RE: Bipolar Horizontal Coil - 16" Discharges - Plants (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:43:22 +0000
From: Jeff Behary <jeff_behary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: Bipolar Horizontal Coil - 16" Discharges - Plants (fwd)

Matt and David,
 
I haven't tried the high frequency horticulture.  A lot of early experimentation was done with electricity in agriculture, since the days of static electricity andgalvanism.  Most of the experiments with currents other than high frequency produced contradictory results.  In the mid 1800s Jalabert, Nollet, Mainbray, Sir Humphrey Davy, Humboldt, Wollaston, and Becquerel made various theories and tests, but had few conclusive results other than a speed in the germination of seeds.
This fact alone could effect results though.  For certain green vegetables that reach maturity in less than a month, if the germination rate can be increased from a week or more to a few days this would have an overall effect of the number of plants that could be grown and reach full maturity in a season...
 
Slow discharges of static electricity facilitates the assimilation of nitrogen by plants...Faraday proved that plants requiring large amounts of nitrogen for growth did better when under the influence of a metallic electrified cage placed around the plant... [American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892]
 
The main factor that seems to have had positive results on plant growth was the germicidal effects of high frequency currents and ozone production.  Recent experiments (in the last 20 years)  have shown that various mites known to destroy crops in Ukraine and Russian were killed upon short exposures (15-35 seconds) to high frequency currents.  Similar experiments were done with plants normally effected by molds, fungi, and various bacteria.  These can all effect seed germination too, so in some ways it makes sense.It would seem beneficial to all of us if somewhere someone did some legitimate experimentation along these lines.   I just received a seed catalogue a few weeks ago (that I've been receiving for the last 25 years) and nearly all of the vegetables offered were hybrids.  I would much rather have the types of tomatoes I enjoyed growing up that were prone to various problems such as mites and molds (but tasted great if you made an effort to prevent these problems) rather than to have a nice selection of hybrids that were developed in a lab to avoid these problems yet have no taste and an awful texture.  
Jeff Behary, c/o The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com 
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