Re: Ozone good for plants?

Hi finallyfaith
You're logic is real good about using active oxygen for plants. Ozone has been used in indoor gardening for at least 10 years to control mildews, spider mites, mold and fungal growth. My experience with ozone in the air in greenhouse situations is that just like humans, plants need limited exposure to ozonated air. Too much ozone directly applied to plants can literally 'burn'them. It's a question of finding the balance that controls the anaerobic organisms without harming what you're producing. Also, plants use and produce oxygen during photosynthesis (Daylight), but use Co2 at night when no light is present.

I think you're on to something large with the glacial rock dust idea. I've been a fan of this for many years and have added rock dust to my gardens since the mid 90's. It all makes sense that if plants, humans, animals are deprived of the essential minerals they need to produce healthy cells, that disease and toxicity will ensue, resulting in proliferation of larger organisms like worms moving into living bodies to clean out the toxins . Here's an article I found written in 1936 on the subject http://www.staytuned.ws/articles/minerals2.html

Hydrogen peroxide has also been used in agriculture for a long time.Dilute amounts of H2O2 (Hydrogen-Peroxid) are added to the water to provide essential oxygen to the soil and control anaerobic organisms like fungus.here's an article on household uses of H2O2 (Hydrogen-Peroxid) including it for the use of plants. I use it all the time in winter.I just take the H2O2 (Hydrogen-Peroxid) from soaking my veggies in the sink after buying them at the store and use it for the plant's water.

I don't know about directly ozonating the soil, but I do know that many reputable suppliers of compost use ozone to sterilize the compost before it is being packaged for sale.

Great musing, finallyfaith Tweet