I agree, people can be such turds.....not even good enough to be called compost.

Marilyn haha good one!

I mean, I think everyone is guilty at least once for having a few wines while watching a vid, getting a bit boisterous and alpha like. If everyone did it once a year, you end up with a seemingly crazy population.

This wonderful channel generally ALWAYS has at least one comment where everyone (with a sense of humour!) posts in good-natured jest to keep the joke going as long as possible. Mark seems to have a great sense of humour and I highly doubt he is offended... instead, he’s laughing along with the rest of us. It’s actually a backhanded compliment of sorts. Besides, the YT algorithm counts the NUMBER of the comments, but NOT THE NATURE of them... So in that regard, the long-running “joke” comments (that are quite obviously NOT to be taken seriously) are actually HELPING his statistics, rather than hurting his feelings. (See the comments under the first copper wire experiment... THE COATED VERSUS UNCOATED COPPER WIRE “DEBATE” ... where everyone from a self-proclaimed pseudo-scientist to Santa Claus expressed their views...) It was funnier than most videos that are categorized by YT as comedy...! If he (Mark - the creator) didn’t like the comments he could have just taken them down. But he didn’t, so I’m pretty sure he takes the comments as the compliments that they really are. Peace 💜

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John Jenkins How about “A Backyard Farmer Outstanding In My Field” ... nah... bad pun nobody would get 😁

@@LucyJazzy85 I love it and would buy that shirt.

@@LucyJazzy85 lol nice

yes pls

@@LucyJazzy85 Ha Ha, good one!

Yes we do😍😍😍😍

Will Bunt I loved that comment as well... isn’t that what we all are doing? 🌱

Maybe it’s more like a belly button piercing.

Imagine your arm being ripped off and grown into another living thing. Plants are not like us

@@danielpalacios4848 they're actually more like living blood vessels

Didn’t work for me. But beer traps NEVER fail.

@@jamessones4044 If you put Bud Light in those traps it will kill all the woke and transgendered snails and slugs.

Apparently its because it harmlessly shocks the slugs and snails.

AMEN! Well said! TY

Russelle Wannell you think you have problems. I ground up a bunch of American wheat pennies and buried them with the plants. All my tomatoes look like Abraham Lincoln!

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Mine turned into a Tesla coil that I cannot turn off... therefore I am unable to test the tomatoes for fear of losing my life. It DOES make a terrific bug zapper though ... 🌱

Omg! Did you even ground them before plugging them in? 🙄

Lol

Excellent...

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This is what I thought as well.

Definitely right!! You don’t stick the wire in the stems! You put it in the dirt. Poking anything through the stems can hurt a plant. He did it totally wrong.

@@kells7252 I agree. this video was made 2 years ago. He should correct himself with the right procedure. The 100k+ viewers didnt get what they should deserve, but were all ill-advised.

I'm eager to try homemade colloidal copper spray. I think it will be far more ideal than a normal copper based spray that contains water soluble copper compounds. The colloid spray should both feed the plant needed nutrients and when it dries it should get into the textured surface of the plant where it will not wash away from rain, unlike those copper compound based sprays.

He really is eandearing isnt he? i came to Tn and drove to Ga, then returned back thru Nc thru the Great Smokies , literally, thru clouds driving at night, reading a paper map. it was great, even doing it solo...it was last year, when ppl were free ( to fly around the planet )

As someone who has never had success with tomatoes, I’m going to give this a try. Thanks.

That won't do anything. The copper acts topically. This is like grinding up an asprin and rubbing it on your forehead because you have a headache. Whereas putting a copper wire through it is like duct taping that asprin to your forehead. It's idiocy and evidence that people aren't even paying attention in year 7 science. This is first year high school stuff.

