Electrocuting plants!!! How do you do it safely?

So I've read their is excellent proof plants grow quicker and produce more useful chemicals with no adverse side effects when they are shocked...

My question is, Do I just stick a battery with 2 leads comming off of it into the soil?

Next question is.... I take it I don't wan't to do this when I am watering the plant.. Or even when the soil is very moist?

For a bit of proof check this ... http://www.growery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/554232#554232

are you serious?
well if you really want to its not very hard at all.
one piece of copper wire goes into the soil... touching the tap root i guess, then to the positive of the battery. the other wire touches the negative of the battery and the circuit is completed by putting the wire on another part of the plant.

congratulations. you are now electrocuting your plant.

youd have a hard time shocking yourself with anything much less than a car battery.

zap away

We've had a garden on this property for decades. We grow lots of tomatoes and use the metal tomato cages to prop them up. We noticed that after intense electrical storms (our state has one of the highest number of lightning strikes in the nation) our tomatoes will exhibit incredible growth. I'm not saying the lightning was striking the plants but it seems when there is so much electricity in the air the plants grow faster and bigger.

Thanks, yah never really thought about it.. 12v won't do any harm to a person....

But yeah aparently their is scientific evidence that shows plants grow quicker when being shocked... I strayed away from the page and can't find that information now... But someone posted it on a thread on the grasscity forums. I wan't to try it but I think I'll wait. Especially because I'm not sure if this will cause the plant to mature quicker during flowering or what.. Probably best to do it from seed.

Great article and read, thanks for the share. I can picture my future grow room full of electrical wires and nuclear reactors now ^_^ (sarcasm not intended)

curto said:

So I've read their is excellent proof plants grow quicker and produce more useful chemicals with no adverse side effects when they are shocked...

My question is, Do I just stick a battery with 2 leads comming off of it into the soil?

Next question is.... I take it I don't wan't to do this when I am watering the plant.. Or even when the soil is very moist?

For a bit of proof check this ... http://www.growery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/554232#554232

Click to expand...

While i dont doubt that electricy wont influence your plants, i just have to question whether a battery has enough power to even cause a noticable different. I do know and most growers know that lighting is excellent for putting nitrogen back into the ground so im sure there are other things to be discovered but lighting and batteries just dont compare

i have a thread all about this https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/455665-electro-culture-response-plants-electromagnetic.html

Thanks Bill!!! From your article under DC power "
"A direct current with density of 0.01 mA/sq cm had approximately the same action. When these optimal current densities were used in hotbeds, the yield of green mass could be increased by 40%." (1) "

40% increase is definitely worth the trouble to me.. I'm just not sure if you hook one lead up to the plant and one into the soil... Or both leads to opposite end of the plant... I imagine you could just put the leads in the soil.. and the soil will be energized. (I have a digital multimeter anyway)


I guess you leave the juice pumping even when the plant is in darkness?

Kinda wonder how big of a resistor to put in the circuit of a 12v battery.... Since I imagine the soil will act like a big resistor anyway, resistance changing when watered......

LOL probably best to set up a potentiometer on a resister with a DMM monitoring the current. Using V=IR with a 12v battery and a current value of 0.00001 Amps... The value of the resistor would be 1.2M ohms but since the soil itself will act as a resistor I wonder if it's needed at all. Only one way to find out <--- College Electrical drop out!

i hear plants grow faster when you play mozart is this true aswell? download some Bach on itunes and blast that while you shock the shit out of your plants bound to grow some dank