using Magnets on your plants

[Stonefree69]

Holy grail of this thread.. should give you a few days of reading, especially chapter 5.

http://www.rexresearch.com/hhusb/hhcont.htm

your welcome in advance ha.

Wow this is one of the most interesting articles on the subject. Mythbusters showed sound (of any kind, the louder the better) can increase yields over the control group.

 

[canna woop!]

interesting stuff, Max Headroom

interesting thread.

i've heard of magnets that are used in the washer instead of laundry detergent, because supposedly they lower the water's viscosity, just as the detergents do.

if that is so, i would think that treating your water with magnets before watering would increase its ability to penetrate the soil more evenly.


someone in this thread mentioned putting donut magnets around the stem of the plant. if i can find the ones i've extracted from old microwave ovens, i might give it a try on my next run.

i'm no scientist, but i am convinced that there is MUCH more to water than is generally accepted, ever since i read the amazing insights of viktor schauberger. he was known as 'the water wizard'. i can recommend research on him for anyone who likes thinking outside the box. his mantra was "understand and copy nature".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Schauberger

 

[canna woop!]

Holy grail of this thread.. should give you a few days of reading, especially chapter 5.

http://www.rexresearch.com/hhusb/hhcont.htm

your welcome in advance ha.

that is interestin, nice post

 

[headband 707]

Holy grail of this thread.. should give you a few days of reading, especially chapter 5.

http://www.rexresearch.com/hhusb/hhcont.htm

your welcome in advance ha.

Kewl link bra I thought they had done this experiment before it just makes sence but I didn't see the findings so nice link bra headband 707

 

[c-ray]

I used to have a blender with an array of 16 pretty strong neodyn magnets attached to a piece of steel stove pipe that wrapped around the blender, actual south pole facing inwards.. I was using it mainly for structuring water and ferts for foliar application, letting it spin for an hour usually, sometimes more or less.. works well, recommended only for open minded researchers of course.. I wired a dimmer switch inline with the power cord so I could turn the speed down so it was barely turning but enough so the water was spinning, otherwise it was a lot of noise.. I'm going to build another similar device soon but based on a mini turbo vortex compost tea brewer,,,. I actually forgot how effective it was until I stumbled onto this thread.. thanks DrFever, keep up the good work!

edit: changed to 'actual south pole facing inwards'

 

[c-ray]

a few years back I was reading about some experiments a fellow did germinating various veggie seeds around a magnet, placing the magnet on top of the soil and sowing 4 seeds around it at each of the cardinal directions.. he came to definite conclusions about what effect each direction had.. might be hard to replicate with cannabis seeds as they are quite variable but something like radishes or white clover could be quite revealing.. might even be a good experiment to perform on rooting clones..

 

[c-ray]

here's an experiment I did a few years ago on some old seeds that weren't popping.. it's a neodyn sandwich, and yes one seed actually got magnetized after a few days

 

[c-ray]

I recommend kjmagnetics and in canada indigo, for magnets

here's an interesting article.. I apologize if it's been posted into this thread already, haven't gone through the entire thread yet

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/magnetic.html

 

[c-ray]

ok as I recall now after reading the below article the magnets in my blender were actually north-facing pointing inwards, rather than north pole facing inwards,.. which means the north end of a compass needle points to the actual south pole of the magnets..

here's a patent that goes along with the following enlightening article:
http://www.google.com/patents/US4020590

 

[c-ray]

If you think that magnets will help your plants in any way then you are just crazy or really stupid.

It just has to be said.

R.Fortune

I go for crazy.. yes definitely crazy, as in this is some crazy shit yo

 

[c-ray]

Steiner [founder of Biodynamics] used magnetics in various ways and I do believe that the organization he founded still does plant magnet research.

I've studied bd since the mid 90's and never heard this before.. William Reich on the other hand did something similar with his orgone accumulators (< minds about to be blown)

 

[c-ray]

This is wrong. Plants grow based on Light and Gravity, it is called Phototropism and Gravitropism, respectively.

you forgot about Levity, most do..

 

[c-ray]

I have an excellent idea for an experiment, when I get my new turbo vortex magneto rig set up I am going to spin up some distilled water, and some distilled water with a bit of celtic sea salt (400ppm), then foliar a few cuttings with one or the other plus some controls with plain distilled water.. I will measure the brix of their respective plant saps before spraying and also 1 hour and 2 hours later.. the brix of a plant sap determines the vitality of a plant in a measurable way, so a rise in at least 1 or 2 degrees brix says that the spray was indeed therapeutic..

in my previous experiments from years ago it was observed that these magneto foliar sprays did indeed enhance the growth, seems they intensified whatever processes were already occurring (< working hypothesis)

I was communicating with an older non-canna guy at the time, who actually turned me onto spinning water in blenders with north-facing magnets, and he was convinced that we are dealing with the realm of quantum physics here...

