How does music affect the growth of plants?

Answer 1

They did this on Mythbusters once. I seem to recall that the plants with classical music did the best and the ones with heavy metal did the worst.

Answer 2

As you probably know, sound is a wave, and more specifically, a pulse wave. This simply means that it is formed by areas of higher and lower pressure in the atmosphere through which it travels. Terms such as "amplitude," when used in reference to sound, are actually referring to the plot of the air pressure versus time on a graph. Now, it is difficult to beleive that such (extremely small) fluctuations in air pressure could have any effect on a plant's growth. There is very little difference, to a plant, in music and ambient noise.

However, you might want to consider this question from another perspective. It is possible that in an experiment, plants which are exposed to music may grow more than plants that are not. Why? Because even though it is unlikely that the plants themselves respond to the music, their caretakers do! Maybe the plants which are exposed to music receive better care than those which do not. Might be worth looking into!

Plants grew best in silence, then with spoken words, then classical music, then slowest with rap or heavy metal. Silence is golden folks!

Answer 3

Like others on here, I saw the Mythbusters episode where they tested this idea. However, I disagree with what other people have said on here. I saw this episode recently, and distinctly remember the hard rock music caused the plants to be the hardiest, and I believe the classical music fared about as well as no music. They used boomboxes, as to not have oxygen and carbon dioxide differences play a role.

Answer 4

The studies I have found indicate that music or noise of any kind seems to hinder the growth of plants. However, the studies that I found may not be reliable as I did not see anything done in any kind of professional science or agriculture journals.

My guess is that it probably has no effect at all.

Answer 5

good question!!! and will be difficult to ascertain the exact how, only know that empirically that it does (don't believe the naysayers - talking to plants works too). May get down to some of the very essence of life and existence... when you break down matter into atoms, and then atoms into particles, you discover that the majority of the atoms is just space, and therefore so is matter and so are we and so are plants. So it's the tone or wavelength that drives lifeforce, which is directly related to music.

Answer 6

i thought music didnt affect the growth of plants.

Answer 7

I have heard that hard metal music causes plants to grow slower and classical music helps plants grow faster.

Answer 8

Nobody really knows exactly, but the response to something like Beethoven has positive effects, whereas death metal would stunt the growth (in theory). But really, I don't believe it.

Answer 9

I doubt it. besides the shown fact that, somebody who performs music to their plant life in hopes that they are going to strengthen greater efficiently will in all likelihood take stable care of their plant life mostly, and, as such, have healthful plant life. :)

Answer 10

They did that on myth busters but I dont remember the outcome. I dont think it worked at all.