Japan sent this Sakura Tree to Space... and then Weird things started happening 

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There's a beach in Toyama where Jade washes up on the beach after earthquakes. I'd love to see a video about that.

DLR, the German space travel agency , just did a science project for primary school kids called Space Seeds. They sent wild flower seeds to space for 6 months and in a blind study you got 2 color coded packages to plant and observe the growth of the plants. They also came to the conclusion that the seeds that were in space showed faster and stronger growth than the earth seeds. It was a great project! My students enjoyed participating

I love that the oldest tree is being taken care of the way we take care of our old loved ones.

The most common Sakura, the shimeiyoshino I think, were all cloned from from cuttings from a single tree. Interesting that a tree that was grown from a seed would mutate, though it does make sense that it might mutate.

I went to Japan this year for the first time and it's actually the most awesome trip I've ever done in my life

I'm with the pollination theory if 6 petal cherry blossoms are a thing on Earth. Otherwise, I'd bet the time in space altered the seed's genes. The hanging down may just be due to the "extra" weight of the 6th petal? It's nice seeing you again , Hannah.

I want to spend my life in peace and quiet in a house in the middle of the field full of cherry blossoms they're so gorgeous I want to see one in person 😭😭

See when Mount Fuji is visible, it completely transforms the scenery. 08.16, that drive in the night with Fuji, looks awesome!

I think the best part was when the old man ate the strange cherry blossoms. Old folks just knows stuff. Now I feel like I need to eat them too!

I live in a very very countryside city in Brazil and we also had a tree that went to the moon, its in a park that takes care of it. The city's name is Santa Rosa in the state of Rio Grande do Sul if you want to look it up, it's not a sakura tree

Ive barely been out of my state, but visiting Japan has been my dream since i was 11! Beautiful architecture, history, & cat loving culture!!! I hope to go one day!

In reverse: there have been seeds found in archaeological sites in Japan that differ from known living cousins by its petals, leaves, etc.

Back when I was a kid, a local community college (I believe) got a hold of some tomato seeds that were sent to space much like these trees. When they came back and were grown, the tomatoes had gold spots all over them which was so weird looking. Now I hate raw tomatoes but when someone offers you a piece of space tomato to eat you obviously eat it! LOL

The Jindai Zakura is an Edo (Yedo) higan zakura, one of the oldest breeds of wild cherry tree in Japan. The famous Yoshino cherry trees in Washington, DC, USA, is a hybrid of the Edo higan and Oshima zakura.

Glad to see you back in Japan & thriving, Hannah!

I came to this video tryna figure out more about sakura seeds that traveled to space, but ended up staying for the beautiful & oddly calming shots of a part of Japan, and the fact that Sakuraco and Tokyo Treat sponsored this video made me watch the whole thing (since I like looking at the snacks) 10/10 like this content

Noticed they recently raised Fugi-san’s alert level to watch. Recording seismic activity indicative of moving magma. Ticking time bomb but sure is gorgeous on the rare clear day.

Thank you for the story that even I, a Japanese, did not know!

Hannah and mochi, name a more iconic duo haha. This was a fantastic video! Love a deep dive, this was just an especially beautiful one

The hospice my grandma died in was named Sakura, such a beautiful name and tree

I live in a city in Kenya and we had a tree that was sent to space. It is guarded in a central park. It is so tall. Its flowers are 7 but normal ones have 6!

Now I want to see what would happen if different seeds from trees or plants would do!

Also… maybe I’m just used to cherry trees that have to deal with Canadian winters but does that not look a LOT older than a 15 year old tree?

Fantastic video. I have always loved the idea of seeing the cherry blossoms in Japan. Now I want to go more than ever. 😀

Your short is what got me to this video and felt almost instantly that I needed to subscribe haha. Can already tell I'm going to like the content. :)

Instead of growing toward the sun the space trees flowers grow toward the earth, that’s beautiful.

I bet this tree got a lot of attention when growing, ensuring nutrients were optimal and plenty of water so would grow quicker than another cherry blossom without the same attention. The cross pollination explains the petals unless it’s only a few of the petals and not every single flower when the attention paid to the tree would highlight this more than other cherry blossoms.

I love Sakura! This is your first video I've seen and it was very interesting and pretty!! I'll subscribe as these are really easy to watch when I just want to wind down

Just found your channel through the Instagram post for this video. Your videos are all so wonderful, I’m so happy I found you ❤

It would be awesome to see how the seeds would sprout in space 🌱

Great vlog wonderful Hannah!!! The cherry blossoms are beautiful!!! 🌸

That Old Man Who Ate Cherry Blossom Leaves Knows Stuffs.

