Originally Posted by email468

The article comes out and says polarity is irrelevant since it is the electro-magnetic field that appears to have some positive effect. So hanging a magnet in the vicinity of the plants is NOT what the article is discussing.

worth a read but i don't see an applied application for the technique forthcoming.

Originally Posted by Shook

ill try this on my next batch of seeds, tell you guys how it goes

Originally Posted by PowerTrance

What you've not read is applying a magnet pole to seeds will probably affect each strain of marijuana differently, because of where the mother came from. I suggest each and every seed has wrapped around it a magnetic signature, and this would allow for the variation from plant to plant. After all, strains found in high UVB areas like Asia and South America are very potent, so those seeds might react to the magnet's N pole better... Perhaps not... Perhaps it's all trial and error at this limited technological point in time!

Originally Posted by HappyHippie2469

"These crazy kids with their magnets and their cholchacine."

You young Frankensteins need to cool out and burn one. Be patient. Remember that the plant is a living thing. Give it the right amount of light, ferilizer, water, and air flow, and it will be healthy. Healthy plants grow faster and produce higher yields.

You want increased potentcy? Buy better seeds. There is nothing else you have any control over that is more important than genetics. All the botany skills in the world won't make Kansas Ditch Weed into Ganga.

The earth is a magnet. North on top, and South on the bottom. This provides probably all the magneting force any plant needs.

You want healthier seedlings? Use a little miracal grow in your germanation water. Yery weak solution, about half strength of reccomended weekly feeding strength.

If you want to know if seeds do better treated with a magnetic field, you have to take a random sample of seeds from the same plant, and sprout fifty with the magnets, and fifty without, and compare. Anything less will just add to all the misinfornmation out there. And remember, when a scientist says there was "significant" effect, they just mean it was measurable. It doesn't mean it will even shave a day off of your growth cycle, or increase your yield to the point where it returns your investment in machinery.

Be patient. Buy smoke if you have to till harvest time, but be patient.

On average, most growers harvest 1-2 weeks before the right time. When you think they are ready, give them two more weeks and no water for the last week. Harvest after the shade leaves wilt. The buds will react to the dry conditions by producing more protective resins to slow moisture loss through transpiration.

Oh yeah, sorry. I'm a former nursery manager and botinist. My first indoor crop was in the early eighties with a 1000 watt super halide in a 10 by 12 foot room. Sea of green, Hawaiian stock. Second crop was something almost nobody had ever had ever heard of: Canabis Indica.

I go that far back, and know what I'm talking about.

Originally Posted by HappyHippie2469

"These crazy kids with their magnets and their cholchacine."

You young Frankensteins need to cool out and burn one. Be patient. Remember that the plant is a living thing. Give it the right amount of light, ferilizer, water, and air flow, and it will be healthy. Healthy plants grow faster and produce higher yields.

You want increased potentcy? Buy better seeds. There is nothing else you have any control over that is more important than genetics. All the botany skills in the world won't make Kansas Ditch Weed into Ganga.

The earth is a magnet. North on top, and South on the bottom. This provides probably all the magneting force any plant needs.

Originally Posted by raeman1990

oh yeah and earths magnetic field is like 3.5 gause or a very very small number

Originally Posted by email468

more like .3 to .6 gauss depending where on Earth you are but Earth's magnetism is electro-magnetic in nature. Magnets that you use to pull splinters or pick up metal objects are created through coordinating spins of electrons and nuclei within iron atoms. This is entirely different from Earth's magnetism.

also note - the Earth's magnetic poles do shift (North becomes South, and vice versa) - not often but it does happen (every 5000 to 50 million years).

The legitimate article is talking about an electro-magnetic field - this is not just hanging magnets with the south pole facing a specific direction. That makes no scientific sense at all and any physics 101 book will clarify any misgivings anyone may have about it.

Originally Posted by Gamberro

Very interesting.
I worked on a ship since I was 13, the St. Lawrence II, and it took till I was 18 for the ship to buy a GPS, so I'm highly acquainted with the intricacies of electromagnetic fields. Try sailing into Toronto in the dark with a compass and you'll see what I mean.