In this video, I show you an experiment to see if copper wire through a tomato stem helps to prevent or stop diseases such as fungal problems like blight.
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Heh Mark, just wondering what your spray is you used on the ’control’ tomato off on its lonesome???
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The population on earth need your tips to grow food to survive. I was a Test Engineer for over a decade. I was also a Scientist. The first rule of thumb learned after school is that every test is worth a thousand opinions. Who cares what they think! In the Pandemic, I expanded my own garden and I raised 500 lbs of tomatoes and donated them to my locals. I need tips on how to grow more. Please move on! The copper wire crap is distracting…Please give us more gardening tips!
bueno, yo hice exactamente lo mismo pero con un arbol de durazno que estaba infectado con cloca, un hongo blanco típico del durazno, el arbol es pequeño, alrededor de 30 cm de alto y no mas de 1,5 cm de diametro abajo, le corte las partes afectadas y no ha vuelto a tener y dio ramas nuevas, no habia visto este video cuando lo hice, ya lleva mas de un mes con eso puesto, les pise un poco de barro arcilloso encima, en uno probe en la punta, en otro en la base, ambos estan bien, no creo que haya sido un desastre en mi caso, porque los duraznos definitivamente no son ácidos como los tomates y tienen otra estructura, en definitiva es un árbol, no una planta, sigue intentando con otras cosas a mi este caso me resultó muy bien!!!
there is something in this but the misconception is that it's the copper doing the work of getting rid of fungus it's not it's the derivatives from copper that help aka rust and copper salts and sulfites.
the way to maybe get better results is rusty copper wire and not through the stem the acids in the stem fluids probably kept that wire pretty clean we want stuff to happen so take your rusty copper wire and make a basket then dig a hole and ad fertilizer put the basket in bury it and plant your plant or seedling the buried rusty wire should react with the fertilizer and release copper compounds that can be absorbed by the plant.
this is simple chemistry and scientifically the only way it would work in a chemical way but does it? I guess you would have to start a new experiment!
for your wire to rust and get nicely reactive throw it in a fire and let it stay outside for a couple of months it should rust up great and get some salts and other chemicals to react with from the ashes.
Great Video again! Some People here in (Austria) Salzburg put 1 or 2 garden tools (shovel) in to the garden soil. But only Cooper tools. This is great for the plants, i think there is also a reaction with Cooper and Soil!
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Good experiment what I think is that you need to try going complete organic using natural home made fertilizers while comparing it with the copper wire method. KNF is something that needs to tried here esp for fertilizers ..
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Do you have a video on fruit fly please?
My favorite part of just about any episode is when the kookaburras start making you angry because they’re too loud I live in Texas the only thing we have like that is grackles and they’re the ugliest loudest blackest nastiest bird in the world
I was always told copper poisons plants so nah I'll just stick with not impaling plants with anything lol
Another use of copper that would actually be beneficial is tape it around pots stop slugs crawling up the side of your pot plants… never put copper in the actual plants..
I just saw the first vide oand commented you should retest this, I see now you already have so I am gonna subscribe haha.
If it did have an effect, my suspicion is it would be no different than simply increasing the amount of copper in the soil itself.
have been inspired by Marks videos, he is really down to earth and he comes across well, explaining things that I can understand. Nice guy Mark, keep making the videos mate!
I’m not shocked at all this didn’t work. People are naturally superstitious and this has “superstition” written all over it. Might as well throw some salt over your shoulder after you water them and hop backwards three times.
but but but …. meh
Love the Kookaburras hahaha
Great work Mark
Supposedly if you put a ring of bare copper wire around the bases of plants, slugs and snails will not cross over the wire.
Love this channel! Some are always gonna be negative. Totally different climate here, but still learn, which is the goal. Not everything we try is perfect, or there are always many ways to achieve the same goal.
Thanks for telling us about the experiment and ignore ignorant people.
Mark how much copper sulphate crystals should i use mixed up in a 2 litre sprayer without over doing it? Thanks
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What if you put foods high in copper in the soil when you grow tomatoes? It will be interesting to see experiments similar to the one you did with fish head, but with beef liver or oyster instead.
I'm going to have a go making colloidal copper water, to spray on soil before watering.
I tried wire last year, like you did, and got similar results, my best guess was that the stem healed around the copper wire but didn't think of cutting the stem to have a look before I pulled them out
Tomatoes on copper wired tomato plants look redder though.