A useful book that explains how to use Electroculture and other related techniques in your garden. Tells the history of several techniques and devices, who invented or discover them, how they work and most importantly how to implement them with the help of clear illustrations and step-by-step instructions.
It is a practical book with which people can build and apply this technology in their gardens. There is science in it but is essentially a practical book for DIY type gardeners.
Here is just a fraction of what you'll learn:
. The fundamentals of Electroculture, as well as how and why it works.
. Several passive Electroculture antenna style devices, how to make and install them.
. The benefits of using pyramids in your garden, how to make them and use them.
. How to make and install Lakhovsky and Moody coils.
. How to do Electroculture without any devices using compost piles.
. How to apply active Electroculture where passive devices are not a good fit. How to set it up and how to make the High Voltage Power Supply for it.
. How to improve seed germination rates, and how to build the necessary apparatus.
. And much more.
A useful book that explains how to use Electroculture and other related techniques in your garden. Tells the history of several techniques and devices, who invented or discover them, how they work and most importantly how to implement them with the help of clear illustrations and step-by-step instructions.
It is a practical book with which people can build and apply this technology in their gardens. There is science in it but is essentially a practical book for DIY type gardeners.
Here is just a fraction of what you'll learn:
. The fundamentals of Electroculture, as well as how and why it works.
. Several passive Electroculture antenna style devices, how to make and install them.
. The benefits of using pyramids in your garden, how to make them and use them.
. How to make and install Lakhovsky and Moody coils.
. How to do Electroculture without any devices using compost piles.
. How to apply active Electroculture where passive devices are not a good fit. How to set it up and how to make the High Voltage Power Supply for it.
. How to improve seed germination rates, and how to build the necessary apparatus.
. And much more.
Ancient civilizations, particularly the Egyptians, noticed that vegetation grew better and was thicker/sturdier around certain structures or rocks, depending on orientation. Researchers investigated this phenomenon and discovered an explanation. Due to the fact that certain rocks are rich in electropositive metals (such as copper), and soil is a natural carrier of negative charges, they reasoned that there was a natural production of forces beneficial to plants at certain locations.
Electroculture's goal is to harvest electro-magnetic energies for the benefit of plants. A vegetable grown in this manner grows better; its seeds germinate faster; the vegetable grows faster, more easily, and larger.
The vegetable can also better defend itself against illnesses and parasites. It can withstand periods of drought and rough soils more easily. Indeed, this energetic influx allows the roots to penetrate deeper into the soil in search of food, as well as reach deeper layers of groundwater that are normally inaccessible to cultivated plants.
This energy is naturally received by all plants: through their roots (which act as antennas, picking up negative electricity from the soil and releasing it through their aerial parts) (which also act as antennas). These absorb the positive electricity in the atmosphere. The exchange of these forces determines plant growth and the proper functioning of the chlorophyll system; in a nutshell, it organizes life through sap ascension.
Plants grown through Electroculture benefit as much as possible from these energies, which would otherwise be wasted.
For a long time, many scientists have studied and developed Electroculture through trial and error.
Abbe Nollett appears to have been the first to notice the effects of electricity on plant life in 1749. Abbe Bertholon invented an "electro-vegetometre" in 1783, which was later perfected by a Russian scientist named Spechnoff. Brother Paulin, the director of the Agricultural Institute of Beauvais, invented a new apparatus, the "Geomagnetifere," at the end of the nineteenth century. Georges Lakhovsky, Mons. Justin Christofleau, Nikola Tesla, Marcel Violet, Philip Callahan, and, more recently, Guido Ebner, Heinz Schürch, and Yannick Van Doorne should also be mentioned.
One of the most prominent of these innovators was Justin Christofleau, an engineer and inventor who wanted to eliminate chemical fertilizers while still improving plant growth, rejuvenating old plants, and dealing with a variety of pests and diseases. In his own electric vegetable garden, he experimented with "electro-magnetic terro-celestial" power. He lectured all over the world before compiling his findings in his book "Electroculture," which was also translated into English.
