You have to scrape away the varnish coating from the copper wire for it to give off copper oxide which will be available to the plant. Copper filings scattered around the plant will work just as well. Greetings from South Africa. 🇿🇦

We have a cure for tomato fungus here in Canada. After five months it snows and the fungus has no tomato plants to grow on so it goes to Australia for the winter.

I've never heard of putting a copper wire through the plant, but I have heard of driving a copper rod into the ground in the garden to help tomatoes grow more. I remember that when I read that (probably 30 years ago), the author thought it had more to do with electrical activity than any nutritional or antifungal benefit from the copper. I've never tested it.

It looks like the copper wire that you used has a thin coating of insulation like enamel for instance. I would think that would prevent any electrical or chemical interactions such as the plant absorbing copper from the wire. I’m pretty sure you would have to use uncoated wire for it to work.

Copper wires often have very thin non conductive coating, so i recommend removing it with fire or sandpaper before using it.

My italian grandfather put copper nails and copper wire on fruit trees and vegetables. He is mentioned in the west australian history of wine book as a pioneer of wine grapes in western australia. Some of the original grape stock he brought from italy in early 1900s is still grown for wine in the area. In 1963 1 was 17 years old and showed him how a little copper sulphate had the same benefit as copper wire and copper nails in the trees. At the time i think i actually connected with him as a person and not a kid. I watched him in the orchard and at 75 i have had my own property with fruit trees. I graft and grow for the joy of watching to new growth in spring turn to fruit in the autumn. His name was grandad or mr meleri when i introduced him. Mr was and still is a mark of respect seldom given these days.

I appreciate how are you include the whole process and your videos from beginning to end. I’m frustrated by many KZfaq garden videos where they show you what they’re going to do but don’t follow up.

Electroculture using copper wire as an antenna helps plant growth, and I've tested it. I just wind it around a wooden dowel post and stick it in the earth. Never looked at pushing it through the plant though. You'd need to be sure it was 100% pure and not coated with anything first. I'd be interested to see if placing the wire in the soil and winding it around the plant WITHOUT inserting it through the stem would be a better fix.

Definitely the copper wire you used had an insulation coating, so although I wouldn't think it'd work anyway but the tomato plants had no contact with raw copper at all, another dead give away was the wire remained that redish copper colour, it should have turned green especially being outside in rain and dampness, even old copper wires inside electrical equipment goes green

Hi, I have been doing this copper thing since about 10 years after I was about to give up growing tomatoes due to year after year getting my crop ruined by blight. I use copper wire out of an electric cable, I have never had blight again, and my tomatoes are not under cover. I stitch a piece of wire trough the stem just above the roots when I plant them. I am totally convinced that it works miracles!

As many have already stated, the wire is coated. You have to used unvarnished wire. I'd also add that brass works better than copper because of the zinc. Important to note. You don't have to stick it "through" the plant. Just stick it in the ground next to the plants, and have it raised about 6 feet, like an antenna. If you try this, I think you'll find it's not a myth.

Victor Shauberger did a lot of research around the effects of iron tools and copper tools and I would encourage anyone with an open mind to do some research into this fascinating man.

I thought you were great in gladiator!

I have a quick tip. I started growing tomatoes in bulk and needed a cheap way to support them. I had 20 or so wire mesh sheets (the kind you put in concrete slabs - we use them in Japan to keep wildlife off our property). Anyway it works well as a trellis but maybe because they’re all rusty the iron is feeding the soil. Since using them, the tomatoes have been amazing and more plentiful!

I've never heard of copper through the stem, but I've heard of putting copper in the ground to regenerate the ground because when we use steel and other metals we are removing nutrients from the dirt. I'll be trying that this year.

Having worked with a scientist gardener in '70s-'90s I can say that the only thing in the myth holding true is the copper itself. Giving it in the form of stabbing with wire is quite ludicrous. Puncturing the stem with the wire damages the water pipes of the stem and also forms a possible point for infection. Giving enough copper as a mineral works, and of course as a spray, like you showed yourself. Thanks for an interesting video :)

Hey Mark, seems to me that the copper wire you've used has some varnish layer protecting the copper... If so: the results could have been different if the wire was stripped, sandpapered or otherwise Hope you read this and perhaps try "busting this myth" again. Cheers Rick!

