Geraniums grown with Paramagnetic Rock in Arizona
Two Test Reports on Paramagnetic Rock
After four years of hearing about paramagnetic rock from her husband, Doug, Phyllis Murray decided to test paramagnetic rock herself. Here is her report.
I had saved some leek seeds from the previous year’s abundance and chose to test paramagnetism’s effects on germination. I planted the leek seeds in three different mediums on March 17, 1999, which was the new moon. The first 80 seeds were planted in 100% mushroom compost. The second set of 80 seeds were planted in 50% mushroom compost and 50% sand grade paramagnetic rock with the rock on the bottom. The last set of 80 seeds were planted in 100% sand grade paramagnetic rock. Those planted in 100% mushroom compost never emerged. Those planted in the 50/50 medium had only two emerge on the 25th, eight days after planting. The paramagnetic rock proved to be the best condition, with 24 emerging on the 24th, seven days after planting, and by the26th of March 51 were up! The leeks emerged a day earlier and the quality was profoundly greater.
I start a majority of my own plants for our 1 acre of garden space. You can be guaranteed that I start my seedlings in paramagnetic rock!
Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 2:18pm Electronic Mail
Nuthin’ but Rock:
Thanks for introducing me to the paramagnetic rock last year at the OEFFA meeting in Ohio. I thought you might like to know what I observed in my garden and lawn. I bought six 20 pound boxes from you (3 rock,3 sand). I hand scattered the rock on my entire strawberry patch(12’ x 45’), 2 raspberry beds (each 4’ x 15’) and left one raspberry bed untreated. I used a rotary spreader to apply the sand to a section of my lawn. I was very skeptical about your “magic rock” but figured it was worth a $30 gamble.
So here is what I observed. My strawberries were the best crop I have ever had. I harvested more and the strawberries were larger than usual. I know that isn’t a scientific study because I put the rock on all of the strawberries but I’m not a scientific guy. I understand only one thing….is my crop better. It clearly was the best I have ever had.
Now the raspberries might qualify as semi-scientific study because I left one bed untouched. (I ran out of rock). All of my raspberries are Heritage. They usually have a very light crop in July and a heavy crop in mid to late August. The late crop lasts until the first freez. In the beds that I scattered rock, the July harvest was heavy. I have never had a heavy July crop from my raspberries. I was amazed. The raspberry bed that didn’t have rock on it hardly had any raspberries. These beds are only 30 feet apart. The late crop was so heavy in the two rock beds that I couldn’t even give them away and had friends and relatives picking almost every day. The bed of raspberries that had no rock produced very few raspberries and they were very small. Also worth noting was the size and taste of the berries coming from the beds with rock were exceptional.
The section of my lawn was so much thicker than the rest of my lawn that it looked like I had fertilized that section and not the rest.
I plan on buying six boxes to give as Christmas gifts to some backyard gardening relatives. I want them to experience the difference your “magic rock” makes. I also plan on getting more for my own use.
Thanks again for opening my mind to the benefits of paramagnetic rock.
I had saved some leek seeds from the previous year’s abundance and chose to test paramagnetism’s effects on germination. I planted the leek seeds in three different mediums on March 17, 1999, which was the new moon. The first 80 seeds were planted in 100% mushroom compost. The second set of 80 seeds were planted in 50% mushroom compost and 50% sand grade paramagnetic rock with the rock on the bottom. The last set of 80 seeds were planted in 100% sand grade paramagnetic rock. Those planted in 100% mushroom compost never emerged. Those planted in the 50/50 medium had only two emerge on the 25th, eight days after planting. The paramagnetic rock proved to be the best condition, with 24 emerging on the 24th, seven days after planting, and by the26th of March 51 were up! The leeks emerged a day earlier and the quality was profoundly greater.
I start a majority of my own plants for our 1 acre of garden space. You can be guaranteed that I start my seedlings in paramagnetic rock!
Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 2:18pm Electronic Mail
Nuthin’ but Rock:
Thanks for introducing me to the paramagnetic rock last year at the OEFFA meeting in Ohio. I thought you might like to know what I observed in my garden and lawn. I bought six 20 pound boxes from you (3 rock,3 sand). I hand scattered the rock on my entire strawberry patch(12’ x 45’), 2 raspberry beds (each 4’ x 15’) and left one raspberry bed untreated. I used a rotary spreader to apply the sand to a section of my lawn. I was very skeptical about your “magic rock” but figured it was worth a $30 gamble.
