Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: can plasma make plants grow faster? Yes. I don't believe in magic. But I stumbled into plasma agriculture through a story that looked a lot like magic. Three parts: delivery routes, the biology, and why farmers care.

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00:00 The question, and my admission: I don't believe in magic

00:14 But I stumbled on plasma agriculture through magic

00:23 3 things: delivery routes, biology, farmer economics

00:41 The magic water story

00:44 15+ years ago in the lab, working on medical applications of plasma-treated liquids

01:14 Our secretary, not a scientist, called it "magic water" because it worked on cancer cells

01:36 A plant on my desk wilted and I threw it in the trash

01:43 A week later, she pulled it out of the trash and told my students to treat it with ...