Setting Up an ELECTROCULTURE Experiment to Grow VEGETABLES

[Berkeloid]

Good point, obviously they weren't too worried about the strange-looking wires.

I imagine if you arranged the wire in more of a grid pattern, and wrapped it around and over the bed, then it would probably keep the cockatoos out

 

[Mandy Onderwater]

I think that might be dangerous as they could get tangled/hurt in the wires. As much as cockatoos are a menace, we don't intend to harm them.
I'm just glad there are none around here. Though we have horrendous grasshopper issues. You win some, you lose some.

I know certain birds are attracted to shiny objects. I am unsure if they affect cockatoos at all.

 

[Berkeloid]

Oh I was thinking more along the lines of turning the wire into chicken mesh, which definitely keeps birds in/out without causing them any harm!

I think Mark tried some shiny things on blueberries or rosella once (I forget which) and said he had great success at keeping the birds away, although I vaguely recall him also saying after a couple of years they got used to it and it stopped working.

Grasshoppers are supposed to be a delicacy! All you need to do is figure out how to prepare them properly and they won't be a problem any more This year I've had more grasshoppers in my small balcony garden than ever before, but any I catch are quickly devoured by the local birds who are always happy to come over for a free meal.

 

[Mandy Onderwater]

I've heard the same about grasshoppers. I am, however, fully incapable of killing animals. I've even brought mosquitoes back outside, as I have a repellant in the house that also kills if they stay around too long

 

[Berkeloid]

Well the birds eat them alive so I guess that's always an option

 

[daveb]

lol they would have gotten more from germanium diodes tossed on a circuit array , when sun hits the clear glass of the germanium diode it produces a microvoltge just like an LED. poking a wire in the ground and having it dangling in air might pick up an ever so tiny amount of radio frequence radiation but nothing that is going to induce any measurable power only thing would be to complete a circuit that would convert those waves of solar radiation in the radio band and other stray radio signals into a harnessed signal via a circuit board like an old superheterodyne crystal radio. To do so you need some electorlytic capacitors the diodes your wire are the antenna and you will get a small voltage at the capaitory after a while but not enough to be of any functional use.

runs out buries new batteries in garden look electroculture eureka

 

[Grandmother Goose]

I'm not the slightest bit surprised by the results, or lack thereof depending on one's perspective. As I mentioned earlier, the only evidence it works required generated electricity, there is simply no real evidence that it works without that. Agriculture is massively important, huge industries world-wide, growing literally everything edible, in every way possible. Millions of dollars every year around the world is poured into experimenting and innovation, trying to find better things to grow, and better ways to grow them. If there was anything other than pseudoscience behind electroculture, big ag would be all over it and there'd be copper wires all over every farm, but there's not, because it doesn't work. Not effectively and definitely not efficiently anyway. Rig up an electrical supply from batteries or solar, there's a miniscule improvement in plant production, enough to scientifically measure, not enough for any plant producer of any kind to even consider. It does do one thing effectively though: it sells. It sells copper. It sells books. It sells videos. It sells written articles. And most lucrative of all, it sells advertisement opportunities.