Could the lack of gravity, amongst different air pressure in the spacestation over a period of time slightly alter how the seeds developed on a microscopic scale?

Saw the short on about the tree had to come see the full video.

When I saw this my first thought was that the parent tree's flower was probably pollinated by a different variety of cherry resulting in a seed that would not look like it's parent. This is extremely common, that's why nurseries more often propagate perennials by cutting instead of seed when they want to produce the same variety.

Thank you for leaving your link in the shorts video

Hi Hannah, just wanted to say Japan is damn lucky to have you! Best jvlogger by far. Keep doing what you’re doing!

Throw some seeds in moon a d mars also.. with rover or orbiter it can be done.

i absolutely dispise yt-shorts, but i stumbled upon the teaser for this video rn.. well done !!!

Oh wow I just clicked this because it showed up on my list. Didn’t realize video was 5 minutes ago. Also congrats on going back to Japan haven’t really say anything abt that. Wasnt new here just lurking. Great video, keep it up!!

Amazing Sakura Space story!

we fr got the overachiever tree next to the great gramps tree (not exactly next to each other ofc but still ironic)

Happy Monday, Hannah!😊😊😊😊😊😎☀💙💙💙💙💙🌷💖💖💖💖💖💖🎇👍. You finally made it to Japan. Congratulations!🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇👍

i am planning to come back later this year for the fall foilage, will be great to hear about your reco on any hidden tracks we should check out around that time? (thinking of toyama or aomori but open to hear a few more spots)

Kinda wholesome for me It's like bringing a young kid to space when they were just a baby..

Everyone seeing the blossom tree....me watching her the whole video 😍🌸

A video on train fans would be amazing! Especially if it has Doctor Yellow

Thank you for the interesting store, and it's so nice to see you back in Japan.

I watched the all video and am overwhelmed by your vlog going experience ❤👍thank you for sharing Hannah.

This is beautiful. I’m starting to dream again 😊❤

Great video, also DAM that one shot driving down the street with mount fuji in the background... chefs kiss! I had to go back and watch it several more times. Also really excited to see your other topic video, especially the drifting one!

The media don't want to talk about this much, but the offsprings of astronauts after coming back from space all have 6 fingers.

Bruhh August 8th , 2023. I discovered hannnah and her channel immm soo late . I hope she can host another trip to Japan i wanna go man with everything I got in me .!!!

Thank you I didn’t know about space Sakura! Beautiful video too. ありがとうございました！

deep dives nobody asked for, but we're all better off for it! oh and, i didn't actually tell you this, but i also went to sakura wanitsuka probably about 2 weeks after you, and i could barely even recognise it amongst the landscape because it was all green 😂. much sad. next year!

4:01 * *in Michaels' voice from The Office* * "That's what she said"

So I'm by no means an expert on this, but at 4:09 you say that Jindai sakura translates to "giant sakura", which is indeed the translation of the characters you displayed at 1:04 (甚大). However, all of the signs that were seen in the video, including the ones by the space tree and the one displayed right after at 4:11, actually say 神代, which is also read as Jindai but actually translates to something like "as old as the gods". This seems like a fitting name for the oldest sakura tree around :)

Quite Significant and Fascinating 🌸🌸❤🌸🌸💖

Saw the short. Had to know more!

The oldest human planted tree is located in Sri Lanka. "Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi" is 2300 years old.

Genetic testing could tell the space trees lineage Is it harder to test cherry blossoms?

Wow, that is such a beautiful tree! I wish I could squeeze this into my travel plan. I going to be in Tokyo for cherry season this year, but I am not sure I picked the right dates. How much time do sakura last usually after reaching full bloom?

This is definitely the Aussie in me talking, but I so badly want that to be melted Vegemite drizzles over that mocha for the ultimate umami flavour bomb! And those cheery blossoms- pffft, ditch the car and walk endlessly through them. It's like heaven!

Yay! More Hannah! The space cherry tree story is so awesome! I have never heard that before! Mysterious! And I loved that photo of you and Chris! Stellar photography! You both look so happy and beautiful!

I do environmental sciences at uni, will deffo be telling my professor about this!

If only there was a way this experiment to be repeated by the at-home botanist. I find this Fascinating

Pickled sakura flowers are a nice snack, i don't blame that old man.

Most anticipated future topic, the drifting scene! 🙏

That oldest tree looks like an old grandma hunch over walking with a cane.

