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I would love to see this experiment repeated but without the sweeping back and forth of the plasma. Every seed got a different level of exposure to the plasma.
Right! Constant application of cold plasma on seeds with and without turning them over! Not to mention to partner with actual biologist to better record and explain seed side of things. 😅
It's going to be practically impossible to apply an even amount and coverage of plasma to each seed without a complex setup. In the experimenting phase, it may be best to focus instead on large sample sizes. But such an applicator device would be useful development for any company looking to integrate the process industrially.
@@NickCombs If the plasma jet is held in fixed position and the seeds are placed in something like a test-tube so that the plasma being jetted doesn't freely escape, that would be sufficient.
*I had a lightning strike hit my corn field in the spring and by fall the plants in that area grow taller, were darker green and produced 24 cobs per stalk verse 12-14 cobs.*
@@connorjohnson4402 Could you describe what you mean? I always heard lightning helped plants by producing nitrogen but what you are saying seems a little different or no?
@@ghostrecon3214 Nitrogen fixation is the process of "fixing" nitrogen, which makes it useable by plants. This is usually done by bacteria in the soil. You can't really "make" an element, but you can make it useable.
In the 70's tests were made using electrostatic fields. Those that were exposed to a static charge grew faster. It wasn't mentioned but my theory is that the static charge similated conditions before and during a thunderstorm. Which encourage the plants to grow using the water available to it as fast as possible.
In 1988 a Swiss team from the chemical company Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) treated seeds of plants, bacteria, red blood cells, a rat heart and fish within electrostatic fields with astonishing results. Everything got much more vitality (the electrostatic field was much stronger in the past). The research was discontinued because the company did not want to destroy its own pesticide and fertilizer business. ua-cam.com/video/gPOFyYvjWU8/v-deo.html
5:30 "cat grass" is not pure wheat grass. It's a mix of grass varieties, some of which will naturally grow faster than others, and is therefore not appropriate for experiments.
Vivian James! Your logic has no place here! We must operate on emotions, not rationality! Reeeee! I jest. I find it curious that he is using a mixture of varieties. I agree that the seed type should be standardized among the tests. Seeds from a monoculture would be best, since it is not always possible to distinguish cultured based on seed appearance.
For the cat grass pouch, I used only one species of seed. There were three different seed types in the pouch from what I remembers. So, that wasn’t an introduced variable. All the grass that grew was of one species.
Permaculture dgaf. Biomass is biomass. More plant biomass means more animal and fungal biomass in the future. Even if it doesn't increase crop yield directly, just do it for the cover crop. Chop it, drop it, crop it. More food for the soil while your main crop develops its roots.
If you can plant twice the amount because of timing…. that doubles your yield. Time of growth 100% has everything to do with yield. Especially indoor. So I can assume you aren’t a farmer or gardener. If I grow micro greens indoors this could be a game changer in yield, even if it doesn’t effect “yield” like you claim.
I did this experiment in 99 for my middle school science fair. I always wondered what it would be like to electrocute plants and see if you can stimulate growth. I went through the process of hooking different batteries to plants but I also use a few different circuits that would generate a higher voltage. I found out that about 1.3 to 1.5 volts ay a few milliamps would cause a substantial change in the growth of the plant. It was a lot of research but I never thought about using cold plasma. This is also 99 so we didn't know about cold plasma too much. Still I'm glad to see someone go after the fact that plants do respond to electricity and certain voltages and amperages can in fact enhance growth rather than inflict a negative consequence on them. Everybody told me I was crazy and then I was lucky for taking first place so I quit following it but 25 years later I'm kicking myself in the ass for it.
I am and grew up as an agricultural specialist. My literal life has been spent in the dirt. I have grown many of palm trees and smaller plants so this experiment was right up my alley as well as irrigation design and layout. I was considered add back in the day when they wanted the cram medicine down to your throat. I quit taking my medicine one year into it and really embraced the add. Everybody has called me crazy throughout the years because I've built some of the most advanced hydrogen units as well as some of the craziest experiments, like electric heating plants. We all work off of energy and that's what everybody fails to see. I see Life in a different perspective and I wish people could keep up. It takes about 10 years before people realize I am right and then they forget about me. I never record what I do because usually I'm on the precipice of the most dangerous sciences. I love what I do in my spare time but if it's seen by the wrong person it could go very wrong very quickly. Thanks to you and quite a few different content creators I really regret the fact that I haven't turned on the camera but I still worry about some of the things you guys do😅 you're catching up but if the public knew what really existed they would really freaked out and wonder why it's not already mainstream. It's just too dangerous at the moment. Even this, what I had to do about 25 years ago to do this experiment was way too dangerous for anybody and I should not have known how to do it in Middle School.
Also if you look back in your comments throughout all of your videos you'll realize I think commenting the same thing so I'm not kidding when I say this! 😅
Hi Jay, I'm a PhD student in plasma science in Germany, if you want to dive into the world of low pressure non-thermal plasmas, just hit me up. Possible things to do would be a simple reactor for etching or deposition of materials. I love our low-pressure plasmas for their bright and diffuse glow, it's just beautiful to look at
any application of neural networks? if you want to be able to predict or find analysis from messy chaotic data you should hit me up. I'm a machine learning engineer, so I can help you in that space.
Do you have a recommendation for your favorite book/textbook/resource for someone to start learning graduate level plasma science? Would love to deepen my understanding
I did some contract work for an AgTech startup called Clean Crop Tech a while back. I helped design equipment for large scale cold plasma treatment of seeds. It was wild to learn how much of a difference the plasma treatment can make. And how much of a challenge it is to consistently treat the entire 3 dimensional surface of tiny seeds at scale large enough to fill fields. I didn't get too deep into the theory of the treatment, but there are two main reasons as to why it helps growth. 1) the cold plasma roughens the surface of the seeds and helps them absorb water and nutrients more effectively. 2) The gasses present in the plasma can embed into the surface of the seeds to provide added nourishment in the beginning stages of growth.
I don't know the cause, but enzymes could be influenced by electrical and magnetic fields. They are very sensitive. Evolution strongly favours sprouting well and at the right time and conditions, and so these systems could be quite elaborate.
Are you sure it's not just because PLASMA creates ozone and DISINFECTS the surface of the seeds and this allows the seeds to grow inhibited by the bacteria and fungi. Plasma makes Ozone and THAT binds with ANY gases like oxygen!
@stevenpace892 Yes but the timing of those enzymes are altered differently by the magnetic and electric fields. One would assume that offsetting the rates of reactions within the seed would negatively affect the overall function since all the products and reactants would be in a less optimized configuration. What I believe is more probable is that a specific functionality, present in most plant species seed's, is being altered directly by either the plasma gas or the induced fields. It's extremely hard to say exactly what is being effected, but comprehensive enzymatic assays and microscopic investigations are no doubt underway.
1880s Professor Karl Selim Lemström of Helsinki University a geophysicist studying the Aurora Borealis - or Northern Lights - began to wonder if they had an effect on plant growth because he noticed that the trees in the far north grew rapidly despite the short growing season. This led him to start experimenting with the effects of atmospheric electricity on germination and plant growth.
I have 17 years worth of crop planting experience. Small time homestead. Next time you do this, soak the seeds themselves in water for about six hours first. This significantly speeds up germination time. I get my first seedlings in about a day. Hopefully this helps!
Si può fare hydroprinting con varie soluzioni minerali e ormoni . I semi germogliano per la spinta osmotica dei minerali presenti nell'acqua, e non per la sola umidità . Quindi appesantendo l'acqua acceleri la germinazione
Si possono anche inumidire e fatti asciugare per poi riseminarli e così germogliano tutti uguale e insieme. So Google schoolar si trovano tutti questi esperimenti per cultivar specifici
There is one German guy who grew weed seeds taller by applying a high voltage elctrical field with a condensor-like arrangement before planting them. He's been doing this for at least 10 years IIRC. His name is Segelohrenbob, but he does a lot of other weird but interesting stuff.
I'd be interested in the overall implications of the treatment. It's impressive if it makes them grow taller or faster, however actual yield and its quality should also be tested and compared with a non treated batch. There are examples of speeding up tree growth to harvest faster resulting in lower strength of the wood for e.g. construction. I don't at all mean to take away from this experiment, just the opposite. I'd love more people to do this sort of independent science! 🔥
@@Riichrd "The book “The Primeval Code” by the Swiss author Luc Bürgin attracted a lot of attention in 2008. Apparently, two biologists had made an astounding discovery: Strong crops that were exposed to DC electric fields then showed a higher yield and more resistance to pest infestation. Guido Ebner, son of one of the two discoverers, has continued to pursue the research and has developed a “Greenbox” with which the “primeval code” can also be used at home. By Daniel Ebner, Switzerland Of the physical conditions that drive the evolution of biological forms, temperature, pressure, and electromagnetic radiation have all been scientifically studied. On the other hand, far less consideration has been given to static physical fields such as gravity and magnetic and electric fields in previous work. Their impact on biological evolution is therefore still largely unknown. But while investigations with magnetic fields and gravity are gradually moving into the focus of biologists, research on static electric fields remains very rare. This is probably due to the doctrine that an electric field in a medium filled with charge carriers is shielded by the formation of an electrical double layer...
For 36 years I've been growing wheatgrass and selling it to health food stores. When I saw that short growth scale I had to smile. Wheatgrass grows MUCH faster than lawn grass.
