Plants Know Best
physical aspects of what we are growing. Simply put, we are
squandering the potential of what we can grow when we fail
to consider the mechanisms of the natural systems involved.
The broader idea at play here is that there is far more involved in nurturing crops than we presently understand, and
it is related to what plants want as opposed to what they need.
Humans can eat nothing but fast food and continue to grow,
but they won’t stay healthy for long, and the same is true with
plants. All of us realize you can grow a plant hydroponically
with nothing but 17 elements and tap water, but what are we
Humans can eat nothing but
fast food and continue to
grow, but they won’t stay
healthy for long, and the
same is true with plants.
missing? Is mere growth good enough, or do we want growth
that boggles the mind and nourishes the soul?
The very act of contemplating concepts like this can begin
to open doors of potential in the garden that were not even
on your radar previously. Plants are sentient beings—read The
Secret Life of Plants or Secrets of the Soil.
Imagine you didn’t make your bed in the morning for a
whole week, then think about how it would make you feel
when you entered the bedroom. Something would be off in
the energy of the room, and it would affect how you acted
and felt. The Chinese call this concept feng shui. Nature works
this way by design, but humans march to the beat of their own
drum. We mean well, but we can be very disruptive. Although
we have the capability to make plants grow in spare rooms in
our house, we don’t always consider how the plants actually
feel about it.
If we can humble ourselves to accept these concepts and
realize that subtle energies are all around us—the threads
that run through every aspect of life in our world—we
will be able to start growing happier, more nutrientdense plants with higher yields. Consider it feng shui
for the grow room! MY
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Maximum Yield USA | March 2012