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I think it's more likely that there's a chemical effect from the copper, somehow. Maybe it nukes algae that would otherwise be competing for nutrients?
by regularfry 3y ago
I think it's more likely that there's a chemical effect from the copper, somehow. Maybe it nukes algae that would otherwise be competing for nutrients?
- k__ 3y agoThey also said that artificial lightning strikes improved mushroom growth. So, it doesn't seem to be directly related to plants at all.
- regularfry 3y agoThat could easily be a different effect. Lightning strikes are going to give off all sorts of interesting chemicals that you wouldn't get just with electric fields.
- _Microft 3y agoThe comment on mushrooms and lightning strikes stood out to me as well. My first idea was that lightning arcs might make nitrogen more available by generating nitric oxides?
- trilbyglens 3y agoIt might also simply sterilize an area, allowing fast spreading fungi to temporarily dominate in the absence of normal biological competitors.
- ChoGGi 3y agoI've heard of using copper coins in the water of cut flowers to spruce them up.