It's something that we need to share more of. So much of social media is "look at this successful project that I did perfectly first try" while they skip over the hours of problem solving and missteps - not maliciously, but because it's "not engaging" - that it makes failure seem like an exceptional outcome rather than the expected one.
It's actually quite interesting to see a timelapse of the growth patterns of failing plants. I especially like the tamarillo. Even with it shedding all its leaves, it just keeps climbing, growing towards the light. A fascinating perspective and a testament to the inherent will of life to keep growing, even in the face of death.
From my experience with peppers you'd usually want to cut off most if not all of the early flowers to allow for more foliage growth, typically if you let the early flowers fruit the plant growth will be a bit stunted and you'll have a smaller lower quality harvest, or in some cases a dead plant.
@@chopyouupi try to have 25-30 cameras going at the same time. I check up on everything daily to see if they need water, if cameras or lights need to me moved, if flowers need help pollinating etc. If i'm away for longer times i have someone else do the daily checkups
@@Boxlapse that's awesome, every semester I share your videos with my biology classes, It's a great way for students to make plants "come alive" so to speak. :)
Still beautiful! It only helps highlighting the power of plants to grow from a tiny seed and how amazing it is that they so often manage to succeed against all odds.
The two main problems that I can see: - Lack of one or more mobile nutrients. You can tell because the plant is pulling them out of the older leaves to continue growth. - Lack of strong enough light. These plants are seriously etiolated.
Poor pepper looked like it was trying so hard to survive - I'm happy if my stuff grows let alone trying to timelapse it though it's fascinating to see 🙂
These still look incredible! Thank you for uploading them and taking the time to make them! Actually that last one is one of my favorites I've seen in this channel
Thank you for the opportunity to learn through watching what happens when things don't go just right. It's encouraging as a gardener. I've tried to grow hollyhocks for 10 years in both TN and TX and have yet to succeed! I am REALLY bad about giving my plants (and myself!) the correct amount of water and it's really amazing to watch a pepper plant struggle because of dehydration and low humidity in sped up video. I've grown in Washington State, Tennessee, and Texas and every season and every location and year offers new challenges. Thank you for helping us grow!
I can't help but reflect on my life time-lapse watching things die. There was a time lacking water, there was a time lacking sunshine, there were the times when bugs came by and hurt my leaves, but I did bear fruit, 4 to be precise, and they are so sweet, it makes the bad times seem so distant, and worth being alive for as long as possible.
That soil is hardly the best soil. It looks like seed starting mix, which has basically no nutrients and very poor structure. You would need to fertilize every watering.
@@colinjohnston9824Inconsistent watering or not enough water as well, particularly evident with the pepper due to it drooping and perking up again immediately after being watered.
True beauty lies in the Chaos and demise of life. These videos are so addictive, nothing is written as a success, all is chance, failure is just as perfect ❤
Why did I assume this person could just magically grow plants with no hiccups... This makes me feel better about failed plants I tried to grow from seed
As far as i noticed Lichee likes it very very moist as i accidentally planted a seedling with my carnivorous Plants and its still growing in good health … not sure if thats how it should be but its growing really well … no fertilizer till yet also
I hate when I get runts like this when I plant in spring. One year I had ALL runts and I had probably 25-30 seeds. It took them a week and a half to even sprout, and some of them might have been permanently dormant. Even after they sprouted and grew, I had such a small harvest. I decided to just replant different plants since it was already summer. 😔
Looks like whatever fertilizer regimen they're on isn't adequate to supply the plant while it's fruiting. Also appears that consistently all the old growth is dying back hard while trying to push smaller and smaller new growth, which is typical of under feeding.
I actually tried growing a lychee seed once too, ended up in failure. I don’t know why but the green leaves just started turning brown one day and there wasn’t anything I could do to stop it.
@@kimjungunbhujiyawala3615 this plant was grown indoors, so the climate wasn't likely the issue. The light seems dim but adequate. The soil is obviously just peat moss, which has no nutrients and very poor structure. The leaves turning brown like that appears to be a nutrient deficiency, possibly from inappropriate pH. Peat moss is typically too acidic without amendment for most plants.
