Playing Music to your plants

ook into sonic bloom by dan carlson, using sounds similar to birds chirping and crickets, his study has shown that there is actually an increase in stoma size and in how much they open in response to the sounds. He coupled this with a seaweed foliar feed to grow guinness book of world record plants. One example, a house plant that normally grows 18" grew to 1/8th of a mile! Plants have myriad mechanisms to regulate their growth, internal regulators & external stimuli. Studies have shown that while even indoors year round, plants can still follow the natural seasons occurring outdoors. So, why couldn't one of these external stimuli be the sounds of birds singing, "telling" the plants that it's daytime & time to get growing..... Many studies have also shown concretely that playing classical and Baroque music to plants can increase their growth rate up to 27%..... do some research and have alil faith. Can't hurt @ all, the amount of electricity used to run a speaker set is negligible, especially compared to all the other equipment being used.. I have a playlist of sounds of nature, birds singing, whole forests alive, water & crickets etc.. w/ some schubert #8 playing and I BELIEVE that its helping. I can't PROVE it, but imho its doing something.
I may be a novice, but i also have a degree in biology & have taken many plant biology and physiology courses- gaining much knowledge from those devoted to lives in the plant research fields .... Take it as you will, Just giving my two cents

ook into sonic bloom by dan carlson, using sounds similar to birds chirping and crickets, his study has shown that there is actually an increase in stoma size and in how much they open in response to the sounds. He coupled this with a seaweed foliar feed to grow guinness book of world record plants. One example, a house plant that normally grows 18" grew to 1/8th of a mile! Plants have myriad mechanisms to regulate their growth, internal regulators & external stimuli. Studies have shown that while even indoors year round, plants can still follow the natural seasons occurring outdoors. So, why couldn't one of these external stimuli be the sounds of birds singing, "telling" the plants that it's daytime & time to get growing..... Many studies have also shown concretely that playing classical and Baroque music to plants can increase their growth rate up to 27%..... do some research and have alil faith. Can't hurt @ all, the amount of electricity used to run a speaker set is negligible, especially compared to all the other equipment being used.. I have a playlist of sounds of nature, birds singing, whole forests alive, water & crickets etc.. w/ some schubert #8 playing and I BELIEVE that its helping. I can't PROVE it, but imho its doing something.

I may be a novice, but i also have a degree in biology & have taken many plant biology and physiology courses- gaining much knowledge from those devoted to lives in the plant research fields .... Take it as you will, Just giving my two cents

jrh72582 said:

My wife has been a research biologist for the last 23 years at a major university. I showed her your 'theory' and she laughed. Enough said...

She works with plants and only plants. She has a terminal degree in microbiology. She knows what she's talking about. And yes, inquiry into this matter is closed. Not to be an ass, but it's science man. Some things we know. It's the nature of science to discover and when tested and proved, to state as fact - it's that simple. I'm not being an ass. I'm a professor, my wife's a professor....our lives revolve around educating others and eradicating myths. Sorry if that offends you.

And don't get me started on mythbusters. It's a television show and by no means authoritative. Trust me people, playing music to your plants doesn't help. It cannot hurt them, but it DOES NOT help. Waste electricity - I don't care......

I just hate that all weed smokers get a bad name because normal people hear stoners say things like what your stating. No one takes us seriously (or our movement) because of all the ridiculous things being said by those who smoke weed regularly. You simply make yourself a target for anti-marijuana advocates. I can see it now - it'll be the next anti-dope commercial. It shows a kid treating his plants as though they're human beings - feeding them, playing them music, taking them to church, stroking them and taking them for walks... Grandma and grandpa are watching the television and think, "just look at what weed does to those kids. what a shame..." And they're right.....what a shame.

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this guy is a closed-minded cynical jerk. who cares if he and his wife are professors, they have nothing better to do than scoff at our superstitions. im sure his wife laughed because before he showed it to her he was being sarcastic and telling her how stupid we all were, so her viewpoint was that of her close-minded husband. if she were a scientist she should have taken all information unbiasedly for what it was

enough people posted legitamte scientific studys proving that plants react to music to take it seriously. enough people have there own results and can say "fuck what this "professor" says, i come to my own conclusions"

i started a post about my superstitions about growing weed and i wish some of you free thinkers found it instead of all of the faithless cridicts who posted that i was a fool and told me to masturbate into my plant.

so what if i name her, and talk to her, and play her music or obsess aboult how "clean" my soil is. who care if i keep a big quartz crysal next to my plant, i dont realy think it has magical propertys, but a friend who gave it to me when he learned i was starting to grow dose belive in that stuff. i put it in there because i trust his imput and i have a little faith and i know i dont know anything about how the universe works.

check out my superstitions and let me kno wat u think: https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/193788-plant-superstitions-anyone-heard-any.html

Read an article in one of my grow mags that says that a farmer in china proved that his vegetation grew at double speed while classical music was played every morning, as compared to the same environment without the music. I find that my music would be too abrasive for plants, especially cause my animals dont like it. Apparently some sort of bubble water has similar effects. I personally dont play anything for my plants, im trying to conserve energy already.

jrh72582 said:

Plants are determined by their biology. Music does NOTHING to them. Period.

