CRYSTALS

Introduction          Making Solutions and Methods for Growing Crystals          Recipies          Photo's
List of Chemicals          Conversion Table 

Introduction

I became interested in growing crystals a year or so ago and bought a simple crystals growing kit. I grew some frosty diamond crystals as they were called by the manufacturer on the base rock. (I now know the chemical was Aluminium Potassium Sulphate or Alum). The crystals took a couple of weeks to grow and the individual crystals grew to approx 1cm all over the base rock which looked quite nice. I didn't bother growing anymore after that as my intrest moved onto something else. Recently though

Making Solutions and Methods for Growing

Here is explained the method I use for making the various solutions needed for the recipies geven elsewhere as well as how to produce seeds for growing crystals. Topics include:

Recipies

This page contains recipies for growing crystals of all shapes, sizes and colours. It must be stated however that although the chemicals used are not that dangerous, care must be taken around children and pets. I must also point out that obtaining some of these chemicals is quite difficult and can be expensive, I have encountered problems locating certan chemicals and found that some were just too expensive.

Photo's

The following galleries show photo's of known and not so well known crystals and minerals. These are not photo's of crystals I've grown (I wish they were) they are shown to give an idea of the beauty and variety of crystals and minerals that can be found naturally.

List of Chemicals