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I would love to see this experiment repeated but without the sweeping back and forth of the plasma. Every seed got a different level of exposure to the plasma.
Right! Constant application of cold plasma on seeds with and without turning them over! Not to mention to partner with actual biologist to better record and explain seed side of things. 😅
It's going to be practically impossible to apply an even amount and coverage of plasma to each seed without a complex setup. In the experimenting phase, it may be best to focus instead on large sample sizes. But such an applicator device would be useful development for any company looking to integrate the process industrially.
@@NickCombs If the plasma jet is held in fixed position and the seeds are placed in something like a test-tube so that the plasma being jetted doesn't freely escape, that would be sufficient.
In the 70's tests were made using electrostatic fields. Those that were exposed to a static charge grew faster. It wasn't mentioned but my theory is that the static charge similated conditions before and during a thunderstorm. Which encourage the plants to grow using the water available to it as fast as possible.
In 1988 a Swiss team from the chemical company Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) treated seeds of plants, bacteria, red blood cells, a rat heart and fish within electrostatic fields with astonishing results. Everything got much more vitality (the electrostatic field was much stronger in the past). The research was discontinued because the company did not want to destroy its own pesticide and fertilizer business. th-cam.com/video/gPOFyYvjWU8/w-d-xo.html
I observed something like this on a divider, every single tree which is beside the power line along with a light pole, they grow faster than the others, I theorized it's due to the electric field or magnetic flux generated by the AC power line. But it's finally due to the street light beside it which is helping it to some extent in photosynthesis 24/7😂.
It's extremely unlikely that a light source at that distance would effect plant growth, when growing plants inside the same light source in a street light is optimally no more than 2 or three feet away from plants due to the inverse square law, a light 20 feet away would have about 120th of the light energy than an optimally placed source that's less than 1 percent.
Loads of trees grow under or near power lines, but I have never seen any tree under or near them which grew faster, or any other kind of plant either. If we're talking about lines that run through the cut lanes in the woods, well trees that have more room to grow, do tend to grow faster.
In my case they are on divider and are lined. So I observed every single tree(literally every single one) which beside the light pole grown taller than rest of trees in the line@@lepayen
the waving the small wand across the multiple seeds means it wasnt exact timing on the seeds, on average i would say the central seeds would probably get more exposure than the edge seeds just because of the left to right motion, if you could make more of an airblade type nozzle and equally heat all of them 30 seconds you will probably get different results again (also making the lights adjustable height might help too, in addition, seeing the end result of the 120 seconds exposure could help towards what to expect if we are ever hit by a high energy solar plasma shot) The thing is with making a better option for exposure would probably need 10 or 15 second increments over a full 30 second separation, this would gain better datasets, there is also the option for the damp paper towel germination occasionally used before potting, this is an accepted method and you would also be able to measure root growth differences pre potting
Agreed, also, is the 30/60/120 second plasma for each seed or for the entire lot of seeds? based on what he showed I'm assuming it's split between all of them. needs more samples of course as well.
definitely would like to see a larger experiment. Also, would like to see something scalable. Helium is way too expensive to be able to be useful on a farm. Thousands if not tens of thousands of seeds are going into the ground in a few hours. The time it takes to drive the machinery across the field. So, this would need a lot of work to become viable. Need to know the results at 10 sec, 15, 20 seconds of exposure, and if changing the source of the cold plasma creates a difference. Bonus points for a cold plasma that isn't going to break the bank.
helium wouldn't be as big of an issue if you use an ante-chamber / miniature glovebox type setup, reduces wasted inert gas / reuses it. seal the seeds in a chamber, use vacuum to evacuate the air, fill with helium or other inert gas for making plasma, then start the plasma process (and you could make it a more even plasma across all the seeds), vacuum out the helium / inert gas (could have valves to vacuum it to a storage tank to reuse the helium OR use an antechamber so the main chamber ALWAYS has helium in it and the ante-chamber is a smaller chamber you put the seeds in prior to entering the ante-chamber where they would be purged of oxygen / non-inert gasses). Then it may just need a small inert gas purifier unit to keep the main chamber filled with inert gas (or simply put in fresh new gas when the oxygen content starts to increase / less inert gas making the plasma less efficient / strong). Theres def some potentially good ways of making this viable on a larger scale. If it has a significant enough effect on plant growth / growth speed to be viable cost wise hopefully it would cover the upkeep costs of the electricity and inert gas.
For the next experiment, I recommend using latex or nitrile gloves when handling seeds. This will help prevent contamination that can impact the seeds growth.
And other sources of microbial contamination - like human breath. These microbes can be detrimental to plant growth and the function of the plasma could be mere sterilization of these microbes.
There is one German guy who grew weed seeds taller by applying a high voltage elctrical field with a condensor-like arrangement before planting them. He's been doing this for at least 10 years IIRC. His name is Segelohrenbob, but he does a lot of other weird but interesting stuff.
I like the concept and I'd love to see more data. I think you have a nice suggestion of possible improved growth but if you can achieve a rate of +50% then a slower growing specie might be a better candidate than a more rapidly growing specie. Seeing variance (even a high degree of variance) in an already fast growing plant like wheat grass may be more easily attributable to seedling genetic luck whereas if you took a specie that took longer to grow like a lettuce, bean, or tomato plant and got a 50% increased growth rate then it is harder to pass off the height differential as just fortunate seedlings. You might also encounter other differentials in growth patterns over a longer time frame with lettuce, bean, or tomato plants.
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Interesting, I'd love far more detail on how to DIY this. We have 2 grow racks in our dining room that we use for starting seeds int he spring and grow experimental peppers and the like the rest of the year. I'd love to tinker.
1. More seeds to get statistical consistent data(at least 100 of each) 2. Level yhe substrate and cover with vermiculite and level again 3. Try different plasma gas that is available at industrial scale and cheaper 4. Instead of soil try maybe a nutrients free substrate and fertilse only with liquid solutions to grant homogeneous conditions 5. Let us know when you open your mary jane business
I'm curious about the fruits we get at the end. Are there any studies that showcase the effects of cold plasma on the quality and composition of the fruits?
I would try to eliminate the soil as a variable by growing the plants hydroponically. The seeds themself are also a big variable, which could be mitigated by increasing the scale, or otherwise maybe by recording the weight of the seeds?
Use a cylindrical silver rod with a lead ring at the bottom and a durable copper wire wrapped around it with its end at the top of the rod. Connect a plasma source to the wire and place the rod inside the soil so that the lead ring is immersed in the soil
French physicist who invented the "electro-vegetometer" in the 1780s inspired the technique. This device was a lightning rod that delivered atmospheric electricity to crops.
