtv package for the capturing for the Sproutcam web page. A cron script just copies the current image aside once an hour for the time lapse that I'm currently looking at making.

Visual Diary

	2000-12-11-17:00 A quarter of a cup of mung bean sprouts were put into a bowl of water to soak.	2000-12-12-09:00 #000 Clean desk	2000-12-12-09:01 #001 Clean sprouting tray
	2000-12-12-09:02 #002 Soaked sprouts are added and allowed to drain	2000-12-12-09:03 #003 Soaked sprouts are flushed.	2000-12-12-09:04 #004 Soaked sprouts slightly redistributed.
	2000-12-12-09:05 #005 A giant hand has spread the sprouts around.	2000-12-12-09:23 #006 Soaked sprouts further redistributed.	2000-12-12-10:03 #007 First coat cracking is happening, but a bit hard to see.
	2000-12-12-14:03 #008 Over 50% have cracked their coats.	2000-12-12-14:23 #009 Midday watering results in a few floaters and redistribution again.	2000-12-12-17:29 #010 Shoots can be clearly seen.
	2000-12-13-00:53 #011 5 mm shoots are clearly visible.	2000-12-13-09:03 #012 10mm shoots now visible.	2000-12-13-15:03 #013 A mass of shoots are now becoming evident. Disjointed shoots from tumbling with watering.
	2000-12-13-20:50 #014 Shoots have reached 20mm	2000-12-14-07:38 #015 The first of the leaf shoots are emerging. Root shoots are commonly 25mm.	2000-12-14-13:03 #016 Before apparatus change
	2000-12-14-13:28 #017 After apparatus change Twin leaves about 2-3mm are clearly visible, but hard to spot amongst all the discarded seed coats.	2000-12-14-18:03 #018 Twin leaflets have emerged for 5mm Root shoots have now extended to 35 mm.	2000-12-15-11:00 #019 Twin leaflets have emerged to 10mm Many root shoot have burnoff due to drying from incandescent light.
	2000-12-15-15:03 #020 Leafshoots are around 15mm	2000-12-15-19:03 #021 Leaflets are starting to stand proud of the tray	2000-12-16-00:03 #022 Watch that shoot on the left hand edge A lone shoot starts to lead all the other shoots upwards towards the light above.
	2000-12-16-06:03 #023 It's leaflets are open Other shoots are now starting to grow upwards. Although some will also thrust roots upwards in what has been a topsy-turvy world.	2000-12-16-09:03 #024 Other leaflets are full emerged Other pairs of leaflets are now open to the light and will soon begin a thrust upwards.	2000-12-16-12:03 #025 Left hand shoot has started to shoot up
	2000-12-16-15:03 #026 Shoots 55mm above tray A large number of shoots are now starting to stand erect above the tray.	2000-12-16-18:03 #027 640x480 Image	2000-12-16-21:03 #028 640x480 Image
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Time Discrepancies - the images are stamped with a time from a non-daylight saving computer, which is slightly out of sync to the Web server.