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Growing Next to Wifi Router

I started my seeds on a table that had my wifi right under it.  I felt like I had a below normal germ rate.  Like less than 50%.  Could it be because of my wifi router? anyone else ever experience that or have any problems?
 
I've started a few more and moved them to a different room so we will see if i have a better rate.
 
"sounds like you got"
 
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"WiFried"
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3jnW2kcUs
 
I never use wifi and have removed the antennas from the unit, I like everything hard wired. I have found that organic mater does not like EMF. Some years back I had a pumpkin that was being stored and was nice and solid for 5 months since harvest, I moved it next to my monitor (tube) for some reason and in a week it had melted, liquid all over the place were it sat and half the thing was mush.
 
I'm growing most of my plants within 5 feet of a router. I'll gladly blame it for anything I mucked up! 
 
In all honesty PodHopper, it wouldn't be something that I would worry about. Most likely other variables are at play.
 
Plants and PC components just don't mix, especially if your components are underneath anything that ever needs to be watered, gets humid, spills, etc.  Only a humble opinion, your circumstances may vary.  Best of luck.
 
Gorizza said:
 
Does anyone believe this?
I don't.
I'm sure biology undergrads around the world have been exposing countless petridishes of cells to these wavelengths for years if not decades.

Research should definitely continue as the amount of this radiation is ever increasing.
But it's hard to believe this kind of test hasn't been performed before in a university lab years ago.
 
That study is painfully flawed.

"Six trays containing the seeds of a garden cress herb were placed in a room without a WiFi router, and six trays were placed in a different room and next to two WiFi routers which, according to the girls' calculations,emitted about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone, reports DR."

Did these rooms have the same sun exposure? Artificial light exposure? Temperature? Were the rooms adjacent? Were the wifi routers transmitting 2.4ghz band? 5ghz band? What's the transmit power set to? Are the electronics in the router properly shielded? Is there RF interference nearby?

If it was 2.4 and the rooms were adjacent they're getting blasted with RF, same with 5 but not as bad.

I especially enjoyed the "emitted about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone". What "type" of radiation? EM, RF, or actual radiation? I'm assuming they mean RF, and if they do then yes same "type" but you've got higher EM coming off that router, and if one piece of electronic isn't shielded properly then it's not functioning properly and even more different.

I welcome further research on this, and maybe there is an effect, but this study is too flawed to draw any conclusions.

Sorry, I'm off my soap box.

Try switching your seedlings to the 5ghz band next time, it's less prone to interference :P
 
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