You need to do a followup experiment to determine if a delay between plasma exposure and planting has an effect on the plant growth. This would represent the shipping and handling time after ordering your plasma seeds. Also a repeat with 30 sec, 45 sec, and 60 sec exposure. This would satisfy reproducibility and give a new data point for the time variable.
I'd be interested to see how this affects the nutritional value of said plants. GMO's for intance despite all the public fear surrounding them are nearly across the board a positive development for food production, with the sole exception that plants modified to grow faster also have lower nutritional value than their natural counterparts from less time maturing in soil. Would cold-plasma assisted growth have the same effects? How would it affect gmo's to natural organisms, would it confound the issue or would the difference be negligible?
I would love to see this done again with lessons learned. I also think that it would be more fair to have all the containers contain all versions of the seeds, obviously clearly marked. This would avoid the issue of differences in the containers themselves, maybe one was closer to a draught, or heat source etc
Go bigger and longer. Look at a few others and chart to full growth. Otherwise if only a few hours and only as seedling this would really only help indoor automated conveyor belt style farms
it's just nitrogen fertilizer, it's not a new technology, plasma was used to produce nitrogen fertilizer in regions with cheap electricity, but now other methods are used. I don't know much about it, so don't judge too harshly
that would make sense if he was treating the soil. He is treating the seeds. If he was converting the seeds into fertilizer they would not grow, animals and humans doing something equivalent when we make bread out of wheat seed and scrabled eggs out of chicken seed
1880s Professor Karl Selim Lemström of Helsinki University a geophysicist studying the Aurora Borealis - or Northern Lights - began to wonder if they had an effect on plant growth because he noticed that the trees in the far north grew rapidly despite the short growing season. This led him to start experimenting with the effects of atmospheric electricity on germination and plant growth.
I'm still a kid who is just trying to understand science greater than him but from my knowledge it is meant to be the seeds with the lowest exposure or medium amount of exposure gets the highest growth rate because as the saying goes too much power can cause harm while balanced power would get the job done so my thoughts is that you perform another experiment but with the time of exposure centered around the ones that faired the most
I did a similar experiment in school as a kid only not with plasma, but music instead. Classical music also makes plants grow faster and healthier. However, the effects were not nearly as large as yours with cold plasma. Very cool. Keep working on this, please. Cheers.
When you do germination tests like this, I've slid the seeds down against the glass so you can see them sprout easier. It works just fine. Plant seeds are usually pretty prolific and will grow anywhere almost.
As someone who knows a bit about agriculture I first have to say that the radish seeds may have been too old or poorly stored. The viability of some seeds diminish rapidly. To determine viability I would put the seeds into a container of water and give them a stir . Seeds that sink are usually good. Plant the seeds twice the depth of their size . Basically sprinkle a bit of sifted soil over them and moisten the top with a spray mist. Cheers
My vote: Definitely go bigger. :) Also, I'd be interested to see data on other types of crops. I'm glad to see you covered both dicotyledon and monocotyledon plant types in this first round. Great job! As mentioned below, I imagine exposing each seed uniformly to the plasma stream may be difficult. I wonder if differing amounts of exposure had some appreciable effect on the different germination/growth rates. Who knows. I'm sure you've already thought of a bunch of ways to improve you process to eliminate as many confounding variables as possible. I had never heard of plasma used as a growth/germination stimulation method and I've been growing hydroponically/aquaponically/Jadam/KNF for years. Great stuff man. Thanks for taking all the time and energy to share this fun idea! I immediately went out to my shop and dug through my acrylic to see if I could make some neat trays like that but I need to finish my other projects first. Please keep up the great work!
The speed boost AND the split stalks could be useful in agriculture. Id love to see if you can make cannabis / hemp split like that and and to repeat this experiment with 15 and 45 seconds added in.
The radish seeds could have failed because it wasn't cold enough. I've found that radish seeds sprout best for me during the spring and fall, and can sometimes struggle in a warm summer. As for the wheat seeds, it isn't uncommon for seedlings to emerge at 4-6 inches in the first 10 days, so a taller chamber would have done some good. It'd be neat to see this experiment done with a larger sample size broken into 20/30/40/50/60/70 seconds to see where the drop off starts. Over all, good vid.
Great start! Definitely go bigger. From seed to harvest. Some with daily plasma treatments, some with weekly plasma treatments, some with only the initial plasma treatments as a seed. (Also keep your current plants. I'd like to see how those mutated ones end up by the time harvest comes around). Also try fruits and vegetables of various types.
I’d like to see three changes. 1. Another control, where just helium treatment was performed. Maybe that has something to do with the measurements. 2. The seed size and the exposure differentials. The bigger grass seeds tended to do better, but the smaller radish seeds didn’t grow really at all…so aside from you just getting a bad batch of seeds it could be that treatment time also depends on the seed size. 3. There also seemed to be some variation in the lighting; all the LEDs didn’t look the same (some looked dimmer) and so maybe contributed to the differing growth rates for specific plants…in the each plant would respond to the light sources differently. Were the lights the recommended distance from the top of the growth bed? I’d like to see the lights a little higher from the surface so the light has more room to spread out across a greater area. This is really cool, and a very interesting use of cold plasma.
*I had a lightning strike hit my corn field in the spring and by fall the plants in that area grow taller, were darker green and produced 24 cobs per stalk verse 12-14 cobs.*
I love tech, diy and understanding the world. I also love to grow my own food and are building my own hydroponic system. THIS hits all my interests. More please. PLEASE! If you combine hydroponics and cold plasma you will negate the randomness of soil and you can control variation in nutrients. I good setup for removing some randomness in th quality of the seeds is to germinate say 20 in each batch and take the best 10 seedlings from each batch to continue with. The first step is less important, from seeds to seedlings as it can take place in a smaller place. It is REALLY interesting to see if the time from seedling to full plant is faster. Yes yes, takes longer and more resources to make an experiment but will really be more interesting. I really want a cold plasma generator now for my own experiment...