I would try to eliminate the soil as a variable by growing the plants hydroponically. The seeds themself are also a big variable, which could be mitigated by increasing the scale, or otherwise maybe by recording the weight of the seeds?
Great suggestions, Hydroponics would help with consistency of the environment. Maybe a simple Deep Water Culture design would be easy and economical setup for an quick experiment.
This reminds me of "Der Urzeitcode", a research done in the 80s in Austria, where they exposed seeds and fish eggs to electrostatic fields, which made the plants and fish resilient to pretty much all pests and diseases and also "reset" them to an older version. Corn treated this way carried 2-3 times the amount of corn cobs.
For the next experiment, I recommend using latex or nitrile gloves when handling seeds. This will help prevent contamination that can impact the seeds growth.
And other sources of microbial contamination - like human breath. These microbes can be detrimental to plant growth and the function of the plasma could be mere sterilization of these microbes.
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definitely would like to see a larger experiment. Also, would like to see something scalable. Helium is way too expensive to be able to be useful on a farm. Thousands if not tens of thousands of seeds are going into the ground in a few hours. The time it takes to drive the machinery across the field. So, this would need a lot of work to become viable. Need to know the results at 10 sec, 15, 20 seconds of exposure, and if changing the source of the cold plasma creates a difference. Bonus points for a cold plasma that isn't going to break the bank.
helium wouldn't be as big of an issue if you use an ante-chamber / miniature glovebox type setup, reduces wasted inert gas / reuses it. seal the seeds in a chamber, use vacuum to evacuate the air, fill with helium or other inert gas for making plasma, then start the plasma process (and you could make it a more even plasma across all the seeds), vacuum out the helium / inert gas (could have valves to vacuum it to a storage tank to reuse the helium OR use an antechamber so the main chamber ALWAYS has helium in it and the ante-chamber is a smaller chamber you put the seeds in prior to entering the ante-chamber where they would be purged of oxygen / non-inert gasses). Then it may just need a small inert gas purifier unit to keep the main chamber filled with inert gas (or simply put in fresh new gas when the oxygen content starts to increase / less inert gas making the plasma less efficient / strong). Theres def some potentially good ways of making this viable on a larger scale. If it has a significant enough effect on plant growth / growth speed to be viable cost wise hopefully it would cover the upkeep costs of the electricity and inert gas.
fantastic experiment. I can see a couple of things that would be great to improve upon in a version 2. 1) build a little jig that accepts 1 seed at a time for the plasma exposure. Automate the exposure process so that the application of plasma is as precise as possible. 2) plant different exposure seeds next to each other such that one container has 1 x control, 1x 30 sec, 1 x 60 sec and 1 x 120 sec. This way you can minimise the effect that the soil / light and any other environmental changes might have on growth. As the current issue is that one container might be a more suitable environment for growth compared to another. 3) run the experiment for longer. although it seems like there is linear growth, it may change over the period of a week or a month. 4) have small seed holders buried in the soil in each container so that they all start at the same height. 5) plant waaaay more seeds. 6) every day, remove a small sample from each exposure time and control seeds and measure their growth by taking the wet or dry mass of the plant. More destructive but you can get a more accurate reading compared to eyeballing the height. 7) conclude the final verdict of 'better growth' by weighing the final wet or dry mass. Lastly, and this isn't regarding the experimental process, but is this even needed? Is the time, effort, money and energy put into this process (especially at scale) worth the reward? Are there any calculations that can be made to see how much more plant you get for the extra effort invested at the start?
the waving the small wand across the multiple seeds means it wasnt exact timing on the seeds, on average i would say the central seeds would probably get more exposure than the edge seeds just because of the left to right motion, if you could make more of an airblade type nozzle and equally heat all of them 30 seconds you will probably get different results again (also making the lights adjustable height might help too, in addition, seeing the end result of the 120 seconds exposure could help towards what to expect if we are ever hit by a high energy solar plasma shot) The thing is with making a better option for exposure would probably need 10 or 15 second increments over a full 30 second separation, this would gain better datasets, there is also the option for the damp paper towel germination occasionally used before potting, this is an accepted method and you would also be able to measure root growth differences pre potting
Agreed, also, is the 30/60/120 second plasma for each seed or for the entire lot of seeds? based on what he showed I'm assuming it's split between all of them. needs more samples of course as well.
Yup. I like those ideas. I suggested sweeping vertically across each seed a set number of times, or mounting the wand on a small stand and making up a tiny turntable with dimples for the seeds with a little geared motor to control speed, then give it x number of rotations to create pulsed exposure. Continual exposure may yield different results also. Little turntable thing means he gets to show off the 3D printers again which seem to be an audience-pleaser. SO many variables in this kind of experiment. I'd love to see it expanded in all sorts of ways.
I use a technique taught to me in the 80s to germinate. The roots always bigger than when I don't use it. If you don't have a way to toughen the plant up before it gets too big, its a waste of time. Also pay attention to the big electrical towers near highways when you drive. The grass and other plants always grow faster. I'm sure if you talk to those that cut it, they'll tell you its harder to cut than the rest.
1. You could put the cold plasma tool head onto a regular 3d printer, then sandwich the seeds between 2 stainless steel mesh grids (or other inert material) to clamp down on the seeds in a flat grid, this way you can see if flipping the seeds over and getting both sides increases the growth at all. Obviously the 3d printer would make the plasma application way more straightforward and controlled. Then plant them that way. Or, you stick them on top of a paper towel with some sticky non toxic fixative so they don't move, again in a grid, then have the 3d printer spray plasma, then cover them with soil (there would be a layer of soil under the paper towel as well). Then instead of taking mass measurements of each seed you could maybe take a overhead picture of each seed and using a computer, have a custom program guess the seed's mass, then that could feed into the 3d printer tool path to determine how much plasma each seed gets. 2. To eliminate the variable of some spouts getting more light than others by virtue of sprouting first, you could start out with the lights up higher and further away, so that you don't have and bias to the first spouts that got a head start, mimicking more how crops would actually grow in sunlight. To make sure they get enough light you would need a more powerful grow light and some reflective panels. 3. Another route to go would be to see if pre-treating the seeds with anything would have an impact. A pre wash with just water? (or other sterilization method) A quick dip in fungicide? A fertilizer? 4. Observing the seeds in other growth environments simultaneously. Growing in different soil types. With different additives within the soils. (fertilizer treatments, fungicide, soil samples looking into the different dominant bacteria species, ect.) Growing some hydroponically, growing some in different lighting intensities/spectrums. Growing some in different levels of humidity. 5. Like others have mentioned: Adjusting the plasma. Different gasses used: Helium, Argon, Nitrogen, ect. 6. Taking precautions with microbes on hands and breath using gloves and a mask and a relatively clean environment for transplantation.
I observed something like this on a divider, every single tree which is beside the power line along with a light pole, they grow faster than the others, I theorized it's due to the electric field or magnetic flux generated by the AC power line. But it's finally due to the street light beside it which is helping it to some extent in photosynthesis 24/7😂.
It's extremely unlikely that a light source at that distance would effect plant growth, when growing plants inside the same light source in a street light is optimally no more than 2 or three feet away from plants due to the inverse square law, a light 20 feet away would have about 120th of the light energy than an optimally placed source that's less than 1 percent.
Loads of trees grow under or near power lines, but I have never seen any tree under or near them which grew faster, or any other kind of plant either. If we're talking about lines that run through the cut lanes in the woods, well trees that have more room to grow, do tend to grow faster.
In my case they are on divider and are lined. So I observed every single tree(literally every single one) which beside the light pole grown taller than rest of trees in the line@@lepayen
I worked with a company about 10 years ago that is now defunct, but they used a type of plasma treatment to grow various food crops in a way that saw tremendous growth combined with hydroponics. The plasma treatment part of their method was to energize the water that was used for growing with a proprietary plasma generator that the water flowed through. It was stored in a giant tank but constantly circulated and was "energized" with the generator and then the water was siphoned off to fill the hydroponics containers the plants grew in. They experienced tremendous rates of growth over and above what hydroponics saw alone. The suggestion then would be to find a way to use your plasma capabilities to treat the water used for growing seeds and compare the plasma-ized water growth results to this experiment.
It seems like it would be much easier to treat the water than the seeds. Would be an interesting experiment, especially in comparison of seeds vs water treatment.
French physicist who invented the "electro-vegetometer" in the 1780s inspired the technique. This device was a lightning rod that delivered atmospheric electricity to crops.
In my training period in a plant laboratory, we had once made an attempt with sterilized soil. The soil is heated for 2 hours. The rice plants grew much faster and looked healthier; I suspect behind the plasma-like effect that the seeds were freed from germs. In the soil, also nutrients have probably become more accessible.
I like the concept and I'd love to see more data. I think you have a nice suggestion of possible improved growth but if you can achieve a rate of +50% then a slower growing specie might be a better candidate than a more rapidly growing specie. Seeing variance (even a high degree of variance) in an already fast growing plant like wheat grass may be more easily attributable to seedling genetic luck whereas if you took a specie that took longer to grow like a lettuce, bean, or tomato plant and got a 50% increased growth rate then it is harder to pass off the height differential as just fortunate seedlings. You might also encounter other differentials in growth patterns over a longer time frame with lettuce, bean, or tomato plants.
