LThe show is endless. The eternal loop started again. The decor ? A terracotta pot and topsoil. On the light side, simple effects: probably an LED grow lamp (we will soon discover that there is product placement in this matter). Every day, all you need is a little water and an image. Off-screen, no pun intended, we can assume some fertilizer to boost the business. Filming takes place only in the studio. Just think! Our hero is a tuber from warm countries and production takes place in Finland.
With more than two million subscribers, Boxlapse specializes in horticultural time-lapse. In other words, filming plants growing and broadcasting the result in the form of a time-lapse montage. Every Sunday, proclaims the banner of the YouTube channel, a new plant will be revealed before our eyes, “unless I can’t make something grow fast enough”apologizes the gardener-director.
Concerning our tuber, the staging varies somewhat since we have to go through a prequel: the germination of the sweet potato, levitating thanks to toothpicks in a glass of water. Soon the first growth appears. Cut off from the mother potato during a heartbreaking scene, it in turn stays in a little water to develop the beginnings of a root system, and then heads for the limelight in the middle of the flower pot . Although taciturn and sullen in character, the young sweet potato shoot gives us a colorful interpretation, almost purplish, even. She deploys her game, certainly expected, but still impressive. Until the conclusion, which hides a real turnaround. After two hundred and thirty-seven days, two new tubers are present at the bottom of the pot. Which promises a season 2 potentially rich in twists and turns.
Internet users who do not have a green thumb can rest assured, the Finnish studio Boxlapse does not always succeed in its effects. Some exotic productions experienced flops resounding. In particular yellow pepper, tamarillo (a cousin of the tomato), longhorn pepper and even lychee.
Discreet green thumb
But regardless, it seems that even if greatly accelerated or attacked by a fungal disease, the spectacle of nature retains soothing virtues. It’s a concert of praise that pours out on the channel. Some people thank us for teaching them the basics of gardening. Others suggest plants to feature. So-and-so glorifies the Creator, the great one up there, not the one on the YouTube channel, “author of all life”when another greets “a true school of patience”although the art of waiting is precisely erased in the time-lapse.
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