Hi Jay, I'm a PhD student in plasma science in Germany, if you want to dive into the world of low pressure non-thermal plasmas, just hit me up. Possible things to do would be a simple reactor for etching or deposition of materials. I love our low-pressure plasmas for their bright and diffuse glow, it's just beautiful to look at
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Great experiment, there are all sorts of places using plasma as part of growing mediums, including invigorating water with cold plasma and then the spraying crops in the fields/poly tunnels with it and getting great results
The seedling phase, although it's important, is such a short part of the plant's life. It's the vegetative stage that really matters. That's where the explosive growth happens. And anything that can increase that is where you will yield more crops
Please redo the experment with seed starter trays, once they are root bound move to the larger transplant trays, raise the height of the lights with a small fan blowing over them (it stiffens the stalks) do a one month run as radishes have a 5 to 7 day germination time. One of the most important thing of growing a plant is not just it's height, but it's stalk thickness and its root system. You should consider the overall health of the plant, not just what sprouts quickly, let the overall health of the plant and whether or not it will be viable should be the main focus. Still all in all very interesting.
As someone familiar with science and growing green things; your soil is a huge unknown factor/variable. Different parts could have different levels of nutrients, and nutrient availability. To remove soil from the equation, you should have gone hydroponic. This sounds difficult but is much easier than many people think, cheaper too. Look up "bubbling buckets/tubs". You get buckets, reverse osmosis water, and some hydroponic nutrients, throw in a fish tank airstone to oxygenate the water and you're off to the races. It's quicker to set up than your acrylic growing chambers. This would allow all of your plants to get the exact same level of nutrients since they're all pulling from the same source with equal availability.
This is an interesting proof of concept. The model needs a bit more refinement, specifically during the plasma treatments and the growth enclosure, but it's a very good first stage. I personally think it could be interesting to see the affects of this growth speed increase on some crops that have longer growth periods as well. It could also be useful to see if the treatments on one generation also affect future generations of crops. If it's something that you find interesting, then by all means, go for it and iterate on your experiment taking into account some of those factors that you learned after the fact. That's what the scientific process is all about after all. But it's really up to you what you choose to do with your time.
A variation of the testing,.. make 4( or more) exactly like the existing control setup, but cold treat the buried seeds in situ for the different durations. You could extend the testing to adding further exposure to the soil and seed for the first few days afterwards. The idea being that if there is an evolutionary reason for them to respond better in a high electron environment this could highlight such as the dirt could hold the charge in such a way it ends up reacting better in such an environment.
Useually the faster a seed sprouts the more you will harvest from it. Would love to see this larger scale, use a seed tray and pack the seeds in really dense like they do with microgreens.
While the wand was a good tool for an initial test. I think you may have to design some kind of saturation chamber to ensure a better distribution of plasma along the surface, while likely dropping the total exposure time. Possibly seat the seeds on a mesh/screen in a small vacuum chamber? I also wonder if there isn't merit in "pulsing" the root system with plasma at intervals through growth, though that would be a more difficult setup and further small scale tests should be run first. Overall, I don't think you understated the possible benefits of this. If we had access to NPK and CO2 free "fertilizers", that would upend the global food production and tangential industries.
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A couple of suggestions, if you decide to try again: 1) Not one, but 4 control groups: C0, C30, C60, and C120 - with 0, 30, 60, and 120 s of the same treatment by the wand except the electricity is turned off. Because what if it is the helium, and/or placing them in that aluminium rack that makes them grow differently, and not the plasma? 2) Make it a blind study. Have the seeds treated or planted by someone else, and let them just number the specimens, and evaluate the results when the designed time elapses.
Biomass is what matters. So get to a certain point (like 1 week) and then cut all grass above a certain level and weigh it. Then a week later do it again.
But how does it scale up to a farmable level? Farmers can't blast every seed they plant, that would take years for one crop. How well does it work with eatable foods, and does it affect the nutrients in the end product?
Multigenerational testing would be interesting too, taking seeds from the treated plant and repeating to check if there is any noticeable curve or carryover in a second generation control group.
4 year hort major. I'd highly recommend MORE plants; and ideally from a controlled batch where you've measured germinative energy and capacity as a sample from the same batch. When looking at 'growth capacity' I'd actually recommend say lettuce that you then take to a specific date. Cut at soil level and dry. All my experiments used dry foliar mass. Meaning collected samples were dehydrated at a relatively low temperature then weighed. I do think non-dried mass would be probably fine. Side notes, soil temperature plays a huge role in plant growth along with PPFD and photo period. With your plants growing 'past' your lighting you're very likely to cause elongation. Good quality light at the right concentration will help keep the plants at a proper growth form instead of legging out trying to find the quality of light the plant wants.
This is an awesome experiment. I would love to see you do this again but for a much longer duration of growth. Maybe use corn, peas, tomatoes, or lettuce and grow them for a few months to see if it's just a headstart that disappears quickly, or if there is lasting effects through later stages of growth. 55% growth rate increase is impressive for a few days, but if it's only for a few days, the difference over the life of the plant to harvest time may be negligible. Thank you for this experiment!
Hello Jay ! I am not normally interested in this type of study but your approach using plasma has triggered an increase of interest on how this will pan out, if you are going to go bigger and do some of the things suggested in comments. Hope to see your next video soon.
I think there’s a component of fertility here. From what I understand, lightning releases nitrogen and cold plasma does the same. I can’t speak to the mechanism but it’s possible nitrogen molecules are being affixed to the seeds. Seeds in general have plenty of initial nutrients built in but a little extra nitrogen would certainly give a boost. But then overdoing it with plasma obviously has negative effects. You would need to grow full size plants that are not treated additionally after seedling to see if the effects are lasting. That would rule out nitrogen affixation.
lots of people mentioned the seeds may have gotten uneven levels of plasma, and helium being unviable for large scale. But I thought we would get additional exposure as the plant was growing. Maybe add an additional group that keeps getting plasma
I would highly recommend performing this experiment multiple times. At face value, one might assume that 2 minute cold plasma exposure may have damaged or killed the seeds, but in reality a lot of seeds just don't survive packaging. You may have gotten really bad luck and planted dead seeds from the get-go. Shouldn't rule that out. All in all, the idea of electrically stimulating plants to enhanced growth speeds is a novel idea. Might I also suggest a different method? There might be a way to remotely stimulate the plants even after growth by blanketing them with a cold plasma cloud once in a while. Could be worth looking into creating a chamber specifically for cycling between normal air and helium, with which you could pump high voltage into the chamber and ionize the helium all at once in short bursts.
I'd love to see a follow up on this with bigger grow pots and see how it all works out. If things go well, I'd also love to see you sell the tools needed to apply the cold plasma to the seeds so we can replicate this ourselves.
