Old Technology That is New to Us

Janice and I found some old technology that is new to us called Electro culture. apparently, it was part of experiments that Nichola Tesla was involved in during the early 1900's. a very simple explanation, you take a wooden stick and wrap a spiral of copper wire from top to the bottom, then you bury the bottom of the stick on the north side of the plant. This is supposed to enhance the natural electromagnetic force of the earth and put extra growth and production into the plant.

Janice placed one of the first sticks we completed into the ground next to her Red Chevron Rose that was looking badly. 

Wow, what a difference in just three days. I will try to add photos she took, which shows the amazing difference in such a short time.

I got so interested that I have already dug through my junk pile and found stuff that I am in the midst of putting together to make a machine for winding the spirals onto the sticks. We are going to try different sized sticks with different sized copper wire. I am thinking small ones made with 1/2 inch dowels from the hardware store and longer ones made from Filbert staffs. 

This photo shows an old windshield wiper motor, yellow by the hammer.

This photo shows a large sprocket that I had to make a fixture to turn a center with a smaller hole to fit the shaft in the chuck. This was done on a small Grizzly Mill and Lathe combination.

This photo shows a chuck unit from an old CNC machine I purchased. I have never used this unit as a CNC, and thought it would work good for this purpose.

This piece was some iron left over from the rear bumper I had built for the last truck I had that was crushed by the carport. I always try to save iron or steel that can be reused for other purposes.

This photo shows the wiper motor bolted up to the iron from the bumper. The wiper motor came from before 1992 when I left the Coast Auto Body shop.

These two pictures show the chuck and wiper motor bolted to the iron and me installing the drive chain.

Me installing the drive chain.

This is the unit completely assembled. I will try for more photos when I am testing the unit.

Presently we have currently made at least two Electro-Culture rods. We placed a long Filbert shaft after being barked with a draw knife, that I had spiraled with #12 copper, I think starting length was about six feet or so. I screwed the start to the bottom of the shaft, spiraled the copper about 1 inch part to the top where I added a screw where the wire turned up to a roughly 4-inch antenna. This Electro Culture rod we placed on the north side of a Walnut we purchased year before last, that has really been struggling.

Janice and I have done a little more research on Electro Culture since watching the first couple videos. Apparently according to some videos we have watched you don't have to have the wooden core. I would have thought it would assist in grounding the rod. But hey this is all totally new to me.

Just a quick side note we had placed an Electro culture rod by a red Chevron Rose Janice has had for a long time, it was doing poorly prior to placement of the Electro-culture rod. It had improved to the point that a deer passing through the place at night found all of the new growth, most just about gone.