Tickle Me Plant Review And Giveaway
December 17, 2008 by admin - Jennifer
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Ever See a Plant Move Its Branches and Leaves, When You Tickle It?
What is a TickleMe Plant?
Native to Brazil, TickleMe Plants can be found growing wild there and in other tropical areas. The scientific name for the TickleMe Plant™ is Mimosa pudica. It also has been called shy grass, sensitive plant and other names throughout the world.
How To Grow a TickleMe Plant
Now you and your family can grow your own TickleMe Plants™! I have been growing TickleMe Plants™ with my sixth grade students and family for over 30 years. Imagine the amazement of your friends, family or students when your living TickleMe Plant™ closes its leaves and lowers its branches as you tickle it.
Materials:
- TickleMe Plant™ Seeds
- Flower pot or cup with hole on the bottom
- Soil
Directions:
- The day before you plant your seeds, soak them in warm water overnight
- Fill a flower pot or cup ¾ of the way with soil
- Plant three to five seeds by covering them with 1/8 inch of soil
- Water your seeds gently
- Place your newly planted seeds in a room that receives bright light or sunlight for part of the day
- Temperatures in the room should be above 70 degrees
- Water before the soil dries out
- That’s it! Your plants will begin to grow in less than a week.
The first two leaves will not be ticklish. In about three weeks, the second set of TickleMe Plant™ leaves will appear and they will move when you tickle them. TickleMe Plants™ are best grown as house plants and can even be placed in a bright location outside during the warmer months. They are frost sensitive, so be sure to bring them inside before the cold weather arrives. The sensitive plant seeds of the TickleMe Plant grow to produce beautiful pink cotton puff ball flowers. TickleMe Plants™ can live for a year or more and grow to about one foot plus in height. The Four great things about this plant are:
- The plant MOVES when you Tickle It. The leaves close and the branches droop when the plant is tickled.
- It can be grown indoors year round.
- It sprouts in less than a week and the leaves will move when Tickled, in less than a month.
- It produces pretty pink cotton candy like flowers.
You have got to see these plants. My kids laugh every time the leaves curl up and my neighbor’s kid laughed and thought the plant was hiding. These are great for your child or a whole classroom. You can purchase one, a family greenhouse or a classroom greenhouse. These would make perfect Christmas gifts for anyone, these plants will help teach your kids about gardening and they will be hooked on it. My daughter loves gardening.
TickleMe Plant products can be found at http://www.TickleMePlant.com and in all the major botanical garden and science museum gift shops in New York, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Longwood, Camden and more. TickleMe Plant products also can be purchased from the top educational websites and catalogs such as, Teacher’s Source and Edmund Scientifics.
The great people at TickleMePlant have offered a second TickleMePlant Family Greenhouse to give to a Dirty Shirt reader. Rules are below:
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This giveaway will run through midnight on December 31, with winner being announced the morning of the January 1, 2009. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and submitted to PRIZEYWinners as well as notified via email the first week of December. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.
we all try to garden and amuse ourselves here- no pros but we love watching the beautiful things that come from bulbs and seeds…My favorite is a sunflower- its amazing how beautiful and tall they grow. I would keep this for the kiddos to have fun and learn.
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I am the gardner in my household, I love to plant my garden everyear love to can all my garden goodies and my roses, I love gardning, this is so cute would most likly keep it so I could see it grow….
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I am the gardener in our family. We have 2.5 acres we go, but I have a separate family vegetable garden. My favorite plants to grow are artichokes.
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No good gardeners here! We try, and we plant a few different things each year, but we definately dont have a green thumb! I love sunflowers, but cant seem to get them to grow!
If I win this we will keep it, my daughter would love it!!
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I am the gardener in our family. My favorite to grow is herbs for my cooking habit. I will grow this with my kids. It should be lots of fun!
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I would give this to my 3.5 yr old – she talks about how they grew seeds at her preschool. My mom has a green thumb and I grew up with lots of plants inside/outside. My favorite is the crocus – to me it means spring is around the corner!
