Who plays Music for their plants?

SouthCross

SouthCross

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I'm in current negotiations with the girlfriend to give up a POS computer tower. If she don't Ill order one.

Using the power supply, a car radio and two speakers. I'm going to play music for my plants 24/7. I'm currently using a mini boom box turd on the outside of the grow space. Stuck an iPhone in the space and recorded the sound. You can't hear anything but the hum of the blower. How shitty a existence. That's gonna stop. I can't grow plants without music.


Who else plays music for their plants?
 
vostok

vostok

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I do and have for years

many noobs dispute this ...typical ..lol

tho I hate Mozart

my seedlings love it

the french have witting music for plants

see you tube

tho I've yet to test it

I use an old mp3 player on a loop with walkman speakers

yeah for retro tech..!!

good luck
 
Gary Goodson

Gary Goodson

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I like to shove small speakers(like a tweeter) up my ass and then open my mouth so the sound will travel thru. Makes my plants think Im singing to them.

Pro tip: It doesn't matter where you place the sub woofer. Because bass is omnidirectional. The point is, you dont have to shove the sub woofer up your ass to get good bass.

Pro tip #2: It works with bluetooth speakers as well!
 
iHearAll

iHearAll

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Rrog said:
Show me peer reviewed data that plants are affected by music.

Not stoner insights
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the mythbusters did an episode on it showing a pretty decent increase in vegetative growth

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291086163_Effect_of_Music_on_Plants_-_An_Overview
heres one with marigolds being grown.

and one focusing on root growth
http://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=ajps.2007.369.373

kinda neat

Table 1: Sound intensity levels of music those were listened by Groups 1 and Group 2


Table 2: Root elongation of Allium cepa and Mitotic Index (MI) in root meristematic cells of Allium cepa in Control group, Goup 1 and 2
 
Rrog

Rrog

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This topic is supremely debated, I'm afraid. For every test done in India, there are other tests showing nothing at all.

If anything, it would be found that certain frequencies (test tones) may have some resonance. That's barely plausible.

Plants enjoying music? Nope
 
iHearAll

iHearAll

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Rrog said:
This topic is supremely debated, I'm afraid. For every test done in India, there are other tests showing nothing at all.

If anything, it would be found that certain frequencies (test tones) may have some resonance. That's barely plausible.

Plants enjoying music? Nope
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music? probably not. some resonant frequency? agreeed, plausible. if you tap a plant's stem with a metal needle and run a wire to an amplifier, the natural charge built up on the plant will amplify as a constant frequency. This is a property observed when understanding how bees know what flowers have been pollinated already.
there was a proof of concept on a show called natural curiosities on BBC. it showed the amplifier test and how the electric fields of the bee and the plant changes the frequency as their delta V increased and decreased with distance ultimately neutralizing when and if they made contact.
 
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vostok

vostok

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In 1973, Dorothy Retallack's book The Sound of Music and Plants based on scientific experiments created ripples.

Retallack began her experiment at the Colorado Women's College in Denver. Using three separate laboratories containing the same species of plants, Retallack began her experiment. Piping in different types of music to each facility, she recorded the daily growth of each plant. The results were quite surprising. The plants in the laboratory where music was played daily for three hours a day grew twice as large and became twice as healthy as those in a music-free environment. On the other extreme, plants in the laboratory where music was played for eight hours a day died within two weeks of the start of the experiment.

Dorothy Retallack tried experimenting with different types of music. She played rock to one group of plants and, soothing music to another. The group that heard rock turned out to be sickly and small whereas the other group grew large and healthy. What's more surprising is that the group of plants listening to the soothing music grew bending towards the radio just as they bend towards the sunlight.

This experiment encouraged many individuals and organizations to exercise the act of playing music to plants. These connoisseurs of music warn you about the sort of music that you play. The plants will grow better if you play soft soothing music of old era instead of loud rock music of Gen X.

The noisy rock music will only make the plants grow feeble and sick. Preferably, play Mozart, Bach, or Beethoven to make your plant grow better. Another important point that we can pick up from Retallack's experiments is the duration of music. If you are keen on playing music to your plants, keep the time limit to be about three hour. This will make the plants grow healthy and properly. An overdose of music can seriously destroy the plants.

http://musique-pour-soigner-les-plantes.weebly.com/music-and-plants.html

https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Music-Plants-Dorothy-Retallack/dp/0875161707

https://www.smilinggardener.com/plants/music-and-plants
 
vostok

vostok

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iHearAll said:
the mythbusters did an episode on it showing a pretty decent increase in vegetative growth

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291086163_Effect_of_Music_on_Plants_-_An_Overview
heres one with marigolds being grown.

and one focusing on root growth
http://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=ajps.2007.369.373

kinda neat

Table 1: Sound intensity levels of music those were listened by Groups 1 and Group 2


Table 2: Root elongation of Allium cepa and Mitotic Index (MI) in root meristematic cells of Allium cepa in Control group, Goup 1 and 2
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Tho if I remember right this 'test' was inconclusive
 
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