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I once bought seedlings in a store (two eight-year-old apple trees). The roots were "bare" (without land), while he drove, while he was about to plant ... Will they take root? But he planted them according to all the rules of agricultural technology. One apple tree soon began to show signs of life, and the second did not.

I waited two more weeks. No kidney movement. I decided to help the apple tree with electrical stimulation.

Somewhere in the literature I read that a negative potential should be applied to the top of the plant. I brought an adjustable power supply and a multimeter to the garden plot. I plunged a metal pin 400 mm long into the ground at the roots of an apple tree, connected it to the "+" of the power supply. I connected the top of the apple tree to the "-" power supply with a wire with a "crocodile" at the end.

Stimulation of plants with current

I turned on the power supply and, controlling it with a multimeter, began to gradually raise the current, but it did not increase more than 3 μA. I thought the apple tree was dead! I set the current between 2 and 3 uA. Most likely, the fluctuations were due to the influence of the multimeter. He conducted a session of resuscitation of a tree for 4 hours.

Literally the next day, the kidneys began to grow. Moreover, an additional branch went from below, which was not observed in the second tree.

To simplify the hardware part of "resuscitation", I propose to conduct all this from a single 1,5 V battery. Since the plant usually has a large "input" resistance (250 kOhm), it is easy to obtain a current of 2 μA using a simple resistive divider. In general, the circuit draws a current of 50 µA, so one battery will last a long time.

I believe that the second resuscitation session will not be required. The main thing is to excite the plant's own membrane process (osmosis).

Author: A.Partin, Yekaterinburg

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