1. More seeds to get statistical consistent data(at least 100 of each) 2. Level yhe substrate and cover with vermiculite and level again 3. Try different plasma gas that is available at industrial scale and cheaper 4. Instead of soil try maybe a nutrients free substrate and fertilse only with liquid solutions to grant homogeneous conditions 5. Let us know when you open your mary jane business
For the 1, a 10x10 3D printed planter to even out the spacing could be nice (you mentionned it was a problem, that would fix both spacing and depth of the seeds) 2 would help too 4 is interesting too
I'm curious about the fruits we get at the end. Are there any studies that showcase the effects of cold plasma on the quality and composition of the fruits?
Use a cylindrical silver rod with a lead ring at the bottom and a durable copper wire wrapped around it with its end at the top of the rod. Connect a plasma source to the wire and place the rod inside the soil so that the lead ring is immersed in the soil
Interesting, I'd love far more detail on how to DIY this. We have 2 grow racks in our dining room that we use for starting seeds int he spring and grow experimental peppers and the like the rest of the year. I'd love to tinker.
OK, lots to unpack here. I'm a biotech scientist who has made GMOs, so I know my biology. 1. Observing seedling growth may or may not translate into meaningful CROP YIELDS. 2. Faster growth won't mean FASTER crop production. Just because you grow the plants from seed to harvest in, say, 3 weeks less, you are still only going to get 1 (or 2 for certain crops) per year (in temperate climates). 3. Important to remember that plant growth is exponential, so all you are seeing is that earlier start that puts them on an earlier trajectory. This may, or may not, mean larger plants at maturity. If the lifecycle of the plant is a certain time, then they will not produce more. If they are daylength determinant, then they might be bigger and produce more. 4. Is this extra growth only due to a faster start? If so, then what is the difference between treated and untreated that are simply panted a day earlier? This is an experiment you should do to check for increased growth rates. Do 2 controls, one started 24 hrs early and 48 hrs early. Do 1 treatment of the 30 plasma, but double the number of plants. At the end, check growth and see if your treated catch or overtake the controls. 5. Does this effect only alter water absorption and therefore increase germination speed? Try soaking a treatment in water for 12 or 24 hrs, then start your experiment and see what you get. 6. Since your radishes didn't like it, you will need to try a bunch of different crops and compare results. Why did the radishes not like it? Was that batch of seeds bad? Is it the species? Is it because it is a dicot? Lots to unpack and figure out. 7. What about less time? What is the minimum time needed to see improvement? 8. What if you pre-wet them before plasma? If the theory is increased water permeability, then what if you give them the water right at the time of plasma? 9. Oh, and back to your radishes... They are cool-weather plants. What was the soil temp at the surface under those lights? If it was too high, they will not want to break dormancy. 10. For plants you don't need quite the intricate setup. More seeds would be better in stead. Just use a flat with lights over it and drop 50 or 100 seeds per treatment to get better statistical data. I could go on, but I think those 10 are a good place to start thinking about what you can do to improve or think of for more experiments.
I would love to see this done again with lessons learned. I also think that it would be more fair to have all the containers contain all versions of the seeds, obviously clearly marked. This would avoid the issue of differences in the containers themselves, maybe one was closer to a draught, or heat source etc
Go bigger and longer. Look at a few others and chart to full growth. Otherwise if only a few hours and only as seedling this would really only help indoor automated conveyor belt style farms
bro's videos always amaze me. three consecutive videos of him, electret, cold plasma, and cold plasma plant treatment all just blew my mind. cool youtuber he is.
8:34 The seeds not treated with plasma go into the soil with no prep? That's an error. When you plant seeds, you should moisturize them for a day in advance. This will kick start the growth. It is standard practice. Not testing against it is an error. Nobody serious about growing fast is planting dry.
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Using a heatseak to hold the seeds is sucha geek move; i love it! My cat has a habit of putting her dry food into her water. So I'm using an old ide hard drive CD ROM bay switch, as a soacer ro separate her food and water dish. If you don't know what a hdd rom bay switch is, just imagine an old pc cd/dvd rom drive standing on its side. I wish UA-cam had a way to include a quick low res photo with a comment.
I'm building my own atmospheric cold plasma wand to see if it could be a cheap and cheerful way to make low surface energy plastics like polypropylene more readily gluable and receptive to permanent markers. Of course, if you wanted to give that a try and figure out all the pitfalls before my parts order even arrives, I wouldn't be mad 😉
@jannikheidemann3805 yep, that's exactly the kind of equipment I'm trying to emulate, just at 1/1000 of the cost (and quite likely 1/1000 the throughput)
The same effect can be achieved with a strong permanent magnet. Try it with a neodymium magnet and expose some seeds to the north pole and then some to the south pole. Grow them and see what happens; I'm sure you'll be pleasently surprised!
Yes' like the experiments Ken Wheeler (Theoria Apophasis) has repeated and talked about in a few of His videos, I think He said Davis and Rauls had made a book about the subject' that the govt. tried to suppress.
Looking at that guy's channel, what you've got is a conspiracy theorist who even believes in magic lmao every conspiracy theorist believes everything is being suppressed by "the government" (which one?)
Grower here. Radish seeds from packets have a high failure rate, its a numbers game. Try seeds meant for microgreens they are stored better and fresher. Idea for a longer experiment would be to use pine tree seeds among other tree seeds. May be useful for land recovery after a fire or disaster.
A nutritional uptake evaluation is essential. Commercial outlets grow plants more rapidly than usual. However, nutritional researchers are concerned due to the lack of essential trace mineral uptake in the rapidly grown plants. Another thought is that due to the plants passing the artificial full spectrum lights in growth Is it possible the photosynthesis process was interrupted? Would that be a concern for reevaluation?
This is really cool. If it increases crop yield this could be implemented in large scale farming and potentially in smaller scale gardening. For industrial farming, ionization could be built into the tractor planting attachment. Then the cold plasma can be applied right before planting. For gardening it depends how soon the plasma needs to be applied before planting. If it can be months before, it can be done when the seeds are packaged. If not a cold plasma treatment device would be needed to process the seeds right before planting.
You should definitely try this again! Two suggestions: - you need to be blind to which container is which, so you don’t favor one group accidentally (with watering, planting, etc). Maybe have a friend label the containers with a code, and then you only check which is which at the end of the experiment - try to control the plasma exposure for each seed a little better. The sweep is maybe not the best method. I’m sure the distance to the torch is also important
it's just nitrogen fertilizer, it's not a new technology, plasma was used to produce nitrogen fertilizer in regions with cheap electricity, but now other methods are used. I don't know much about it, so don't judge too harshly
that would make sense if he was treating the soil. He is treating the seeds. If he was converting the seeds into fertilizer they would not grow, animals and humans doing something equivalent when we make bread out of wheat seed and scrabled eggs out of chicken seed
Suggestion. It is coomon for some seeds to not germinate. So, Germinate the seeds before planting. This can be done by placing the seeds on a moist paper towel. Plant the ones that show robust germination.
50 years ago I ran a small hydroponic lettuce farm. 1000 plants per week. I noticed I got faster seed sprout if I talked to the seeds while I was planting the seed. I also acheived faster growth by talking to the plants when the were in the growing area. All anecdotal of course.
This is great. However to do this properly needs a bit of a rethink. I suggest carefully controlling watering, soil mix, planting, plasma exposure, and light exposure. I also suggest planting many more seeds in larger patches of dirt. Larger samples will be helpful to getting statistically significant results.
It is not only about plasma. Please search for "high voltage electric field speeds up germination". First experiments were conducted many years ago and scientists noticed that they actually created seeds of plants that have not been seen in that form fo hundreds of years. Somehow plants were more resilient, had different leaf structure, etc.
I think a scale up is needed. As well as a better way to apply the cold plasma. Blasting one side of one seed at a time seems like it may have skewed the results a bit.
I recommend presoaking at least 1 batch of seeds to determine if pre-soaking and then treating with cold plasma is better than not pre-soaking. You can measure the depth of planting much easier by placing all the seeds at the same depth and then covering with a specific amount of soil. Go Bigger... for sure... much taller, and probably go 100 seeds per group. This is a great experiment!
I would use sand instead of soil for germination, it would remove a lot of variables, smaller particle sizes means seeds won’t get trapped under bits of bark or clumps of peat that comes in potting soil. It also is less likely to grow fungus which is always a problem with germinating seeds
So I have a thought. Instead of separating your chambers by exposure, I’d separate them by plant variety. And I’d also alternate exposure types by position in a chamber. For instance C,30,60,90,120,C,30,60,90,120,… to the end of the chamber. This way, you’d eliminate any variables in the chambers or variables within the lighting/heating within any one chamber itself. Now if plasma could wipe out dusty mildew, I’d be very impressed.
As you mentioned that may have impact on how we grow things. There are a few things I asked myself watching this and maybe some of my questions are also interesting for you to research. 1. Shouldn't you try to treat them 1 by one to eliminate over and under exposure? 2. Will the effect still work if the seeds are treated and got to earth later like (24 48 96 hours ) before planting? 3. Especially Weed or other high yield plants that autoflower may be perfect to test if you get higher yield if you treat them like that. Maybe there is somebody with a youtube project to bring your treated seeds full circle? 3. Energy input vs. Output to make this Plasma you need Energy and Helium but in wich cases is it worth to put this effort in compared to the yield. By example if you could get a field crop to grow so fast it can do 2 runs a season instead of one that would be enourmus, or to give it one run a season where the season was to short beforehand to even grow it.
