This is an interesting point. In a different time and place and probably a different universe altogether, I used to help people grow. I'd design their grow room, make the hydro mix, supply the cuttings and tell them what to do every step of the way. These set ups were better than my own and they had to do what I said and not what I did.
It should have been better than mine, but it wasn't. Now when I'm faced with a perplexing problem, I generally..... roll a joint. The issue needs to be given serious consideration. Now over the years, I've pondered and pondered rolled a joint and pondered some more (first joint of the day is kicking in). But, staying focussed, the only real difference in the equation is that the plant carers were different. My plants grew up around me. You might argue that maybe the plant resonates to certain frequencies put out by the carer, the way a tuning fork will vibrate spontaneously to the frequency of another that was struck close by. People have argued that, this mechanism might attune the grower to his plants making him believe that his dope is better than anyone else's (often leads to the I'm a genius or God complex) and this may be true. But they have trouble explaining away all those Cups.
And then there is Findhorn,
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Greetings Nevil, i'm stoked and humbled to make your acquaintance.
I have been excitedly reading what i have had time to of threads that you post in. Personally i am very scientifically minded, it's just the way i have become after many years of eagerly soaking up knowledge about the world and universe. There is just so much information out there that over time i have become wary of things that seem like alternative theorys or pseudo science. Thats not to say i am not interested in reading about them, and i love to have my scientific mind put off balance! I am fascinated by crop circles, but it's just so hard to know what to believe of the info availiable on the net. I was stoked to have my interest in pyramid power re-kindled by one of your early posts on the subject, when i was young a kid at school did an experiment on it (i can't remember the result, ha), and it's something i've read about from time to time over the years. After a recent internet search on it i was surprised at the lack of hard scientific data from experiments.
So yeah, when it comes to something like people affecting plants with their own energy, i can't help but think that plants are such simple organisms that evolved much earlier than us animals with our complex brains full of billions of neuronal connections firing. But who knows - i think i have a bit of a green thumb and i'm one of those people that can usually get close to wary animals, maybee i have an affinity with nature. And they say that playing music to plants has been proven to increase vigour, but i haven't researched the info on that one. And of course there must still be so much that science has to discover. But i think it could just be that some people just put the effort in to their grow, plus a bit of inteligence helps. I'm always thinking that i'll be able to have my grow all worked out to a schedule so i never have to think to much, just follow the schedule, but there's always so many little ajustments and improvements to be made, adjusting fans depending on outside conditions and lots of other small things that all combine to make a difference, how's that saying go? "The best thing a grower can put on their plants is their own shadow" or something like that, ha ha.
In the end, my own humble opinion is that one must be wary when straying from the scientific path, after all, science has one simple meaning at it's heart and that is - an experiment that can be repeated by others and get the same result each time. Surely this can't be a bad thing to guide one through the wealth of information that a curious mind is bombarded with on it's journey. But as i said i love to be made to wonder.
And every curious mind has it's own path to follow, i wish you well on yours Nevil
Man i'm stoned, i gotta go to bed, lol