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We grow a vegetable garden every year and have a few house plants. i’d keep this, or if I got more than one plant going I’d share them with the grandkids. they’d either enjoy it here or at their houses.
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My wife is the gardener. I have a brown thumb. I suppose her favorite plant is the sunflower, since she’s festooned our yard with them.
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My daughters love to grow plants. They like to grow whatever daddy gets them from marigolds to vegetables. I would give this to my girls. They would enjoy watching it get tickled. Thanks for the chance.
My 6 year old is our “gardener” He brought home a bean plant and gets to eat them as they grow I would give it to him
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If I won the Tickle Me Plant, it would be kept at my house but it would belong to our granddaughter, who visits us on the average of once a week. She is two, and I think this would be a great project to get her started in gardening.
We have a sunny windowsill just above the kitchen sink that would be the perfect spot.
And, just because I’m fascinated by a plant that will react so dramatically to our touch, I intend to name it Audrey, in tribute to Little Shop of Horrors.
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I am the gardener in my family and the kids and I would love this. Very cute.
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I am the family gardener and I love my vegetable garden. My favorite is growing tomatoes, yum!! I would give this to my daughters to share, ages 13 and 11 as they like to help me garden and they would really get a kick out of this. Thanks!!!
my son loves cactus and would have fun with this!
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I try to garden, but I’m not very good at it! My favorite plant is my orange ruffled day lily. It’s so pretty and you can’t kill it!
I used to have one of the Tickle Me plants (before kids), so this plant would go to my kids so that they could enjoy the fun!
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We don’t have a veggie garden but have a variety of perennials planted outside. My daughter’s favorite is the black eyed susan. She would love to try growing a plant that was sensitive to the touch. Thanks.
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My father is the gardner in my life. His favorite plant is one he calls Pink Lady, but I don’t know if that is the real name or not. I would be getting this for my kids!
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I guess I would be the gardener in the family. My favorite flowers are tulips.
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this plant grows pretty wild in the Philippines and it grows with the weeds. reading about it brings back fond memories from my childhood, since we played with it and we are amazed that it closes its leaves. tickling the leaves tickle us too. it always made us smile.
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between me and hubby, i am the one who likes and cares for plants. my toddler is still too young to care, excepft for beating up the leaves of the plants and digging through the dirt. i like flowering plants. i like orchids the most, but orchids just don’t stay alive long with me. i have a house plant with me right now. and it’s pretty. if i win this plant, i will keep it for myself. i can’t wait to show it to my hubby who most probably will get a laugh out of this, and i just can imagine the my toddler’s reaction on this plant …
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I follow you on twitter and also subscribe to you in my reader. i would for sure get this for my niece. she love plants and flowers! she is always helping my sister garden!!! =)
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How adorable this plant is. I am the gardener in the house and grow mint, herbs and tomatoes as well as flowers! But, this tops it all, and I would keep it to entertain friends and family. Thanks for the fab contest.
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My 4-year-old is definitely the gardener, so I’d love to give this to him. His favorite flowers are black-eyed susans. We planted a ton of them last year.
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I’m the gardener in the family. I loved these plants as a kid, and my son came home the other day telling me one of the kids in his class brought one for show-n-tell. I would help my son grow his own, he’d love it!
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I am the gardener in our family and actually my favorite plant is the Orchid. If I win this I’ll keep it for our garden and I’m sure it will delight the kids.
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My mom is definitely the gardner. She loves almost any plants and always is trying to re-plant something. Every time she comes over she starts messing around in my flower bed, no joke.
I would keep this for me and my kids though! This is so cute!
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We have no gardener’s in our family. I just have one aloe plant. This would be fun for the grandkids to grow. Thank you!
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We are all gardeners here! I think we would enjoy this as a family if we won it. Our favorite thing to plant is tomatoes! We enjoy them all summer long!
