Effect of Magnetic Field on Germination and Plant Growth

moooooon weed looks like what? NASA grew some cotton or something and it made a spiral pattern cuz of zero g's.... I'd like to get my hands on their grow setup for 3 months!

The Forbidden Experiment

oh my god! spiral buds would be so awesome. bud that was on a spacestation though, wasn't it? I'm growin it on the moon(not anytime soon though)so there's gonna be a little gravity. but I also figured out how I'm gonna grow it, too. can you say 'biodome'!
put some air in there, some soil, and my house right in the middle!

Mr. Maryjane said:

oh my god! spiral buds would be so awesome. bud that was on a spacestation though, wasn't it? I'm growin it on the moon(not anytime soon though)so there's gonna be a little gravity. but I also figured out how I'm gonna grow it, too. can you say 'biodome'!
put some air in there, some soil, and my house right in the middle!

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and your view of Earth will be awesome!

i highly doubt magnetic pull would have much effect on plants. until some definitive proof is put forth, i'm signing on with email... its as much myth as talking to your plants providing enough co2 to make a difference...

Actually that show MythBusters did an experiment on the sound theory.. AND it showed that ANY noise whether it's rock n rolll or just screaming or just peaceful talking to it... AMDE THE PLANTS GROW! As opposed to the plants that had no "noise stimulation"...

PowerTrance said:

Actually that show MythBusters did an experiment on the sound theory.. AND it showed that ANY noise whether it's rock n rolll or just screaming or just peaceful talking to it... AMDE THE PLANTS GROW! As opposed to the plants that had no "noise stimulation"...

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i believe the conclusion was the vibration (the sound waves) as opposed to the actual sound was the cause of the slight increase.

I'm sure my fans make all the noise/vibrations the plants need without pumping in any more!

still says nothing about the co2 and i watched the mythbusters episode and it was crap.... nothing but good old fashioned gardening has enough of an effect on a plant to count..


and fans do work completely... it replaces the wind they would get in a natural environment...

I was never happy with that episode where they grew tomatoes in those rooftop greenhouses - there was some sort of problem with the automatic watering system?

hey, how's a plant know up or down? like, gravity right? then on the moon there's still enough gravity to keep it from sprouting upside down right. and if there is, would the plant grow faster, since it won't have to be as sturdy, and can put all it's effort into growing bigger instead of stronger. you know, like less gravity pulling it down, so it grows into a monster in like half the time it would on earth

Mr. Maryjane said:

hey, how's a plant know up or down? like, gravity right? then on the moon there's still enough gravity to keep it from sprouting upside down right. and if there is, would the plant grow faster, since it won't have to be as sturdy, and can put all it's effort into growing bigger instead of stronger. you know, like less gravity pulling it down, so it grows into a monster in like half the time it would on earth

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I think you've got something here... if you put a plant on a record player and spin it while it grows, will it grow horizontal toward the middle or vertically? And will this extra centrifugal force help the nutes absorb quicker than growing with just normal gravity?

PowerTrance said:

I think you've got something here... if you put a plant on a record player and spin it while it grows, will it grow horizontal toward the middle or vertically? And will this extra centrifugal force help the nutes absorb quicker than growing with just normal gravity?

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YA SHITTIN' ME!!! two turn tables and a spliff in hand! that's a GREAT idea! take another bong hit! I want what you're smoking!....seriously though, are you getting free electricity? I'm guessing that lighting from the side and constant turning would produce one trippy-ass plant for sure!

PowerTrance said:

I think you've got something here... if you put a plant on a record player and spin it while it grows, will it grow horizontal toward the middle or vertically? And will this extra centrifugal force help the nutes absorb quicker than growing with just normal gravity?

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Those commercial v-scrog grow boxes (expensive as hell, of course)
are now available to spin slowly around the light source. For some reason that I don't yet understand, it does promote growth.

I wasn't thinkin, like spinning it, but that sounds kick-ass. I'm bout to have to figure out how to do this too. how fast do you think it'd have to be spinning

i think the idea of the moving light source (or moving your plants relative to the light source) is to make sure your plants get even coverage. that is why they sell light movers (plus you can cover more area with a single light).

The plants have evolved with the ability to make food from solar energy, and the sun doesn't stand still. You will get a healthier plant with a moving light source, because it exposes more surface area of the plant to light, instead of just having the top of the plants doing all the work.

Experiments done with pea vines on a turning wagon wheel in the eighteen hundreds showed that they grew towards the center of the wheel. The wheel was mounted horizontally, and the sunlight was from above. They believed this proved that plants did not just turn towards the sunlight, but actually grew away from the center of the earth against gravity. That is why a carpenter's level held to line up with the trunk of an average mature douglas fir tree in the distance, will show it to be perfectly plumb.

the only thing you want to make sure of with electro-magnetics is that is is a good distance away from all non electro-magnetic electronic technologies (computers, TV's, toasters, bud-buster, ect, ect, ect....) because it will burn out the chips in the condensers and do other damage.

o yea, you dont want to be to close to the generator ethier........ the electro-magnetics fuck with the synapses in the brain and can cause some MAJOR dysfunction (fragmented synapses causing schizophrenia, Bi-Polar disorder, Ect, Ect)

the electro-magnetics may help......but i dont think its worth it.

I am quite curious because a seed germed under the north magnet made a plant with 2 main stems... like a wishbone!

hella still trying to get a sex after 7 days...

I am stoned and have had a good muse through this thread and it is all very interesting. However in the NASA experiments it does say:
'Don't bother trying this experiment at home with ordinary refrigerator magnets. Only special "high-gradient" magnetic fields will do. Hasenstein's experiment uses magnets about 50 times more powerful than a typical refrigerator magnet. The magnets have ferromagnetic wedges attached to them, which focus a strong magnetic field into a small area. Around that area, the strength of the field tapers off quickly, creating the "gradient" of field strength that moves the starch grains.'

Which is good enough for me, I just don't think that the returns are gonna be worth the money, time and effort spent trying to magnetise your plants, and of course any strong magnetic field is going to interfere with your light ballast.
However I reckon that experimenting with fixed magnets on seeds/ seedlings can't do any harm. Give it a crack. Good luck, and let us know how you get on.
Hope this is of use.