Electroculture has been around quite a while but was mainly lost to the chemical age, so it is great to see it being talked about and indeed experimented with outside of traditional circles. But this is different though, due to working with the seeds, rather then the actual plants after gemination. There are different ways to increase plant growth with moving electrical charge and the magnetic fields they produce, but this is the first I have seen it tried with plasma, Reminds me of the old violet wands in healing.
AT 7 min in, i would recommend a series of holes be drilled into the base to and wall to allow drainage and oxygen to enter the root zone easier, my experience being anecdotal but some plants of mine grew better in fabric pots instead of plastic pots
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This reminds me of an older video I saw on youtube where there were Japanese scientists using artificial lightning to stimulate mushroom growth, if I recall correctly it was 30,000 volts for maximum mycelium growth. What I would like to see is the experiment for longer period of time to see what does best overall and also see what happens to the growth if exposed to an additional round of plasma once the plants have already been established (using the best plasma exposure duration of the previous experiment)
I think the mass of the seed should determine the dose of plasma. A phytochemist taught me that medicinal plants are dependent on a specific level of UV radiation that is similar to the region where they are native.
There’s so much more to dig into there! It’s great that they grow faster, but I’d like to point out that at the beginning stage of life these plants are using the energy stored in the seed to get going. I’d like to see the experiment repeated in the dark and see what effect the plasma treatment has on the plant’s ability to utilize a fixed amount of energy. From there test how the plants grow over their harvest cycle. If the plants are able to grow faster by more efficiently taking up nutrients I’d be concerned about how this treatment can accelerate soil problems that farmers will have to rely on Big Ag to sell a fix for. I’d be super interested to see how they take to hydroponic growing as well!
I would definitely increase the sample size for better data. Would also be interesting to investigate how different types of plasma affect growth, like maybe hotter or colder plasmas, plasma with different elemental or gas compositions, pressures, etc.
Great stuff! Keep up the great work, and yes, this is mind blowing! Would be interesting to see if 'day cycles' can be manipulated as well. (Daytime/Nighttime/Watering/Temperature/Nutrients/Stress) Varying what the plant goes through as it grows on a daily basis would also be a vey interesting experiment. Who knows, added together with plasma seed manipulation, you could be growing food to eat every week...
Creating something like a small vacuum chamber placing your seeds in, remove the air, fill with the required gas, then hit all the seeds with the same amount of plasma. But would like to see 45 seconds exposure on a larger group of seeds. say like 100 for the group, and if you have an even flow of plasma where they are all treated equally would be best, but if not, just keep track of the fringe group that don't get hit with enough, and also the grouping that gets hit with a higher power rating than the average might also effect it as well.
The uneven exposure to the plasma might be a significant issue. I'm not an astrophysicist, but I would probably put the seeds on a weak kind of tape to hold them, maybe like painter's tape, and then expose each seed individually to the plasma, instead of all at once where they are exposed unevenly. I would start with setting the upper bound of the experiment at 60 seconds instead of 120, because more even exposure for each seed would probably correlate with uneven exposure for 120 seconds to a reasonable degree. I would then have 6 separate tests, increasing from a control of 0 seconds of exposure, incrementing in 10-second increases to exposure up to 60 seconds. with taller growing chambers, this would probably give more accurate results.
This suggest that there might be means to speed up growth as well with further treatment after germination. Might be worth a look as it might provide means of even more crop yealds.
This is a good start but it's time to Scale it up! The number of seeds you did there and the growing conditions gave you tons of variability (add some error bars to see). Now that you know how fast and tall the wheat grows, build it an appropriate chamber and do something like 50 seeds for control and the 30s treatment.
Do some research on frequencie treated seeds etc.. there was a very interesting experiment in the 80th but the patents have been buried by a big company
Plasma binds nitrogen in the atmosphere into something that is water-soluble that the plants can absorb, so I'm not too surprised by the results. Still a fun watch!
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test magnets next. there's quite a bit of documentation outlining the effects of magnetic fields on plant growth.
Aliens have talked about growing fruit in 3 days using non ionizing radiation.
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I would love to see this experiment repeated but without the sweeping back and forth of the plasma. Every seed got a different level of exposure to the plasma.
Right! Constant application of cold plasma on seeds with and without turning them over! Not to mention to partner with actual biologist to better record and explain seed side of things. 😅
It's going to be practically impossible to apply an even amount and coverage of plasma to each seed without a complex setup. In the experimenting phase, it may be best to focus instead on large sample sizes. But such an applicator device would be useful development for any company looking to integrate the process industrially.
Maybe it's not as complex as I was thinking. You'll need a tumbler with a (bigger) plasma jet pointing into it.
@@NickCombs If the plasma jet is held in fixed position and the seeds are placed in something like a test-tube so that the plasma being jetted doesn't freely escape, that would be sufficient.
Oooh, to see what chaotic depth of expression we can get?
In the 70's tests were made using electrostatic fields. Those that were exposed to a static charge grew faster. It wasn't mentioned but my theory is that the static charge similated conditions before and during a thunderstorm. Which encourage the plants to grow using the water available to it as fast as possible.
Or one could plant the seeds a day before an actual thunderstorm.
That would be ozone.
It’s called electroculture and it’s well proven to work
In 1988 a Swiss team from the chemical company Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) treated seeds of plants, bacteria, red blood cells, a rat heart and fish within electrostatic fields with astonishing results. Everything got much more vitality (the electrostatic field was much stronger in the past). The research was discontinued because the company did not want to destroy its own pesticide and fertilizer business.
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As to gardeners and farmers, crop yeild is what's interesting. Yes, let them grow longer and take weight measurements.
I grow plants indoors and yeah, yield is the goal.
Maybe taste and quantified caloric density.
I observed something like this on a divider, every single tree which is beside the power line along with a light pole, they grow faster than the others, I theorized it's due to the electric field or magnetic flux generated by the AC power line. But it's finally due to the street light beside it which is helping it to some extent in photosynthesis 24/7😂.
Damn, good point
It's extremely unlikely that a light source at that distance would effect plant growth, when growing plants inside the same light source in a street light is optimally no more than 2 or three feet away from plants due to the inverse square law, a light 20 feet away would have about 120th of the light energy than an optimally placed source that's less than 1 percent.
Loads of trees grow under or near power lines, but I have never seen any tree under or near them which grew faster, or any other kind of plant either. If we're talking about lines that run through the cut lanes in the woods, well trees that have more room to grow, do tend to grow faster.
