Re: Plants? + Tesla Coils

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Original poster: "David Sharpe by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sccr4us-at-erols-dot-com>

Nolan
My mom used to raise house plants, mostly African Violets, which are somewhat
picky about their environment to grow sucessfully.  She gave me on that had 
been
transplanted, but had not recovered, and looked as if she might lose it.  I 
watered
lightly and placed next to my TC (Big TC from Popular Electronics mid 
60's).  Ran
unit for about a minute with plant within 6 feet of TC.  Next day was vibrantly
green and recovered magnificently.  Nitrous oxides and direct transpiration 
through
leaves fertilized the hel.. out of the plant, and with e-field stimulus the 
plant took
off like crazy.

In a very similar experiment, with my younger son in mid-school, planted 
two identical
tomato plants, one we did nothing, other ran a electric grid over plant 
using a 5mA, 6kV
DC PS out of a copier.  Plant with e-field treatment was significantly 
bigger (25-30%)
then non treated plant, same controls (sunlight, water, plant food etc.)
Lots of experimental work has been performed about effects of e-fields to 
plant growth...

Regards
Dave Sharpe, TCBOR/HEAS
Chesterfield, VA. USA

Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "tmoore by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
<tmoorezz-at-adelphia-dot-net>
 >
 > Hello,
 >
 >      Hi again, I was reading on the web that ozone causes most plants die. I
 > was wondering if any one would know of any type of plant can process ozone
 > and or any other gasses given off by a tesla coil.  Even if there isn't a
 > plant that can process the gasses from a tesla coil would there be any
 > interesting experiments one might perform by exposing plants to ozone and
 > other gasses or HV. Thanks in advance for satisfying my curiosity!
 >
 > Nolan Moore