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What a neat plant! We’re a family of gardeners. We grow a vegetable garden every year and had corn (sweet corn, popcorn, AND blue corn!), potatoes, and carrots this year. Flowers are beautiful (I love irises), but I like to be able to eat what I grow!
If I win, I’ll keep the kit for my family. We’re homeschoolers, and this would be a great learning/study experience.
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My husband is the gardener. He likes to grow things that attract butterflies, like passion vines. I would give this to my husband and son. And…we used to have them when I lived in Puerto Rico. We loved making the leaves close.
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What a fun idea. I love it.
I’m the wannabe gardner with the not-so-green thumb (I kill fake plants…sigh…). BUT… I have a tree! I’m growing a tree and he’s doing well I might add. I was given him as a little seedling on Earth Day and he’s growing very nicely, I’m proud to say. So maybe my luck is changing.
If I won it would be for my kids because I think they would have a lot of fun with this.
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I come from a long line of plant loving family members. My grandmothers and mom enjoyed growing multiples of various flowers. People would stop to see their yards! The Tickle Plant sounds like a lot of fun. I would enjoy growing this plant and have fun with my family tickling it. Many thanks…..Cindi
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I am the gardener in my family with the help of my hubby. If I was to win this I would give it to my youngest son. He loves to watch things grow.
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This is sooo cool. We all enjoy our plants here. Our 5 year old planted sunflower seeds & watched them grow all summer. They were beautiful with different colors- reds, oranges & yellows. Then to feed the birds in the fall. We would like this!
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I am the gardener in my family and my favorite thing to plant are day lilies and mums!
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i would love to have a garden but apartment life kind of sucks that out of you. I like carnations.
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this is so cool. my grandmother was a gardener, grew all her own fresh veggies.
i would get this plant for my daughter. i think she would get a kick out of it.
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Our favorite flower is marigolds. I remember growing these as a little girl, I’m the gardner so far in the family!
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My grandmother loves roses so I’d give this to her and my daughter to work on together as a project.
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I am the gardener in the house, and my favorite plant is holiday cactus (they are SO gorgeous this time of year!). The ticklish plant seems so unique and interesting! Very cool!
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My kiddos and I are the gardeners of the house. My favorite flowers are daisies, but my favorite plant is an ivy because they are so easy to maintain. I definitely want to win this for my kids!
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I do have a garnener in the family!! My husband loves to plant veggies, his favorite to plant and grow are the summer squash plants!! I would be using this one for home, and one for my classroom!!
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My daughter loves to garden – her class has a small garden and she enjoys showing off their tomato plants!
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I guess I am the gardener in the family. We have a small vegetable garden in the summer. My favorite thing to grow is tomatoes (because we love to eat them!).
If I were to win thin, I’d keep it. I think my kids would get a kick out of it.
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How neat.Everyone in our home is somewhat a gardner. We do a veggie & herb garden every year and everyone does their part. My son Weston has a green thumb and he likes to handle the tomatoes. This could make a good study for our classroom.
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As much as I would love to keep this for myself, I would give it to my cousin Maura, who is 9 years old and a budding scientist. If I’m not lucky enough to be chosen as a winner, I’m definitely getting this for her her birthday in March. She would be absolutely *delighted* with the TickleMe plant. Thank you for sharing such a fun product with your readers; I really appreciate it!
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I just started gardening. My favorite plant to grow is a pepper plant. It was my first plant. Thanks for the chance.
I love gardening…my fave is lavender..so pretty & smells great! I’d love to grow the Tickle Me plant with my son!
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I’m the gardener of the family and my favorite is our Red Hibiscus. If I won this would be something for my son and I to do together.
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My mother is an avid gardener, she loves daisies. I think she would enjoy growing the TickleMe plant!
I’m the budding green thumb, and getting better as the years go by. My favorite flower is the hydrangea which I’m now successfully growing in my front bed. I’d bring this plant to work with me…how intriguing!
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I’m not a great gardener but I’d love to give this a try