Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Skip to content Jump to Recipe Print Recipe. Growing bean sprouts is not only an easy project that saves money, it also results in an abundance of fresh vegetables.
With a few key materials and a little bit of time, you can grow mung bean sprouts in very little time. Active Time 20 mins. Inactive Time 5 d. Total Time 5 d 20 mins. Cuisine: Chinese, Japanese, Korean. Keyword: grow mung bean sprouts, growing bean sprouts, growing mung beans, how to grow bean sprouts. Yield: 1. Equipment colander, or any container with a drainage hole.
Materials dried mung beans or any other bean ex: lentils, black beans, etc. See Note 1. Instructions Wash the beans once or twice, removing any bad beans. Lay a lightly dampened paper towel or cheesecloth on top of a colander.
You can also substitute any other container with holes at the bottom for drainage. Pour the mung bean seeds on top of the towel and spread them out so that they lay evenly. Storing the beans in a dark place ensures that the beans do not turn green or bitter. In the beginning, do not shake or disturb the beans too much when watering so that they grow straight.
Note 2. Ethylene gas seems to promote the root growth of Mung Beans. We use a large paper bag - from a grocery store. Allowing space for the Sprouter , we put in the bag; bananas and apples. We use organic fruit. We will be experimenting with other fruits to determine which work best.
We don't know yet whether there are more, nor which produce the most gas. We work on this as time allows. Here is the rest of what you need to know if you want to experiment yourself: We use the exact same technique we detail in our Sprouting Instructions above , though we are still trying to determine if applying weight to the growing sprouts is necessary.
We are trying to grow in an Easy Sprout with a second Easy Sprout , partially filled with water as a weight. Isn't education grand? Our Produce Storage Bags do so by allowing the ethylene gas to escape the bag. Perhaps we should try using them in our tests. We do not try to remove the hulls of Mung Bean sprouts. They are thin, inoffensive, have no noticeable affect on shelf life, and they add color. The hulls are very difficult to remove, so we advise leaving them in your crop. We've eaten these hulls for 2 decades.
They're swell. For those who want to know why store bought mungs often have no hulls - the answer is that commercial growers have big de-hulling machines that agitate the sprouts as they pass through a trough filled with moving water. It's a very elaborate process with no home version - at least not one we've figured out to date. As we like the hulls , we probably never will find a home solution, so enjoy your crop - hulls and all.
Happy Sprouting! Soaked , Rinsed and Drained. Here is the weight we use when growing in Easy Sprout. The top is a water filled Solid Base with a Solid Lid. That is sitting directly on our Mung Beans in the lower Easy Sprout's Growing Vessel - which is of course sitting in its elevated position within another Solid Base.
You can be done now. They're small but perfect. Here is what they look like if you harvest now the same time as the picture above. The actual phenomenon or problem :. End of video snapshot:. Short explanation of the science or math involved. The sunflower seedlings on the right are seen growing in the light. Shortly after emerging from the soil and into the light, stem elongation slows. At the same time, the cotyledons early seed leafs separate, enlarge, and turn green as chloroplasts develop and enable the plant to begin photosynthesis.
Extended explanation The light slows stem elongation through hormones that are sent down the stem from the tip of the stem. In the darkness, the hormones do not slow stem elongation. The seeds in the dark-grown condition rely upon the stored chemical energy within their cells lipids, proteins, carbohydrates to power their growth. The seeds in the light-grown condition only partially rely upon their stored chemical energy and start to harness solar energy as their chloroplasts develop.
While the light-grown seeds do not grow as tall as the dark-grown, they have more developed leaves, more rigid cell walls, and will not be as flimsy as the dark-grown plants. Questions : A couple of ideas for using the problem in the classroom including central questions that can be used to elicit student thinking or lead a discussion. What is going on? What did you notice? Was your prediction supported by the video?
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