It turns out that one of the proposed physiological mechanisms that gets activated in plants when they’re stimulated with electricity is the release or production of hormones like gibberellins which are known as growth enhancers. While some commercial growers artificially apply gibberellic acid to their crops for larger yields, through the use of electricity, larger yields and accelerated growth (and disease resistance/treatments, too) can be realized without any artificial hormones or chemicals, via the application of minute amounts of electricity.

In my own experiments I’ve seen some of my seedlings experience substantial improvements in growth over my control group, resulting in taller plants, 3-5x leaf area, and significantly deeper green leaves in only 35 days.

I’ll be brief, but there used to be a rather large movement in Europe and England in the aforementioned time period revolving around the use of electricity in crop acceleration. I suspect that it fell out of popularity because of poor experimental record-keeping, a partial understanding of the factors that affect plant acceleration (and failure), and the coming of the ‘chemical revolution’.

In my opinion I see the use of electrified agriculture as a harmless way of protecting crops against early frost, helping urban growers get more yield in a limited amount of space, and improving the productivity of the land in general without using expensive chemical fertilizers.

“Reporter, military officer and scientist discover the complete destruction of a small town was caused by giant grasshoppers, accidently enlarged by the scientist’s experimenting with radioactive material at a nearby agricultural research project. ”

The experiment? Giant tomatoes, of course!

And the sugarcane was WAY off – while the corn didn’t get bigger, it certainly changed everything. There’s FAR more HFCS than cane sugar used now.

Considering how tasteless most of today’s tomatoes are, I can only imagine how bad a tomato engineered to grow that size would be.

If competitive growers can and have developped Great Pumpkins,could that 1900 prediction becomes reality in this 3rd Millennium…It sure would help to feed the planet’s habitants…Remember Jules Verne…some of his fictions became realities…Why not!!! …Science could be amazing…