It's not just the sun and the water. You also need to check if there's any bacteria or any virus that's eating the plant. Adding in fertilizers is very important as well for the growth. The soil needs to be soft and not squeezed. Don't throw away banana peels instead cut it in half and put them in normal water (200 ml) for a day, now you can use that water as fertilizer.
From the point of view of the plants that is not a failure at all. two of the plants came to flower and bear fruit. They started as a seed and ended up passing their DNA on to many more seeds.
The time and dedication this man puts into these plants is insane but I love the videos cause I’m trying to plant orange harbeneros but they just won’t grow
I'd love to see more failures, I personally think they are very interesting! I tried to grow a mango and it had the exact same issue as the lychee in the end, absolutely no idea what the issue is there. I figured it had something to do with drainage, light or temperature but no way to confirm any of those suspicions for sure really...
All lives are trying to make themselves better, but not everyone can achieve their goals. In any case, their efforts deserve our blessings, At least they tried.
I found five Conkers in November 2023 all sank meaning they should all germinate. I put two into a plastic bag & left them in my fridge for 4 weeks. I then took them out of the fridge & planted them into individual pots in my kitchen. They both have germinated but one is a lot further along it has a stem & a few small leafs the other one I can see the white root just below the soil but no stem yet….. I’ll see how the other one goes but it might not actually grow into a Horse Chestnut Tree.
Your plants are growing tall fast and the leaves up top are what it's trying to save, that and they are fruting too early, a lower light in their earlier stages will help. Also trimm some of the early flowers/fruits off so it has a chance to grow strong before it produces. If you are feeding them and you should be, try a blend to pormote foilage and strong growth as opposed to fruiting nutrient blends which can come in later.
Got a couple of tomatoe plants on my window seal that look like a fail, I still love them deary, whilst there is some green they are going anywhere. Maybe some more fertilizer?
time lapse videos are highly educational for gardeners and botanists. even the "failure" ones. i love that i can see the reasons why your plants died, ive never seen them in action like this tho. you really need to speed up time to properly see a plant, plants treat the time timension just like we treat our 3 spatial dimensions
idk why but the first time i watched this video i only saw the stick (second one) and it was the funniest thing ive ever seen. today i wanted to show it to my gf and realised its a serious video
My tarmarillo growed exactly like that. It always only had a few leaves at the very top, and dropped the others. Eventually it reached my ceiling, and I had to take it outside, where it started to branch out a bit. Then the cold killed it. Also, they smell weird when you touch them. Like bad/rotten peanut butter. My wife hated it :(
I feel the pain. No clue why, but many of the things I've tried growing in my apartment have randomly died on me. Peppers particularly like to start strong then randomly crap out.
Lychee is difficult to grow - I tried, it stayed at the same height (12 cm) for about 1 year and a half 😅 - after that it started to grow, but I had a very serious problem with spider mites and I couldn't get rid of it, the bigger it got worse - The problem got worse with the mite and I ended up giving up!
You have to have the right soil for lychees to grow. They require a beneficial bacterium that grows on their roots. So, in order to have a healthy lychee tree, you need to have soil from under an existing lychee tree to grow it in.
For the amount of time it takes to go from seed to plant…it begs the question. How many of these are growing at the same time and it’s time intensive to be capturing the images daily. I’d love to see the set up behind the backdrop.
Do you know what went wrong? Was it just seeds that weren't great? I'd be keen to know what lessons you got along the way and how it's made you a better grower and/or filmmaker 😊
It has to be those clay pots. They wick sooo much water away from the plant. In nature plants are not watered every other day, they can go a week without rain or water. So you need to water the soil thoroughly enough to span at-least 4-5 days.
