My 120-day results with electroculture as an easy method to encourage garden plants to grow faster and more robustly.
Electroculture is buzzing in the gardening community as an easy way to encourage the growth of plants at a more brisk and robust pace.
Below is a short video from Electroculture.life that summarizes how it’s done and why to do it.
Supposedly, the copper wire harnesses the free electrons in the air to nourish and fertilize the soil, which sparks rapid and robust plant growth.
Plants nourished by electroculture are supposedly more resistant to pests. Some claim that you don’t even need to fertilize the plants at all …. the free electrons nourish the soil for you.
My Results with Electroculture
Since the soil where I live in Florida is quite sandy and low in nutrients, I thought my garden and yard would be a perfect candidate for electroculture.
Roughly 120 days ago, I procured copper wire and wrapped several sticks to try out the process for myself.
This is the brand of copper wire I purchased.
Unfortunately, the results have been less than spectacular. In two of the three cases, I placed the copper-wrapped stick “antennas” on the south side of the plant to maximize the effects of the earth’s magnetic field.
Sadly, in all three of my attempts, the non-electroculture plant actually grew better than the plants with an electroculture antenna nearby 🙁
Note that we’ve had plenty of thunderstorms in our area to allow the rods to “harvest” the electricity in the air.
Our property also has zero EMFs as measured with my EMF reader. Thus, interfering EMFs was not the problem either.
Below are the photos of my results.
Passion Fruit Vine Seedlings
The first picture below shows the difference in the growth of passion fruit seedlings with and without electroculture.
As you can see, the seedling with an antenna is growing significantly slower than the one without the help of a copper wire antenna.
Both were planted and sprouted at the same time. The copper-wrapped antenna was placed when the seedlings were roughly the same size.
Potted Landscape Plants
My second example is of two bougainvillea landscape plants that were partially killed off by a winter freeze.
They were at roughly the same stage of recovery four months ago when I placed a copper wire electroculture antenna in one of the pots (south side of the plant) to see if the plant would recover faster.
Unfortunately, it did not.
As you can see, the potted plant without an antenna is significantly further along in the recovery process.
Moringa Trees
I also tested electroculture with my two young moringa trees.
Unlike the previous examples above, the trees were growing directly in the ground. Perhaps this would affect the results?
Apparently not.
Once again, the tree growing without the aid of an electroculture antenna is growing at a faster and robust clip than the tree that has one.
As with the bougainvillea above, these trees were damaged by a freeze last winter.
I cut them back to the same spot on the trunk and then placed the electroculture antenna next to one of them to see if it would recover/grow faster.
As you can see, the tree without an antenna is growing significantly better.
Does Electroculture Really Work?
The claims surrounding electroculture are very compelling with some sources saying it is the answer to world hunger.
Unfortunately, my personal attempts to make it work on my property have failed three out of three times.
Perhaps electroculture is actually a green living rugpull? The World Economic Forum promotes it on its website.
I would appreciate any input those of you who are more experienced with this can provide.
I would love for electroculture to be true and an actual principle home gardeners could use to increase production inexpensively and easily.
But so far, it is not living up to the hype at my house.
Sarah, i would be interested to know of other natural living rug pulls you can think of over the years! 😉 Blessings.
Bulletproof coffee and raw green smoothies are two big ones that come to my mind right away. Make you feel better at first but end up bigtime harming you in the long run if you keep doing it. So many more …. I should do a post about it sometime. So many scams out there including plenty in alternative health.
Waterbirthing is another one … sounds so wonderful until you realize how unhealthy it actually is to birth a newborn baby into tap water loaded with chemicals, chlorine and fluoride that compromise the baby’s flora. Using filtered water is better but the water is almost always contaminated from the pushing process by the time baby is born.
Teething necklaces …. I could go on and on. Fads that get super popular, but end up being ineffective at best or dangerous at worst.
Gripe water …. marketed as natural but loaded with sketchy ingredients and not at all safe.
The really weird thing is that some of the alternative health scams circle back around too. Things I saw in the 90’s that faded out because they didn’t work sometimes hoodwink a new generation of people who don’t remember it from 25 years ago.
I’ve been curious about electroculture but haven’t had any significant results. Something that has worked extremely well and is essentially free is the JADAM fertilizing solution from the book JADAM Organic Farming by Youngsang Cho. The advice is based on organic farming techniques from Korea. It’s simple and you can easily scale it up or down based on the size of your garden or farm. I don’t pay attention to the occasional political commentary because the formulations are extremely effective. This is only my second season gardening and I am amazed at the improvement in my soil structure and productivity in all of my plantings (container, raised beds and earth beds). Highly recommend reading this book.
Thank you for this information! I will definitely look into this, as I do need some help countering the sandy soil issues here in Florida. My garden grows pretty well, but I am constantly working to improve yield by trying various methods.