So here is what I observed. My strawberries were the best crop I have ever had. I harvested more and the strawberries were larger than usual. I know that isn’t a scientific study because I put the rock on all of the strawberries but I’m not a scientific guy. I understand only one thing….is my crop better. It clearly was the best I have ever had.
Now the raspberries might qualify as semi-scientific study because I left one bed untouched. (I ran out of rock). All of my raspberries are Heritage. They usually have a very light crop in July and a heavy crop in mid to late August. The late crop lasts until the first freez. In the beds that I scattered rock, the July harvest was heavy. I have never had a heavy July crop from my raspberries. I was amazed. The raspberry bed that didn’t have rock on it hardly had any raspberries. These beds are only 30 feet apart. The late crop was so heavy in the two rock beds that I couldn’t even give them away and had friends and relatives picking almost every day. The bed of raspberries that had no rock produced very few raspberries and they were very small. Also worth noting was the size and taste of the berries coming from the beds with rock were exceptional.
The section of my lawn was so much thicker than the rest of my lawn that it looked like I had fertilized that section and not the rest.
I plan on buying six boxes to give as Christmas gifts to some backyard gardening relatives. I want them to experience the difference your “magic rock” makes. I also plan on getting more for my own use.
Thanks again for opening my mind to the benefits of paramagnetic rock.
Paramagnetic Rock Users Report
Perhaps to make up for the lack of curiosity in the scientific community, some people who bought paramagnetic rock have reported their observations after using the rock.
In 1997, a farmer in Michigan used a 1:25 ratio by volume of paramagnetic rock to soil in growing begonia transplants. Compared to begonia transplants grown in potting soil only, the transplants in the rock/soil mixture grew 2 inches taller in the first week. Overall, they were larger, with 25% to 35% more flowers and they sold for $1.00 more.
Using the same mix, the same farmer found that eggplant seed showed a better germination rate, used less water and made 3-5 inches more growth by transplanting time compared to eggplant seed started in potting soil without paramagnetic rock.
In 1997, a retired couple in Arizona mixed paramagnetic rock into some of their outdoor flower beds. Geraniums in the beds with paramagnetic rock responded with 30-50% more blooms than those in beds without paramagnetic rock. In addition, the blooms on the flowers in the beds with rock lasted a month longer into the fall.
In 1997, a grower in Arkansas found that when paramagnetic rock was mixed into wheat grass sprouts, a mature stand was accomplished 7 days earlier than when the paramagnetic rock was not used.
In the spring of 1996, paramagnetic rock was applied at the rate of 3,000 lb. per acre to ⅔ of a sweet corn field in Michigan. In the three previous years, the field had been treated with high cal lime, colloidal phosphate and spent mushroom compost. All three were again applied in the spring of 1996.
The variety of corn grown was a bi-color super sweet. The harvest evaluation showed a brix reading of 28 on the rock treated side and 18 on the untreated side. It was a terrible year for corn borer and corn earworm damage. Some sweet corn had 30-50% damage and many fields went unharvested because of excessive insect damage. The corn in the untreated side had slight corn borer damage to the stalks and corn earworm damage to the silk and top inch of the corn. The corn in the rock treated side showed no insect damage.
This test was repeated in 1997 with an open pollinated corn variety. This time the brix on the treated side was 16 and on the untreated side 11. Corn earworm damage was present in very low amounts on the untreated side but there was still no damage on the rock treated side. The plants on the rock treated side were 8 to 12 inches taller and they produced more ears of corn than the plants on the untreated side.
In 1997, a dairy farmer in Ontario applied paramagnetic rock to one half of a pasture and in the lane leading to the pasture. Although he didn’t see any visible difference in the vegetation, he did notice a behavior difference in the cattle. He noticed that while the cattle just used to walk down the lane, after the rock was applied they took forever to get down the lane because they grazed it. In the field, they prefered the side with the rock, grazing it shorter than the other side. When the farmer put up a temporary fence to keep the cattle off the side with the rock, so he could take off some hay, they repeatedly broke through the fence.
In 1997, a farmer in Michigan sprouted rye seed to feed to baby chicks. When given the choice of sprouts grown over paramagnetic rock or sprouts grown over silica sand, the chicks picked the rock sprouts first and the sand sprouts second.
