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--- secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-10 19:23] – [Plants and Electromagnetism] cocky
+++ secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-10 19:32] – [Plants and Electromagnetism] cocky
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-==== ESP, or extrasensory perception ====
+==== ESP, extrasensory perception ====
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 ==== Plants and Electromagnetism ====
 <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665188/" title="Picture 13 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5603665188_f014029cea_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 13"></a></html>---Just as plants respond to the wavelengths of music, so also are they
-continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic spec-
+continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum**, from earth, moon, planets, cosmos and from a proliferation of
-trum**, from earth, moon, planets, cosmos and from a proliferation of
 man-made devices; only it remains to be established exactly which are
 beneficial and which are harmful. Pg 163
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 others attained only four feet. Pg 168
----Bertholon, had a gar-
+---Bertholon, had a gardener stand on a slab of insulating material and sprinkle vegetables from
-dener stand on a slab of insulating material and sprinkle vegetables from
 an electrified watering can. He reported that his salads grew to an
 extraordinary size. He also invented what he called an **"electrovegetometer"** to collect atmospheric electricity by means ot an antenna, and pass
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----On a clear day in good weather the earth has a negative electrical
-charge while the atmosphere is positive, electrons stream skyward from
-the soil and plants. During storms the polarity is reversed, the earth
-becoming positive and the base of the cloud layer negative. Because
-there are at any time an estimated three to four thousand "electrical"
-storms raging over the surface of the globe, the charges lost by the earth
-in those areas favored by balmy weather are thus replaced, and a seesaw-
-ing balance of electrical gradients maintained. Pg 175
 --As it had been known that sharp points
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 importance to each form of vegetal life.  Pg 174
----Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static genera-
+---Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static generator by an overhead network of wires sixteen inches above them and a
-tor by an overhead network of wires sixteen inches above them and a
 pole set into the soil as a ground. Other pots he "left to nature." After
 eight weeks, the electrified plants, showed gains in weight of nearly 50
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 his apparatus into a garden he not only more than doubled the yield of
 strawberries but found them to be much sweeter; his harvest from barley
-plants increased by one-third. He reported  his success in 1902 in a book //Electro Cultur// The English translation of Lemstrom's book, entitled //Electricity in
+plants increased by one-third. He reported  his success in 1902 in a book //Electro Cultur// The English translation of Lemstrom's book, entitled //**Electricity in
-Agriculture and Horticulture//.  Pg 176
+Agriculture and Horticulture**//.  Pg 176
-Later Sir Oliver Lodge allowed the
-movement of people, animals, and farm equipment through his elec-
-trified fields, by suspending a grid on insulators attached to high poles.
-During one growing season Lodge was able to increase the per-acre yield
-of wheat by 40 percent and was pleased that the
-bakers who used flour ground from it claimed it produced bread of a far
-better quality than that made from the wheat they were normally fur-
-nished. Pg 176