Encouraging words

Although the variety of messages sent to our plant is extremely wide, we can still see that positive words make up the majority of them. For a visual representation of which words are the most commonly used so far, just look at the image below!

It's over 10.000!

Yay!

Today we went over 10.000 written, read and broadcasted messages to our test plant. Good work everyone who has participated so far. We are half-way through the set experiment time and the result is overwhelming. Also, today, as you may have read already - the test plant once again grew past the control plant. Sweet.

And this is message number ten thousand:

"everybody if you can, do the bartman, shake your body, if you can turn it out man"

How about that.

Moving on: Since Sweden, where the plants are situated, is pretty much pitch black this time of the year - we gradually have to increase the amount of artificial light to simulate spring/summer instead of winter. Today, we’re gonna increase the "sun" with one more hour a day.

Which hopefully will make some of our American participants happy, since they’re usually at work when the plants go to sleep over here.

Stay sunny // No one grows ketchup like Heinz.

Back in the lead!

Our test plant has been falling behind the reference plant for quite some time, but todays measurement shows that it's once again back in the lead!



We think this is fairly amazing! The last measurement was taken just this Friday, and the test plant has grown seven centimeters since then (while the reference plant has grown just three)!

Please keep sending more love and encouragement to it!

LOVE is all we need!

This is rumor control:

Todays measurement shows that our control plant is getting ahead. Are we not giving enough love here? Is the theory of human breath something to consider? Interesting development none the less.

Here are some things said to the plant, that we feel could be a part of the problem:

1. gnnnn fock 

2. mary is hairy

3. this is the strangest life i have ever known

We cannot see how these sentences will provide any help of growth! Most people are still writing positive and scientifically smart stuff - and we need more of that.

Come on now. Spread the love. And help the plant!

Stay nice // No one grows ketchup like Heinz

NEW RIG!

So, now we’ve got a new rig - one that allows our test plant to reach the moon more or less.

The rebuilding took a bit longer than expected - but all for the better.

The time-lapse will look a bit strange for a few days, since we changed the angle of the cameras, but please keep talking to our little plant!

Stay tuned! 

Rebuilding the rig!

For about 1 hour the experiment will be on hold - due to reconstruction of the IRL tomato rig. The plants have grown out of the frame we set to monitor their development. Clearly, we did not expect such massive growth in only two weeks. Exciting!

Please excuse the short break and do return when the new rig is up and running!

Stay sharp // No one grows ketchup like Heinz.

Timelapse progress of week two.

We made a little timelapse trailer-ish kind of clip. It shows the progress from first two weeks (almost -  on monday it is two whole weeks) - please feel free to share.

Up next: Extreme out of frame growth requires rebuilding the rig! Stay tuned!