That's not nay-saying - that's science. I mean, come on man... Music making your buds better? Humans respond to music because we have the capacity to understand aesthetic evaluations (in other words, we are analytically conscious). Plants are not conscious. Period. Could they have some secret place where a brain and nervous system resides? No. To put it in the common parlance, we know for a fact that marijuana plants DO NOT have the capacity for conscious awareness.

Do we know how the plant responds to ALL stimuli? No, not yet. But even leaving the possibility that a plant might respond to music open is simply silly. Another example of the gullibility of stoners, which ultimately damages our image. It's one thing I dislike about stoners very much - uneducated gullibility. So sad.

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your such a closed minded douchebag, do you really think that everything you read in a textbook is case closed. They come up with new discoveries all the time, its called evolution. If you honestly think thats plants dont react to music, thats your opinion not fact. Responding to music has nothing to do with consciounous, creating or playing obviously does. Your one dimentional and wrong, so you and your wife can get off your high horse. pfffft !

Yes... Plants can read intentions, which COULD mean a better yield. I read sometime looong ago that a pioneer of lie detector tests was bored one day, and hooked up a plant to the machine. And in his head, he was thinking about taking a lighter and burning the leaf to see what it would do. Right after he thought about doing this, the machine went haywire for a moment! He thought of it again, and it did the same result. He didn't even have to burn the plant, it's like the plant can read ones intentions. It's really interesting...

Try to do a search yourself on intention experiments on plants and see for yourself. I can understand why some of my friends who follow the exact same directions on their hydro system who grew clone's from the same mother grew with different results. The one who struck big was the one whom I always caught talking to his plants with the utmost respect. Hey, it's just from my observation eh...

But, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt playing classical music to your plants. Go for it! Do an experiment with 2 grows, one with music one without, and see the results for yourself. Sky's the limit man...

Resident Kush said:

your such a closed minded douchebag, do you really think that everything you read in a textbook is case closed. They come up with new discoveries all the time, its called evolution. If you honestly think thats plants dont react to music, thats your opinion not fact. Responding to music has nothing to do with consciounous, creating or playing obviously does. Your one dimentional and wrong, so you and your wife can get off your high horse. pfffft !

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HA! You can't even spell correctly when insulting me! And BTW, I never insulted you - I merely gave my opinion and expressed my thoughts. So don't insult me (especially in a grammatically incorrect format). Do you realize how pathetic it is to see a kid get so upset by what someone says in an INTERNET FORUM that he falls prey to ridicule and insult? We're not on the playground and we're not in the third grade so grow up you child.

And I still stick to my opinion. You give marijuana advocates a bad name.

KaleoXxX said:

this guy is a closed-minded cynical jerk. who cares if he and his wife are professors, they have nothing better to do than scoff at our superstitions. im sure his wife laughed because before he showed it to her he was being sarcastic and telling her how stupid we all were, so her viewpoint was that of her close-minded husband. if she were a scientist she should have taken all information unbiasedly for what it was

enough people posted legitamte scientific studys proving that plants react to music to take it seriously. enough people have there own results and can say "fuck what this "professor" says, i come to my own conclusions"

i started a post about my superstitions about growing weed and i wish some of you free thinkers found it instead of all of the faithless cridicts who posted that i was a fool and told me to masturbate into my plant.

so what if i name her, and talk to her, and play her music or obsess aboult how "clean" my soil is. who care if i keep a big quartz crysal next to my plant, i dont realy think it has magical propertys, but a friend who gave it to me when he learned i was starting to grow dose belive in that stuff. i put it in there because i trust his imput and i have a little faith and i know i dont know anything about how the universe works.

check out my superstitions and let me kno wat u think: https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/193788-plant-superstitions-anyone-heard-any.html

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See my post above. It applies to you also.

And did you ever realize that people ridiculed you because you're ridiculously and momentously wrong? It does suck that people like you are walking, talking manifestations of the type caste stoner, which inevitably hinders our cause to be taken seriously. Way to go. You're single-handedly screwing it up for the rest of us...

it has been pretty much proven that complex sounds(ie: classical and metal music) do stimulate plant growth. Any sounds do work but the more complex the sounds are the better reactions have occured. Its the same as playing music thru headphones to babies to increase development and iq. there was a good vid about it i saw a few months back ill try and find it and post the link.

Also, magnetics can stimulate plant growth. I was watching tcl one day and they were talking about a canadian marijuana grow done in an abandoned copper mine. The magnetic feilds were like 5 times that of outdoors and they had plants growing to 15 feet in just a couple months.

I know my next med grow im gona play music and through some speaker magnets in the room just to see what i can do lol.

Here is a link to the first study done on the effects of sounds on plant growth.
http://www.dovesong.com/positive_music/plant_experiments.asp

Here is a study out of asia on sound waves switching on growth genes in plants.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526196.100-plant-genes-switched-on-by-sound-waves.html

Here is a summary of a study about the magnetic fields on growth. Below the text is a link to the complete research study.
http://www.actahort.org/books/399/399_15.htm

yeah i also saw on mythbusters that playing death metal to your plants makes them grow better. i just play a shitload of reggae, trance and metal..but dont think my plants are any better with or without it lol if any1 can help..please comment on my forum

yep rock and roll..

