Plasma is a fascinating medium. It’s considered the fourth state of matter—alongside solid, liquid and gas—and it’s everywhere. In fact, more than 99.9 percent of all matter in the universe is assumed to be in plasma form.
You may be most familiar with plasma as the material inside those glowing novelty lamps found in museum gift shops, but it’s naturally found in the sun, lightning, and the northern lights. Research into plasma and how it intersects with various industries has been increasing, especially in the area of agriculture.
Cold plasma specifically is being tested as a way to speed up plant growth and make fertilizer that’s better for the environment.
I call bs. They are saying that seeds exposed to plasma light (you obviously can’t expose seeds to plasma are they would vaporize due to the heat) develop a better root structure; their reasoning for this is that the light kill harmful bacteria allowing beneficial to thrive.
Now I may be ignorant of the subject but this seems quite impossible, 1. Seeds shouldn’t have bacteria (right?) 2. Seeds treated with peroxide would show reduced root mass because the beneficial wasn’t there - this is not what we observe.
This seems contrary to logic, again I call bs.
This is like that crap you used to read about at the end of comic books. Ya know, all those advertisements for x-ray glasses, sea monkeys that talk and tonics that make your tomatoes the size of melons.
the treatment method mentioned in the linked podcast mentioned holding the seeds/cuttings next to a fluorescent tube for a treatment method. Not necessary to immerse it. And the credits at the end of the broadcast mention the title and accolades of the guest speaker. He is a Doctor of Physics at Seton Hall
WOW what a great article that is!!
I’ve been reading recently, about the 4th stage of water. Of course upon finding it, I labeled it as BS, until I sat through all the boring shit, and never even thought about water in the body, it does not run anywhere, and we are a huge percentage of it, but how is it there? As a 4th stage.
Plasma lights have been around for a while. Before OpenGrow bellied up, there was threads from around 2008, about plasma, but all that heat was never sorted out, from what I remember. And it was a silly expensive.
This is about Cold Plasma. Just fascinating!!
Not sure what this means way down on my level, but Thanks for sharing it!!
Yeah it’s not for a main grow light. I can see this being true. I’m not knowledgeable about the subject but I think it holds more water than that BioWave thing people pay through the nose for, but hey, maybe that works too, I haven’t had it in my garden and I’ve never taken the real time to figure out how it’s even supposed to work.
But what I do know, is that farmers HAVE indeed seen more vigorous growth around lightning strikes, just as well as more vigorous seed germination occurs when fires have burnt everything down to the ground, for different reasons perhaps, perhaps not, who’s to say, but another thing I DO ABSOLUTELY KNOW FOR SURE, is that seed hulls will provide a nice home for many bacteria during the germination stage. During the dry storage stage, the same surface will repell growth of bacteria, but it’s moisture that turns an arid rough surface into a moist oasis for bacterial growth.
AFAIK, science doesn’t really know if these bacteria help or hinder the seedling, but it would seem likely there’s a certain balance that would be good for the seedling, as much in nature depends on the right balance in biomes.
Not about continuous growth in a plasma environment. The method was as simple as touching a seed to a lflourescent bulb that is on for a few minutes in the instance of seeds. Apparently it is about some change in the static charge but that was not the hypothesis either.
This is a report of some observations made by farmers and others and is being stated for further scientific review, That is all
I heard this segment on science Friday too. Cold plasma is the key, not like what you get with lightning. Knowing that the effect of plasma could be beneficial is the first step. Finding a method to deliver it properly will be the key. Would be nice to see large scale agriculture find a way to utilize it. If they cost it down so everyone can benefit - it would be win for all of us.
allowing beneficial 