As someone familiar with science and growing green things; your soil is a huge unknown factor/variable. Different parts could have different levels of nutrients, and nutrient availability. To remove soil from the equation, you should have gone hydroponic. This sounds difficult but is much easier than many people think, cheaper too. Look up "bubbling buckets/tubs". You get buckets, reverse osmosis water, and some hydroponic nutrients, throw in a fish tank airstone to oxygenate the water and you're off to the races. It's quicker to set up than your acrylic growing chambers. This would allow all of your plants to get the exact same level of nutrients since they're all pulling from the same source with equal availability.
This is an awesome experiment about a subject I previously knew nothing about despite my long background in agriculture, but there may be caveats to consider. The Green Revolution of the 20th Century increased crop yields by orders of magnitudes and faster growth rates contributed to this, *but* often at the expense of nutritional value. The primary reason that our diets are so poor in nutrients is the reduction in food variety that our great-grandparents consumed, but yield-maximized crop development is also a factor. Accelerated growth is only desirable if it does not sacrifice nutritional value. I don't know enough to judge whether cold plasma acceleration has any effect upon the nutrient content of the end product, but it's something to keep in mind. Faster is not necessarily better when it comes to growth.
I did a similar experiment in school as a kid only not with plasma, but music instead. Classical music also makes plants grow faster and healthier. However, the effects were not nearly as large as yours with cold plasma. Very cool. Keep working on this, please. Cheers.
Hai... about the setup, once the plants grew above the light source, they will grow towards the nearest light source and if it is not getting enough light then they will try to grow their stems or try elongate to take the leaves more near towards the nearest source of light. So plants will elongate or grow more under dark conditions. Considering these make necessary changes for the experiment setup.
My dad is a farmer, he has gone to college on farming and its what hes dont his whole life. He would be a good person to talk to for something like this (we also live only a few hours away and we might go to Seattle in May for a concert anyway)
1. Fine tune the exposure range with a new number set: 70, 80, 90, 100s. 2. See if an aquaponics setup makes any difference? 3. It'd be interesting to see how cold plasma effects variegated seeds like tomatoes and apples, particularly on the upper ends of exposure.
A good start as a trial experiment, showing that plasma treatment may cause faster germination times. However, as others have pointed out, running the experiments for longer to also get measurements for crop yeild and maturity times is more useful for real world applications. I recommend starting a longer study with a greater number of seeds, with measurements taken for germination time, maturity time, and crop yeild.
If the farmer businesses use this method completely instead of using genetic engineering or hormones it would be a lot better which I know they already started using but not all farmer businesses around the world yet. Hopefully in the future. 👏👏👏👏
Damn that is a proper research set up for seed research. Truly impressive
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A couple of suggestions, if you decide to try again: 1) Not one, but 4 control groups: C0, C30, C60, and C120 - with 0, 30, 60, and 120 s of the same treatment by the wand except the electricity is turned off. Because what if it is the helium, and/or placing them in that aluminium rack that makes them grow differently, and not the plasma? 2) Make it a blind study. Have the seeds treated or planted by someone else, and let them just number the specimens, and evaluate the results when the designed time elapses.
Important for your next experiment: stratify your seeds. Meaning: most seeds need a few days of cold to kickstart and synchronize germination. Best way to do this would be to plant them like you did here and place the entire rack in a 4°C dark fridge for approx. 3 days. Alternatively, you could also stratify them in a tube of water. If you're planning to grow your plant until maturity you'd be better of to quantify plant fresh weight instead of height. As plants grow, also in width, quantifying shoot length along the vertical axis only doesn't make much sense.
respect from a fellow plant scientist, you did the experiment, it contradicted your theory, and you posted it anyways, even if with a spin in the end. the idea might be promising but if you cant understand the mecanism you cant properly design experiments. (a tip i use on similar setups is hanging the lights on a pulley in the ceiling so you can adjust them). Cheers from Brasil
I plugged a 9v battery into my tomato plant, negative into ground and positive directly into the stem. Instant results! I took my volt meter and did the same...most plants 0.7 volts. Trees 1volt. I powered an LED for a week off of dirt. Use a screw and penny ... I stacked the pots to get to 15 volts. Low amps but the volt there. Moved and never went further. Hope you can experiment..
Fascinating. I'd love to see this tested on other plants, particularly bamboo. Some species can grow at a rate of 1 inch per hour normally. Imagine increasing that by 30%. You could revolutionize the paper industry.
I totally did this for a high school science fair 27 years ago! But I soaked them in ozonated water instead - similar action on the seed coat, damaging it with oxygen radicals which makes it easier for the bebe plant to escape 🙃
I feel like you could achieve similar or better results just scuffing the outside of the seeds with something like sand paper or a tumbler. Scuffing seeds is a common gardener's trick to help greatly increase both speed and chance of germination.
At the beginning of every video about making things better that could help everyone, I always remember there is no cure for greed and that most evil come from the same group of people.
Just a dumb question. Is it the plasma or a wavelength coming off the plasma. If your seeds were in a glass tube and you applied the plasma externally would you get the same results? Just asking!
Neodymium magnets (strong 2x2in blocks) treatment to seeds has shown via experiments to make seeds grow faster after exposure to South magnetic face and normal to slower on North magnetic face. Test again with your rig. It may be the same action on the seeds as the plasma, but somewhat easier to implement.
If you regard Lightning as plasma, an experiment I conducted when I was a child, grass grows anywhere between 3 to 6 inches during a thunderstorm. I concluded after several experiments that nitrogen is released from the soil and absorbed by the roots of the plant. Try this experiment, does a plant grow better when exposed to the South Pole or North Pole of a magnet.
In addition to the cold Plasma, you had LEDs above the area where you were growing the seeds. These LEDs generate heat. Also there may be a draft from the room heaters blowing on the area. I am assuming that they were also putting out UV light. So maybe you move the LED lights around and also the position of those growth fixtures and start the experiment again. It seems like the best growing grass seeds among those that were illuminated by the cold Plasma were always to one side of the fixtures. I may be wrong, so before you waste a lot of time watch the video and see if I am right. Check for drafts from your room heater vent which may affect the temperature as well as the moisture content in the soil.
As a second comparison try soaking some seeds for an hour or so. I know with big seeds like beans and peas it realy helps speed up the sprouting. Even letting them soak over night to plant in the morning.
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test magnets next. there's quite a bit of documentation outlining the effects of magnetic fields on plant growth.
Aliens have talked about growing fruit in 3 days using non ionizing radiation.
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I would love to see this experiment repeated but without the sweeping back and forth of the plasma. Every seed got a different level of exposure to the plasma.
Right! Constant application of cold plasma on seeds with and without turning them over! Not to mention to partner with actual biologist to better record and explain seed side of things. 😅
It's going to be practically impossible to apply an even amount and coverage of plasma to each seed without a complex setup. In the experimenting phase, it may be best to focus instead on large sample sizes. But such an applicator device would be useful development for any company looking to integrate the process industrially.
Maybe it's not as complex as I was thinking. You'll need a tumbler with a (bigger) plasma jet pointing into it.
@@NickCombs If the plasma jet is held in fixed position and the seeds are placed in something like a test-tube so that the plasma being jetted doesn't freely escape, that would be sufficient.
Oooh, to see what chaotic depth of expression we can get?
*I had a lightning strike hit my corn field in the spring and by fall the plants in that area grow taller, were darker green and produced 24 cobs per stalk verse 12-14 cobs.*
Lightning strikes will cause nitrogen fixation in the soil so that would probably account for your observations.
What was the radius of the effect? Was it within one field?
@@connorjohnson4402 Could you describe what you mean? I always heard lightning helped plants by producing nitrogen but what you are saying seems a little different or no?
We are an electric universe
@@ghostrecon3214 Nitrogen fixation is the process of "fixing" nitrogen, which makes it useable by plants. This is usually done by bacteria in the soil.
You can't really "make" an element, but you can make it useable.
In the 70's tests were made using electrostatic fields. Those that were exposed to a static charge grew faster. It wasn't mentioned but my theory is that the static charge similated conditions before and during a thunderstorm. Which encourage the plants to grow using the water available to it as fast as possible.
Or one could plant the seeds a day before an actual thunderstorm.
That would be ozone.
It’s called electroculture and it’s well proven to work
In 1988 a Swiss team from the chemical company Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) treated seeds of plants, bacteria, red blood cells, a rat heart and fish within electrostatic fields with astonishing results. Everything got much more vitality (the electrostatic field was much stronger in the past). The research was discontinued because the company did not want to destroy its own pesticide and fertilizer business.
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5:30 "cat grass" is not pure wheat grass. It's a mix of grass varieties, some of which will naturally grow faster than others, and is therefore not appropriate for experiments.
8:28 See how the seeds look different? 🤦
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I find it curious that he is using a mixture of varieties. I agree that the seed type should be standardized among the tests. Seeds from a monoculture would be best, since it is not always possible to distinguish cultured based on seed appearance.
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For the cat grass pouch, I used only one species of seed. There were three different seed types in the pouch from what I remembers. So, that wasn’t an introduced variable. All the grass that grew was of one species.
@@PlasmaChannel The study that reported root length to 4 significant digits is clearly bullshit.
As to gardeners and farmers, crop yield is what's interesting. Yes, let them grow longer and take weight measurements.
I grow plants indoors and yeah, yield is the goal.
Maybe taste and quantified caloric density.