This is sooooo lovely thank you for sharing 🌸🌳💕

If this interests you, you should look into the "Atoms for Peace" program, specifically the "Atoms for Agriculture" program where the United States purposefully exposed agricultural plants to radiation samples in an attempt to produce helpful and safe mutations into the plant. And, it actually did produce some verifiable progress. Most of the plants that were irradiated, their seeds would grow faster and/or bloom faster than normal - something akin to what we see with the "Space Sakura" trees here. And, by the way, this was all very safe and the actual successive yields were not irradiated - they were merely mutated. They were safe to eat or use. They weren't actually contaminated by heavy metal/radiological particles. They were merely irradiated. Same way with how you getting an x-ray doesn't mean you're radioactive.

That is like the story of the Fantastic Four but for plants... LOL Amazing!

I think thats the fastest 10 minutes in my life. video ended so fast, new sub by the way!

That's nice. There's another place where you can see the golden sun rising from the sea (Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India).

There is place in india in Agra. A dmsll temple. Where you put whole coconut on a cement plateform . Which cracks itself,without any touch. Need to kniw reason .

So yeah, I live here… lol Glad you could see the old man of Yamanashi. He’s a beauty!

4:00 i love how she says thick 🤣

If we grow one of the seeds from said space Sakura, would it be the same as the original, or be more like the description of what it’s supposed to be?

I'd like a better idea of the homeless problem in Japan. I saw a video om how Japan tries to help get people back on their feet with a multi-stage program, but talking to people on Twitter, they felt left behind. It also got addressed in Aggretsuko, so it's a big enough difficulty that it's getting commented on. Please consider asking questions and seeing what the reality is for Japan currently. Thank you.

This tree moonlights as a superhero named Sakuraman.

Thank you for making this video 📷.

Here from RU-vid shorts I'm not totally finished this video but I love it 💕

Love it! And love the look of the topics you want to cover 😍 yay!

The seeds time traveled

OMG I really appreciate your content! thanks for this cool beginning of the week

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I watch right away when I saw the upload 😂

i just wanted you to know: the shorts worked!

this man is the example of the dunning-kruger effect

so amazing, just hundreds of samples, cosmic ray has made so significant gene mutation on plant seeds

We will wait the next story....😊 Thanks!

Im in yamanashi as well, in kofu. I want to check that out!

I’ve been a subscriber/follower since your disneyland era.. and I just realized today that you name is actually “花”. Well not exactly “hana” but is sounds the same..haha.. 🌸🌸🌸

Came here from shorts , thank you for putting good content there!

This was fun and beautiful! Can't believe there are still spots open for your trips - if my health were better, I'd be all over that!

I think the effects of lesser/zero gravity has a dramatic impact on the capillary systems that the trees use to direct nutrients and water to its limbs. Water can only be sucked up a straw so far before the pressure of the water beneath it and the suction above causes the water to boil at room temperature. This distance is roughly 30M (I could be wrong as I’m going off memory). Point is, suction has limits that are bound by physics. But trees can reach 300-500m tall! This is because they aren’t using suction, they use capillary action to draw nutrients and water through their biomass. They don’t need a heart to pump the fluid, they have minuscule capillaries through the wood and brings it to the leaves which expels water vapor. This creates basically a biological “faucet” where the tree absorbs water and nutrients via roots and the leaves are releasing water vapor as they photosynthesize, so the capillaries in the wood and branches act as tree blood vessels via capillary action. I suspect that under these low gravity circumstances, the capillary action and physics within the plant are more efficient. There is no gravity to compress the material or drive the nutrients and water within the capillaries downwards, so it allows the tree to pump water and nutrients through its circulatory system uninhibited. It’s not inconceivable to imagine that raising a tree with a surplus of nutrients and water and metabolism could potentially allow for the development of more petals (to absorb more energy maybe?) and would definitely explain why it bloomed earlier! It had a boost in metabolism early in life!! We acknowledge that exposing children to positive or negative concepts or environments can benefit or harm them right? It’s the same with all life. Perhaps, with this specific tree, a space station is the perfect balance of positive and negative stressors and promotes biological changes that are “new” to us, but just logical for the plants biology to “them”. Humans lose muscle and bone density in lesser gravity, it’s only logical to assume some species will benefit in lesser gravity. Love to hear anybodies thoughts

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loooooved every second of this video... as always thx for the great content!!!!

That was gorgeous Hannah 🙏🌸❤️❤️