Making this video takes months. This would take each of your viewers a season to try on their own. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

I'd never heard of the copper wire method before. Interesting. What worked for me was I planted dill in the next row by the tomatoes. I'd always had trouble with tomatoes worms, but when I planted the dill, they were attracted to the dill and didn't bother the tomatoes. I was amazed. Had bumper crop too. Thanks for your informative video.

I pushed a piece of copper wire into the compost of my house plants. Without exception they all doubled in size and vitality over the next few weeks. The wire doesn't even have to touch the plant, just the medium it's growing in. It's the soil that is affected, Somehow revitalised.

Crazy that tomato plants actually came standard with wireless technology

I learnt this back in the 60s,but we used copper nails back then without any coating on them.love your channel

Hey Mark, I'm with RickV..... I'm a scrapper and it looks like you have what's called red copper which is a "coated material". I would try actual copper wire. I believe red copper is metal wiring with a copper-coating rather than a solid piece of copper. Either way man love your gardening videos just starting to crank up my garden for this year good luck brother!

It has come to my attention recently that NPK fertilizers also naturally inhibit the uptake of copper, zinc and other key minerals in the soil. There is a book called Cu/re that explains so much about copper and it's importance to not only plants but us as well.

After reading many of the comments and even for myself when I saw the wire at the end of the tomato plants life I thought shouldn't the wire have turned green from being exposed? I would have to say chances are the wire was coated. Perhaps you could give it another experimental trail next time on 1 plant of the same variety say Beefsteak vs Beefsteak, lightly burn the wire you will use then insert it in the trail plant and do a side by side comparison. Since many are sure the wire is actually coated? Just my .02 😀

This is electroculture technique, you can turn it around the stem or put the copper wire through the tomato stem. With electroculture with antennas you can make them more resistant to frost and cold, and also resist a lot more against desease.

I tried wrapping my tomato plant with copper wire a few years back and from experience , the plants dont like that. It started causing disease but once I removed the wire and hit with peroxide water mix it came back. The key is to wrap the copper around bamboo or some form of nature forming clockwise coils and then sticking the wire in the ground about 6 inches for maximum benefits.

Interesting, I have used copper to save my personal health for years. My dad grew 100 tomato plants each year, what he did was place Epson salts about a teaspoon at a radius of 4-6 inches from base of plant. When the sweetness of a tomato is noticed it has more minerals bitterness is from artificial or commercial minerals.

One of the things I have done for years is plant Marigold flowers near my tomatoes..., apparently nematodes hate the smell (Nematodes hate garlic/onion aswell). I normally don't bother with companion planting too much.., but I have found this works, aswell as the flowers bring more bees. Win Win.

I'm no gardening expert - in fact, apart from my first job after leaving school almost fifty years ago being in tomato greenhouses, I have very little experience. But I did spend ten years as a radio mechanic which was long enough for me to recognise coated copper wire. It is coated to prevent conduction between coils in components like transformers, microphones and speakers and the coating is usually enamel and unreactive - so extremely unlikely to break down during the period of a growing season. Given the gauge and colour of the stuff you used (it looks particularly dark), the coating would be thicker. The coating would need to be physically removed for there to be any contact between the copper and the plant.

I've just noticed this article which I thought showed a very well done trial. Just one thing that I noticed: The copper wire appears to be coated. They do this to prevent corrosion and also for insulation. If so, the test would need to be repeated after scrubbing the wire in contact with the stem with sandpaper to make sure that there was metal contact with the plant fluids.

G’day cobber , haven’t read all the comments but I’m having a marked improvement in my garden by the electro culture method , being a Frigie I’ve lgot lots of copper handy and find it really stimulates the plants . I’ve been growing on the same beds for 15 years and this is the best cropping I’ve had yet , may be coincidence , who knows .

I planted marigolds in with my tomatoes as a companion plant and never had any fungus or Horn worms.

Yes, I had great success growing Roma tomatoes. I took the seeds of a Roma tomato bought at a local grocery chain store's produce section. The seeds from that puny little Roma were saved. I let them air dry in my kitchen for just a couple days. Prepped the soil with a good raking. For fertilizer I placed about a half inch piece of fish head at about ten inches into a hole, covered with soil to ground level. Then planted three seeds directly into each place where each spot/hole had been prepared. For bug control/ blight disease and everything else that grows here (which is just about everything) I used a few drops of Dawn antibacterial dish soap in a spray bottle concentrating on the underside of the leaves. We have two growing seasons. It took two years/four seasons for the Roma tomatoes to acclimate to the growing conditions. Never fertilized them again only that one time at the beginning. Those Roma tomatoes grew huge while the plants were manageable using the cone shaped plant cages. Hope this helps someone. It sounds like a lot of work, believe me it's not. P.S.} I also used companion planting which you can google it if you wish.

