Can Plasma Make Plants Grow Faste...
Can Plasma Make Plants Grow Faster? The Magic Water Story That Changed My Research
Chat with Greg Fridman by Gregory Fridman
Sep 19, 2026
06:55
Episode notes

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 ...