In this video, I experiment with copper wire through the stem of a tomato plant to see if this prevents blight and other fungal diseases and to test if this method is a myth or does it work!
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Maybe plant the different crops further away from each other hard to conclude results when they are close to each other spreading disease etc
Plus scrape coating off wire
And try a copper wire rod around bamboo like a antenna
this copper wire is undue not needed if you take care of your tomatoes plants properly you should not have any problems with your crops
Gday mate. Have you tested "ElectroCulture" yet? Know if it works?
electroculture
just make colloidal copper, 1 tablespoon per day, you can also make your own colloidal silver. wake up from the matrix. feed it to your plants. copper is pretty cheap for 99.99% purity
just a thought, did you remove the shelac insulation from the wire???
Try elecroculture gardening; it uses copper spirals placed into the ground.
You have a soil problem.
Can we use this on other plant's
I'm not pro or con regarding the Copper wire. What I did notice, however, was that apparently no effort was expended in removing any oxides from the wire's surface. Running a pliers along the wire should brighten the copper wire — at least at the time it was inserted into the plant stem.
Using copper wire is not a set it and forget it. You still have to water and treat the plants. I did this test and it definitely works.
I heard a different technique I guess I would say, I have not tried it yet myself, but using thicker wire and making stakes you tap into the ground say close to the stems and then the smaller wire attached to the bigger wire etc, coiling the smaller wire at the stakes etc, kinda interesting some different things but have not tried anything yet
A copper Penny in dirt near stem should work equally
Never heard of sticking wire THRU the stem… ? Maybe that's the reason…plus uncoated copper makes a difference… 😉
Did you try it again?
That looks like transformer or motor winding wire, if so, it has coating which would prevent any copper from being released into the plant.
im no expert but i though copper was a carcinogenic…we used home made garlic spray.
Spoiler: it doesn't work, save you having to watch it.
Thanks Mark, I think you did a good test. With the price of copper as high as it is I'll stick with pruning and fertilizer. I'm in South Carolina and because of the high humidity I've taken to pruning a lot. I read that the improved air circulation helps to prevent disease and I think it might. I love your channel, thanks a lot.
David
I am currently experimenting with electro culture and getting great results. Bigger healthier plants, less pests and more fruit 😊👍🏻
I’m not surprised that the plants with the copper did not do as well some root killing products use copper sulfate to deter root growth . And even though I have never done my self I’ve heard that you can actually kill trees driving copper spikes in to trees..
I've never had any tomato disease except for the end of season rust. Never sprayed anything either.
Stop spraying your plants with heavy metals!!! You're killing the soil which creates more fungal diseases.
You have used enamel coated copper wire you need to remove the enamel or get some wire from a cable the copper will corrode or change colour if it is uncoated.
I might actually be effected by the copper wire if you sanded the varnish coating off of the wire that insulates it from what ever touches it. YES.
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Interesting, thank you for showing your experience with this copper wire.
Did you clean the resin off the wire.The copper wont work without protective resin sandpapered off reason being the copper is-not in contact with the acids in the stem of the plant give that a go.
Is that copper wire an alloy or pure?
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copper works, first I dont know what kind of wire you use, and you have to put in the soil too
That was interesting. I was hoping for you to have success. As I’m sure you know it’s pretty wet in the U.K. and fungus is a big problem, so any solution would be helpful and I expect you’ll try again with stripped wire.
I’ve got to say, you have the most fabulous plot! Thank you for your video.
I don't know but I am not stupid enough to find out
Copper is a natural killer of plants, algae, etc., that's why it was used for many years for water lines!
You have to wonder why the first person to ever put a copper wire through a potato… erm… did it….
not copper wire lool, rusty o9ld nail, works for sure
you need anoughter video due to it works, i tried it ouit
Use hydrogen peroxide in the water to feed the plants helps them heaps?
Try putting copper wire into the ground twisting it up the outside of the stem?
Blue light is good for growing any plants?
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The wire is insulated. If you want some kind of chemical reaction between the plant juices and the copper, the copper should touch the plant juices, but it cannot.
Best thing is to give them extra room for airflow, trim the bottom leaves that get dirt splashed on them in rain, keep your clippers in a glass of alcohol to reduce your shears spreading disease and burn the leaves and plants not compost.
Same for any fungi prone plant. And oyster shell amendment (calcium) for tomatoes.
Hi there, if you think this is unusual, British farmer Les brown, who moved to Canada built a pyramid greenhouse which was around 25 ft along the diagonal length. he carried out controlled experiments and ended up with with plants and vegetables many times larger and more abundant due to harnessing the magnetic/torsion energy.
The truth is…everything is made of energy and the cause of every illness and disease is lack of light/energy flow.
what is a toematoe? i'm confusioned.
normally high amounts of copper are toxic to plants
Everything in the universe is energy (and information). The copper wire attracts more energy to the vine. More energy allows the plant to grow healthier and to fend off disease. You do not have to put the wire through the stem. You are obviously hurting the plant when you do that. Just coil it around it.
Love your raised beds, I've never heard of using copper in the garden before, learned something new. Thanks
Copper kills trees,it's a death sentence for any plant !
I came to this video after researching that some notch pennies (prior to 1984, Im suspecting due to the amount of copper) into their tomato stems. I have notched 2 pennies into the stem of each plant, as well as the wire. We shall see…
I think this is a good comment –(about using copper to regenerate the ground) i'm going to try this next summer. i have old copper pipe, i love learning about these things that were done in the old days, and glad people shared about scraping the wire
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5 months ago
I've never heard of copper through the stem, but I've heard of putting copper in the ground to regenerate the ground because when we use steel and other metals we are removing nutrients from the dirt. I'll be trying that this year.
an unflavored tums(i think its just calcium carbonate) when you transplant to provide a super tight packed source of calcium that takes months to break down and completely be absorbed!