In 1997, a dairy farmer in Ontario applied paramagnetic rock at one ton per acre to some of his corn fields. From a previous small test he determined that he would use less nitrogen on the fields where he applied rock. He applied nitrogen at the rate of 120 lb. per acre on the fields without rock and at the rate of 105 lb. per acre on the fields with rock. Early in the season he didn’t notice a difference in the two different areas, although in one part of the area with rock, the corn was definitely more yellow. Later in the season this area greened up without any further treatment. After about a six week period with little rain, the corn in the area without rock started to fire, showing a greater nitrogen shortage than the corn in the area with rock. One of the areas without rock was so bad he added an extra 20 lbs. of nitrogen. But even so, it was still not as good as the corn in the areas with rock. At harvest time he noticed the corn in the areas with the rock had a bigger kernel than the corn without rock. His wagons filled up faster when he harvested the corn in the areas treated with rock. His estimate was about 120 bushels per acre in the area without rock and about 135 to 140 bushels per acre in the areas with rock.
In 1998 he grew beans on the same fields that had grown corn in 1997. This time he noticed no difference between the areas with and without paramagnetic rock. When he cut hay in his own alfalfa field and a neighbor’s alfalfa field, he noticed substantial weevil damage in his neighbor’s field but almost none in his own field. His field had an application of paramagnetic rock, but his neighbor’s field did not.
In 1998, a farmer in Ontario applied paramagnetic rock at the rate of 1 ton per acre to 28 ½ acres of a 30 acre field of corn. In an extremely dry year, he found that the corn was wavy in the area without rock, but it was taller and even in the area with rock. The corn that burned was in the area without rock. The brix was 10 to 13 in the untreated area and 12 to 15 in the treated area. When the corn was harvested for silage, even the cobs were bigger on the treated side. Two rows of each were taken and weighed. The untreated rows weighed 1360 kgs, and the treated rows weighed 1620 kgs, 19% more.Samples of each were sent for a feed stuff analysis report. The EE rating was 70.33 untreated and 73.03 treated. The dry matter starch was 29.45 untreated and 37.32 treated, 27% higher.
In 1998 paramagnetic rock was put on part of a pasture. The horse in the pasture preferred to graze on the side with the rock and the owner noticed the horse’s cost getting better. In 1999 the owner says the horse still prefers the area with the rock and, although he hasn’t put a brush to it all year, the horse looks like it’s ready to go into a show.
In 1999 a soil consultant in Virginia sent two soil samples to Soil Foodweb Inc. in Oregon for biological testing. Both soil samples were from the same corn field in Virginia, with one sample from an area with no paramagnetic rock and the other from an area with paramagnetic rock applied. The report’s conclusion was “ In this pair, the paramagnetic treatment appeared to have many beneficial effects on the microbial life in the soil.”
In 2000, a farmer in Iowa found his bean yield was reduced after a dry season. On fields with no paramagnetic rock, the yield was about 28 bushels per acre. Where the rock was applied in the fall of 1999, the yield was about 32 to 34 bushels per acre. Where the rock was applied in the previous fall of 1998, the yield was about 42 bushels per acre. The rate of application of the rock was 1,000 lbs. per acre.
In 1997, a farmer in Michigan used a 1:25 ratio by volume of paramagnetic rock to soil in growing begonia transplants. Compared to begonia transplants grown in potting soil only, the transplants in the rock/soil mixture grew 2 inches taller in the first week. Overall, they were larger, with 25% to 35% more flowers and they sold for $1.00 more.
Using the same mix, the same farmer found that eggplant seed showed a better germination rate, used less water and made 3-5 inches more growth by transplanting time compared to eggplant seed started in potting soil without paramagnetic rock.
In 1997, a retired couple in Arizona mixed paramagnetic rock into some of their outdoor flower beds. Geraniums in the beds with paramagnetic rock responded with 30-50% more blooms than those in beds without paramagnetic rock. In addition, the blooms on the flowers in the beds with rock lasted a month longer into the fall.
In 1997, a grower in Arkansas found that when paramagnetic rock was mixed into wheat grass sprouts, a mature stand was accomplished 7 days earlier than when the paramagnetic rock was not used.
In the spring of 1996, paramagnetic rock was applied at the rate of 3,000 lb. per acre to ⅔ of a sweet corn field in Michigan. In the three previous years, the field had been treated with high cal lime, colloidal phosphate and spent mushroom compost. All three were again applied in the spring of 1996.
The variety of corn grown was a bi-color super sweet. The harvest evaluation showed a brix reading of 28 on the rock treated side and 18 on the untreated side. It was a terrible year for corn borer and corn earworm damage. Some sweet corn had 30-50% damage and many fields went unharvested because of excessive insect damage. The corn in the untreated side had slight corn borer damage to the stalks and corn earworm damage to the silk and top inch of the corn. The corn in the rock treated side showed no insect damage.