Permaculture dgaf. Biomass is biomass. More plant biomass means more animal and fungal biomass in the future. Even if it doesn't increase crop yield directly, just do it for the cover crop. Chop it, drop it, crop it. More food for the soil while your main crop develops its roots.
For the microgreen you dont need it. Its already obvious
If you can plant twice the amount because of timing…. that doubles your yield. Time of growth 100% has everything to do with yield. Especially indoor. So I can assume you aren’t a farmer or gardener.
If I grow micro greens indoors this could be a game changer in yield, even if it doesn’t effect “yield” like you claim.
Dude, you have no idea I took first place in science fair 25 years ago for this! I'm finally glad to see someone going after it.
I did this experiment in 99 for my middle school science fair. I always wondered what it would be like to electrocute plants and see if you can stimulate growth. I went through the process of hooking different batteries to plants but I also use a few different circuits that would generate a higher voltage. I found out that about 1.3 to 1.5 volts ay a few milliamps would cause a substantial change in the growth of the plant. It was a lot of research but I never thought about using cold plasma. This is also 99 so we didn't know about cold plasma too much. Still I'm glad to see someone go after the fact that plants do respond to electricity and certain voltages and amperages can in fact enhance growth rather than inflict a negative consequence on them. Everybody told me I was crazy and then I was lucky for taking first place so I quit following it but 25 years later I'm kicking myself in the ass for it.
I am and grew up as an agricultural specialist. My literal life has been spent in the dirt. I have grown many of palm trees and smaller plants so this experiment was right up my alley as well as irrigation design and layout. I was considered add back in the day when they wanted the cram medicine down to your throat. I quit taking my medicine one year into it and really embraced the add. Everybody has called me crazy throughout the years because I've built some of the most advanced hydrogen units as well as some of the craziest experiments, like electric heating plants. We all work off of energy and that's what everybody fails to see. I see Life in a different perspective and I wish people could keep up. It takes about 10 years before people realize I am right and then they forget about me. I never record what I do because usually I'm on the precipice of the most dangerous sciences. I love what I do in my spare time but if it's seen by the wrong person it could go very wrong very quickly. Thanks to you and quite a few different content creators I really regret the fact that I haven't turned on the camera but I still worry about some of the things you guys do😅 you're catching up but if the public knew what really existed they would really freaked out and wonder why it's not already mainstream. It's just too dangerous at the moment. Even this, what I had to do about 25 years ago to do this experiment was way too dangerous for anybody and I should not have known how to do it in Middle School.
I didn't know you were using helium called plasma, electrical plasma works better by the way😂
Do you think you're electrocuting and but you're not.
Also if you look back in your comments throughout all of your videos you'll realize I think commenting the same thing so I'm not kidding when I say this! 😅
Hi Jay, I'm a PhD student in plasma science in Germany, if you want to dive into the world of low pressure non-thermal plasmas, just hit me up. Possible things to do would be a simple reactor for etching or deposition of materials. I love our low-pressure plasmas for their bright and diffuse glow, it's just beautiful to look at
Please share. Do you have a webpage?
this is a fascinating subject
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any application of neural networks? if you want to be able to predict or find analysis from messy chaotic data you should hit me up. I'm a machine learning engineer, so I can help you in that space.
Do you have a recommendation for your favorite book/textbook/resource for someone to start learning graduate level plasma science? Would love to deepen my understanding
I did some contract work for an AgTech startup called Clean Crop Tech a while back. I helped design equipment for large scale cold plasma treatment of seeds. It was wild to learn how much of a difference the plasma treatment can make. And how much of a challenge it is to consistently treat the entire 3 dimensional surface of tiny seeds at scale large enough to fill fields.
I didn't get too deep into the theory of the treatment, but there are two main reasons as to why it helps growth. 1) the cold plasma roughens the surface of the seeds and helps them absorb water and nutrients more effectively. 2) The gasses present in the plasma can embed into the surface of the seeds to provide added nourishment in the beginning stages of growth.
Would love some pointers on how you guys exposed larger areas to make this more Ag viable
if you just wanted to roughen the surface, couldn't you add some sand and shake?
I don't know the cause, but enzymes could be influenced by electrical and magnetic fields. They are very sensitive. Evolution strongly favours sprouting well and at the right time and conditions, and so these systems could be quite elaborate.
Are you sure it's not just because PLASMA creates ozone and DISINFECTS the surface of the seeds and this allows the seeds to grow inhibited by the bacteria and fungi. Plasma makes Ozone and THAT binds with ANY gases like oxygen!
@stevenpace892 Yes but the timing of those enzymes are altered differently by the magnetic and electric fields.
One would assume that offsetting the rates of reactions within the seed would negatively affect the overall function since all the products and reactants would be in a less optimized configuration.
What I believe is more probable is that a specific functionality, present in most plant species seed's, is being altered directly by either the plasma gas or the induced fields.
It's extremely hard to say exactly what is being effected, but comprehensive enzymatic assays and microscopic investigations are no doubt underway.
1880s Professor Karl Selim Lemström of Helsinki University a geophysicist studying the Aurora Borealis - or Northern Lights - began to wonder if they had an effect on plant growth because he noticed that the trees in the far north grew rapidly despite the short growing season. This led him to start experimenting with the effects of atmospheric electricity on germination and plant growth.
I have 17 years worth of crop planting experience. Small time homestead. Next time you do this, soak the seeds themselves in water for about six hours first. This significantly speeds up germination time. I get my first seedlings in about a day. Hopefully this helps!
Si può fare hydroprinting con varie soluzioni minerali e ormoni .
I semi germogliano per la spinta osmotica dei minerali presenti nell'acqua, e non per la sola umidità . Quindi appesantendo l'acqua acceleri la germinazione
Si possono anche inumidire e fatti asciugare per poi riseminarli e così germogliano tutti uguale e insieme.
So Google schoolar si trovano tutti questi esperimenti per cultivar specifici
There is one German guy who grew weed seeds taller by applying a high voltage elctrical field with a condensor-like arrangement before planting them. He's been doing this for at least 10 years IIRC. His name is Segelohrenbob, but he does a lot of other weird but interesting stuff.
I really hope that Plasma Channel will do a repeat of the experiment after consulting this guy you mentioned. Hopefully he sees this!
Ebner was his name. He also treated fish.
I'd be interested in the overall implications of the treatment. It's impressive if it makes them grow taller or faster, however actual yield and its quality should also be tested and compared with a non treated batch. There are examples of speeding up tree growth to harvest faster resulting in lower strength of the wood for e.g. construction. I don't at all mean to take away from this experiment, just the opposite. I'd love more people to do this sort of independent science! 🔥
@@Riichrd "The book “The Primeval Code” by the Swiss author Luc Bürgin attracted a lot of attention in 2008. Apparently, two biologists had made an astounding discovery: Strong crops that were exposed to DC electric fields then showed a higher yield and more resistance to pest infestation. Guido Ebner, son of one of the two discoverers, has continued to pursue the research and has developed a “Greenbox” with which the “primeval code” can also be used at home.
By Daniel Ebner, Switzerland
Of the physical conditions that drive the evolution of biological forms, temperature, pressure, and electromagnetic radiation have all been scientifically studied. On the other hand, far less consideration has been given to static physical fields such as gravity and magnetic and electric fields in previous work. Their impact on biological evolution is therefore still largely unknown.
But while investigations with magnetic fields and gravity are gradually moving into the focus of biologists, research on static electric fields remains very rare. This is probably due to the doctrine that an electric field in a medium filled with charge carriers is shielded by the formation of an electrical double layer...
@@Riichrdwe're too busy pouring funding into the guttermaws of universities that are more interested in reaping profit than doing science.
For 36 years I've been growing wheatgrass and selling it to health food stores. When I saw that short growth scale I had to smile. Wheatgrass grows MUCH faster than lawn grass.
Well where were you when I was building my growth containers?! I wish i knew that haha.
I would try to eliminate the soil as a variable by growing the plants hydroponically. The seeds themself are also a big variable, which could be mitigated by increasing the scale, or otherwise maybe by recording the weight of the seeds?
Great suggestions, Hydroponics would help with consistency of the environment. Maybe a simple Deep Water Culture design would be easy and economical setup for an quick experiment.
Hey, we using plasma, might as well go full sci-fi future and use a fogponics chamber. Like aeroponics, but even more water efficient.
This reminds me of "Der Urzeitcode", a research done in the 80s in Austria, where they exposed seeds and fish eggs to electrostatic fields, which made the plants and fish resilient to pretty much all pests and diseases and also "reset" them to an older version. Corn treated this way carried 2-3 times the amount of corn cobs.
Facts. ElectroAdaptation is the real Evolution theory
For the next experiment, I recommend using latex or nitrile gloves when handling seeds. This will help prevent contamination that can impact the seeds growth.
And other sources of microbial contamination - like human breath. These microbes can be detrimental to plant growth and the function of the plasma could be mere sterilization of these microbes.
