Our Research
More than eight years of research into plant electrostimulation. Discover our protocols, results and the prospects of this fascinating technique.
Our research
Is ELECTROCULTURE a science or a pseudo-science? When I look at internet sites talking about it, I’m appalled by the lack of rigour in the texts of self-proclaimed enlightened people whose arguments can be destroyed in 30 seconds. I understand that this technique isn’t taken seriously. Working with the living is difficult, especially in an environment where you don’t master all parameters. The drawback of old techniques (with poles and “hedgehogs”) is the strong influence of weather and environmental conditions. This causes a lack of reproducibility over time. One year delivers fabulous harvests; the next year is catastrophic. Moreover, it’s impossible to place a control zone nearby to compare results — essential in these agricultural techniques.
Our beginnings in electroculture
We’ve been working on electroculture for over eight years now. At the start we wanted to see whether this technique was proven or just a dead-end curiosity. As an industrial R&D office with agricultural land, it was easy to try a simple setup on a 50m² surface. The experiment was more than convincing — we observed significant plant growth. We decided to invest more deeply by developing techniques that are easy to implement and reliable over time.
The idea is also to share this technique with other curious people to verify it works on various agricultural soils across France, plus in overseas territories and in many garden and plant configurations.
Selling our devices
We developed the devices shown on this site under the commercial name PLANTONIC, which we sell on our site. We’re not an online sales site because we want to know the environment in which the device will be used and define, with the customer, the type of installation suited to deliver very satisfactory and convincing results. In return, our customers send us photos and observations.
To date, our technique has evolved a lot — we move quickly. We’ve made: retractions on some of our claims, lots of fruitless trials, imprecise protocols — but also astonishing observations. We continuously improve our process and devices. As we progress, questions accumulate that demand new protocols to test hypotheses, which makes this kind of research fascinating.
We’ve lifted a corner of the carpet and discover an unexplored world that, on certain points, questions many concepts about the plant and animal worlds and, more broadly, about living beings.
Results
In terms of applications, our technique increases plant growth and fruit production, but also gives plants good health — which eliminates pesticide treatments. It can heal them from certain diseases or predator attacks. The technique can also be used to clean polluted soils. It regenerates soil by stimulating microbial activity and humus creation. It increases aromatic-plant production and essential-oil quality. It also speeds up composting and improves compost quality. There are probably more applications we haven’t yet observed.
Comparison on 2 lychnis. The planter in the foreground is electrocultivated, the other isn’t. To be rigorous, both planters had 2 seedlings. In the standard planter, one of the seedlings died.
Comparison on a pea seed — control on the left, electrocultivated pea seed on the right. The difference is huge.
Basic concepts
There’s a technique to inject electricity into the soil: place highly conductive elements in contact with the soil and especially with the water in it. Old methods consisted of placing copper or iron wires in the soil a few cm deep. The electro-stimulated volume is the soil close to these wires.
To generate electricity, the ancients used natural electricity, present in the atmosphere several metres up. To do this, they planted a metal post 4–5 metres tall with several spikes forming a “hedgehog”. These collected natural electrical charges that flowed down to the foot of the post. Wires buried in the soil carried these charges as far as possible into the field.
The advantage of this technique is its simplicity and ruggedness, using easy-to-find materials. The drawback is that you control nothing — especially not the quantity of charges collected. These charges are extremely variable depending on weather conditions.
Through our process, we use a solar panel and an adapted electronic circuit to calibrate the quantity of electrical charges injected via the electrodes. We can measure this quantity, the injection period and duration. Through the electronic circuit we can vary the amount of electricity injected.
This lets us test plants at different stimulation levels and detect the minimum and maximum thresholds suitable for the plant.
Technique used in the 1800s/1900s — natural electrical charges were captured 5 or 6 metres up by a “hedgehog”. They were sent into the wire grid in contact with the soil.
Modern PLANTONIC device — solar-powered electronic circuit that delivers calibrated electrical stimulation.
ENERLAB study on biophotons
We entrusted biophoton measurement to the ENERLAB laboratory in Nice in 2023 and 2025. Two measurement techniques were used: CCD camera measurement and Luminometer measurement.
Biophotons are light photons (light particles) generated by every living cell. Their quantity and colour vary and represent the health of those cells. If there are no biophotons, the cell is dead. Many biophotons indicate a very active cell — eating such cells transmits vitality to our body.
The 2023 study focused on Marmande tomatoes: 4 electroboosted and 2 control. A comparative study was also done with tomatoes bought in Nice: imports from Spain and Morocco, industrial greenhouse production, organic supermarket, local organic farm. The result is clear: electroboosted tomatoes have far higher vitality than any commercially-available tomatoes, even above tomatoes from organic farms.
We repeated this study in 2025 with similar results. Compared to organic-farm tomatoes, our electroboosted tomatoes have 60% more vitality. Our control tomatoes alone have 40% more vitality — all our plants are grown in open ground.
ENERLAB also measured the ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI (AMF) on the roots of the various tomato plants. These fungi are essential helpers for capturing nutrients from the soil through the roots. For electroboosted tomatoes the rate is 98.95%; for control tomatoes it’s only 21.63%. This study is published on the University of Florida website.
Experimental observations
Over our years of experimentation, we’ve recorded numerous observations:
- Seedling germination: faster emergence (8 to 15 days earlier), more vigorous plants from the first weeks.
- Plant size: up to +100% growth in greenhouses, +50-60% in open ground.
- Harvest yield: up to +61% compared to conventional organic farming.
- Fruit quality: tastier, denser fruits, with higher biophoton levels indicating greater vitality.
- Disease resistance: plants resist much better to pests and diseases without any treatment.
- Pollinator attraction: bees and other pollinators are strongly attracted to electroboosted plants.
- Soil regeneration: increased microbial activity, faster humus creation, better water retention.
Plant signal recording
We placed two electrodes between the main electrodes. On a computer, the signals detected by these two electrodes are recorded. The electrical signal is clearly distinguished between stimulation on and off. We also question the plant about this stimulation: we attach very fine electrodes to the top and bottom of the main stem. The plant’s reaction signals are recorded simultaneously. The observations are striking — correlations exist between the two signals.
Ongoing research
We continue our research on several fronts:
- Extension to large surfaces: devices for plots beyond 1,000m² (up to 10,000m²).
- BOOSTER optimisation: improving the liquid recipe for maximum effect.
- Specific applications: vineyards, cereal crops, fruit trees, polluted-soil cleanup.
- Information physics: exploring how plants process the stimulation signal at the information level, beyond pure electromagnetism.
- Plant music applications: combining electroculture with the plant-music technique for therapeutic and agricultural applications.
Our research is independent. We don’t receive public research funding — it’s self-financed through our device sales. This gives us complete freedom to explore avenues that mainstream research wouldn’t pursue.
Get in touch
If you’d like to know more about our research, share your own observations, or collaborate on experiments, contact us at contact@plantonic.org.