I played emo music for mine last night. Woke up and one had committed planticide, two of them had cuts all over and the forth one was sobbing in the corner.

DaveyDoom said:

I played emo music for mine last night. Woke up and one had committed planticide, two of them had cuts all over and the forth one was sobbing in the corner.

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LMFAO very funny man, am loving your work.

I play Gansta Rap for mine while they are drying and curing.

Not that I think it has any affect on the potency of the bud or anything, I just want them to know what they are getting into.

DaveyDoom said:

I played emo music for mine last night. Woke up and one had committed planticide, two of them had cuts all over and the forth one was sobbing in the corner.

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lol, thats funny as hell, and sadly, a little true....

If you play "Indie Rock" for them, what happens (Other than that they all buy Macs and shitty old Saabs because they are such non conformists, of course...)?

SaneLawsMake4SaneSociety said:

I play Gansta Rap for mine while they are drying and curing.

Not that I think it has any affect on the potency of the bud or anything, I just want them to know what they are getting into.

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lol nice...

I don't know, kind of torn on the issue... So here's my stoned Dr. Phil analysis on the subject:

On the one hand I think people just have a tendency to personify 'pets'. And I absolutely believe most growers view their plants more as pets than just produce... it just sort of follows that people are going to want to do things like play music for them, talk to them, smoke with them, chill with them, etc... and so they just rationalize doing so with pseudo-scientific studies carried out by the same people (who want to believe the same thing) with no training in how to conduct a fair and valid experiment... I mean yes, there may be some effect that sound has on a plant that has been studied by real scientist out there - but that's an impossibly long bridge to cross to arrive at the conclusion that playing music to a plant is beneficial to it's production.

Spirituality on the other hand - believe what you want about plants, not my business.

Just my opinion.

SableZen said:

lol nice...

I don't know, kind of torn on the issue... So here's my stoned Dr. Phil analysis on the subject:

On the one hand I think people just have a tendency to personify 'pets'. And I absolutely believe most growers view their plants more as pets than just produce... it just sort of follows that people are going to want to do things like play music for them, talk to them, etc... and so they just rationalize doing so with pseudo-scientific studies carried out by the same people (who want to believe the same thing) with no training in how to conduct a fair and valid experiment... I mean yes, there may be some effect that sound has on a plant that has been studied by real scientist out there - but that's an impossibly long bridge to cross to arrive at the conclusion that playing music to a plant is beneficial to it's production.

Spirituality on the other hand - believe what you want about plants, not my business.

Just my opinion.

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It was cool that your reply, though in disagreement, was respectful. Props on that. (My gansta rap post, btw, was a joke, I don't really do that....its not a good sign for how funny it was when I gotta point out that it was a joke, though, huh?)

Someone a few pages back actually cited scientific studies, and it does make a difference, apparently.

In reality, my plants just get to listen to me practice, and sometimes they get to hear the sounds of porno. I wonder how that affects them?

Wow! This is a cool Post. It got pretty heated there LOL! Signs of a good subject, Anyways Im gonna try to sum up some facts and inject some of my opinion which is biased but then again what isnt?. But I will try an keep it as logical and factual as possible

Personally I do beleive playing different types of music makes a difference at the very least. Reasonable thought? Hear me out:

Fact: Sound waves do have an effect on everything live or inanimate. In the living world you can blast a boombox beside an animal or person and see that it has a reaction to the music/sounds. Sound has an effect on inanimate objects also: Im sure you have all seen people able to break a glass with their voice (if not youtube it). Or even better how water in a container reacts if you put it on a playing speaker. If you keep a constant pitch you can clearly see stable patterns of tiny waves caused by the vibration. If you play around with the sound frequency you can control how calm or chaotic the wave patterns are.

Plants are living organisms, If sound has an effect on live and not live things, I dont think plants are any special exception. Fuck, the plants dont have to understand the words of songs to benefit, just like you dont have to understand excactly how birds chirp or what meaning it has to enjoy/benefit from it.

If you agree that sounds effect things, then you can agree that you can effect them in good or bad ways. You listen to a bangin record and you feel good afterwards, Sad songs make you feel bad. Or in the case of inanimate objects look at the water vibrations example: Vibrations could be more smooth and flowing forming cool patterns, or just chaotic and destructive.

At this point I ask why are plants exempted from this process? Choice of music is important because of which frequency you want to expose your plant to Which makes sense, hence why plants respond better to classical (smooth, flowing, transforming and ongoing) as opposed to say jimi hendrix (heavy distortion, chaotic).

I mean at the very least even if its all just a placebo effect and your fucking with your own head, making yourself beleive that its working, the the effect is making you feel better about the process/plant etc. Helping you to take more care it. That means playing the right music makes you feel better which makes the plants feel better, either way music has an effect on plants....

....What happened I blacked out?

I was kind of all over the place on that one but i gave it my best shot