I don't think it was Edema that killed the Yellow Bell Pepper - it looks like thrips to me. I've grown bell peppers under lights before and when I had a thrip infestation that's exactly what it looked like and how the plant behaved. Lots of neem oil has finally brought it under control with my houseplants but the peppers didn't make it.
oh dang, i didn't know that some timelapses fail. i mean i expected not all to succeed but these are plants i never saw on your channel. did you give up on those plants after the fail or did i just not see the video? also how many timelapses do you run on average at a time?
You may want to shake the plants to pollinate as well as fertilize after the leafs grow. You seem to run out of potassium and phosphorus in each grow later on with the peppers
Frankly this is so good to see fails. It just makes it feel normal that not everything is perfect
Agreed
It's something that we need to share more of. So much of social media is "look at this successful project that I did perfectly first try" while they skip over the hours of problem solving and missteps - not maliciously, but because it's "not engaging" - that it makes failure seem like an exceptional outcome rather than the expected one.
100% germination success. True fails don't even get that far, we've all been there.
3:21 blud produce a more longer fruit than most guys(if you know, you know...)
yep, I agree. We need more non-perfect things on the internet in general
I can only imagine how frustrating it must be sometimes. You do great work man.
The ones that actually fruited made me emotional. Those plants put literally everything into the teeny little harvest they got. Thank you for sharing
self sacrifice to make seeds for new generation.
Got you emotional?
@@JatPhenshllem
Some people are emotional wrecks
@@warnertesla8297 we all were when the owl house ended
@@warnertesla8297Some people understand the value of the Transcendent. Simple people do not.
I always watch these thinking: How do all your plants work, and 50% of mine fail. It's nice to see not all of them work 😅
Same here. It tool me 3 tries to get ginger to grow.
Same. My bad memory, combined with Walmart seeds isn't the best.
It's actually quite interesting to see a timelapse of the growth patterns of failing plants. I especially like the tamarillo. Even with it shedding all its leaves, it just keeps climbing, growing towards the light. A fascinating perspective and a testament to the inherent will of life to keep growing, even in the face of death.
Amen 🙌🏻
Why does it do that?
@@cvabds💀
@@cvabds Why do your still take breath or don't forget to eat?
Respect for showing the true side of growing plants, it doesn't always work out as intended and that's ok.
This feels like a time lapse of me forgetting to water over and over.
😂😭
From my experience with peppers you'd usually want to cut off most if not all of the early flowers to allow for more foliage growth, typically if you let the early flowers fruit the plant growth will be a bit stunted and you'll have a smaller lower quality harvest, or in some cases a dead plant.
So amazing seeing a plant break through the soil and start growing
I absolutely loved this. we and nature are not perfect. also, i would love to see making off, your tools, cameras, lighting, your team, etc etc. thx.
Yes, a making of, how does he keep track of everything does he just have a million cameras? The questions I have!
I cannot promise that a full studio tour will come soon but I've been thinking of diversifying my content somehow so let's see what i come up with :)
@@chopyouupi try to have 25-30 cameras going at the same time. I check up on everything daily to see if they need water, if cameras or lights need to me moved, if flowers need help pollinating etc. If i'm away for longer times i have someone else do the daily checkups
@@Boxlapse that's awesome, every semester I share your videos with my biology classes, It's a great way for students to make plants "come alive" so to speak. :)
@@Boxlapse Wow that's a lot of work! Thanks for these videos!
Still beautiful! It only helps highlighting the power of plants to grow from a tiny seed and how amazing it is that they so often manage to succeed against all odds.
The two main problems that I can see:
- Lack of one or more mobile nutrients. You can tell because the plant is pulling them out of the older leaves to continue growth.
- Lack of strong enough light. These plants are seriously etiolated.
Also maybe too warm temperatures or not enough day and night fluctuation.
he is literaly killing his plants
Too cool temperatures or virus.
Not sure which or both.
@@uranusneptun5239no, the opposite. Peppers like it warm. That's why they grow them in Mexico.
Not enough nutrients. Peppers need a lot of light, warmth and most of all potasium, but also some nitrogen and fosphor.