Dr. Lex Winter where my grandparents live the soils were and still are in some places extremely sandy and baron. My grandfather spent a couple of decades developing the soil in his garden areas to a more sustainable growing medium. All I have done in the following years of his passing have followed his diaries on improving the soils that he found successful. I will give you this example of the soil. The soil will not hold any shape when moistened, in summer, with any wind, you get small dust clouds. When you water, you do not get a puddle forming on the surface, within a couple of hours the soil, in the top few inches, has almost dried completely. We do not possess to be scientific people, but my grandfather loved to experiment with different processes and advice. He must have found this to be the best for his environmental situation. This may not be the most efficient nor most effective way of doing something, but if it works for his situation why mess with it. For those who read this, here is a rundown of some things found in his gardening shed. Urea, blood & bone, copper sulphate (powder and liquid), gypsum, various manures, all purpose fertilisers (granules and powders), iron sulphate, copper sulphate (powder and liquid), white oil, rock minerals, iron chelate, buckets of ash, potassium powder, various herbicides and pesticides (some of which are now illegal to use). All these were and still are neatly stored in his shed, I have also continued the garden, when I can, and have become very adept at keeping everything in its place, and following his diaries of when and where to plant, fertilise and maintain the various plants and equipment that he had. He was a very meticulous person, and kept some very detailed diaries, if not sometimes very cryptic. What he found and did, worked for his location and soil, not everyone has the same soils or microclimates. I do now that the soils around my grandparents home (not already improved) is very baron and is lacking many basic minerals and microbes. I cannot reiterate myself enough, this is what worked for him, for his garden and environmental situation. Experimenting and testing is the only way to know what your soils are lacking and the best ways to correct these imbalances. He found an agronomist (early 1980s) to test his soils, the tests were carried out over a 2 year period at or near the beginning of each season. (According to his diary entries) ‘sands of hell’ ‘everything needs to be added’.. the agronomist helped him design out his garden, and diary entries indicate that they spent many hours on weekends developing the gardens, preparing crop rotation plans etc. when he passed in the late 2000, I spent months trawling through diaries and computer entries, he had accumulated 2 filing cabinets worth of history. In today’s world, much of his information was able to be found online, so much was disposed of, other things were digitised. I would love to see and know what my grandfather and his friend would make of the gardens today.

@@dr.lexwinter8604 hmmmmm, the skin is our largest organ & is so absorbent as to actually take in that which is placed on & near it. Jr high school science. You're welcome 💞👵

@@StaitlyNatters, fascinating! Thank you, for sharing & standing up for your Grandfather, in such a calm but firm way. 💞👵

I also respect that.. Thank you for posting, Sandy..

Interesting!!

citronella geranium, rosemary, lavender

Did you remember to connect the battery to the wires ?

Thank you Joe! That's very kind of you to say mate 👍🙂

So copper, iron, and sulpher.

You were fortunate enough to have and hear your grandma. For you and yours, “this will help you to survive”. To others, it’s an offering. Thank you for sharing. Something we can ALL afford.

@Moose knucklehead she didn't have any readily available. If she did, yes she probably would have.

@@darthlaurel wasn't sure what the match added, but it always seemed to help

Will definitely have to try that. I have trouble with tomatoes every year, so I have nothing to lose - an old penny, a nail and a match. Gotcha.

Its not a really thick oxide layer...

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LOL... Noooooooooo!

@@Selfsufficientme Probably the copper has to be dissolve in the roots, maybe you can try it in a tomato plant in a pot, just saying...also you can try another experiment if rust help plants to grow faster or better, I mean if you pour rust or iron oxide in the plants roots

@@Selfsufficientme get some powdered copper and do again.😜

From Ireland? I had to ditch all my large tomato plants last week here in Scotland. Got nothing from them. The cuttings I took from them were doing okay in one spot in the garden, but as soon as I brought them indoors (due to the cold) - blight! Grr, they even have tiny green tomatoes on them as well. It would have been the best I'd managed so far if they'd ripened.

@@debbiehenri345 Use your green tomatoes, they are valuable!! plan A) Add some garlic, fine apple vinegar and green chilis to those green tomatoes. Blend the mixture well, and there, you have your a salsa verde. Plan B) Wouldn't you like hot spice, slice your green tomatoes very thin along with some cabbage, onion, carrot, cauliflower, cucumber, sweet pepper. Salt the mixed vegetables and let it rest and soften for a couple of hours. Make a brine to your taste with water, salt, apple vinegar, sugar, bay leaves, black pepper, dill, mustard and coriander seeds. Place the softened veggies into jars, pour the brine over. You have the finest mixed pickles named csalamádé in Hungary.

Very true! The BEST way to keep disease and pests away is to grow a happy plant with the right soil, enough water, and appropriate nutrition. Cheers :)

Took us three years of planting before we had decent crops of tomatoes. Keep building your soil up and learning from mistakes, and you'll get there.

