Hey folks, I have seen occasionally people put crystals ontop of the soil in there potted plants such as peyote and san pedro and have wondered what it is all about ? Do we have any crystal using folks here ? Can anyone shed some light on how this could be beneficial for plants ?
Boooshpig
I used to use crystal but gave it up when I realized sleeping 8 hours a week was not that good for me, even though I did get a lot of gardening done.
I knew some smart bar steward would come up withsomething along those lines :P
Boosh
interesting bush.
we got 2 san pedros. one day organizing around, i found 2 old crystals, which i put on the dirt of the pedros. i dont know why, just had to put them somewhere. coincidence? pure randomness? who knows..
(//http://www.ofspiritandsoul.com/images/pics_small/Crystal-Skull-museum.jpg)
many have used crystal powers for a long time. i cant say that i know much about it at all:( but i'd like to learn a bit more.
so here is a few links to start learning a bit more about crystal uses:
from famous new age site crystal links page, a page on crystals.
//http://www.crystalinks.com/crystals.html
also, it appears that some plants do produce some form of crystals.
"Can plants make a diamond crystal out of carbon?
I have heard that plants can make stones of some kind. Is it possible for a plant to make a diamond crystal out of carbon?
There will not be any carbon crystals growing in your back yard for a few millennia, because the transformation of carboniferous plant material into coal and diamonds requires tremendous heat and pressure. Some plants, however, do produce tiny stones that are sometimes called plant opals."
//http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar252004/snt3.asp
here is for a wicked pagan view on crystal magic:
//http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/crystal_magic.htm
of course, there is also the crystals skulls too:D
//http://skepdic.com/crystalskull.html
thats a good start...
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Dear Jr.l
I like you, used to think that eight hours sleep was too much for me, but then... (SPAM)
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And then I was a very weathy man.
I bet you with you were as weathy as I curently am. I'm talking tens and tens of dollars whoring my self out to the yodeling site.
Un Huh.
Lj
wow...the outgoing message gods shine favor on me.. too many rocks, not enough flower pots
Yep I almost made it to the poverty line, then it all collapsed.
I do have those memories.............
Aye, I use crystals, rough stones, polished stones, precious and semi-precious, and fossils and sometimes even bones in with my plantings. It varies from plant to plant, sometimes an established association or relevance, sometimes a gut feeling, sometimes just plain ol' practical magick - where it can work either as the stone(s) of choice aiding the plant, the plant infusing the stone(s) with its energy, or even a good synergy for both or for the surrounding environment/atmosphere.
I think most people though probably fall in for it for visual diversity or in a mock up of Zen gardens.
I started my first pineapple (bromeliad) with polished river stones to inhibit the soil from splashing up onto the leaves when top-watering, but my gut told me to include a piece of lepidolite... which I did, and while that stone has since been removed, that first pineapple is doing visibly better than the other three that do not have any stones with them.
I kept a chunk of a vein of Beryl/Aquamarine that was discovered waaaaaay out of its normal geography in with a B. suaveolens 'White' through the winter.
I have two hand-worked crystal balls (not blown or lead crystal) that I shuffle around from pot to pot depending upon what plant tells me what.. both of these orbs are, to my knowledge, a plain quartz.
It's not unusual to find a bloodstone in with any given basil here... and at any given time jade, tiger's eye, rose quartz, obsidian, etc. in with my plants.
Clear quartz while generic, tends to be a good and simple choice... one of the few stones that people who aren't even highly sensitive can actually feel the vibration of.... good all-purpose neutral to positive stone (unless of course it has been charged differently) and tends to - on its own, again excluding deliberate charging to the contrary - absorb "negative" vibes and either store or neutralize them... so by its presence can be beneficial to a plant in preventing or combating anything that might ail it.
Jaeda
I also have crystals in many of my cacti but it's mostly because I had the crystals and no where better to keep them. My favorite is a 8" crystal that I placed in the center of 4 columnar cacti. Now the cacti have grown so much that the crystal can't be removed. I'll see if I can get a picture . . .
When i aquired my peyotes they had crystals in te pots, I don't really think it does anything for them, just looks pretty.