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Magnets and Seed Germination
Magnets and seeds germination.
In “Baseline of Health” newsletter (Nov. 21, 2005) there was a VERY interesting article “Magnets and the Bio-availability of Water” written by Michael Pedersen. Besides talking about the benefits of drinking magnetized water on human health, he also talks about some experiments with seeds germination and growth of seedlings. Several years ago I’ve seen another website describing field experiments with magnetized water and its effects on plants. The differences were as amazing as those mentioned by Michael Pedersen.
This could also explain why some of my customers have poor germination rate of the cactus seeds they buy from me, while others report germination rates of seeds from the same batch so high that even I get a surprise. Before I bought a reverse osmosis filter, I used to place an open bottle with a tap water in my fridge. Overnight the chlorine would fizz out and the water tasted much better. And I always had the impression that my plants thrived better when I used water from a tank. The water was there for a few days and the temperature was closer to atmospheric, rather than the very cold tap water. I hope this will help some growers to get a better sprouting rate.
A study was conducted (and repeated several times) in April 2005 through June 2005 to determine what effect magnetized water has vs. non magnetized water on the germination rate and growth pattern of mung beans. Prior research indicated that magnetic fields have a positive effect in the improvement in both rate of growth and in the vitality of the plants. This benefit has been attributed to the water becoming more “Bio-available” due to the de-clustering effect magnet fields have on water. But which magnetic orientations have the most positive effects? And does this de-clustering have such a positive effect that it can even overcome the adverse effects of chemicals in the water?
The Experiment: For the experiment various orientations of magnetic fields were configured in the magnet water treatment device.
Various orientations of magnetic fields were used to treat both filtered and non-filtered tap water to determine what effect the magnet orientation itself had in germination and growth patterns. The magnet orientations were duplicated on both sets of water bottles containing filtered and also non-filtered city tap water. Non-magnetically treated filtered and unfiltered city tap water bottles were also used as a control. A duplicate container of mung beans was used to validate that the results were consistent and valid.
The experiment was conducted under controlled conditions where variables pertaining to germination rate e.g. light, temperature, humidity, soil condition, etc were constant. Ten mung beans were placed in multiple containers, with the same orientation, at the same depth, and width the identical soil in each container. Two cups were then selected randomly for each water sample.
The results were remarkable! (And duplicated on three successive replications of the experiment.)
The study was conducted to observe and compare the difference in the germination and growth patterns of the mung beans when subjected to four basic types of water:
City tap water, which measured a 1.0 ppm of chlorine residual throughout the experiment.
Magnetized filtered city tap water subjected to 6 various magnet orientations.
Filtered city tap water
Magnetized unfiltered city tap water also subjected to 6 various magnet orientations.
The results were interesting in that the containers of mung beans responded differently with the following results:
The non-magnetized city tap water fed containers averaged a 15% germination success rate and demonstrated a poor growth pattern and averaged a height of 9 cm.
The non-magnetized filtered water fed containers averaged an 85% germination success rate and demonstrated a healthy growth pattern and averaged a height of 14 cm, but took substantially longer to reach that height.
The magnetized water fed containers (both filtered and non) averaged a 100% germination success rate and also demonstrated a faster growth rate as compared to both the filtered and non-filtered non-magnetized water. However, even though germination and height were similar, the growth pattern and plant stability was clearly MUCH healthier in all orientations of the magnetic water than that of the City tap water. There were also observable differences in the growth patterns among the different magnetic oriented waters.
The seeds that were fed the SOUTH pole only treated water germinated faster and grew at a faster rate. It was noticed, however, that the stalks did not grow strong enough to support the upper plant structure and fell over. They averaged a height of 14 cm.
The seeds that were fed the North Pole only water germinated slowest but were able to stand more erect and averaged a height of 14 cm.
The seeds that were fed the water from a bottle that had both SSSS and NNNN pole AQUATOMIC germinated at a rate in between the "1" and "2", were also as tall, stood erect, and averaged a height of 14 cm.
The seeds that were fed the NNSS pole water germinated at a rate in between "1" and "2" just above and were also as tall and stood erect and averaged a height of 14 cm.
The seeds that were fed the NSNS pole water germinated at a rate in between "1" and "2", were also as tall, stood erect, and averaged a height of 13 cm.
The seeds that were fed with water mixed 50-50 with "1" and "2" water above germinated at a rate in between those two waters, were also as tall, stood erect, averaging 12 cm.
The magnetized city tap (unfiltered) water fed containers averaged a 100% germination success rate, which also demonstrated a faster growth rate as compared to non-magnetized water (both the filtered and non filtered). Remarkably, the germination rates and growth patterns were identical to the magnetized filtered water containers.
Conclusions: Some of the results were easily anticipated such as filtered water producing better results than unfiltered, chlorinated, city-tap water. However, a notable surprise was the fact that the seeds fed with non-filtered magnetic water responded almost identically to those seeds fed with the filtered magnetic treated water (both had a 100% germination rate).
On the other hand, the non-filtered, non-magnetic water fed seeds responded very poorly (15% germination rate), whereas the filtered, non-magnetic fed seeds had an 85% germination rate.
To summarize the key point here: the difference in germination rates between magnetized and non-magnetized unfiltered city tap water was 100% vs. 15%!
The above may explain some cases of poor seeds germination. The following may explain a poor survival of seedlings. A close friend of mine told me about an interview he saw on a gardening show and they were talking about Hoodia plants. The scientist said that the Australian government's department of agriculture did some experiments and research and they believe that in Australian soils live bacteria that are very aggressive towards plants grown from non-native seeds. Thus the nature protected this continent from the seeds of plants that were brought here by migratory birds. It seems to work. When the first Europeans came here, they didn't find here many plants that could have been introduced by birds from Asia. According to that research only small proportion of imported seeds survive, but the seeds from those surviving plants already have some degree of resistance to those bacteria and the third generation of the seeds will produce plants that are almost as resistant as Australian natives. It is not unreasonable to suspect that similar bacteria would populate habitats in other parts of the world.