In my case they are on divider and are lined. So I observed every single tree(literally every single one) which beside the light pole grown taller than rest of trees in the line@@lepayen
I'm more inclined to believe the OP observations rather than replies that are from people that neither observed or did their own tests.
the waving the small wand across the multiple seeds means it wasnt exact timing on the seeds, on average i would say the central seeds would probably get more exposure than the edge seeds just because of the left to right motion, if you could make more of an airblade type nozzle and equally heat all of them 30 seconds you will probably get different results again (also making the lights adjustable height might help too, in addition, seeing the end result of the 120 seconds exposure could help towards what to expect if we are ever hit by a high energy solar plasma shot)
The thing is with making a better option for exposure would probably need 10 or 15 second increments over a full 30 second separation, this would gain better datasets, there is also the option for the damp paper towel germination occasionally used before potting, this is an accepted method and you would also be able to measure root growth differences pre potting
agreed, and I noticed how he was missing the seeds at the end a majority of the treatment.
Do you remember what it really looks like, and how it can be aimed from a distance. the plasma, found its shell, even underneath...
Agreed, also, is the 30/60/120 second plasma for each seed or for the entire lot of seeds? based on what he showed I'm assuming it's split between all of them. needs more samples of course as well.
definitely would like to see a larger experiment. Also, would like to see something scalable. Helium is way too expensive to be able to be useful on a farm. Thousands if not tens of thousands of seeds are going into the ground in a few hours. The time it takes to drive the machinery across the field. So, this would need a lot of work to become viable. Need to know the results at 10 sec, 15, 20 seconds of exposure, and if changing the source of the cold plasma creates a difference. Bonus points for a cold plasma that isn't going to break the bank.
helium wouldn't be as big of an issue if you use an ante-chamber / miniature glovebox type setup, reduces wasted inert gas / reuses it. seal the seeds in a chamber, use vacuum to evacuate the air, fill with helium or other inert gas for making plasma, then start the plasma process (and you could make it a more even plasma across all the seeds), vacuum out the helium / inert gas (could have valves to vacuum it to a storage tank to reuse the helium OR use an antechamber so the main chamber ALWAYS has helium in it and the ante-chamber is a smaller chamber you put the seeds in prior to entering the ante-chamber where they would be purged of oxygen / non-inert gasses). Then it may just need a small inert gas purifier unit to keep the main chamber filled with inert gas (or simply put in fresh new gas when the oxygen content starts to increase / less inert gas making the plasma less efficient / strong).
Theres def some potentially good ways of making this viable on a larger scale. If it has a significant enough effect on plant growth / growth speed to be viable cost wise hopefully it would cover the upkeep costs of the electricity and inert gas.
Plasma can't be cold. Plasma is the burning gasified form of an element. Fire is plasma.
Indoor farms
One of the paper that flashed on the screen mentioned using argon, so I'm wondering if any ol' inert gas would do.
@@AlbertaGeek Argon also works, but tends to provide a shorter plasma plume. It's what I used a decade ago to build one of these.
it's important to note that faster growth doesn't come free, making plants grow faster tend to result in less nutritious plants.
Increasing CO2 will do that.
@@andrewradford3953?? Do what?
@@3RR0RNULL I'm clutching my pearls, heavens no shamus
@@andrewradford3953why does that sound like big oil propaganda against big renewables?
Same nutrition per unit, lower nutrition per weight.
For the next experiment, I recommend using latex or nitrile gloves when handling seeds. This will help prevent contamination that can impact the seeds growth.
And other sources of microbial contamination - like human breath. These microbes can be detrimental to plant growth and the function of the plasma could be mere sterilization of these microbes.
Bro's been using the special plasma on himself. We need to figure out how to sell this to the "fitness" community. lol
There is one German guy who grew weed seeds taller by applying a high voltage elctrical field with a condensor-like arrangement before planting them. He's been doing this for at least 10 years IIRC. His name is Segelohrenbob, but he does a lot of other weird but interesting stuff.
I really hope that Plasma Channel will do a repeat of the experiment after consulting this guy you mentioned. Hopefully he sees this!
How to use plasma for anything. Truly a plasma channel
I like the concept and I'd love to see more data. I think you have a nice suggestion of possible improved growth but if you can achieve a rate of +50% then a slower growing specie might be a better candidate than a more rapidly growing specie. Seeing variance (even a high degree of variance) in an already fast growing plant like wheat grass may be more easily attributable to seedling genetic luck whereas if you took a specie that took longer to grow like a lettuce, bean, or tomato plant and got a 50% increased growth rate then it is harder to pass off the height differential as just fortunate seedlings. You might also encounter other differentials in growth patterns over a longer time frame with lettuce, bean, or tomato plants.
I think is very cool, but just 6 seeds for something as hugely variable as a plant is basically meaningless, you should do like 50 at least
You're missing a 0 there
faster plant growing?! *heavy german breathing*
NINE NINE NINE..........ZEY MUST BE TALLER!!!!!
Lmao I was wondering if I'd see this xD- All legal over there, some common sense in Germany like that is amazing... lead by example.
Germany Hads legal weed
@@N4CR our politicians need to be re-elected next year February and the CDU (christian democratic union) already said if they get elected they will revert the legalization. so yeah.. lets hope they t´didnt make it :D
@@heidenmensch4809 Ugh, same thing happening in Thailand next year apparently..
It's not a political subject and should never have been, it's a personal freedom and choice.
Interesting, I'd love far more detail on how to DIY this. We have 2 grow racks in our dining room that we use for starting seeds int he spring and grow experimental peppers and the like the rest of the year. I'd love to tinker.
Literally on his channel
1. More seeds to get statistical consistent data(at least 100 of each)
2. Level yhe substrate and cover with vermiculite and level again
3. Try different plasma gas that is available at industrial scale and cheaper
4. Instead of soil try maybe a nutrients free substrate and fertilse only with liquid solutions to grant homogeneous conditions
5. Let us know when you open your mary jane business
I'm curious about the fruits we get at the end. Are there any studies that showcase the effects of cold plasma on the quality and composition of the fruits?
This is the second video in a row that you have released where I don't think I would have believed it if it was presented as just an anecdote.
I would try to eliminate the soil as a variable by growing the plants hydroponically. The seeds themself are also a big variable, which could be mitigated by increasing the scale, or otherwise maybe by recording the weight of the seeds?
Use a cylindrical silver rod with a lead ring at the bottom and a durable copper wire wrapped around it with its end at the top of the rod. Connect a plasma source to the wire and place the rod inside the soil so that the lead ring is immersed in the soil
ok now blast it for 5, 10, 20, 30 minutes to get complete mutated species.