@@allenz7688 thank you 😊

So many women have taken up gardening since they saw bare supermarket shelves for the first times in their lives. It's a good thing. Being self sufficient is important, many of us were taught this as children and incorporated it into our everyday life and it's great to see instead of it being a male dominated hobby that women are realising we aren't stark raving mad after all! :)

@@dr.lexwinter8604 I think you’d really like the Lovely Greens channel. She just wrote a book about this exact phenomena. :)

Yeah its like there getting hurt there getting healed more like mate

@@nazuddin6346 I think it still needs more evidence before I use it

@@beanwater4830 Understood but his a professional you can try ?? 🤔

@@nazuddin6346 what

@@beanwater4830 try his way thats what i meant its ok sorry didnt mean it bad way Best wishes

It didn't do anything to the plant. All the test subjects were shit equally.

Additionally copper salts in anything more than trace amounts are very toxic. It also kills off the root microbiome which should really reduce plant resistance to pathogens.

Or planting in a copper pot.

This guy grew put copper coils in his potted plant garden and used a control group, which didn't have the coils. He planted potatoes and onions in the pots. The difference in growth is significant. (15:10) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbWmrdqL3q6coGw.html

Thank you and all the best with your new property! How exciting 👍🙂

Yofatboy123 They are certainly from the same Solanum family so it’s likely you’re correct, grafting tomatoes to Kangaroo Apple might work.

James Wilburn Hello from Florida which basically has the same weather conditions as Brisbane... very hot and very humid. We also have about the same plethora of pests, with snails and slugs being ever present... If you put a copper wire ring around your plant IT WILL DETER SNAILS AND SLUGS 🐌. Their sliminess somehow reacts with the copper and they will NOT cross over it. This works better than ANY pesticides out there. Sadly I don’t think it works for the hornworms though... picking those off by hand is the best method to remove them. But at least you can still have the gratification of smushing them after picking them off 😁. Peace and blessings 💜

@Moose knucklehead -- same here!!! 😊😊

ours was slightly different and a bit darker. Kookaburra sits on the electric wire jumping up and down with his pants on fire, fry kookaburra fry kookaburra how painful your life must be

@Moose knucklehead no we didnt

They sang this on a Nickelodeon kids show called Gullah Gullah Island.

we sang it in Canada as well. Men at Work did the song "I come from a land down under" that had that little flute line from that song and I heard that the AUS gov't sued them for it. One of the mates in the band apparently killed himself as a result. I have no idea whether this is true, but if so, how fucking sad.

Yay!! Your statement is actually TRUE... a copper ring around the plant WILL DETER snails and slugs which are the prevalent pest in hot, humid Florida. I am gonna post this to the main chat... peace and blessings 💜

Vaseline on the stem works too, but is way more messy.

Yes Vasik, the banana passionfruit were both planted too late in the season (coming into our winter) and both died.. .The good news is I purchased two new plants coming into our summer (correct season this time) and will plant one out in the orchard and another in a container to test which grows best. I haven't tried this type of passionfruit but my wife grew up eating them and they are her fav variety - I'm keen to try one! Cheers :)

@@Selfsufficientme I have found that you need to plant two passion fruit plants together and in the ground, as a pot limits the root system. Planting at least two plants together yields a much better crop through cross pollination. Also plant them on an overhanging trellis as they love the sun. Not much else will grow underneath them. They only yield well for about 3-4 years, so plant another two passion fruit at the three year mark so that when you pull out the older ones the newly planted passion fruit will be yielding well. Love ya work buddy!

A little epsom salt works nicely too

Oxides of copper do not dissolve in water. Indeed plants rely on passive movement of ions. You can tell it would have no affect.

That'd be because the iron oxide stains the water that stains the plant (perhaps, I've never seen it, but that's the only way it'd work feasibly). But copper wire through the plant would be like taping an asprin to your forehead when you have a headache. Copper powder in the soil would be like grinding that asprin up and rubbing it into your forehead. I'd rather just take the asprin. Also most fungicides have far more than copper sulfides in them.

Steel wool should accelerate iron availability if you don't wanna use chelate and you want a little faster change than with nails. Steel wool is just a half step closer to being a chelate due to how fast it rusts. Nails would be better in the long run, I guess both is best if you want both immediate and long term effect.

LOL... No, I haven't followed moon growing but I have heard about it and that's an interesting concept too! Ahh beautiful France... We were so lucky to visit the French countryside last year. Just hired a car and drove without a plan stopping where we ended up each day. What a memorable drive and tour around it was :)

Must have to do with the reverse coriolis effect....😉

Yes! Isn't everything done upside down in Austrailia? Maybe wind the wire the other direction. LOL ; )