Props to the camera man for standing still for a whole year

I imagine this person has multiple rooms all full of future projects being recorded. To record some of these videos for an entire year means you need some crazy planning and dedication for the channel.

Have to acknowledge the time and patience required to make a video like this.The constant checking of the camera to make sure the camera is working throughout the whole year

Props to all the fungi that close the circle of life and make our world livable!

I know we're supposed to be here for the cigs but holy smokes how many billions of lifetimes lived and perished in that container.

For anyone curious, the remains of the cig won't disintegrate because it's plastic (vinyl or cellulose acetate). This is a really great video to see what happens to cigs over time!! Thanks for making this video!!!

This shows the raw power and strength of nature. How it can never been stopped. Truly remarkable

That was amazing. Always great to see how life thrives and dies. Thanks for your patience

This guy is actually really good. The title says "cigarette" but he suprised us and gave us three cigarettes. We need more KZfaqrs like him. Edit: I did not expect to get so many likes. Thanks.

This really shows how many little living things there really are in the soil.

I see all those little mites in the soil. How amazing, Nature is beautiful.

That was a nice project.. actually left me emotional. Thank you for your work

I’m an organic soil farmer. I don’t cultivate plants. I cultivate the soil and it does the rest. I knew the cigarette would go back to soil eventually. It’s amazing how much and how quickly the soil will eat. Most people don’t see soil as a living. You couldn’t count the amount of life in one spoonful of rich soil.

Imagine that a microbe has been born, lived and died, and this is happening millions of times, without being recorded, this would’ve been happened without anyone noticing. That’s why I love these videos. It is amazing on how dedicated these videos are to piece

This is such a beautiful production

Amazing. Simple yet very interesting. You can have my subscription for dedication like this. Thank you

I think the most impressive thing is that it took the mold 4 months to take over. Very clean jar, well done

I say the most impressive thing is how he was able to store a year of 4K footage. I honestly can't imagine how big the video file was 👏💀

The moss and algae in this video inspired me to make an abandoned city diorama terrarium. Interesting to see that the cigarette butts don’t decompose… but the diorama is the main thing I’m leaving this video with. Thanks for giving me yet ANOTHER project I want to work on…

i appreciate the dedication and effort to make this video👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Never quite realized how absolutely TEEMING with life the soil is, and all we saw was the outermost layer of that bottle filled with the stuff. Also amazing to see how the fungus "crawls" across the bottle! Another thing this demonstrates really strikingly is the resilience/ non-degradability of plastic. Those cigarette butts were basically untouched after a whole year.

The filter never goes away, when I was a smoker I dropped one from time to time in on of my plant pots. After 10 years not single one decomposed despite I watered the thing regularly.

Wow, I just watched your Apple video & my daughter & I were mesmerized!! Now we watched this one… you are cool.

Excellent demonstration of what is and is Not biodegradable. And the fact you spent a year putting this together is just plain awesome.

Super cool time lapse and quite the eye opener. There must be quadrillions of these scattered about the world, buried in our soils, in the wild, in the gardens, affecting plant life everywhere. I’m probably responsible for hundreds of them back in my youth I’m sorry to say. Cigarettes were the best thing I ever gave up. Only took a handful of attempts and 30 years of my life to beat the dam things. I’m only 7 months and 2 weeks clean of them but I’m over them for good. Still get the cravings, but I take deep breaths and think about all the people we’ve lost to these disgusting things. It was my favourite poison but that’s exactly what they were. Good riddance.

Impressive work! You can clearly see that the cigarette butts pollute the environment for many centuries until the dirt has weathered away! Thank you for your effort and patience with the project!

I subscribed and liked the video just for the shear brutal work this probably took, absolutely impressive.

I believe the plant died due to lack of humidity. As whenever you move plants from indoor to outdoor, they have to adjust to it slowly. Just as it does with humidity. I could be wrong, but it's what I have found out with my plants. Best of luck and great video!

Wow, i would never have thought that life in a closed jar would survive more than a few days. Instead an entire stable ecosystem developed, containing animals, plants, mushrooms and probably viruses and bacteria. Mindblowing :)

Congratulations for 12M views ❤❤❤❤

The amount of cameras this dude has is probably too many Great video, too bad the little plant didn't make it

The filters on cigarettes are made of cellulose acetate (a type of plastic) which is slow to degrade in the environment. A typical cigarette butt can take 18 months to 10 years to decompose

That "TIME LAPSE" SOLD ME GOT ME TO CLICK ON THIS 😂

Brilliant stuff!

The plant died because of the environmental change--it was extremely humid in the jar. It wasn't acclimated to storing water yet so it dried up. Keeping it in a covered container for awhile could've helped

The way life always finds a way to create itself is insane to me.

Awesome bro🎉🎉

GREAT EFFORT NICE WORK .

The realization that the time lapse with the plant was reverse almost made me cry. Great job.

The fact that the jar hasn’t been opened but there still grows life in there is insane

Imagine when you first put it in for the first seconds, you will be checking it every minute, waiting for a year to pass.

The patience and overwhelming power of nature.Momentary expressions in an ever changing unity.

Watching this video, made me feel like i was connected to something greater for a few short minutes.

The effort you put in your videos is remarkable. Cant believe you filmed a jar of dirt for an entire year.

Cigarette are very harmful, I tried quitting but It seems very difficult, A friend introduced me to shrooms and since them I felt the real me

Close to 14m views congratulations 🎉

Watching the fungi march across the jar was really incredible! Great video!

