Bean seed sprouting time-lapse, 25 days
Roots go down first, then the shoot goes up. Lead-in to planting our own in the yard.
A kidney bean planted against the glass of a narrow container and filmed for 25 days, so the soil cross-section shows the whole story: the seed swells, a root pushes down and branches, then the shoot hooks up through the soil, straightens toward the light and opens its first leaves. By GPhase.