French physicist who invented the "electro-vegetometer" in the 1780s inspired the technique. This device was a lightning rod that delivered atmospheric electricity to crops.
You need to do a followup experiment to determine if a delay between plasma exposure and planting has an effect on the plant growth. This would represent the shipping and handling time after ordering your plasma seeds. Also a repeat with 30 sec, 45 sec, and 60 sec exposure. This would satisfy reproducibility and give a new data point for the time variable.
Vid actually begins at 4:08
I'd be interested to see how this affects the nutritional value of said plants. GMO's for intance despite all the public fear surrounding them are nearly across the board a positive development for food production, with the sole exception that plants modified to grow faster also have lower nutritional value than their natural counterparts from less time maturing in soil.
Would cold-plasma assisted growth have the same effects? How would it affect gmo's to natural organisms, would it confound the issue or would the difference be negligible?
I would love to see this done again with lessons learned. I also think that it would be more fair to have all the containers contain all versions of the seeds, obviously clearly marked. This would avoid the issue of differences in the containers themselves, maybe one was closer to a draught, or heat source etc
Go bigger and longer. Look at a few others and chart to full growth. Otherwise if only a few hours and only as seedling this would really only help indoor automated conveyor belt style farms
it's just nitrogen fertilizer, it's not a new technology, plasma was used to produce nitrogen fertilizer in regions with cheap electricity, but now other methods are used.
I don't know much about it, so don't judge too harshly
that would make sense if he was treating the soil.
He is treating the seeds.
If he was converting the seeds into fertilizer they would not grow, animals and humans doing something equivalent when we make bread out of wheat seed and scrabled eggs out of chicken seed
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 The plasma could just be sterilizing microbes that are detrimental to seed germination and plant growth.
Since I came across your channel I became addicted. Always looking out for your videos
1880s Professor Karl Selim Lemström of Helsinki University a geophysicist studying the Aurora Borealis - or Northern Lights - began to wonder if they had an effect on plant growth because he noticed that the trees in the far north grew rapidly despite the short growing season. This led him to start experimenting with the effects of atmospheric electricity on germination and plant growth.
You should team up with the Dustups Ranch channel and help him with his desert forest project.
Also the experiment was awesome!
I'm still a kid who is just trying to understand science greater than him but from my knowledge it is meant to be the seeds with the lowest exposure or medium amount of exposure gets the highest growth rate because as the saying goes too much power can cause harm while balanced power would get the job done so my thoughts is that you perform another experiment but with the time of exposure centered around the ones that faired the most
I did a similar experiment in school as a kid only not with plasma, but music instead. Classical music also makes plants grow faster and healthier. However, the effects were not nearly as large as yours with cold plasma. Very cool. Keep working on this, please. Cheers.
Go bigger; do another expirament? YES please!!!
Recreate your cold plasma source so that it creates a plasma blade the length of your seed row to help control variability in seed treatment.
When you do germination tests like this, I've slid the seeds down against the glass so you can see them sprout easier. It works just fine. Plant seeds are usually pretty prolific and will grow anywhere almost.
As someone who knows a bit about agriculture I first have to say that the radish seeds may have been too old or poorly stored. The viability of some seeds diminish rapidly. To determine viability I would put the seeds into a container of water and give them a stir . Seeds that sink are usually good. Plant the seeds twice the depth of their size . Basically sprinkle a bit of sifted soil over them and moisten the top with a spray mist.
Cheers
I'm excited you tried this and the fact that you contacted Joel!😍. I think you two should do a collaboration video on a larger scale.
My vote: Definitely go bigger. :)
Also, I'd be interested to see data on other types of crops. I'm glad to see you covered both dicotyledon and monocotyledon plant types in this first round. Great job!
As mentioned below, I imagine exposing each seed uniformly to the plasma stream may be difficult. I wonder if differing amounts of exposure had some appreciable effect on the different germination/growth rates. Who knows. I'm sure you've already thought of a bunch of ways to improve you process to eliminate as many confounding variables as possible.
I had never heard of plasma used as a growth/germination stimulation method and I've been growing hydroponically/aquaponically/Jadam/KNF for years.
Great stuff man. Thanks for taking all the time and energy to share this fun idea! I immediately went out to my shop and dug through my acrylic to see if I could make some neat trays like that but I need to finish my other projects first. Please keep up the great work!
The speed boost AND the split stalks could be useful in agriculture. Id love to see if you can make cannabis / hemp split like that and and to repeat this experiment with 15 and 45 seconds added in.
The radish seeds could have failed because it wasn't cold enough. I've found that radish seeds sprout best for me during the spring and fall, and can sometimes struggle in a warm summer. As for the wheat seeds, it isn't uncommon for seedlings to emerge at 4-6 inches in the first 10 days, so a taller chamber would have done some good.
It'd be neat to see this experiment done with a larger sample size broken into 20/30/40/50/60/70 seconds to see where the drop off starts. Over all, good vid.
Great start! Definitely go bigger. From seed to harvest. Some with daily plasma treatments, some with weekly plasma treatments, some with only the initial plasma treatments as a seed. (Also keep your current plants. I'd like to see how those mutated ones end up by the time harvest comes around). Also try fruits and vegetables of various types.
I’d like to see three changes.
1. Another control, where just helium treatment was performed. Maybe that has something to do with the measurements.
2. The seed size and the exposure differentials. The bigger grass seeds tended to do better, but the smaller radish seeds didn’t grow really at all…so aside from you just getting a bad batch of seeds it could be that treatment time also depends on the seed size.
3. There also seemed to be some variation in the lighting; all the LEDs didn’t look the same (some looked dimmer) and so maybe contributed to the differing growth rates for specific plants…in the each plant would respond to the light sources differently. Were the lights the recommended distance from the top of the growth bed? I’d like to see the lights a little higher from the surface so the light has more room to spread out across a greater area.
This is really cool, and a very interesting use of cold plasma.
*I had a lightning strike hit my corn field in the spring and by fall the plants in that area grow taller, were darker green and produced 24 cobs per stalk verse 12-14 cobs.*
Lightning strikes will cause nitrogen fixation in the soil so that would probably account for your observations.
I love tech, diy and understanding the world. I also love to grow my own food and are building my own hydroponic system. THIS hits all my interests. More please. PLEASE!
If you combine hydroponics and cold plasma you will negate the randomness of soil and you can control variation in nutrients. I good setup for removing some randomness in th quality of the seeds is to germinate say 20 in each batch and take the best 10 seedlings from each batch to continue with.