Several of his inventions were later commercialized. Despite being persecuted by agrochemical lobbyists for his inventions, over 150,000 of them were sold before the factory was closed down in 1939.
There was plenty of evidence, of varying quality, as a result of all of these early researchers' efforts, that Electroculture works, and scientists kept trying to find out why and how it works so they could make better and easier to use devices.
However, no convincing explanation was provided for why electricity had these effects.
There were many theories but no certainty until the great Indian plant physiologist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose invented an extremely sensitive piece of equipment called Crescograph to show that plants physically respond to electrical impulses in the same way that animals do.
Several books, including Response in the Living and Non-Living [1902], and Comparative electrophysiology and plant motor mechanism (1907) documented this.
In 2006 Andrew Goldsworthy, an expert in plant biotechnology at Imperial College, put forth what seems to be the most plausible theory as to why this reaction occurred. He showed that the results of Electroculture experiments are actually a plant's normal reaction to an approaching thunderstorm6.
In conclusion, plants need water, so if they can take advantage of sudden downpours like those caused by a thunderstorm before they soak away, plants in arid environments gain an evolutionary advantage.
Thunderstorms carry an electrical charge that plants have learned to interpret as a warning of impending heavy rain. Experiments in the lab revealed that the best electrical charge to apply to plants to increase yield was the charge found in a thunderstorm. When a plant receives a charge, it activates genes and speeds up its metabolism, which includes, among other things, increasing the rate at which roots absorb water and thus encouraging growth.
So, the Electroculture effect is just a simple physiological response, and we should all be trying to fool our plants into thinking it was going to rain.
Andrew Goldsworthy’s theory confirms the “Sacred Mission” theory put forward in the 1960’s by the French agronomist Matteo Tavera. I consider this as the best and more complete explanation of how and why Electroculture works and it goes like this:
The Earth has a strong negative charge while the atmosphere has a strong positive charge.
Positive discharges from the atmosphere cancel out the Earth’s negative charge. Without any other input, the Earth charge would be neutralized within a few hours. The only reason the Earth is able to keep its negative charge is a kind of cloud called cumulus nimbus (rain clouds) that bombards the Earth with very powerful negative charges, so when the planet gets neutralized in one place, these clouds recharge it somewhere else, keeping the balance. This balance is very important as a neutral Earth would not be able to support life.
Static electricity travels better through air between pointy objects, fact proven by Benjamin Franklin with the invention of the lightning rod. Electricity easily jumps between points without a spark.
Matteo Tavera also observed that trees, which lack an organ (heart) to pump their sap up from their roots, appear to defy the law of gravity as the sap in fact flows up the tree.
That mystery was solved when Tavera found out about a method used by a French electric company to dry their flooded buildings, based on a phenomenon called electric osmosis. It works by applying electricity to a porous object partially submerged in water, one wire to the porous object, the other in the water, this setup makes the water flow up through the porous object.
Electric osmosis could explain how sap flows up, but the trees would need to be connected to electricity somehow.
Then Matteo explains that plants are full of pointy objects: their leaves. They act as antennas receiving the static positive or negative charge (usually positive, except when under a cumulus nimbus cloud) while their roots are grounded in the Earth, allowing the sap to flow up, allowing life.
He went on to prove this theory by sticking several probes at the top of a healthy tree and connecting them with a wire to ground at the foot of the tree, electrically bypassing it so the electricity would flow through the wire instead of the tree. The tree slowly died confirming his thinking.
He defined what he called the “Sacred Mission” as the task mother nature gives every living thing in exchange for the right to life. That task is serving as an antenna and conductor for electricity and in this way contribute to keep the electrical balance of the Earth.
Fulfilling this task of receiving and conducting, in return satisfies the living being’s physiological needs. In the case of a tree, it makes the sap flow up bringing nutrients from the roots to the rest of the tree.
