In this video, I experiment with copper wire through the stem of a tomato plant to see if this prevents blight and other fungal diseases and to test if this method is a myth or does it work!
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Thank you for testing and debunking this!
This wire might have been enameled which might have affected this test.
never heard about this one. curious if attaching a battery would do anything though
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hi, did you use isolated copper wire
most wireless copper are isolated by varnish, if yes so you need to make sure use non insulation copper
Did the copper wire have an enamel coating try bare copper wire
It looks like your copper wire is covered with shellac. You might try doing this experiment again with a bare copper wire. Good Luck
the copper wire you used was coated in enamel by the looks of it as opposed to having the coating removed on it may of changed your outcome.. the copper wire your using appears to be trace wire.
Did you remove the varnish from the wire?
I add a piece of 100% copper into a misting bottle and it keeps black spot off my roses and other plants healthy. Not sure if it makes sense to do this on edible plants, but it seems just having water in contact with copper is enough to kill disease. I mist them every few days.
Hey Mark, seems to me that the copper wire you've used has some varnish layer protecting the copper…
If so: the results could have been different if the wire was stripped, sandpapered or otherwise
Hope you read this and perhaps try "busting this myth" again.
Cheers Rick!
ASPRIN Treatment is common with many in the US ..
Those wires were enamel coated. Could you strip off the enamel coating on the copper wire and try again?
Try mix yoghurt with water and bunch of neem leaves burry this in copper container cover all sides with soil for 1 week then sieve and spray this they doing in india
This wire is coated..
Dont stab it. Try put on the roots or soil. See what happen..
I sing happy birthday to my tomato plant everyday. It's healthy as a horse
My thoughts, when you showed us the copper wire it looked as if it had a coating? did it have a coating? Great trial you need to preform it two or three seasons to get an accurate benefit…
@5:04 That copper wire is insulated , so doesn't matter anyway. You need a clean copper to oxidate inside the plant.
Seems like the copper wire doesn't really release the copper through the plant like spraying a liquid substance with copper does.
How about alchol spray on tomato plant?
copper is a part of cofee grounds and meant to make fruit taste better.
It is up take up of calcium that makes a difference to fungal deseases. It meeans that pectic acids in the intersticial layers of hte leaf become pectin, which is to say the pectin iwill convert water which eurrounds the leaf cellsinto jelly and fungus does not want its feet in gelatinatinous stuff, it like water.. Your problem however is not with putting on more calcium , it is ,with how to make calcium availiable to the plant. How to stop the calcium atoms clumping together amd turning into a tiny calcium stone, which plants cannot absorb and the answer is, amino acids now sold in bottles in the fertiliser section of your garden centers to help you to stop calcium aggregating and so being uneatable.
That copper looks coated?
You are wrong because it worked for my garden and the ph balance is higher by a whole point almost ph balance 7 to where it could cure cancer. Please don't deprive .
It looks like you're using enameled copper you might have to scrape the enamel off so the copper comes into contact with the plant
I was wondering, Mark, if you'd tried the copper wire or copper strips around the veggie beds to stop snails and slugs. I come across it years ago from old mate Eric in Katoomba who'd been doing it, cutting strips from an old copper hot water system and strapping it around the raised beds. He was a bit of a wizz and he had a visit from Esther Deans shortly before she died. Any thoughts?
Thank you
Have you tried cleaning the copper wire in the area, where you have copper stuck in the plant, to see what is the result? Clean the copper shave some of the copper back. then see if it work.
Glad you tried it out even if it failed. I trust your judgment..