 

[c-ray]

here's a real doozy, biggups to the ancients in tha hood...

quality rapins from the following book..
http://books.google.ca/books/about/Seed_of_Knowledge_Stone_of_Plenty.html?id=_5jJ4xdmhcgC

 

[c-ray]

for the peanut gallery

from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20656/abstract

Enhancement of germination, growth, and photosynthesis in soybean by pre-treatment of seeds with magnetic field

M.B. Shine, K.N. Guruprasad, Anjali Anand
Bioelectromagnetics
Volume 32, Issue 6, pages 474–484, September 2011

Abstract
Experiments were conducted to study the effect of static magnetic fields on the seeds of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. var: JS-335) by exposing the seeds to different magnetic field strengths from 0 to 300 mT in steps of 50 mT for 30, 60, and 90 min. Treatment with magnetic fields improved germination-related parameters like water uptake, speed of germination, seedling length, fresh weight, dry weight and vigor indices of soybean seeds under laboratory conditions. Improvement over untreated control was 5–42% for speed of germination, 4–73% for seedling length, 9–53% for fresh weight, 5–16% for dry weight, and 3–88% and 4–27% for vigor indices I and II, respectively. Treatment of 200 mT (60 min) and 150 mT (60 min), which were more effective than others in increasing most of the seedling parameters, were further explored for their effect on plant growth, leaf photosynthetic efficiency, and leaf protein content under field conditions. Among different growth parameters, leaf area, and leaf fresh weight showed maximum enhancement (more than twofold) in 1-month-old plants. Polyphasic chlorophyll a fluorescence (OJIP) transients from magnetically treated plants gave a higher fluorescence yield at the J–I–P phase. The total soluble protein map (SDS–polyacrylamide gel) of leaves showed increased intensities of the bands corresponding to a larger subunit (53 KDa) and smaller subunit (14 KDa) of Rubisco in the treated plants. We report here the beneficial effect of pre-sowing magnetic treatment for improving germination parameters and biomass accumulation in soybean. Bioelectromagnetics 32:474–484, 2011. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

 

[c-ray]

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[DrFever]

nice posts C ray i am sure there are people that probably think this is a waste but again like i mentioned previously maybe magnets in pots were not a great idea.
But now i am more into the magnetized water which i think if anything will help as it being proven it softens water

 

[c-ray]

more science..

from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20615/abstract

Magnetic treatment of irrigation water and snow pea and chickpea seeds enhances early growth and nutrient contents of seedlings

Harsharn S. Grewal, Basant L. Maheshwari
Bioelectromagnetics
Volume 32, Issue 1, pages 58–65, January 2011

Abstract
The effects of magnetic treatment of irrigation water and snow pea (Pisum sativum L var. macrocarpon) and Kabuli chickpea (Cicer arietinum L) seeds on the emergence, early growth and nutrient contents of seedlings were investigated under glasshouse conditions. The treatments included (i) magnetic treatment of irrigation water (MTW), (ii) magnetic treatment of seeds (MTS), (iii) magnetic treatment of irrigation water and seeds (MTWS) and (iv) no magnetic treatment of irrigation water or seeds as control treatment. A magnetic treatment device with two permanent magnets (magnetic induction: 3.5–136 mT) was used for the above treatments. Seeds were sown in washed sand and seedlings were harvested at 20 days. The results showed that MTW led to a significant (P < 0.05) increase in emergence rate index (ERI; 42% for snow pea and 51% for chickpea), shoot dry weight (25% for snow pea and 20% for chickpea) and contents of N, K, Ca, Mg, S, Na, Zn, Fe and Mn in both seedling varieties compared to control seedlings. Likewise, there were significant increases in ERI (33% for snow peas and 37% for chickpea), shoot dry weight (11% for snow pea and 4% for chickpea) and some nutrients of snow pea and chickpea seedlings with MTS in comparison with the controls. The results of this study suggest that both MTW and MTS have the potential to improve the early seedling growth and nutrient contents of seedlings. Bioelectromagnetics 32:58–65, 2011. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

 

[c-ray]

nice posts C ray i am sure there are people that probably think this is a waste but again like i mentioned previously maybe magnets in pots were not a great idea.
But now i am more into the magnetized water which i think if anything will help as it being proven it softens water

maybe so but don't discount the idea just yet.. a round pot with an array of actual south pole facing inward magnets affixed to a piece of tin could be interesting, considering roots grow to the periphery.. another interesting tidbit that just came to me, the old man that dropped the blender knowledge on me also recommended wrapping the outside of the magnets on the blender with a piece of aluminum foil;.. I totally forgot about that part.. seems aluminum blocks outside radiation and that is part of the magic.. thanks for letting me occupy your thread..

 

[c-ray]

yeah for science!

from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.21702/abstract

Effect of stationary magnetic field strengths of 150 and 200 mT on reactive oxygen species production in soybean

M.B. Shine, K.N Guruprasad, Anjali Anand
Bioelectromagnetics
Volume 33, Issue 5, pages 428–437, July 2012

Abstract
Our previous investigation reported the beneficial effect of pre-sowing magnetic treatment for improving germination parameters and biomass accumulation in soybean. In this study, soybean seeds treated with static magnetic fields of 150 and 200 mT for 1 h were evaluated for reactive oxygen species (ROS) and activity of antioxidant enzymes. Superoxide and hydroxyl radicals were measured in embryos and hypocotyls of germinating seeds by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and kinetics of superoxide production; hydrogen peroxide and antioxidant activities were estimated spectrophotometrically. Magnetic field treatment resulted in enhanced production of ROS mediated by cell wall peroxidase while ascorbic acid content, superoxide dismutase and ascorbate peroxidase activity decreased in the hypocotyl of germinating seeds. An increase in the cytosolic peroxidase activity indicated that this antioxidant enzyme had a vital role in scavenging the increased H2O2 produced in seedlings from the magnetically treated seeds. Hence, these studies contribute to our first report on the biochemical basis of enhanced germination and seedling growth in magnetically treated seeds of soybean in relation to increased production of ROS. Bioelectromagnetics 33:428–437, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.