Poor pepper looked like it was trying so hard to survive - I'm happy if my stuff grows let alone trying to timelapse it though it's fascinating to see 🙂
Your content is really the best, it is so peaceful. Everytime I watch a video of yours I remember why I fell in love with growing plants 🙂 Thank you.
These still look incredible! Thank you for uploading them and taking the time to make them! Actually that last one is one of my favorites I've seen in this channel
The fact that the Plant Dies it still Beautiful to See it Grow
more of an opinion really, but yes
@@MyLittleMagneton all beauty is is opinion, coolest thing about it imo
Thank you for the opportunity to learn through watching what happens when things don't go just right. It's encouraging as a gardener. I've tried to grow hollyhocks for 10 years in both TN and TX and have yet to succeed! I am REALLY bad about giving my plants (and myself!) the correct amount of water and it's really amazing to watch a pepper plant struggle because of dehydration and low humidity in sped up video. I've grown in Washington State, Tennessee, and Texas and every season and every location and year offers new challenges. Thank you for helping us grow!
this makes me feel better, I just thought everything you touched turned out perfect and wondered why some of my things failed
This was really cool! It's incredible to see the plants fight their disease no matter what, true fighters!
There is greatness and glory and beauty in the story of these plants, too, only not the kind that would gain them a place on a supermarket shelf.
Still beautiful, not all things in our lives are success and this video is great example of that
even as they fail it's still fascinating to watch, whatever you would post would never be a bad upload, fail or not.
I can't help but reflect on my life time-lapse watching things die. There was a time lacking water, there was a time lacking sunshine, there were the times when bugs came by and hurt my leaves, but I did bear fruit, 4 to be precise, and they are so sweet, it makes the bad times seem so distant, and worth being alive for as long as possible.
Must be frustrating, thank you for showing that not every plant grows healthy despite having the best soil and care
That soil is hardly the best soil. It looks like seed starting mix, which has basically no nutrients and very poor structure. You would need to fertilize every watering.
it depends on the plants some need more fertilizer while others grow better with less
@@colinjohnston9824Inconsistent watering or not enough water as well, particularly evident with the pepper due to it drooping and perking up again immediately after being watered.
These were all amazing! Plants are fascinating
True beauty lies in the Chaos and demise of life. These videos are so addictive, nothing is written as a success, all is chance, failure is just as perfect ❤
it's a shame that this one as so little views in comparison. the entertainment value is just as high. fabulous work you do here.
Love the ghostly looking flowers on the longhorn
Possibly my fav vid of yours so far. Great music.
Somber, but important. Thank you for showing these as well.
It's amazing to see how seeds are just information capsules
First…
Thank you for showing the failures. Definitely a familiar feeling ❤️
Why did I assume this person could just magically grow plants with no hiccups... This makes me feel better about failed plants I tried to grow from seed
As far as i noticed Lichee likes it very very moist as i accidentally planted a seedling with my carnivorous Plants and its still growing in good health … not sure if thats how it should be but its growing really well … no fertilizer till yet also
I hate when I get runts like this when I plant in spring. One year I had ALL runts and I had probably 25-30 seeds. It took them a week and a half to even sprout, and some of them might have been permanently dormant. Even after they sprouted and grew, I had such a small harvest. I decided to just replant different plants since it was already summer. 😔
3:17 The music makes it even sadder.... 😢 Kiitos, nonetheless! 😎✌️
It’s still absolutely fascinating to watch.
I too have failed plants. But sometimes it’s probably the soil
Looks like whatever fertilizer regimen they're on isn't adequate to supply the plant while it's fruiting. Also appears that consistently all the old growth is dying back hard while trying to push smaller and smaller new growth, which is typical of under feeding.
Still looked really cool! I hope the thunder mountain longhorns tasted as good as they looked!
I actually tried growing a lychee seed once too, ended up in failure. I don’t know why but the green leaves just started turning brown one day and there wasn’t anything I could do to stop it.
The plant has little moisture and not enough light. Try making a mini-greenhouse from cling film
Actually it need warmers climate ,like in tropical area .in cooler climate it doesn't grow.