Addition for my previous comment:
We have 3 cherry trees, one a very old Bing that’s got a lot of dry rot. We really had to cut it back this year and aren’t sure it will survive.
However, we made 3 poles with copper spiraling up and copper wire loose sort of brush on the top and placed them south of the tree. The second tree is north of the Bing, the 3rd in another location.
After two weeks, the Bing and tree #2 look better, with better looking fruit then tree #3!
My brother experimented with alfalfa sprouts. Almost 100% germination with putting the seed under a copper apparatus, same seed, same source, same everything, vs 80-90% germination of seed not done. He tried it a couple of times.
We’re convinced it works!
We’re seniors, have been gardening for many years, do organic everything, use manure etc.
I am only just trying electroculture myself, so no expert, but I did read that the average height of a rod is 6’, and the taller the better. Since yours seem really short, I wonder if that is why you’re not having success. Maybe try some taller rods? Also, the direction that you wrap the copper wire matters, but maybe you already did this correctly. In the northern hemisphere, we need to wrap the wire clockwise. Hopefully one of those helps!
Yes, I wrapped it clockwise and placed the rod on the south side. Not sure why it would have hurt the plants. At the very least, if the rod was too short it should have done nothing. I am hesitant to try a taller one because the results could have been even worse.
We just got into electroculture, using copper wire and magnets. Also my brother and some other family members.
We noticed significant effects.
We sprout beans in the house and plant once sprouted. Normal is 3-4 days, they sprouted in one day!
Squash, cuke, melon seedling with huge leaves and rapid growth.
We tested our tomato seedlings with some clockwise from ground up spirals, some the opposite. They grew toward the clockwise, away from the opposite. Those same tomatoes are growing at an astronomical rate, producing flowers and now fruit very rapidly.
My brother in a different part of the country, has similar results.
We are convinced it works!
Yannik VanDoorne has a great site.
Great!! Thanks for sharing!
It’s supposed to say “ metal in a positive way”, not “noon”🙄
I started using electroculture about a month ago. I have metal raised beds, so I thought it would counteract the metal noon a positive way. The poles we use are much taller, and have more copper wire, than what you show. We first put one in my strawberry bed. My strawberries are going crazy!! I’ve never seen them so full and robust. If you want, I can send a picture.
That is wonderful! Stories like yours are why I tried it! Not sure why mine has been such a dismal failure. Perhaps I will try taller rods, but I am hesitant given that a shorter rod seems to have hurt the plants.
I had a Cactus and killed it because I placed a copper wire garden decor in the pot with it. Then my husband reminded me that a way to kill a tree or remove a tree stump is by pounding copper pennies into it. The copper kills it. So that was enough proof for me.
That’s what I was wondering myself … is this a natural living rug pull? I’ve seen a number of them over the decades.
sarah,
layer about a foot deep of composted organic dead material ( can be most anything, tree leaves, ground up wood chips from tree companies, they deliver free, make sure its live tree limbs under 6” diameter they grind) around your trees about 4-5’ out in every direction, then prune them well, quite hardily, keep water on them, and let the microbes in the soil do the rest….the bacterias, and myriad of other living organisms whichare present in the soil, eat this material on the surface, and thats what makes fertile soils….just as in our gut…..get plants out of pots or raised beds, which hurt them and keep them in “ dead soils”…just plant at ground level, ( a hundred reasons for this, too much totype, think dew, heat and cooling) but always keep the soil layered with much dead organic material, and not bare, !, just like out in the woods and wild places…where everything grows perfect !!…no fertalizers or supplimental waterings needed ! you see ? no imputs from mankind needed… so just do the same…and everything will grow perfectly fine…remember, feed your soil dead organice material right on the surface just as God does, in the creation, year after year, and feed the living cultures and creatures , and they will do the rest. they are what feeds the plants, theough the roots, just like out gut bacterias, … all this electric stuff..i dont know. lightning brings all the nitrogen and things soil needs the rains and moon and sun the rest…minerals are already present in dead materials and from the bacterias and microrhyzias, etc., that produce the enzymes etc., that extract them, and feed the plants and trees !…god already designed it togrow perfect so just mimic what he has created, and what happens in the woods…leaves, needles, grasses drop year after year and the soil microbes eat it up…( notice its always must a light layer but never bare ?…that my dear is what makes all plants grow perfect. and all soils be fertile.
I noticed all the antennas are fairly short. I thought they had to be around 6ft or higher to really have an effect. Does the copper go into the ground 6-8in? And does the end of the spiral face north? I’m new to electro culture myself so I don’t claim to have the answer, but those things came to mind when reading this so I was curious to see exactly how you did it.
If you look at the video in the post, the rods are much less than 6′
They look no more than 2-3 feet to me.