© Shyntartanya/Shutterstock Hands with a small plant in a potPlants are true wonders of nature. Any gardener will tell you that the smallest seed can grow into a graceful and elegant plant with a little attention and care. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's tallest sunflower was created in August 2014 with a spectacular 30-foot-tall specimen. It was led by former double record holder Hans-Peter Schiffer.
In the same vein, but sometimes tougher plants decide enough is enough and go from nowhere to nothing. Some, like Schiffer, keep the plants under control, while others can't find a way to grow them. Apparently there is an element of luck.
This, of course, helps to adapt to the needs of the plant. water carefully as needed, cut and prune carefully, repot. A gardener has many tools in his arsenal. For some, music is one of them, and it appears that playing music can actually stimulate plant growth.
Classical music or rock?
© Yuliya Komarova/Shutterstock Piano surrounded by plant leavesVia Science Direct's research, published in May 2020 in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, suggests that works by Vivaldi, Chopin and Beethoven can have a beneficial effect on students' ability to retrieve memories during sleep, for example. , try What about plants? Somehow, even our pen pals seem to be strengthened by the influence of music. They also seem very picky.
According to You Had Me At Gardening, plant pores are activated by certain types of sounds, as well as by the cells themselves. In his experiment, he exposed plants to classical music plugins and others to rock music and compared the results. The result. Both sexes have a positive effect on plant growth, but the classic one was more effective in this regard. But the plants that heard the stones adapted better in terms of health, although the leaves appeared slower.
A study titled "Effects of Music on Plants" by Anindita Roy Chowdhury et al., published in Researchgate, December 2015, notes that music is a stimulus like any other stimulus, and plants respond to it because they are so alive. .
Turn it on, it's just noise
© Followtheflow/Shutterstock Plants of different sizes in pots on the same surfaceEffects of Music on Plants Aninditha Roy Chowdhury et al. review" reports that an experiment was conducted with calendula plants. They are divided into three groups of two plants each. One group played "Light Indian Music" at an acoustic frequency in four-hour blocks for a month, while the other group played. silent. The second pair was played silently simultaneously with the herbal meditation music, and the last two were played at a discordant frequency called "Noise and silence".
Water level, light, etc. was kept constant and growth was carefully recorded weekly. The findings were instructive. A plant that enjoyed "light Indian music" was greater than a plant that listened to silence. Moreover, "a cultured plant always had more buds and flowers. Each growth-control plant showed greater growth of the labeled individual leaf length and thus the area exposed to the music." The same thing happened with the Meditation Music factory.
As a result of the study, it was found that plants that listen to both genres of music grow more efficiently. The plant exposed to the "noise" began to develop in the same way, but soon the growth rate decreased. Its growth direction changed dramatically from the sound direction. So plants seem like melodious music, but prolonged harsh sounds can have a negative effect.
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