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definitely would like to see a larger experiment. Also, would like to see something scalable. Helium is way too expensive to be able to be useful on a farm. Thousands if not tens of thousands of seeds are going into the ground in a few hours. The time it takes to drive the machinery across the field. So, this would need a lot of work to become viable. Need to know the results at 10 sec, 15, 20 seconds of exposure, and if changing the source of the cold plasma creates a difference. Bonus points for a cold plasma that isn't going to break the bank.
helium wouldn't be as big of an issue if you use an ante-chamber / miniature glovebox type setup, reduces wasted inert gas / reuses it. seal the seeds in a chamber, use vacuum to evacuate the air, fill with helium or other inert gas for making plasma, then start the plasma process (and you could make it a more even plasma across all the seeds), vacuum out the helium / inert gas (could have valves to vacuum it to a storage tank to reuse the helium OR use an antechamber so the main chamber ALWAYS has helium in it and the ante-chamber is a smaller chamber you put the seeds in prior to entering the ante-chamber where they would be purged of oxygen / non-inert gasses). Then it may just need a small inert gas purifier unit to keep the main chamber filled with inert gas (or simply put in fresh new gas when the oxygen content starts to increase / less inert gas making the plasma less efficient / strong).
Theres def some potentially good ways of making this viable on a larger scale. If it has a significant enough effect on plant growth / growth speed to be viable cost wise hopefully it would cover the upkeep costs of the electricity and inert gas.
Plasma can't be cold. Plasma is the burning gasified form of an element. Fire is plasma.
Indoor farms
One of the paper that flashed on the screen mentioned using argon, so I'm wondering if any ol' inert gas would do.
@@AlbertaGeek Argon also works, but tends to provide a shorter plasma plume. It's what I used a decade ago to build one of these.
fantastic experiment. I can see a couple of things that would be great to improve upon in a version 2.
1) build a little jig that accepts 1 seed at a time for the plasma exposure. Automate the exposure process so that the application of plasma is as precise as possible.
2) plant different exposure seeds next to each other such that one container has 1 x control, 1x 30 sec, 1 x 60 sec and 1 x 120 sec. This way you can minimise the effect that the soil / light and any other environmental changes might have on growth. As the current issue is that one container might be a more suitable environment for growth compared to another.
3) run the experiment for longer. although it seems like there is linear growth, it may change over the period of a week or a month.
4) have small seed holders buried in the soil in each container so that they all start at the same height.
5) plant waaaay more seeds.
6) every day, remove a small sample from each exposure time and control seeds and measure their growth by taking the wet or dry mass of the plant. More destructive but you can get a more accurate reading compared to eyeballing the height.
7) conclude the final verdict of 'better growth' by weighing the final wet or dry mass.
Lastly, and this isn't regarding the experimental process, but is this even needed? Is the time, effort, money and energy put into this process (especially at scale) worth the reward? Are there any calculations that can be made to see how much more plant you get for the extra effort invested at the start?
the waving the small wand across the multiple seeds means it wasnt exact timing on the seeds, on average i would say the central seeds would probably get more exposure than the edge seeds just because of the left to right motion, if you could make more of an airblade type nozzle and equally heat all of them 30 seconds you will probably get different results again (also making the lights adjustable height might help too, in addition, seeing the end result of the 120 seconds exposure could help towards what to expect if we are ever hit by a high energy solar plasma shot)
The thing is with making a better option for exposure would probably need 10 or 15 second increments over a full 30 second separation, this would gain better datasets, there is also the option for the damp paper towel germination occasionally used before potting, this is an accepted method and you would also be able to measure root growth differences pre potting
agreed, and I noticed how he was missing the seeds at the end a majority of the treatment.
Do you remember what it really looks like, and how it can be aimed from a distance. the plasma, found its shell, even underneath...
Agreed, also, is the 30/60/120 second plasma for each seed or for the entire lot of seeds? based on what he showed I'm assuming it's split between all of them. needs more samples of course as well.
Yup. I like those ideas.
I suggested sweeping vertically across each seed a set number of times, or mounting the wand on a small stand and making up a tiny turntable with dimples for the seeds with a little geared motor to control speed, then give it x number of rotations to create pulsed exposure. Continual exposure may yield different results also.
Little turntable thing means he gets to show off the 3D printers again which seem to be an audience-pleaser.
SO many variables in this kind of experiment. I'd love to see it expanded in all sorts of ways.
If the channel was a circle it would be easier to efficiently give the seeds a more equal treatment
I use a technique taught to me in the 80s to germinate. The roots always bigger than when I don't use it. If you don't have a way to toughen the plant up before it gets too big, its a waste of time.
Also pay attention to the big electrical towers near highways when you drive. The grass and other plants always grow faster. I'm sure if you talk to those that cut it, they'll tell you its harder to cut than the rest.
ok now blast it for 5, 10, 20, 30 minutes to get complete mutated species.
Plants walk by themselves
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Honestly, if plasma affects evolution enough to make a new species, that would be research worthy of a Nobel Prize.
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1. You could put the cold plasma tool head onto a regular 3d printer, then sandwich the seeds between 2 stainless steel mesh grids (or other inert material) to clamp down on the seeds in a flat grid, this way you can see if flipping the seeds over and getting both sides increases the growth at all. Obviously the 3d printer would make the plasma application way more straightforward and controlled. Then plant them that way.
Or, you stick them on top of a paper towel with some sticky non toxic fixative so they don't move, again in a grid, then have the 3d printer spray plasma, then cover them with soil (there would be a layer of soil under the paper towel as well). Then instead of taking mass measurements of each seed you could maybe take a overhead picture of each seed and using a computer, have a custom program guess the seed's mass, then that could feed into the 3d printer tool path to determine how much plasma each seed gets.
2. To eliminate the variable of some spouts getting more light than others by virtue of sprouting first, you could start out with the lights up higher and further away, so that you don't have and bias to the first spouts that got a head start, mimicking more how crops would actually grow in sunlight. To make sure they get enough light you would need a more powerful grow light and some reflective panels.
3. Another route to go would be to see if pre-treating the seeds with anything would have an impact. A pre wash with just water? (or other sterilization method) A quick dip in fungicide? A fertilizer?
4. Observing the seeds in other growth environments simultaneously. Growing in different soil types. With different additives within the soils. (fertilizer treatments, fungicide, soil samples looking into the different dominant bacteria species, ect.) Growing some hydroponically, growing some in different lighting intensities/spectrums. Growing some in different levels of humidity.
5. Like others have mentioned: Adjusting the plasma. Different gasses used: Helium, Argon, Nitrogen, ect.
6. Taking precautions with microbes on hands and breath using gloves and a mask and a relatively clean environment for transplantation.
I observed something like this on a divider, every single tree which is beside the power line along with a light pole, they grow faster than the others, I theorized it's due to the electric field or magnetic flux generated by the AC power line. But it's finally due to the street light beside it which is helping it to some extent in photosynthesis 24/7😂.
Damn, good point
It's extremely unlikely that a light source at that distance would effect plant growth, when growing plants inside the same light source in a street light is optimally no more than 2 or three feet away from plants due to the inverse square law, a light 20 feet away would have about 120th of the light energy than an optimally placed source that's less than 1 percent.
Loads of trees grow under or near power lines, but I have never seen any tree under or near them which grew faster, or any other kind of plant either. If we're talking about lines that run through the cut lanes in the woods, well trees that have more room to grow, do tend to grow faster.
In my case they are on divider and are lined. So I observed every single tree(literally every single one) which beside the light pole grown taller than rest of trees in the line@@lepayen
I'm more inclined to believe the OP observations rather than replies that are from people that neither observed or did their own tests.
I worked with a company about 10 years ago that is now defunct, but they used a type of plasma treatment to grow various food crops in a way that saw tremendous growth combined with hydroponics. The plasma treatment part of their method was to energize the water that was used for growing with a proprietary plasma generator that the water flowed through. It was stored in a giant tank but constantly circulated and was "energized" with the generator and then the water was siphoned off to fill the hydroponics containers the plants grew in. They experienced tremendous rates of growth over and above what hydroponics saw alone.
The suggestion then would be to find a way to use your plasma capabilities to treat the water used for growing seeds and compare the plasma-ized water growth results to this experiment.
It seems like it would be much easier to treat the water than the seeds. Would be an interesting experiment, especially in comparison of seeds vs water treatment.
French physicist who invented the "electro-vegetometer" in the 1780s inspired the technique. This device was a lightning rod that delivered atmospheric electricity to crops.
I am an agricultural engineer and your experience inspired me, maybe I will try it on the wheat crop
Thank you for your great work, you are Amazing
Make a video about how it goes ❤
I think is very cool, but just 6 seeds for something as hugely variable as a plant is basically meaningless, you should do like 50 at least
You're missing a 0 there
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It's not even that, grass seeds he used are mix of 4 different species which all grow at different rates...
@@carboxysome2630 wait what? How did I not notice
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In my training period in a plant laboratory, we had once made an attempt with sterilized soil. The soil is heated for 2 hours. The rice plants grew much faster and looked healthier; I suspect behind the plasma-like effect that the seeds were freed from germs. In the soil, also nutrients have probably become more accessible.
All life is electromagnetic. It's more than the germs
it's important to note that faster growth doesn't come free, making plants grow faster tend to result in less nutritious plants.
Increasing CO2 will do that.
@@andrewradford3953?? Do what?
@@3RR0RNULL I'm clutching my pearls, heavens no shamus
@@andrewradford3953why does that sound like big oil propaganda against big renewables?
Same nutrition per unit, lower nutrition per weight.