The first step is less important, from seeds to seedlings as it can take place in a smaller place. It is REALLY interesting to see if the time from seedling to full plant is faster. Yes yes, takes longer and more resources to make an experiment but will really be more interesting. I really want a cold plasma generator now for my own experiment...
Hi Jay, I'm a PhD student in plasma science in Germany, if you want to dive into the world of low pressure non-thermal plasmas, just hit me up. Possible things to do would be a simple reactor for etching or deposition of materials. I love our low-pressure plasmas for their bright and diffuse glow, it's just beautiful to look at
To answer your outro question: Genuinely, what you need to do is start saying that you would never harm yourself and that you do not have any intrusive thoughts.
After that, keep doing what you're doing. Keep making video documentation of everything, and keep making everything open source. The work you're doing on this channel is much more important than I think you realize.
here is a thought! u can treat the soil with plasma. one with normal air and one with only presence of nitrogen in chamber and plasma
Scarification via cold plasma blasting? How does it compare to a knife though?
Great experiment, there are all sorts of places using plasma as part of growing mediums, including invigorating water with cold plasma and then the spraying crops in the fields/poly tunnels with it and getting great results
Amazing as always ♥️
I love this channel!
The seedling phase, although it's important, is such a short part of the plant's life. It's the vegetative stage that really matters. That's where the explosive growth happens. And anything that can increase that is where you will yield more crops
very cool. Would love to see more!
Love to see how tomato and potatoe plants react. One under ground, and the other above ground, grown a little longer than just seedling stage
Please redo the experment with seed starter trays, once they are root bound move to the larger transplant trays, raise the height of the lights with a small fan blowing over them (it stiffens the stalks) do a one month run as radishes have a 5 to 7 day germination time. One of the most important thing of growing a plant is not just it's height, but it's stalk thickness and its root system. You should consider the overall health of the plant, not just what sprouts quickly, let the overall health of the plant and whether or not it will be viable should be the main focus. Still all in all very interesting.
As someone familiar with science and growing green things; your soil is a huge unknown factor/variable. Different parts could have different levels of nutrients, and nutrient availability. To remove soil from the equation, you should have gone hydroponic. This sounds difficult but is much easier than many people think, cheaper too. Look up "bubbling buckets/tubs". You get buckets, reverse osmosis water, and some hydroponic nutrients, throw in a fish tank airstone to oxygenate the water and you're off to the races. It's quicker to set up than your acrylic growing chambers. This would allow all of your plants to get the exact same level of nutrients since they're all pulling from the same source with equal availability.
You definitely should do a lot more research into this because this has huge potentional to feed humanity
I've seen people germinate seeds in a petri dish under a positive vs negative magnetic field. The difference is stunning.
Not only on the seeds, but PAW (plasma activated water) can improve plant growth as well.
This is an interesting proof of concept. The model needs a bit more refinement, specifically during the plasma treatments and the growth enclosure, but it's a very good first stage. I personally think it could be interesting to see the affects of this growth speed increase on some crops that have longer growth periods as well. It could also be useful to see if the treatments on one generation also affect future generations of crops.
If it's something that you find interesting, then by all means, go for it and iterate on your experiment taking into account some of those factors that you learned after the fact. That's what the scientific process is all about after all. But it's really up to you what you choose to do with your time.
A variation of the testing,.. make 4( or more) exactly like the existing control setup, but cold treat the buried seeds in situ for the different durations. You could extend the testing to adding further exposure to the soil and seed for the first few days afterwards.
The idea being that if there is an evolutionary reason for them to respond better in a high electron environment this could highlight such as the dirt could hold the charge in such a way it ends up reacting better in such an environment.
Hi Jay, this is Gabe. This is the comment you asked me to make lol. It was really nice to meet you today!
Useually the faster a seed sprouts the more you will harvest from it. Would love to see this larger scale, use a seed tray and pack the seeds in really dense like they do with microgreens.
While the wand was a good tool for an initial test. I think you may have to design some kind of saturation chamber to ensure a better distribution of plasma along the surface, while likely dropping the total exposure time. Possibly seat the seeds on a mesh/screen in a small vacuum chamber? I also wonder if there isn't merit in "pulsing" the root system with plasma at intervals through growth, though that would be a more difficult setup and further small scale tests should be run first. Overall, I don't think you understated the possible benefits of this. If we had access to NPK and CO2 free "fertilizers", that would upend the global food production and tangential industries.
A couple of suggestions, if you decide to try again:
1) Not one, but 4 control groups: C0, C30, C60, and C120 - with 0, 30, 60, and 120 s of the same treatment by the wand except the electricity is turned off. Because what if it is the helium, and/or placing them in that aluminium rack that makes them grow differently, and not the plasma?
2) Make it a blind study. Have the seeds treated or planted by someone else, and let them just number the specimens, and evaluate the results when the designed time elapses.
I am a fledgeling farmer in Alaska. And this has some real implications and I would like to see more experiments on this.
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Oooo new science vid? Yes please 😮
Biomass is what matters. So get to a certain point (like 1 week) and then cut all grass above a certain level and weigh it. Then a week later do it again.
I would love to see if these results can be replicated with muchrooms like lions mane and other varieties like that
But how does it scale up to a farmable level? Farmers can't blast every seed they plant, that would take years for one crop. How well does it work with eatable foods, and does it affect the nutrients in the end product?
Multigenerational testing would be interesting too, taking seeds from the treated plant and repeating to check if there is any noticeable curve or carryover in a second generation control group.
4 year hort major. I'd highly recommend MORE plants; and ideally from a controlled batch where you've measured germinative energy and capacity as a sample from the same batch.
When looking at 'growth capacity' I'd actually recommend say lettuce that you then take to a specific date. Cut at soil level and dry. All my experiments used dry foliar mass. Meaning collected samples were dehydrated at a relatively low temperature then weighed. I do think non-dried mass would be probably fine.
Side notes, soil temperature plays a huge role in plant growth along with PPFD and photo period. With your plants growing 'past' your lighting you're very likely to cause elongation. Good quality light at the right concentration will help keep the plants at a proper growth form instead of legging out trying to find the quality of light the plant wants.
This is an awesome experiment. I would love to see you do this again but for a much longer duration of growth. Maybe use corn, peas, tomatoes, or lettuce and grow them for a few months to see if it's just a headstart that disappears quickly, or if there is lasting effects through later stages of growth. 55% growth rate increase is impressive for a few days, but if it's only for a few days, the difference over the life of the plant to harvest time may be negligible. Thank you for this experiment!