@@kimjungunbhujiyawala3615 this plant was grown indoors, so the climate wasn't likely the issue. The light seems dim but adequate. The soil is obviously just peat moss, which has no nutrients and very poor structure. The leaves turning brown like that appears to be a nutrient deficiency, possibly from inappropriate pH. Peat moss is typically too acidic without amendment for most plants.
It's not just the sun and the water. You also need to check if there's any bacteria or any virus that's eating the plant. Adding in fertilizers is very important as well for the growth. The soil needs to be soft and not squeezed. Don't throw away banana peels instead cut it in half and put them in normal water (200 ml) for a day, now you can use that water as fertilizer.
From the point of view of the plants that is not a failure at all. two of the plants came to flower and bear fruit. They started as a seed and ended up passing their DNA on to many more seeds.
Massive respect for this one.
I like the you upload the failures proving your content is legit and true, unlike others faking their success in growing plants for views
There is a quiet beauty in failure. I find it hard to overstate the value of a mistake.
I like seeing the fails! it shows how real this is, not everything is meant to succeed.
thank you for sharing. There is beauty in imperfection.
I like the funky looking plants too
The time and dedication this man puts into these plants is insane but I love the videos cause I’m trying to plant orange harbeneros but they just won’t grow
becuase not all plants can survive under constant light,,, its important to give each plant its need of light-dark period
You watered this plant so poorly I'm not surprised it failed.
Honestly even if they aren’t perfect, it really shows that you did everything to give them a fighting chance.
I'd love to see more failures, I personally think they are very interesting!
I tried to grow a mango and it had the exact same issue as the lychee in the end, absolutely no idea what the issue is there. I figured it had something to do with drainage, light or temperature but no way to confirm any of those suspicions for sure really...
The important thing is it doesn't matter. KEEP GOIN!
is the first one just not being watered enough? looks like it's drooping then perking up immediately after water
This soil seemed very dry and perhaps it was lacking nutrients as well.
All lives are trying to make themselves better, but not everyone can achieve their goals. In any case, their efforts deserve our blessings, At least they tried.
Repeatedly wilting makes plant very weak. It is struggling for water and sunlight.
You can’t win them all big man, but we still love you 🫶🏻
the lychee at the end looks so sad, i relate to it 💯 😄
Peppers can be so fickle. On the other hand I've never had trouble with tomatoes
Lesson of the day
Nobody is perfect
honnestly i wish plants grew this fast and thank you for inspiring me to start gardening i have gemsquashes pumpkins and chillis like carolina reaper
Not all time lapse are great. But your time lapse are hossom. Love from India 🇮🇳 Tamil Nadu ❤.
I found five Conkers in November 2023 all sank meaning they should all germinate. I put two into a plastic bag & left them in my fridge for 4 weeks. I then took them out of the fridge & planted them into individual pots in my kitchen. They both have germinated but one is a lot further along it has a stem & a few small leafs the other one I can see the white root just below the soil but no stem yet….. I’ll see how the other one goes but it might not actually grow into a Horse Chestnut Tree.
So beautiful, and so sad ♥
Your plants are growing tall fast and the leaves up top are what it's trying to save, that and they are fruting too early, a lower light in their earlier stages will help. Also trimm some of the early flowers/fruits off so it has a chance to grow strong before it produces. If you are feeding them and you should be, try a blend to pormote foilage and strong growth as opposed to fruiting nutrient blends which can come in later.
Very interesting, very real and very common.
Eh, shit happens. It's still nice that a plant grows, and we still love watching ❤🎉
People I know: "You're so good at growing plants!" Me: "I don't post pictures of the countless ones that have died from neglect."
I think the pots are drying so much look the dark color on the soil it doesn't stay very much there
Got a couple of tomatoe plants on my window seal that look like a fail, I still love them deary, whilst there is some green they are going anywhere. Maybe some more fertilizer?
Some of mine do this in autumn, I guess it's the cooler weather, or the seeds have a virus.
I'll harvest some seeds and try again next spring.