Mark, Another item to verify is if you are using 100% CU (Copper) Wire. Unfortunately, some liberties made at the manufacturing source might have other materials like aluminum in it to keep profits up when raw copper costs are high. Like the idea and I appreciate those comments below that support the idea. Maybe give this hack another try taking into account removal of any coatings which must wire have to actually avoid CU oxidation and in sure % Cu content is high? Lastly - I'd of thought as you removed the copper wire at the end of the season from the plants, you would have seen the copper wire turn bluish in color. Which I don't think I saw in your video. Thanks

Hi there! I'm a Biology teacher and I think your experiment is very interesting, as I teach the scientific method to kids. We will use it as a case of study! Thank you!

I have never heard of sticking copper through the stem of the plant. I have had good results using copper foil around containers and raised beds to stop slugs and snails and it seems pretty effective.

I think all that r claiming that the wire was coated should do their own follow up on their own tomato plants & give us their results

I find using Epsom salts in water as a foliar spray helps with fruit set and stronger plants. It works best on peppers and Eggplant but even my tomatoes seemed to benefit from it!

The other idea I have heard from another farmer was not water the leaves of the tomatoes plants and just the base, apparently the moisture on the leaves will add extra humidity for pests and for fungi to attack! You might want to experiment with that Ans let us know 😊

I have always planted mine with a copper earth stake in the ground. I use it as part of the trellis. I also bury a chunk of concrete with my tomatoes. Gives them access to calcium in the limestone. Have always had great success with tomatoes in Brisbane

I recall hearing that growing marigolds between your tomato plants help keep them healthy. Apparently, marigolds repel aphids (?) or other pests. I have no idea whether this has any real value, but it looks really good in the garden.

Electro-Agriculture is amazing... have not heard about putting the copper-wire through the plant, but putting copper wire around a wooden stick and putting that near your plants. Am doing it on out balcony and it already looks promising! As it is about electro-magnetic force aka ether, the way you wire it might be essential....clockwide or anti-clockwise...definitely not both ways like I noticed you did. Thanks for your videos.

The copper wire doesn't go thru the plant... it goes into the ground. Hope that helps u.for next time

Love these types of experiments on plants!! I'd love seeing real time results.

The red (rather than pink or orange or brown) color of that wire and the fact that it's still shiny after years of exposure to air means it's coated in a thin layer of plastic enamel. This product is called "magnet wire." The coating is thin enough that it wouldn't be flammable, but thick enough to keep the wire from oxidizing in air and dissolving into the stem. Even if there's a few nicks in the plastic, any effect it had would be way reduced by the tiny surface area.

Wrap copper around a stick or wood. It creates an energy vortex. It’s that energy that helps keep pests away, less watering and huge yield of crops.

It's the first I've heard of actually sticking the wire THROUGH a plant. We made antennas of wood wrapped with wire that go into the ground and have a piece of copper sticking up in the air. We've been having fun results. Seems though, the least affected is tomatoes, although there is some help. Try on different areas. Peppers, zucchini and cucumbers are going wild. Flowers as well.

Really no difference, just wireless tomatoes are a little more convenient as you're trying to carry them around the garden.

Best tomatoes I ever had was the year I buried fish under each plant and once a week put a pinch of Epsom salt and white sugar next to each one. That year I grew a 3 pound tomato

Love your raised beds, I've never heard of using copper in the garden before, learned something new. Thanks

Thanks Mark, I think you did a good test. With the price of copper as high as it is I'll stick with pruning and fertilizer. I'm in South Carolina and because of the high humidity I've taken to pruning a lot. I read that the improved air circulation helps to prevent disease and I think it might. I love your channel, thanks a lot. David

Hi Mark - I am surprised to hear that copper inserted into a plant as illustrated could benefit a plant, as I use copper nails to prevent plant regrowth on stumps and perennial weeds (such as brambles) that are growing in areas where their roots are impossible to dig out. I treat such problems in the autumn when the the sap movement through the plant slows and nutrients return to the roots, presumably taking the copper back with them to kill the plant (the timing and principle is the same as if I were treating woody plants with a shop bought weedkiller). It is also possible to buy barrier fabric with copper mesh to protect areas from roots penetrating walls or spreading into areas where you would not want them (ie root growth is inhibited of the tips of roots that come into contact with the copper in the fabric - a type of root pruning without killing the plant). From my experience of using copper nails, and copper fabric, I associate copper with death of plant material rather than growth hence my surprise that piercing copper wire through the stem of a plant could have benefits. Thank you for taking the time to test out the myth that it would have benefits.

