Re: Beat this?
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Beat this?
- From: P*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 22:05:56 EDT
In a message dated 98-08-26 12:48:51 EDT, you write:
<< Subj: Re: Beat this?
Date: 98-08-26 12:48:51 EDT
From: rado1000@hotmail.com (B Rado)
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>Growth rates are tremendously higher during a lightning storm due to
>some type of energy created with the earth and the static type air it
>creates. Some AG's have been known to grow 50 pounds over night >after
a lightning storm.
Okay, so, Wayne, would you please expound a little on the history of and
your personal experience with lightning generators??
Dan Shapiro, is this a component of your system?
Where can I buy or how can I build a lightning generator??
thanks everyone,
Be >>
Beth,
You stumped me on this one. The closest I've had to a lightning generator
in my patch is a Gallagher Electric fence charger. 8,000 volts of brute force.
Incinerates small creatures, will bring a grown man to his
knees............charger runs off 240 volts!!!! A W E S O M E. I had a pumpkin
vine crawl across one of the fence wires and it burned it a little, but didn't
kill the plant. Always wondered how the plant felt about those jolts. One day,
a farm hand was holding up the middle wire with a hoe as I walked under. The
wire slipped off the hoe and zapped me.....it felt like I was hit by a
baseball bat.......not fun. Some say that lightning can ionize the nitrogen in
the air and produce nitrites or nitrates, nitrates would give a growth
response over time, but nothing earth shaking. Don't think there is any
significant growth response from a lightning storm....we have enough nitrogen
already.
pumkinguy@aol.com
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