This test was repeated in 1997 with an open pollinated corn variety. This time the brix on the treated side was 16 and on the untreated side 11. Corn earworm damage was present in very low amounts on the untreated side but there was still no damage on the rock treated side. The plants on the rock treated side were 8 to 12 inches taller and they produced more ears of corn than the plants on the untreated side.
In 1997, a dairy farmer in Ontario applied paramagnetic rock to one half of a pasture and in the lane leading to the pasture. Although he didn’t see any visible difference in the vegetation, he did notice a behavior difference in the cattle. He noticed that while the cattle just used to walk down the lane, after the rock was applied they took forever to get down the lane because they grazed it. In the field, they prefered the side with the rock, grazing it shorter than the other side. When the farmer put up a temporary fence to keep the cattle off the side with the rock, so he could take off some hay, they repeatedly broke through the fence.
In 1997, a farmer in Michigan sprouted rye seed to feed to baby chicks. When given the choice of sprouts grown over paramagnetic rock or sprouts grown over silica sand, the chicks picked the rock sprouts first and the sand sprouts second.
In 1997, a dairy farmer in Ontario applied paramagnetic rock at one ton per acre to some of his corn fields. From a previous small test he determined that he would use less nitrogen on the fields where he applied rock. He applied nitrogen at the rate of 120 lb. per acre on the fields without rock and at the rate of 105 lb. per acre on the fields with rock. Early in the season he didn’t notice a difference in the two different areas, although in one part of the area with rock, the corn was definitely more yellow. Later in the season this area greened up without any further treatment. After about a six week period with little rain, the corn in the area without rock started to fire, showing a greater nitrogen shortage than the corn in the area with rock. One of the areas without rock was so bad he added an extra 20 lbs. of nitrogen. But even so, it was still not as good as the corn in the areas with rock. At harvest time he noticed the corn in the areas with the rock had a bigger kernel than the corn without rock. His wagons filled up faster when he harvested the corn in the areas treated with rock. His estimate was about 120 bushels per acre in the area without rock and about 135 to 140 bushels per acre in the areas with rock.
In 1998 he grew beans on the same fields that had grown corn in 1997. This time he noticed no difference between the areas with and without paramagnetic rock. When he cut hay in his own alfalfa field and a neighbor’s alfalfa field, he noticed substantial weevil damage in his neighbor’s field but almost none in his own field. His field had an application of paramagnetic rock, but his neighbor’s field did not.
In 1998, a farmer in Ontario applied paramagnetic rock at the rate of 1 ton per acre to 28 ½ acres of a 30 acre field of corn. In an extremely dry year, he found that the corn was wavy in the area without rock, but it was taller and even in the area with rock. The corn that burned was in the area without rock. The brix was 10 to 13 in the untreated area and 12 to 15 in the treated area. When the corn was harvested for silage, even the cobs were bigger on the treated side. Two rows of each were taken and weighed. The untreated rows weighed 1360 kgs, and the treated rows weighed 1620 kgs, 19% more.Samples of each were sent for a feed stuff analysis report. The EE rating was 70.33 untreated and 73.03 treated. The dry matter starch was 29.45 untreated and 37.32 treated, 27% higher.
In 1998 paramagnetic rock was put on part of a pasture. The horse in the pasture preferred to graze on the side with the rock and the owner noticed the horse’s cost getting better. In 1999 the owner says the horse still prefers the area with the rock and, although he hasn’t put a brush to it all year, the horse looks like it’s ready to go into a show.
In 1999 a soil consultant in Virginia sent two soil samples to Soil Foodweb Inc. in Oregon for biological testing. Both soil samples were from the same corn field in Virginia, with one sample from an area with no paramagnetic rock and the other from an area with paramagnetic rock applied. The report’s conclusion was “ In this pair, the paramagnetic treatment appeared to have many beneficial effects on the microbial life in the soil.”
In 2000, a farmer in Iowa found his bean yield was reduced after a dry season. On fields with no paramagnetic rock, the yield was about 28 bushels per acre. Where the rock was applied in the fall of 1999, the yield was about 32 to 34 bushels per acre. Where the rock was applied in the previous fall of 1998, the yield was about 42 bushels per acre. The rate of application of the rock was 1,000 lbs. per acre.