Does Anyone Else do This?

[metalchick832]

God knows I spend a LOT of time messing with, talking to, watering, singing to, playing my guitar for, and even reading to my plants. I love my plants! LOL!

Anyway, the question is, does anyone else do this for their plants? Has anyone had better results? My mother has the green thumb gene and I do not, so I am taking her advice (she does NOT know WHAT I'm growing) and she told me that it is good for the plants to feel loved and like they are cared for.

Is there any scientific evidence on this that anyone has found or does anyone else do this? Does it help?

Thanks,
Metalchick :ciao:

 

[the_riz]

Well i know Prince Charles from England talks to trees lol.. maybe theres some other method behind his madness. I used to leave music playing in there but it got really annoying lol, so nope, but they still have it better than they would if they were outside! lol

 

[Kindbud]

i talk to my plants and play my gutar to them to!!

 

[metalchick832]

Does it help them KindBud? I find that my little seedlings have been growing better since I started playing the guitar. Plus, my computer is really close by and I spend a lot of time on it, so they all get a healthy Daily Dose of Heavy Metal (which everyone should get... should be on the food pyramid right up there with fruit and veggies LOL!) but they seem to like the acustic of my guitar though.

When I read to them I try to read books like the Joy Luck Club (which I've read so many times it doesn't have binding anymore), The Horse Whisperer (currently), and historical and crime mysteries. I don't know why, but those are the books I choose for them.

I feel like a total dork writing this, because my husband always laughs at me. He's like, "why don't you read that to someone who'll listen?"... I almost tend to agree, but I figure if something can help then why not try it right?

~Metalchick

 

[metalchick832]

P.S. Prince Charles is also a renowned horticulturalist and the royal kitchen travels with his herbs and veggies and fruits to cook with. He has a garden at every home and tends them all personally. He says Roses and, of course, his vegtable garden are his favorites.

~Metalchick

 

[rollingstoned77]

i think i have read somewhere that singing to them or playing music is good ! inside in a close space , maybe the harmonic vibrations have an effect on the plant , like the soundwaves and stuff . ya know . or maybe i am just high , either way i'm picking up what you are putting down .


PEACE

 

[indokid]

I remember seeing MythBusters on Discovery channel, and they were testing whether music could affect plant growth by leaving radios next to them playing constantly. I think they ended up concluding that it didn't really do anything. I tried finding an actual explanation on their website to post it on here but i couldn't. Either way, if thats what you like to do, go for it

 

[MamaGreen]

yep i'm a talker/singer with my plants..i yak at them about my day (hey when you deal with preschoolers all day, it's nice to talk to someone who will just listen..lol) or i'll sing whatever song happens to be in my head...i personally think it helps but i think its more the CO2 that is being exhaled around them thats helping, not the sound itself

 

[Stoney Bud]

Here's a small excerpt from an article I found on the subject:

"It is possible for a plant to respond to the vibrations accompanying sounds. A short bibliography at the bottom of this page gives you some references...but to almost "nothing to report." I emphasize again that while there ARE responses to sound/vibration in plants, there is NO controlled study published on the MUSICAL TASTES or MUSIC APPRECIATION by plants in reputable journals."

This is taken from: http://plantphys.info/music.html

All my plants signed a petition asking me to stop singing to them. They said it hurt their ears....hehe

 

[the_riz]

P.S. Prince Charles is also a renowned horticulturalist and the royal kitchen travels with his herbs and veggies and fruits to cook with. He has a garden at every home and tends them all personally. He says Roses and, of course, his vegtable garden are his favorites.

~Metalchick

Sounds like an all round legend to me metalchick!

As for music and plants, everything emits its own harmonic frequency, i mean people, plants, animals, everything.

Also obviously, harmonic frequencies and resonations click with one another, its the same in music as it is in life, two notes go together on a guitar in perfect harmoney (anyone who playes the guitar will know that when tuning using your ears, and using the harmonic scale, if you are out of tune, you get a real nasty resonating wobble) just as the harmonic frequency of one person would sit well with another... probably just another contributing factor to whether you get on with somebody / feel comfortable with somebody or not.

Well it stands to reason that the best way to get health and growth out of your plant using music, would involve some serious extensive testing to find out what frequency the molicules of the plant vibrate at, and exploit that using probably synth, and music may help due to the large range of frequencies emmited but if you knew what you were doing (none of us do right?) the correct sound for aiding your plants growth would probably be a single note continuous of the corisponding frequencies.

of course none of these frequencies are detectable as far as im aware, although im sure theres some equipment out there designed to scan frequency bands for resonance.. most likely used in the construction trade due to vibrations in materials and deteriation over time.

Anyone have any more information on this? id love to read up.. might have to session google for a half an hour lol..

 

[SmokinMom]

All I've been doing to my plants lately is a bunch of cussing.

 

[Stoney Bud]

All I've been doing to my plants lately is a bunch of cussing.

SMOKINGMOM !!!!

hehe, shame, shame, shame!

 

[Kindbud]

All I've been doing to my plants lately is a bunch of cussing.

lol thats why their turnin in to males lol you got to be nice to them and give them some love matter fact i got to go check on my plants peace

 

[Kindbud]

Does it help them KindBud? I find that my little seedlings have been growing better since I started playing the guitar. Plus, my computer is really close by and I spend a lot of time on it, so they all get a healthy Daily Dose of Heavy Metal (which everyone should get... should be on the food pyramid right up there with fruit and veggies LOL!) but they seem to like the acustic of my guitar though.

When I read to them I try to read books like the Joy Luck Club (which I've read so many times it doesn't have binding anymore), The Horse Whisperer (currently), and historical and crime mysteries. I don't know why, but those are the books I choose for them.

I feel like a total dork writing this, because my husband always laughs at me. He's like, "why don't you read that to someone who'll listen?"... I almost tend to agree, but I figure if something can help then why not try it right?

~Metalchick

yell i dont like metal music its to load i need some mellow stuff to listen to and i think it helps them i mean i have sat by them with my bro and played for hours and talk to them i really think they like company not being all alone with all their plant neighbors they need the person who planted them lol i might just do a study on this lol have one plant i vist everyday and play my guitar to it and talk to it and then have one i vist it every 3 days to just water lol i dont think it would be a big differerence BUT you know my biggest plant brittany is the one i spend most of my time with playin my gutar an talking to idk lol

 

[stonedsmithy]

yeah ive always heard to if ya sing chat to ya plants they grow better,lol last year i had takn a heap of mushes an was board n the early hours an went out to my growroom an i was talkn away to my girls an then ****me i was trippn so hard they started talking back to me an they was telling me i needed to feed them more potassium an that if i did so they would greatly apprecitate it an give me a ounce each it was out of it i musta been n there a good hour just lovin it hangin out wid my girls lol oh the good times on mushes haha

 

[they_burn]

plants cant use anything except for the CO2 that you can emit around it, thats it.Guitar metal,stories that **** can work for you but not your plants .No Way !