Hello Jay ! I am not normally interested in this type of study but your approach using plasma has triggered an increase of interest on how this will pan out, if you are going to go bigger and do some of the things suggested in comments. Hope to see your next video soon.
I think there’s a component of fertility here. From what I understand, lightning releases nitrogen and cold plasma does the same. I can’t speak to the mechanism but it’s possible nitrogen molecules are being affixed to the seeds. Seeds in general have plenty of initial nutrients built in but a little extra nitrogen would certainly give a boost. But then overdoing it with plasma obviously has negative effects. You would need to grow full size plants that are not treated additionally after seedling to see if the effects are lasting. That would rule out nitrogen affixation.
lots of people mentioned the seeds may have gotten uneven levels of plasma, and helium being unviable for large scale. But I thought we would get additional exposure as the plant was growing. Maybe add an additional group that keeps getting plasma
I would highly recommend performing this experiment multiple times. At face value, one might assume that 2 minute cold plasma exposure may have damaged or killed the seeds, but in reality a lot of seeds just don't survive packaging. You may have gotten really bad luck and planted dead seeds from the get-go. Shouldn't rule that out.
All in all, the idea of electrically stimulating plants to enhanced growth speeds is a novel idea.
Might I also suggest a different method? There might be a way to remotely stimulate the plants even after growth by blanketing them with a cold plasma cloud once in a while. Could be worth looking into creating a chamber specifically for cycling between normal air and helium, with which you could pump high voltage into the chamber and ionize the helium all at once in short bursts.
I'd love to see a follow up on this with bigger grow pots and see how it all works out. If things go well, I'd also love to see you sell the tools needed to apply the cold plasma to the seeds so we can replicate this ourselves.
Electroculture has been around quite a while but was mainly lost to the chemical age, so it is great to see it being talked about and indeed experimented with outside of traditional circles. But this is different though, due to working with the seeds, rather then the actual plants after gemination. There are different ways to increase plant growth with moving electrical charge and the magnetic fields they produce, but this is the first I have seen it tried with plasma, Reminds me of the old violet wands in healing.
AT 7 min in, i would recommend a series of holes be drilled into the base to and wall to allow drainage and oxygen to enter the root zone easier, my experience being anecdotal but some plants of mine grew better in fabric pots instead of plastic pots
for cutting acrylic on a chop saw or table saw, consider getting a TCG ground blade, the teeth are alternating square and trapezoidal tips, instead of alternating sharp points on either side. TONS cleaner for cutting acrylic, with less chipping and less heat to create the fuzz. unless you're just cutting way too fast, i can't see the blade in the vid.
Yayyyy new video for lunch break. Thanks bro.
I will note for something like this, you should introduce air movement with a gentle fan.
Great video! For future projects, consider using a desk printer to avoid having to manually mark the papers used to measure growth.
This reminds me of an older video I saw on youtube where there were Japanese scientists using artificial lightning to stimulate mushroom growth, if I recall correctly it was 30,000 volts for maximum mycelium growth. What I would like to see is the experiment for longer period of time to see what does best overall and also see what happens to the growth if exposed to an additional round of plasma once the plants have already been established (using the best plasma exposure duration of the previous experiment)
I was about to say. Go big or go home . But you’re already home.. so the only option left is go BIG!!!
I think the mass of the seed should determine the dose of plasma. A phytochemist taught me that medicinal plants are dependent on a specific level of UV radiation that is similar to the region where they are native.
I'm working on the same thing with Humans, any Similarity
I'm here, what's important is how long it lives, why am I the only one that gets this
There’s so much more to dig into there!
It’s great that they grow faster, but I’d like to point out that at the beginning stage of life these plants are using the energy stored in the seed to get going.
I’d like to see the experiment repeated in the dark and see what effect the plasma treatment has on the plant’s ability to utilize a fixed amount of energy.
From there test how the plants grow over their harvest cycle.
If the plants are able to grow faster by more efficiently taking up nutrients I’d be concerned about how this treatment can accelerate soil problems that farmers will have to rely on Big Ag to sell a fix for.
I’d be super interested to see how they take to hydroponic growing as well!
(Insert crippling world issue here)
Plasma Channel: There's a plasma for that.
you are the coolest dude with thumb rings....that's a compliment!
You should try it with seeds that are slow to germinate and/or grow. That would really help out.
I would definitely increase the sample size for better data. Would also be interesting to investigate how different types of plasma affect growth, like maybe hotter or colder plasmas, plasma with different elemental or gas compositions, pressures, etc.
Great stuff! Keep up the great work, and yes, this is mind blowing!
Would be interesting to see if 'day cycles' can be manipulated as well. (Daytime/Nighttime/Watering/Temperature/Nutrients/Stress)
Varying what the plant goes through as it grows on a daily basis would also be a vey interesting experiment. Who knows, added together with plasma seed manipulation, you could be growing food to eat every week...
Creating something like a small vacuum chamber placing your seeds in, remove the air, fill with the required gas, then hit all the seeds with the same amount of plasma. But would like to see 45 seconds exposure on a larger group of seeds. say like 100 for the group, and if you have an even flow of plasma where they are all treated equally would be best, but if not, just keep track of the fringe group that don't get hit with enough, and also the grouping that gets hit with a higher power rating than the average might also effect it as well.
The uneven exposure to the plasma might be a significant issue. I'm not an astrophysicist, but I would probably put the seeds on a weak kind of tape to hold them, maybe like painter's tape, and then expose each seed individually to the plasma, instead of all at once where they are exposed unevenly. I would start with setting the upper bound of the experiment at 60 seconds instead of 120, because more even exposure for each seed would probably correlate with uneven exposure for 120 seconds to a reasonable degree. I would then have 6 separate tests, increasing from a control of 0 seconds of exposure, incrementing in 10-second increases to exposure up to 60 seconds. with taller growing chambers, this would probably give more accurate results.
This suggest that there might be means to speed up growth as well with further treatment after germination. Might be worth a look as it might provide means of even more crop yealds.
This is a good start but it's time to Scale it up! The number of seeds you did there and the growing conditions gave you tons of variability (add some error bars to see). Now that you know how fast and tall the wheat grows, build it an appropriate chamber and do something like 50 seeds for control and the 30s treatment.
Do some research on frequencie treated seeds etc.. there was a very interesting experiment in the 80th but the patents have been buried by a big company
Plasma binds nitrogen in the atmosphere into something that is water-soluble that the plants can absorb, so I'm not too surprised by the results. Still a fun watch!