I was disappointed myself,
But your fail video gave me some energy for keep going.
time lapse videos are highly educational for gardeners and botanists. even the "failure" ones. i love that i can see the reasons why your plants died, ive never seen them in action like this tho. you really need to speed up time to properly see a plant, plants treat the time timension just like we treat our 3 spatial dimensions
are you even fertilizing ur plants?
Not all time-lapses are great, but these ones sure are beautiful.
idk why but the first time i watched this video i only saw the stick (second one) and it was the funniest thing ive ever seen. today i wanted to show it to my gf and realised its a serious video
Ahh 😌 I needed that... not everything goes according to plan. Aaand exhale 😌🌬️
My tarmarillo growed exactly like that. It always only had a few leaves at the very top, and dropped the others. Eventually it reached my ceiling, and I had to take it outside, where it started to branch out a bit. Then the cold killed it.
Also, they smell weird when you touch them. Like bad/rotten peanut butter. My wife hated it :(
I feel the pain. No clue why, but many of the things I've tried growing in my apartment have randomly died on me. Peppers particularly like to start strong then randomly crap out.
any insight into why the failures? is it completely out of your control and some plants are just doomed?
Lack of nutrients, got to reabsorb from old leaves.
Maybe the pots are too small as the roots need more room? I read that some plants stop growing if their roots are blocked off
Lychee is difficult to grow - I tried, it stayed at the same height (12 cm) for about 1 year and a half 😅 - after that it started to grow, but I had a very serious problem with spider mites and I couldn't get rid of it, the bigger it got worse - The problem got worse with the mite and I ended up giving up!
You have to have the right soil for lychees to grow. They require a beneficial bacterium that grows on their roots. So, in order to have a healthy lychee tree, you need to have soil from under an existing lychee tree to grow it in.
@@fieryvale or use some Great White by Plant Success.
@@IguanaJoose Thank you! I didn't know this existed. I'll have to write it down.
nice to see some pepper plants looks less beautiful than mine. ^^
Idk what it was but the first one of the peppers got it. It was like it was gasping for air while trying so hard to make those peppers ripe.
This is also interesting to watch! Please put a caption in the video as well saying what went wrong
For the amount of time it takes to go from seed to plant…it begs the question.
How many of these are growing at the same time and it’s time intensive to be capturing the images daily.
I’d love to see the set up behind the backdrop.
Such a painful resemblance to human life too. Such is the nature of life. Sometimes, no matter how hard the creature tries, it fails
Please do a timelapse of a carnivorous plant! :)
It almost made me tear up, seeing the sad part getting attention too.
Do you know what went wrong? Was it just seeds that weren't great? I'd be keen to know what lessons you got along the way and how it's made you a better grower and/or filmmaker 😊
It has to be those clay pots. They wick sooo much water away from the plant. In nature plants are not watered every other day, they can go a week without rain or water. So you need to water the soil thoroughly enough to span at-least 4-5 days.
Hate them things. Good for cactus.
I don't think it was Edema that killed the Yellow Bell Pepper - it looks like thrips to me. I've grown bell peppers under lights before and when I had a thrip infestation that's exactly what it looked like and how the plant behaved. Lots of neem oil has finally brought it under control with my houseplants but the peppers didn't make it.
oh dang, i didn't know that some timelapses fail. i mean i expected not all to succeed but these are plants i never saw on your channel. did you give up on those plants after the fail or did i just not see the video? also how many timelapses do you run on average at a time?
I gave up on them, probably will try again later at some point. I try to keep between 25-30 going at the same time
@@Boxlapse damn😦 25-30 at a time
honestly a lot of these "fails" look quite nice
You should do a timelapse of bamboo next to another plant to show off its blazing speed.
You may want to shake the plants to pollinate as well as fertilize after the leafs grow. You seem to run out of potassium and phosphorus in each grow later on with the peppers
i clicked on knowing theyd fail, but i still found myself rooting for them. Pun very much intended
Same thing happened to my lichi 😢 Too hard to grow.
do a fern timelapse