2 things - in Australia, you need to wrap counter clockwise and no need to stab your plants just wrap a long branch counter clockwise (southern hemisphere) and stick it in the ground facing north. also use copper, brass or bronze tools - not iron - please try that!! 💐🦋😁

I liked the way you set up your experiment to find out if the copper wire worked. In a comment made by another reader about growing grapes, one old farmer did this to success. Was his soil deficient in copper or the components the plants used to take up the copper into their leaves, and your soil was not? Or was it something else? That is what makes a farmer a science based grower by trials like the one you did!

I was told not to puncture through the stem but to affix antennas made of wood wrapped in copper wire into the ground surrounding the plant.

I might try the experiment again, but running the wire through emery cloth to bring it up to bright copper first.

Do you end up with Fried Tomatoes after a Thunder Storm ?

I put an iron nail close to the roots of my tomato plant last year (new to gardening) and it did great. It was still producing throughout the winter and when I thought it would be toast now that it's spring, it's putting out lots of flowering and has at least 10 fruits on it. I did it with my potatoes as well, and they did good. Thanks for this!

What a brilliant experiment. I love the way you set it all up and kept an open mind. In general I love your channel and shared it with my mother in Arizona. Can you PLEASE try again with the coating scraped off, or sanded, or whatever the majority of comments suggest? I think it would be a worthy experiment. I noticed someone mentioned that you could get zinc if you tried it with brass instead. Can you do a plant or 2 with a stripped brass wire to see if this is true. There is a gizmo called a nutrimeter that will tell you the nutrient content of vegetables- maybe you could actually measure before and after. Apparently we are all deprived of zinc in Australia so this would be a major triumph to get some more zinc content into our food! Yes, please do more of these experiment type videos. I really enjoyed it!

💜 WONDERING IF THE COATING ON THE WIRE WAS SCRAPED OFF 💜

Edit: Here's the re-test video with no doubt that the wire is NOT plastic-coated ;) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrB_Za6Q2pucf4E.html G'day Everyone, the copper wire is over 35 years old and isn't coated (edit: well, it doesn't seem to be coated and I've tried burning and scuffing it but yes I could be wrong) it was salvaged many years ago by my grandfather and wasn't purchased in a roll. It also had plenty of wear and scuffs so even if that was the case I doubt it affected the experiment. Regardless, I didn't make up this myth I merely tried it in my own garden and here are my results and opinion. I thought I would just let you know this info to save me writing the same thing in the comments section 1000 times (because I'm sure this video will go viral lol). Cheers :)

There's a tale about an Irish potato farmer who is said to have had success during time of potato blight when he strung lots of copper wire across his fields to protect crops from lightning. They didn't know the cause of dying crops,he figured lightning was killing the crops. Potatoes and tomatoes happen to be related too.

At first glance I thought we were going to get a lesson from Russel Crowe on growing tomato. "Are you not entertained?" 🤣 Rock on tomato heads 🤘😎

The biggest problem I've had with growing tomatoes is having the stem that holds the blooms drop off right at the knuckle. I did some research and learned this is caused by a calcium deficiency and was told to look for a fertilizer with calcium. When I couldn't find the fertilizer I was happy with, I crushed up calcium supplements and dissolved them in water and poured it on the soil. This actually fixed the problem and I got a good amount of fruit from my plants.

I just watched the movie CALENDAR GIRLS. In one scene, a man advised another man to insert a penny into the soil of a potted flower to help it flourish. I thought it was odd but 24 hrs later I randomly find this video. 🤯

Appreciate you testing and dispelling that urban garden legend. Your one of the few gardeners I trust. I'll file that in my mind with the electroculture myth.

Companion planting has a good reputation when growing tomatoes. Marigolds and basil planted near tomatoes are claimed to be mutually beneficial to each other. Also, adding Epsom salt (AKA magnesium sulfate) to the soil is another recommendation for growing tomatoes. For the person who suggested adding Dawn dish washing soap to a spray bottle of water, I have not had very good success when using it on a peony that I have that develops a heavy case of fungus every year. Even when used with consistency, it never seems to control fungus infestation.