Stopping to fulfill this duty would mean abandonment of the right to health and life, death.
Electroculture takes advantage of the mechanism through which presenting an electric charge to a plant helps it grow faster, healthier and stronger as it fulfills its sacred mission.
All of the experiments conducted by scientists to date show that plants treated with electricity produced crops that were more than one-third, double, or even triple the yield of conventional non-organic farmed crops, while also protecting them from the microbes, parasites, and epidemics that are the ruin of farmers, as they were destroyed by electricity. All of this accomplished without the use of fertilizers or pesticides.
How Electroculture helps regenerate the soil.
Humus is the black organic matter that forms in soil as a result of the decomposition of plant and animal debris. It is a type of organic materials found in soil. It is high in nutrients and helps to keep the soil moist and is the most important part of the soil for plants. Humus is created in the soil by aerobic bacteria from dead leaves, animal bodies, excrements etc. These bacteria process the organic dead matter into ammoniated substances, then into nitrous and nitric acid, making nitrogen available for the plants’ roots to uptake.
These aerobic bacteria work 24/7 to provide nitrogen to plants but they need oxygen to live (that is what aerobic means). How do they get oxygen deep in the soil?
When plants acting as antennas receive an electrical charge and conduct this electricity to ground, the electricity passes from the roots to the soil around it. In order for this to happen, the soil needs to be able to conduct too, there has to be some water in the soil, it needs moisture.
When this electricity from the roots passes through water a reaction called electrolysis occur, splitting the water and releasing oxygen and hydrogen into the soil. The oxygen released supports the life of the aerobic bacteria. The bacteria in turn processes the organic dead matter into humus, feeding the plant. The plant conducts more electricity to ground releasing more oxygen, supporting a larger bacteria population that will make more humus, feeding the plant… again and again.
The more electricity a plant can collect, the more aerobic bacteria it will support in the soil around its roots, and the faster the soil will improve. By using Electroculture we can ensure that an electric charge is always available to the plants, for their benefit and the soil’s.
This book contains detailed instructions on how to use this technology to grow your own food without the use of fertilizers or pesticides, as well as to help regenerate the soil.
I am trying backyard gardening, so this book was of particular interest to me. I was also curious about the use of electricity to grow things and the fact that a portion of my backyard is dark. In The Charged Garden: Using Electricity to Grow Larger Healthier Veggies and Fruit, Without Fertilizers or Pesticides, Carlos A Gotz discusses how to perfect your gardening with electroculture and other related techniques. The author uses clear step-by-step instructions to guide the reader on the best techniques that are out there for using electricity to grow produce.
The Charged Garden: Using Electricity to Grow Larger Healthier Veggies and Fruit, Without Fertilizers or Pesticides is a useful book for all those DIY gardeners out there. The author mixes science with practicality so gardeners at all stages should benefit from the nuggets found in this book. Carlos A Gotz does not just tell the reader about the techniques and devices, he goes a step further by showing how to implement them. The author has been there so he is speaking from experience.
There are fifteen chapters in The Charged Garden: Using Electricity to Grow Larger Healthier Veggies and Fruit, Without Fertilizers or Pesticides. Within these chapters you will learn the benefits of using pyramids in gardening, electroculture, and electroculture antennae style devices. The reader will also learn about things like Lakhovsky and Moody coils and how to improve seed germination rates. Chapter fifteen is my favorite chapter because that's the chapter that focuses on implementing the strategies. I see chapter fifteen as a kind of encouragement to keep going.
I know some of those topics might be way over your head but take heart, Once you are done reading The Charged Garden: Using Electricity to Grow Larger Healthier Veggies and Fruit, Without Fertilizers or Pesticides you won't feel so at sea. The author does a good job of explaining the techniques and terms so even the greenest gardeners should find something worthwhile. If you are concerned that you will never grow anything in your garden because it is too dark, this book will make you think again.