Chapter 2, page 4.
2.4 2.1 Tenderness and viability in sunflower seeds.
2.2 The viability in grains varies both senses.
2.3 The global cycle of the grains (experiment C).
2.4 How the grains recover viability (experiment E).
2.5 The two variables of the recovering of viability.
2.6 Interpretation of the experiment E”.
2.7 Seeds set in motion with respect to the Earth (experiment A).
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The topic I will address in this page, and in the two following ones, is what favours the viability recovering in the seeds.
Recovering of viability in seeds.
.1 We have already seen that - for the seeds at rest with regard to the Earth - the recovering of viability, may occur only during the periods, when the phase velocity of the moon increases (periods a-b, and c-d of the global cycle).
.2 We also saw that the seeds tend to lose their degree of viability, depending on temperature, and on the passage of time, especially during the periods when the moon phase velocity moon is decreasing, i.e when its recovering is out of question.
An unexpected piece of data.
.3 During a data working-out, I found a exceptional recovering of viability, that, at first, appeared a nonsense.
.4 Of course, it was during a period when the phase velocity was increasing. This is normal.
.5 But before, the seeds had spent a long period of 17 days of moon phase velocity decrease, while the standard is no more than 7-8 days.
.6 They would rather have had a reduced dotation of orderly EFAs, and show a low degree of viability. Instead, at the final outcome, they proved to be at the top quality. Just the opposite, than what was expected.
Repeat the observation.
.7 To repeat the observation under the same conditions, so rare, with regard to the contour of the moon phase velocity, was out of question. I would have to wait for years.
.8 As I have already said, the seeds tend to lose their degree of viability, according to the passage of time, but also to the temperature.
.9 The effects of the two variables add up; both cause a degradation of orderly EFAs configurations through reverse reactions (reverse with respect to the dissipative ones).
.10 To some extent, the two variables - warming, and the passage of time - appear interchangeable in the same circumstance, when the moon phase velocity is decreasing.
.11 Thus, if the seeds are heated, it would be like to submit them to a long period, where the moon phase velocity is decreasing.
“Expérience E”.
.12 This deduction led to the "experience E", which is to sow seeds, previously heated, for 24 hours at 34-36 ° C, in order to reduce the degree of their viability.
.13 A series of “experiments E” showed that the seeds, previously heated, thus either with a low orderly EFAs dotation, or even under threshold, can restore their viability, much better than the unheated seeds. Though, with due attention to two variables.
.14 To increase the probability to fully restore their viability, (1) the moon phase velocity should increase very slowly, at least for two days, possibly at a gradient not higher than 0.2 deltins, (2) during the sections of the day and night when the temperature is decreasing.
.15 Ordinarily, that means, to sow the seeds just before the start of a recovery period (either a "point a", or "point c" of the global cycle - for example, on the plot above (2010-02), the "point c" is to prefer, as it is followed by a slow increase in phase velocity).
“Experiment E”: two examples.
.16 I present two examples, carried out in 2004 and 2005, in the original protocol called “Experiment E”, that consisted to subjects seeds to a temperature of 34-36°C for 24 hours, and then to sow them in an open field.
On wheat seeds.
On maize seeds.
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