That copper looks like it’s coated , maybe it’s just the video. Sometimes they coat it in a clear varnish to stop it corroding.

The copper wire you used has a coating on it. You need to scrape that off before using it. It’s an insulation coating that prevents short circuiting when wound together. Try again with raw copper (shellac scraped off)

Several years ago we where dealing with a inconsiderate neighbours massive unkept apple tree. The fruit was not good quality and the tree was let to grow and shed over our property. Well upon recommendation we drove a copper nail into the trunk of the tree. The following summer it produced very little fruit and the next summer it was dead. So hard to imagine copper is gonna help anything grow. Thanks for the video.

Once read an article in a gardening mag about a guy who was hoeing around his cabbages and accidentally nicked a cabbage stem which started to bleed sap. Not wanting to lose a cabbage, he plugged the nick with a sliver of wood...and ended up with a 57 pound cabbage. There was a photo of him holding the cabbage in the magazine.

You would do better to put a 'copper' penny underneath the tomato plant when you plant them. Or, crush up a mineral tablet with high copper and sprinkle that around the bases of your plants. Also, tomato plants love magnesium! Sprinkle epsom salts around the base of your plants and water.

If your plants are acting up try doing what I do: 1: Call them lazy and shame them into doing better. 2: Praise other plants in front of them to make them jealous and crave the attention 3: if you're dealing with a particularly ornery plant, you c ould swear at it 4: if none of those things work, try giving it a taste of your middle finger.

GREAT COPPER RESULTS!: We (my wife and I) have never heard of piercing the plant with copper wire BUT we have had GREAT success with copper in our garden. I wrap 5/8” x 8” wooden stakes with a cone top that extends above ground roughly 5”. The copper wrapped stakes are pushed into the ground leaving the 5” antenna “cone shaped top”, and about 1” of the wrapped wooden stake above ground. I place one of these roughly every 3’ x 3’ throughout my garden and strategically placing them as evenly balanced as possible throughout the area. RESULTS: One 10’ x 10’ section of garden had no copper usage and the other 10’ x 10’ section of garden did have them. OUTCOMES with copper usage: 1) larger plants (about 1’ taller tomato plants/8” taller eggplant/double wide bell pepper plants) with almost double thickness in stem growth for all plants. 2) harvest was clearly better but not as great as we hoped for. I would safely calculate that the copper created about 1 1/2 times harvest production for tomato’s but more than double the production for our eggplants, while pepper production seemed about the same. 3) Far less disease and the tomato plants w/copper usage which had absolutely no leaf spot or blight at all. One tomato plant on the far side of the copper usage side had a slight amount of blight but not enough to cause the plant production problems. NEGATIVES WITH COPPER USAGE: 1) we experienced a tremendous amount more of weed production which became more labor intensive for a hand pulling technique. We eventually purchased a selective garden weed killer by BioSafe to keep up. This did not control all weed growth but did help considerably. 2) creating all the necessary copper stakes is a bit time consuming (especially depending on the dimensions of your garden) but they can be reused the following planting seasons. CONCLUSION: On plants with copper usage, we have witnessed strong results with better production, little to no disease, and all for a particularly low cost. If your planning to try this method then you should also be prepared and incorporate a plan to deal with a good deal more weed growth in those areas with copper usage. Hope this helps you with your decision to or not to try gardening with copper! BTW, Amazon has some really great prices on copper gardening kits. Best wishes for your next garden season! John

We get blossom rot quite a bit. Calcium is what stops it. I recently read from a lady that said she plants a pill of Tumms under the plants roots and the calcium from it stops her blossom rot. I'm going to try it but going to crush one up and leave a second one solid.

Me: Doesn't have a garden, has no intention of starting one, doesn't like tomatoes KZfaq: Me: I will watch the whole video

Looks like the wire being used has a coating of something around it. I'd try it again with uncoated wire.

For the last 3 years our tomatoes have not done very well. So at the end of the growing season we sent samples of our soil in for analysis it came back that the soil's PH was to high and it was low in Nitrogen. At the start of the growing season we added Sulphur and Nitrogen and our tomatoes are looking great.

