crystal kill a plant?

[~*Ginger*~]

Someone told me lately to bury my crystals to cleanse them.
Well, i had a rose quartz about the size of your fore finger and thumb together, in an OK sign.
i buried it in a plant pot with a plant growing in it and now my plant is dying...
it just struck me that it may be the crystal...
is this possible?

[Old Witch]

I don't think so....you didn't have any salt or anything on the crystal to cleanse it did you? And depending on the plant, it's size, and whether or not it's a type that does not like it's roots disturbed.....It just might be the disturbing of the roots.

[Demeter]

You may have injured the roots of the plant, especially if the stone is large. It may recoverif you remove the stone (carefully! you don't want to hurt the plant more), then tuck the soil back around the roots, feed the plant with a fertilizer that has potassium to stimulate new root growth, and snip off some of the top growth so the plant won't be trying to support more leaves than it has roots.

You might want to consider keeping a container of clean soil or sand just for cleansing crystals. I like burying my crystals in a container of sea salt to cleanse them.

[Mithrea]

I agree it might be root disruption but I was also wondering:

What is the plant and have there been any other changes in the plants environment?

[~*Ginger*~]

The plant is one my 2nd grader brought home in a small cup, so I'm not sure the name of the plant, it's kinda like a daisy, two toned orange/pink.

I had transplanted it just recently because of being root bound in the small cup. It was doing really well, i was so tickled! (isn't mother's day wonderful!)

There was plenty of room around the edges, so i just took a small spoon and lifted enough dirt to cover the crystal.
I did take it out yesterday and put the dirt back...I really don't think that I got to the roots, but it is possible...

I've tried using salt, but here in the deep south it is very muggy and takes little to no time for salt to get either soggy or hard. (might try it in a covered container though)
And I'll get a covered container for the dirt (especially for crystals instead of putting them in with my plants.)

There was no salt on the crystal before placing it in with the plant, in fact i rinsed it off before i did it.

The plant had been taken from the kitchen window to the screened in porch, so that may have been a factor also...but the suns about the same.

Gone to trim off dying leaves...

Thanks ya'll! :)

[Mithrea]

As for cleansing stones, the old folks around here use a vinegar and water bath to cleanse them. I wash mine in salt water and let them dry in the sun.

You can also keep salt from clumping like that by adding a few grains of rice to it. The rice will soak up the moisture and keep it from clumping :)

[Pesha]

Prehaps as has been said the roots were damaged. Rose quartz is a stone of healing and love, so it could not kill a plant. What did you use to cleanse it with first. A mild soltion of salt water is best and then rinse the stone off really well and bury it. Preferable during a full or new moon.
BB
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[~*Ginger*~]

The stone had been thru a lot.
i had given it to someone, and because of his actions I ended up breaking his heart and telling him to leave, so he gave the stone back to me. (I'm a good person, take alot before i get to the point of breaking, but I will not put up with abuse of any type, including verbal...and it had gotten to the point of my children being abused and i put a stop to it)

He's a good person too, but had gotten depressed about something that happened before we met and he just kept sinking and nothing i did helped, so he had to handle it elsewhere.

I know the stone is cloudier than before I gave it to him.

And in all honesty, i had planned on spending the rest of my life with that man, but it just got... really more than the girls and I could handle, and to tell you the truth, I'd rather be by myself forever than to have my children torn down to feelings of nothingness.

(they were 1 and 6 years old)
I waited a very long time to have them, i got all my fun and running done.
They are my main priority!

i think that I'll just turn to salt or a seperate container of soil for cleansing.

Does the soil need to be changed up ever so often?
So as not to transvere vibes to other crystals being cleansed later?

Thanks ya'll!

:broomride

[Mithrea]

I think the idea is that the soil of the earth is pure and purifying because it is the earth itself. I don't think it needs changed for that reason, but it may need changed for other reasons. Incidentally, there is a thread here about baking your soil to cleanse it of things you don't want. You might look into that.

Other's may think on this differently. I think if you are using a pot, you should change it because where is that energy to go in a pot. If you put it in the ground, then the energy is absorbed and diffused into the earth itself, so no harm done. But in a pot, I'm not sure. I think you should do what you think works best. :)

[CzechWoods]

Namaste,

i can imagine it was either you hurt the roots of the plant, but what i believe to be possible and probable is that the energies you wanted the stone to be purified from were too much for your pot-plant to handle.

when we say we should bury stones to cleanse them, it is meant to reconnect them with the vast energies of Mother Earth. Of course Mother Earth has eneough energy in Her soil to cleanse off all negativity from a stone that we people might have filled inside.

But an isolated organism, like a plant in a pot, can easily be overflooeded by too much of negativity; esp. aftzer what you said about the stone being through a lot.

As far as cleansing is conserned, not all stones support salty water,or salt, or water, or acids (such as vinegar) etc. Therefor one should really research whether or not the stone is a water preferer, salt perefere...or you just use hematites, amethyst, clear quartz and moonlight. Some stones also like the sun, but not all of them do.

I d cleanse a rosequartz with water on a weekly bases.

take a bucket and fill it with water. put rose quartz inside and leave it there for 4 or 8 hrs. Then shower it for about 1 minute with running water (dont waste our precsios planet!). rosequartz loves the sun and supports 4 hrs and more exposed in direct sun light. rosequartz also enjoys lunar energys, and any crystal/hematite/amethyst energy treatment.

burrying the stone for a week, a moon, a year and a day, or for ever apollyes if the stone is really exhauseted and doesnt seem to react positively (energy-vise) on any other cleansing/recharging practice. One usually tries one week first, then one moon, lastly the year and a day. if all those fail, and above methods too, the stone has given all it had to give. then iots time to let go, and bury it in the womb of Mother earth for ever.

peace and serenity
Czech

[Mistiblue]

Just as an FYI, some crystals don't respond well to salt. Rose Quartz will do fine with it, but I Have ruined a couple of other crystals that way. Satinspar is one and Angellite is another one that doesn't do well with salt. I now tend to cleanse them all by burning sage and holding the crystal in the smoke. It works great and makes them smell good too. :)

[OakFire]

I have never used crystals or stones in with the plants. However, I have placed crystals and stones in patterns around my plants. Nope. It was not for decoration. It was for, imo, tunning the engery of the crystals & stones around the plants to help them to grow better. I have also found that playing music helps them too. Sound waves seems to make the plants grow in wavy patterns, or at least it did for my aloe plant. I don't think I would personally want to put a stone in the pot unless maybe I was transplanting it. Maybe placing on on top of the soil. However, I believe around a plant works just as good.

[Exloration_La]

Someone told me lately to bury my crystals to cleanse them.
Well, i had a rose quartz about the size of your fore finger and thumb together, in an OK sign.
i buried it in a plant pot with a plant growing in it and now my plant is dying...
it just struck me that it may be the crystal...
is this possible?


I’m not sure what the cause is since there can be many factors, but I had a lucky bamboo plant and I put some white quarts crystals around the top of the soils as not t touch the roots, and the crystals turned brown probably form the dirt they got stained, and the plant was dying..