Gardening | Curly sprouts no more. Let me show you how to grow straight, thick sprouts at home.

Hi Everyone, My name is Michele

and in this video I’m going to show you how to grow bean sprouts

using green beans or you may call them mung beans.

And share with you the trick to achieving straight thick stems instead of curly short sprouts.

Let me show you some photos of them growing.

It is now 9:00 pm on day 0. Tonight I’m preparing the beans for growing tomorrow.

I’m soaking the beans overnight to let them plump up with moisture.

You can use either Mung beans or Soya beans. I’m using Mung beans today.

To start off, I’m going to measure 3 tablespoons of Mung beans into a jug of tap water.

I’m leaving them here to soak overnight and we’ll take a look tomorrow.

It’s now morning at 9:00 am, I’m going to drain them on a sieve and let them breathe.

The water would have turned green and the beans doubled in size.

The bubbles you see at the top are signs of the beans burping as they swell.

I’m now stirring them with very clean hands.

Because oil makes them rot.

Now I’m going to drain the beans on this sieve.

Once again, I have made sure the sieve and draining bucket is free of oil prior to filming.

All that’s left to do is wait and water it every 4-6 hours.

Throw away any dead beans if you see any black ones.

Like this.

Healthy beens have green coating and yellowish beans on the inside.

Distribute the beans evenly on the sieve and cover them with a damp piece of cloth

or use any cover to keep the moisture in and reduce evaporation.

Over here, I’m using a clean kitchen shower cap to cover it.

Now I’m going to leave it here, and water it every 4 hours.

It’s now 12 pm, let’s check out the beans.

and time to water them.

I’m spraying them with a spray bottle to reduce any disturbance or movements to the beans.

I’m also emptying my drainage bowl and keep doing this every 4 hours until day 3.

Cover them up well, and go busy for another 4 hours.

Its 3pm now on day 1 and time to water the beans.

You can see the roots are all poking out of the beans. Let’s take a closer look.

If you observe carefully, the roots are all pointing downwards towards gravity.

Thats because their apex contains gyroscopes which detects where gravity comes from.

Then tells the root which direction to grow.

If you splash the beans with water and keep moving them around,

the roots will keep changing directions too.

they would be so confused with the ever changing direction of gravity.

So if you want straight sprouts, don’t move them!

It is now, 8 pm on day 1, let’s spray the beans and drain any excess water.

Then cover them up again.

It is now 11.30pm of day 1. This will be the last time I’m watering them for today.

Let’s take a look at how much they have grown in one day.

Good morning everyone! It’s now day 2 of growth.

Time to check the sprouts and mist them.

Look at how dry they are.

Yes, I know you need water!

Give me one minute.

It’s now 10.30am of day 2, let’s check the bean sprouts and give them some water.

We’ll check back again in a few hours.

It’s now 8.45pm of day 2. I’m a bit late but let’s see how our sprouts are doing.

Today is day 3. Harvest day for you if you’re doing this at home, but it’s not time for me yet.

I want to show you the best stage to harvest and how to tell they are overgrown.

For now we still need to water them consistently and cover them up.

The reddish hue is the result of light exposure. Keep your beans very dark so they don’t turn red.

It’s now 10 am, and time to water the sprouts again.

Spray them generously on the third day. They will grow the most today in height & thickness.

Do you know that Mung bean sprouts contain Vitamin C,K,E and lots of other trace minerals?

Doesn’t that sound very nutritious already?

Not forgetting lots of fibre and vegetable protein too.

It’s only been an hour, but I think at their rate of growth they do need some extra water.

Even though they are ready for harvest,

I’m going to let them grow further to show you the signs of overgrowing.

You can actually see the beans shrink as they push out the nutrients to grow their leaves.

Which is why we need to harvest before the leaves develop for highest amount of Vitamins and minerals.

It’s now 10.45pm, just an hour and 15 minutes since our last misting.

Let’s see how much they have grown.

I’ll spray them the last time today before I call it a day.

If you’re growing this at home, last night would have been the best time to harvest.

All the leaves are out today more nutrients would have been lost to the leaves.

It’s now 9.30 am on day 4 and I’m still not harvesting yet,

Let’s look at how much they have overgrown.

See how the beans have shrivelled, and leaves are pushing to unfold themselves.

All the growth you see now are depleting the sprouts of the nutrients that you would be consuming.

Especially the extensive growth of the leaves.

If there were no light at all, the leaves wouldn’t have developed so much.

With the roots overgrown, I will need to remove the roots individually.

This is the part I dread most.

Removing the roots.

In summary, this is how I get straight, thick sprouts with Mung beans.

1)No movements to the beans when watering them & no oil contamination at all.

2)Keep the sprouts humid and very dark to suppress the growth of the leaves.

3)Harvest before the leaves & fine roots appear, usually on day 3

This will save you the tedious task of removing the not so delicious fibrous roots.

So here you go, 3 tablespoons of beans for 2 cups of sprouts.

Look at how much roots came off of them.

That’s all from me.

This is Michele signing off,

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And I’ll see you very soon.