What's a tomato? Lol Personally not fond of tomatoes but my wife of 35 years is. To balance it out we have tomatoe based meals every day..... Thanks for the vid

Mark - you are awesome. Based on your experiences and the size of your garden, you can do a ‘trial’ on a question like this to evaluate and outcome of interest. For example - randomize (coin flip) 20 of the same tomato plants to copper or no copper. 10 plants receive copper wire, 10 do not. Choose a time duration (3,6 months etc) and the outcomes that can be measured (growth, yield, infection). This way you have a test group to compare to a control group. It’s similar to how you evaluated your results in this video but provides an addition rigor with ‘randomizing’. I’m new to gardening (big fan of yours). Certainly experiments like this can be published. I design trials like this in in healthcare and to evaluate ideas of interest (new thing and myths) for patients so we know what is true or not. Thank you for all that you do and for inspiring many others to learn from your teachings.

I’ve done this you must put a CLOCKWISE copper coil AROUND / near by NOT STABBED THROUGH for results!! Especially for cactus place around or on top they love that!

The direction in which you wound the copper wire matters according to the hemisphere you live in and one end needs to be earthed as in stuck into the ground. If you wind the wire in the correct direction just around a stick and insert that in the ground next to the tomatoes you will see they will enjoy the protection from pests and a boost in growth. Research magnetoculture to figure out which direction to wind the copper. It works!

Hi, I like the scientific approach you use. I never heard about this wire trick before but it seem that the wire you use is the protected one, I meant that, like most of the copper wires, it have a thin layer of flexibel enamel or film that protect it from oxidation. If this is the case the plant wasn't in contact with the copper. This film can be easyly removed sanding the wire with very thin sandpaper. You should reach a much brighter color. Maybe it worth to give another try :-) Good luck

Two things, if you retest with non coated wire going through at a 45 degree or steep angle would increase the length of wire inside the plant as far as contact surface goes. The second thought has nothing to do with copper or disease but I have heard of people stressing plants with skewer/splints and other stress for higher yield and wonder of advocates of the wire may be seeing a stress result rather than a metal based reaction deal.

It has been known for many decades the antibacterial effect of both copper and silver. This is why the US still uses copper plated zinc pennies. There are also silver quarters, 50 cent pieces and silver dollars in circulation.

I really appreciate your willingness to try different approaches to improve your plant / soils health. You put a lot of effort into what you do and I just want to encourage you to keep up the good work. I am bothered by you needing to do your foliar applications based on how well balanced your overall performance seems to be. I know that it will take some extra money but I wonder what a soil analysis would reveal? Have you also tried planting complimentary plants together to see if that would improve your overall plant health?

its true im an electrician, that is transformer wire. its coated.

Even if more copper in the plants system help with disease, that small surface of the wire isnt enough to make sure that the plant gets enough. I say that spraying it on the plant is still a better way, the plants get the treatement wher they need it and not on the base of the stem.

I heard from my gardeners that if you stack pack dirt up up on the stem highest possible that it helps your tomato plants grow better the roots go in deeper and you get a better crop

Best thing is to give them extra room for airflow, trim the bottom leaves that get dirt splashed on them in rain, keep your clippers in a glass of alcohol to reduce your shears spreading disease and burn the leaves and plants not compost. Same for any fungi prone plant. And oyster shell amendment (calcium) for tomatoes.

Ive also heard of knotting techniques with wire. It causes the scion aka grafting point. to get really fat at the botton if done early. This gives the plant a sort of boost thats said to yeild denser fruit.

Wireless vs wired tomatoes.....lol! Either still has to be better than the NBN!!!

I'm interested in the purity of the copper used, because that wire looked pretty red to me. I would like to see this method further experimented with. Great video, I have never heard of this method before.

People are being mislead by a demonstration of piercing a living plant, which is cruel, with a copper wire & allowing them to think this is how Electroculture is performed. Electroculture is absolutely amazing when done properly ❤❤❤

A suggestion, insert the wire in the ground next to the stem. The copper will form ions (with the water in the ground) that the plant can uptake. I have used copper pipe along side grapes and it seems to reduce the mummified grapes. Good test, thanks!

Never heard of this method. I've learned to never water tomatoes from above and to prune the bottom 6-12 inches of leaves.

I would use thick copper wire and a grinder to disperse it over the top soil to leech down so the plants can take up the copper naturally through the root system

I too was in the PNW in '64. I road it out in Tacoma, WA. I WAS 6 yrs old, late for school and scared I'd be in trouble for the things falling off the wall. From the way back machine.

I love that you did this experiment 🥰 I’d never herd of it, but my tomatoes grow great with contestants trimming of leaves under the fruit steam and when planting put a fresh cracked egg at the bottom of the whole. I love your vlogs thank you for sharing your wealth of information 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