This was so fascinating. It'd be amazing to see this experiment repeated using better control and more professional level techniques! 🙏
I like the concept and I'd love to see more data. I think you have a nice suggestion of possible improved growth but if you can achieve a rate of +50% then a slower growing specie might be a better candidate than a more rapidly growing specie. Seeing variance (even a high degree of variance) in an already fast growing plant like wheat grass may be more easily attributable to seedling genetic luck whereas if you took a specie that took longer to grow like a lettuce, bean, or tomato plant and got a 50% increased growth rate then it is harder to pass off the height differential as just fortunate seedlings. You might also encounter other differentials in growth patterns over a longer time frame with lettuce, bean, or tomato plants.
A good friend of mine is a renowned expert in plasma treatment of seeds. This is a serious thing to be sure.
1. More seeds to get statistical consistent data(at least 100 of each)
2. Level yhe substrate and cover with vermiculite and level again
3. Try different plasma gas that is available at industrial scale and cheaper
4. Instead of soil try maybe a nutrients free substrate and fertilse only with liquid solutions to grant homogeneous conditions
5. Let us know when you open your mary jane business
For the 1, a 10x10 3D printed planter to even out the spacing could be nice (you mentionned it was a problem, that would fix both spacing and depth of the seeds)
2 would help too
4 is interesting too
I love your channel. I keep finding myself falling more in love with Plasma and Ionic everything each time I run into your videos. Great stuff!!
Thank you so much!
I'm curious about the fruits we get at the end. Are there any studies that showcase the effects of cold plasma on the quality and composition of the fruits?
I imagine it would be less nutritious
The flavours might be inferior. Good wine grapes come from areas were the don't grow the fastest
Again.
More seeds, better data.
Truly fascinating.
Thank you.
Use a cylindrical silver rod with a lead ring at the bottom and a durable copper wire wrapped around it with its end at the top of the rod. Connect a plasma source to the wire and place the rod inside the soil so that the lead ring is immersed in the soil
New Plasma Channel video?!
And about plants?
It's Plasma Channel, it's gonna be good.
Let's gooooo!
Interesting, I'd love far more detail on how to DIY this. We have 2 grow racks in our dining room that we use for starting seeds int he spring and grow experimental peppers and the like the rest of the year. I'd love to tinker.
Literally on his channel
You could try a small plasma jet, they sell them as a beauty product.
It would be interesting to see how this would work with fruit tree seeds!
How to use plasma for anything. Truly a plasma channel
OK, lots to unpack here. I'm a biotech scientist who has made GMOs, so I know my biology.
1. Observing seedling growth may or may not translate into meaningful CROP YIELDS.
2. Faster growth won't mean FASTER crop production. Just because you grow the plants from seed to harvest in, say, 3 weeks less, you are still only going to get 1 (or 2 for certain crops) per year (in temperate climates).
3. Important to remember that plant growth is exponential, so all you are seeing is that earlier start that puts them on an earlier trajectory. This may, or may not, mean larger plants at maturity. If the lifecycle of the plant is a certain time, then they will not produce more. If they are daylength determinant, then they might be bigger and produce more.
4. Is this extra growth only due to a faster start? If so, then what is the difference between treated and untreated that are simply panted a day earlier? This is an experiment you should do to check for increased growth rates. Do 2 controls, one started 24 hrs early and 48 hrs early. Do 1 treatment of the 30 plasma, but double the number of plants. At the end, check growth and see if your treated catch or overtake the controls.
5. Does this effect only alter water absorption and therefore increase germination speed? Try soaking a treatment in water for 12 or 24 hrs, then start your experiment and see what you get.
6. Since your radishes didn't like it, you will need to try a bunch of different crops and compare results. Why did the radishes not like it? Was that batch of seeds bad? Is it the species? Is it because it is a dicot? Lots to unpack and figure out.
7. What about less time? What is the minimum time needed to see improvement?
8. What if you pre-wet them before plasma? If the theory is increased water permeability, then what if you give them the water right at the time of plasma?
9. Oh, and back to your radishes... They are cool-weather plants. What was the soil temp at the surface under those lights? If it was too high, they will not want to break dormancy.
10. For plants you don't need quite the intricate setup. More seeds would be better in stead. Just use a flat with lights over it and drop 50 or 100 seeds per treatment to get better statistical data.
I could go on, but I think those 10 are a good place to start thinking about what you can do to improve or think of for more experiments.
I would love to see this done again with lessons learned. I also think that it would be more fair to have all the containers contain all versions of the seeds, obviously clearly marked. This would avoid the issue of differences in the containers themselves, maybe one was closer to a draught, or heat source etc
Great work as always! Love the comments, lots of help, this video definitely needs a part 2.
Go bigger and longer. Look at a few others and chart to full growth. Otherwise if only a few hours and only as seedling this would really only help indoor automated conveyor belt style farms
bro's videos always amaze me. three consecutive videos of him, electret, cold plasma, and cold plasma plant treatment all just blew my mind. cool youtuber he is.
Bro's been using the special plasma on himself. We need to figure out how to sell this to the "fitness" community. lol
8:34 The seeds not treated with plasma go into the soil with no prep? That's an error. When you plant seeds, you should moisturize them for a day in advance. This will kick start the growth.
It is standard practice. Not testing against it is an error. Nobody serious about growing fast is planting dry.
faster plant growing?! *heavy german breathing*
NINE NINE NINE..........ZEY MUST BE TALLER!!!!!
Lmao I was wondering if I'd see this xD- All legal over there, some common sense in Germany like that is amazing... lead by example.
Germany Hads legal weed
@@N4CR our politicians need to be re-elected next year February and the CDU (christian democratic union) already said if they get elected they will revert the legalization. so yeah.. lets hope they t´didnt make it :D
@@heidenmensch4809 Ugh, same thing happening in Thailand next year apparently..
It's not a political subject and should never have been, it's a personal freedom and choice.
Using a heatseak to hold the seeds is sucha geek move; i love it!
My cat has a habit of putting her dry food into her water.
So I'm using an old ide hard drive CD ROM bay switch, as a soacer ro separate her food and water dish.
If you don't know what a hdd rom bay switch is, just imagine an old pc cd/dvd rom drive standing on its side.
I wish UA-cam had a way to include a quick low res photo with a comment.
Scarification via cold plasma blasting? How does it compare to a knife though?
I'm building my own atmospheric cold plasma wand to see if it could be a cheap and cheerful way to make low surface energy plastics like polypropylene more readily gluable and receptive to permanent markers. Of course, if you wanted to give that a try and figure out all the pitfalls before my parts order even arrives, I wouldn't be mad 😉
There is a company I know that builds machines to do just what you described.
Look up Plasmatreat in Steinhagen in Westphalia in Germany.
@jannikheidemann3805 yep, that's exactly the kind of equipment I'm trying to emulate, just at 1/1000 of the cost (and quite likely 1/1000 the throughput)
2:28 Those are CRIMINAL amounts of unread messages.
The same effect can be achieved with a strong permanent magnet. Try it with a neodymium magnet and expose some seeds to the north pole and then some to the south pole. Grow them and see what happens; I'm sure you'll be pleasently surprised!
Yes' like the experiments Ken Wheeler (Theoria Apophasis) has repeated and talked about in a few of His videos, I think He said Davis and Rauls had made a book about the subject' that the govt. tried to suppress.
Looking at that guy's channel, what you've got is a conspiracy theorist who even believes in magic lmao every conspiracy theorist believes everything is being suppressed by "the government" (which one?)
Oooo new science vid? Yes please 😮
Grower here. Radish seeds from packets have a high failure rate, its a numbers game. Try seeds meant for microgreens they are stored better and fresher. Idea for a longer experiment would be to use pine tree seeds among other tree seeds. May be useful for land recovery after a fire or disaster.
A nutritional uptake evaluation is essential.
Commercial outlets grow plants more rapidly than usual.
However, nutritional researchers are concerned due to the lack of essential trace mineral uptake in the rapidly grown plants.
Another thought is that due to the plants passing the artificial full spectrum lights in growth
Is it possible the photosynthesis process was interrupted?
Would that be a concern for reevaluation?
Maturity of roots would allow uptake of minerals. Faster growth of roots should be good.
This is really cool. If it increases crop yield this could be implemented in large scale farming and potentially in smaller scale gardening.
For industrial farming, ionization could be built into the tractor planting attachment. Then the cold plasma can be applied right before planting.
For gardening it depends how soon the plasma needs to be applied before planting. If it can be months before, it can be done when the seeds are packaged. If not a cold plasma treatment device would be needed to process the seeds right before planting.
You should definitely try this again! Two suggestions:
- you need to be blind to which container is which, so you don’t favor one group accidentally (with watering, planting, etc). Maybe have a friend label the containers with a code, and then you only check which is which at the end of the experiment
- try to control the plasma exposure for each seed a little better. The sweep is maybe not the best method. I’m sure the distance to the torch is also important
Do the seeds think they're getting super sun blasted which is why they grow better?
...until they're over energized that is.
it's just nitrogen fertilizer, it's not a new technology, plasma was used to produce nitrogen fertilizer in regions with cheap electricity, but now other methods are used.
I don't know much about it, so don't judge too harshly
that would make sense if he was treating the soil.
He is treating the seeds.
If he was converting the seeds into fertilizer they would not grow, animals and humans doing something equivalent when we make bread out of wheat seed and scrabled eggs out of chicken seed
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 The plasma could just be sterilizing microbes that are detrimental to seed germination and plant growth.