What a dedication 😊🙏 Amazing to see how many living beings were born and perished 🙏

I loved this, it was extremely beautiful, I’m surprised how well they decomposed in a year, and that they even started growing a tobacco plant too

Subscribed just for the patience in making this video

This should be a television commercial! Thanks for your time and commitment in making this.

I love that you tried to save that little plant....I think it just wasn't the right environment for it to thrive in, but kudos to you for trying.....most people wouldn't have done that & that makes you awesome! 😊

Can't wait for next year's timelapse video

Hard to explain the satisfaction of watching this

It's cool to see how the algae formed because of the constant light on that side of the jar

Thanks to the camera man who recorded the entire footage for a whole year!

the video and music is amazing

Good video, thanks. The same exxperiment with atmosphere introduced would increase the cig breakdown, probably to include the breakdown of the cellulose filter.

That was actually beautiful. Life in a sealed jar - left alone, but thriving. So wonderful to watch. The cigarettes just became part of the matrix.

I bet when u get together for family and friend gatherings, the main topic of conversations is "what r u going to do next?"

interesting videos. Looking forward to your next videos❤

this shows time is effort to keep the camera and all things functional is wicked an the video is great because of it nice work soul

I was about to say nothing remarkable happens, and then it did.. Nature is a true wonder that always finds a way to leave you in awe!

That took an unexpected turn, I thought nothing much would happen 😅

I love in the end instead of showing a timelapse in which the plant died, you reversed it to look at how it lived thats a really nice touch

If you try to save a plant like that again, replicate the environment it had or transition it slowly to open air. It will have a much better chance this way 😊 Beautiful video

This was far more fascinating than it had any right to be...

Dude. That was like the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. It’s like the bugs created their own world and eco system there. If you pay attention you can see the sparks of life happening. Wowwwwwww. The bugs man. This is actually crazy.

Watching the plant grow is amazing

I didn't expect it to be so green. I would have loved to see some of it under a microscope. Great video.

Absolutely LOVED watching this - especially all the mites, collembola, nematodes, and other tiny little invertebrates that in the accelerated depiction, seemed to be zipping around all through the soil in the jar. The persistence of the filters was not surprising, but a clear demonstration of how long they'll last in the environment when they just get thrown out a window or otherwise dropped on the ground.

So even the tiny cells of soil are alive. Such a pro life video. Thanks

Weird and wonderful! Nice music, too. Keep up the great art of time lapse photography. Liked and Subscribed

I love this content! Thank you for the time and dedication it takes to do this

You take one of the most precious things in this world: Time... Just to make the most beautiful time lapses that remind us all of life everyday. Props to you and your work, don't stop and always strive for success.

This experiment is a tiny version of creation and Earth. This bottle produced what seemed to be a cloud, rain (moisture), mold (grass) and a tiny tree with no help from human hands.. Just nature reproducing life! Amazing video on so many levels!

beautiful work, I watched while smoking an unfiltered cigarette🚬

So awesome how that not so large jar contains a whole different world in it

Incredible! I would love to see a behind the scenes of how you film these for so long, where you keep all the stuff etc!

the fungus takeover was insane

That's such a nice video. Makes us remember of how life is ephemeral.

props to the cameraman for filming that jar for 365 days straight 👏

It would be even more interesting to see the contrast of a control jar throughout the experiment.

Woah so cool!

"i heard u bought cigarretes can i have one" "no soz im using mine" "but your not smoking it" "long story"

This is the first time I felt sad at the end, I wanted this video to go on like forever. Great video as always

A great video, nicely done. It's amazing to see how much life and movement is to be seen in a closed environment.

"Well, well, well, look who's finally decided to kick the habit- the cigarette that took a year-long vacation in the soil! Talk about a slow burn, am I right? We are witnessing the world's slowest magic trick. Now that's what I call commitment to composting!

Amazing!

Honestly there are very few who would have the patience to make videos like yours! Absolutely phenomenal, you're the living example of original and true content. And your videos are so so good, it feels like I'm sitting inside a time machine or sometimes like I'm having a foresight into the future. Scary and impressive at the same time. Last but not least, don't smoke guys. You're not helping anyone!

Fantastic 👌 This channel deserves much more 🙌 keep it up 🔥

Thank u for ur video and efforts..

I love how the soil and organisms create a self sustainable eco system inside the jar.. 🥰

REALLY awesome video - I loved seeing all the little critters zooming about!! I think that little plant might have been a young fern plant. I reckon it might have passed because of shock. If you're happy for me to share what I'd do next time: I'd plant it in another sealed pot with a similar humidity/atmosphere using the soil it originally grew in. Over time you'd be able to acclimatise the plant to being exposed to a different environment (air temperature or humidity changes, etc). I've grown a bunch of ferns in the past, so hope that helps. Great content!

Glad it’s in 8k so I can watch it at 1080p. 👍🏽

Once again the Camera Man is our true MVP

Absolutely Amazing, the effects and processes that are involved is clearly visible in the video, I love things like this. Great Experiment to try with your kids to show them the processes and explain how they work and why they are doing it.

The relieve when he opened the jar after a year of standing still and filming must be gigantic! I hope he can buy a really good chair from making this video!

@PhotoOwl what's interesting fact is, this might be a near perfect but not perfect timelapse, because the porta lights/artificial lighting contributes to a lot of changes in the terrarium! Kudos to you tho!♥️ Interesting video...for smokers out there.

Great demonstration. Next time you want to give a plant like that a chance, recreate the terrarium environment (enclosed functional ecosystem and high humidity) that it originally grew in. You'll likely have better luck. [: Thanks for sharing!