Lighting is part of the nitrogen cycle
Always watch your videos when they come out, thank you for keeping up the good work!
skip opera go to 4:04
Suggestion. It is coomon for some seeds to not germinate. So, Germinate the seeds before planting. This can be done by placing the seeds on a moist paper towel. Plant the ones that show robust germination.
Vid actually begins at 4:08
50 years ago I ran a small hydroponic lettuce farm. 1000 plants per week. I noticed I got faster seed sprout if I talked to the seeds while I was planting the seed. I also acheived faster growth by talking to the plants when the were in the growing area. All anecdotal of course.
This is great. However to do this properly needs a bit of a rethink. I suggest carefully controlling watering, soil mix, planting, plasma exposure, and light exposure. I also suggest planting many more seeds in larger patches of dirt. Larger samples will be helpful to getting statistically significant results.
It is not only about plasma. Please search for "high voltage electric field speeds up germination". First experiments were conducted many years ago and scientists noticed that they actually created seeds of plants that have not been seen in that form fo hundreds of years. Somehow plants were more resilient, had different leaf structure, etc.
I think a scale up is needed. As well as a better way to apply the cold plasma. Blasting one side of one seed at a time seems like it may have skewed the results a bit.
I recommend presoaking at least 1 batch of seeds to determine if pre-soaking and then treating with cold plasma is better than not pre-soaking.
You can measure the depth of planting much easier by placing all the seeds at the same depth and then covering with a specific amount of soil.
Go Bigger... for sure... much taller, and probably go 100 seeds per group.
This is a great experiment!
I would use sand instead of soil for germination, it would remove a lot of variables, smaller particle sizes means seeds won’t get trapped under bits of bark or clumps of peat that comes in potting soil. It also is less likely to grow fungus which is always a problem with germinating seeds
So I have a thought. Instead of separating your chambers by exposure, I’d separate them by plant variety. And I’d also alternate exposure types by position in a chamber. For instance C,30,60,90,120,C,30,60,90,120,… to the end of the chamber. This way, you’d eliminate any variables in the chambers or variables within the lighting/heating within any one chamber itself.
Now if plasma could wipe out dusty mildew, I’d be very impressed.
As you mentioned that may have impact on how we grow things. There are a few things I asked myself watching this and maybe some of my questions are also interesting for you to research. 1. Shouldn't you try to treat them 1 by one to eliminate over and under exposure? 2. Will the effect still work if the seeds are treated and got to earth later like (24 48 96 hours ) before planting? 3. Especially Weed or other high yield plants that autoflower may be perfect to test if you get higher yield if you treat them like that. Maybe there is somebody with a youtube project to bring your treated seeds full circle? 3. Energy input vs. Output to make this Plasma you need Energy and Helium but in wich cases is it worth to put this effort in compared to the yield. By example if you could get a field crop to grow so fast it can do 2 runs a season instead of one that would be enourmus, or to give it one run a season where the season was to short beforehand to even grow it.
As someone familiar with science and growing green things; your soil is a huge unknown factor/variable. Different parts could have different levels of nutrients, and nutrient availability. To remove soil from the equation, you should have gone hydroponic. This sounds difficult but is much easier than many people think, cheaper too. Look up "bubbling buckets/tubs". You get buckets, reverse osmosis water, and some hydroponic nutrients, throw in a fish tank airstone to oxygenate the water and you're off to the races. It's quicker to set up than your acrylic growing chambers. This would allow all of your plants to get the exact same level of nutrients since they're all pulling from the same source with equal availability.
This is an awesome experiment about a subject I previously knew nothing about despite my long background in agriculture, but there may be caveats to consider. The Green Revolution of the 20th Century increased crop yields by orders of magnitudes and faster growth rates contributed to this, *but* often at the expense of nutritional value. The primary reason that our diets are so poor in nutrients is the reduction in food variety that our great-grandparents consumed, but yield-maximized crop development is also a factor.
Accelerated growth is only desirable if it does not sacrifice nutritional value. I don't know enough to judge whether cold plasma acceleration has any effect upon the nutrient content of the end product, but it's something to keep in mind. Faster is not necessarily better when it comes to growth.
I did a similar experiment in school as a kid only not with plasma, but music instead. Classical music also makes plants grow faster and healthier. However, the effects were not nearly as large as yours with cold plasma. Very cool. Keep working on this, please. Cheers.
Hai... about the setup, once the plants grew above the light source, they will grow towards the nearest light source and if it is not getting enough light then they will try to grow their stems or try elongate to take the leaves more near towards the nearest source of light. So plants will elongate or grow more under dark conditions. Considering these make necessary changes for the experiment setup.
My dad is a farmer, he has gone to college on farming and its what hes dont his whole life. He would be a good person to talk to for something like this (we also live only a few hours away and we might go to Seattle in May for a concert anyway)
1. Fine tune the exposure range with a new number set: 70, 80, 90, 100s.
2. See if an aquaponics setup makes any difference?
3. It'd be interesting to see how cold plasma effects variegated seeds like tomatoes and apples, particularly on the upper ends of exposure.
A good start as a trial experiment, showing that plasma treatment may cause faster germination times. However, as others have pointed out, running the experiments for longer to also get measurements for crop yeild and maturity times is more useful for real world applications. I recommend starting a longer study with a greater number of seeds, with measurements taken for germination time, maturity time, and crop yeild.
If the farmer businesses use this method completely instead of using genetic engineering or hormones it would be a lot better which I know they already started using but not all farmer businesses around the world yet. Hopefully in the future. 👏👏👏👏
Damn that is a proper research set up for seed research. Truly impressive
A couple of suggestions, if you decide to try again:
1) Not one, but 4 control groups: C0, C30, C60, and C120 - with 0, 30, 60, and 120 s of the same treatment by the wand except the electricity is turned off. Because what if it is the helium, and/or placing them in that aluminium rack that makes them grow differently, and not the plasma?
2) Make it a blind study. Have the seeds treated or planted by someone else, and let them just number the specimens, and evaluate the results when the designed time elapses.
Important for your next experiment: stratify your seeds. Meaning: most seeds need a few days of cold to kickstart and synchronize germination. Best way to do this would be to plant them like you did here and place the entire rack in a 4°C dark fridge for approx. 3 days.
Alternatively, you could also stratify them in a tube of water.
If you're planning to grow your plant until maturity you'd be better of to quantify plant fresh weight instead of height. As plants grow, also in width, quantifying shoot length along the vertical axis only doesn't make much sense.
respect from a fellow plant scientist, you did the experiment, it contradicted your theory, and you posted it anyways, even if with a spin in the end. the idea might be promising but if you cant understand the mecanism you cant properly design experiments. (a tip i use on similar setups is hanging the lights on a pulley in the ceiling so you can adjust them). Cheers from Brasil
I plugged a 9v battery into my tomato plant, negative into ground and positive directly into the stem. Instant results!
I took my volt meter and did the same...most plants 0.7 volts. Trees 1volt.
I powered an LED for a week off of dirt. Use a screw and penny ...
I stacked the pots to get to 15 volts. Low amps but the volt there.
Moved and never went further.
Hope you can experiment..
Fascinating. I'd love to see this tested on other plants, particularly bamboo. Some species can grow at a rate of 1 inch per hour normally. Imagine increasing that by 30%. You could revolutionize the paper industry.
I totally did this for a high school science fair 27 years ago! But I soaked them in ozonated water instead - similar action on the seed coat, damaging it with oxygen radicals which makes it easier for the bebe plant to escape 🙃
I feel like you could achieve similar or better results just scuffing the outside of the seeds with something like sand paper or a tumbler. Scuffing seeds is a common gardener's trick to help greatly increase both speed and chance of germination.
At the beginning of every video about making things better that could help everyone, I always remember there is no cure for greed and that most evil come from the same group of people.
Just a dumb question. Is it the plasma or a wavelength coming off the plasma. If your seeds were in a glass tube and you applied the plasma externally would you get the same results? Just asking!
Applying light would be cheaper, no carrier gas needed.
Neodymium magnets (strong 2x2in blocks) treatment to seeds has shown via experiments to make seeds grow faster after exposure to South magnetic face and normal to slower on North magnetic face. Test again with your rig. It may be the same action on the seeds as the plasma, but somewhat easier to implement.
Good job, fast growing can also be used for faster breed selection without genetic modifications.
Definitely continue. I would try higher concentration CO2 in atmosphere, it can make grow plants faster too.
If you regard Lightning as plasma, an experiment I conducted when I was a child, grass grows anywhere between 3 to 6 inches during a thunderstorm.
I concluded after several experiments that nitrogen is released from the soil and absorbed by the roots of the plant.
Try this experiment, does a plant grow better when exposed to the South Pole or North Pole of a magnet.
You definitely should do a lot more research into this because this has huge potentional to feed humanity
In addition to the cold Plasma, you had LEDs above the area where you were growing the seeds. These LEDs generate heat. Also there may be a draft from the room heaters blowing on the area. I am assuming that they were also putting out UV light. So maybe you move the LED lights around and also the position of those growth fixtures and start the experiment again. It seems like the best growing grass seeds among those that were illuminated by the cold Plasma were always to one side of the fixtures. I may be wrong, so before you waste a lot of time watch the video and see if I am right. Check for drafts from your room heater vent which may affect the temperature as well as the moisture content in the soil.
As a second comparison try soaking some seeds for an hour or so. I know with big seeds like beans and peas it realy helps speed up the sprouting. Even letting them soak over night to plant in the morning.
wow significant results with 3 data point !