my question is does anyone know the effect of music on plants and their growth does it have to do w/ lifespan?

Question

okay this is a project i am doing on plants and the effect of music on them i need to know if anyone knows if music does effect plants and if so please give me a website to go to with this information on it and it is very cru cial i get this info asap thanx lots

Answer 1

i think if you play it loud enough it will kill them you can use that as your project and say it detrimentally affected their lifespans.

Answer 2

Actually there was some fascinating studies done on this subject... I suspect longer ago than you've been alive. The researchers found that playing music in the area where plants were growing, had a remarkable effect on their growth rate and their level of flourish. Fascinating thing is this. Nobody has, down through all the pages of human history, yet been able to pin down exactly what IS intelligence. We used to not think that animals had any true intelligence capabilities, and boy look how wrong we were. We are on the brink of being able to define an intelligence capability in computers. I mean what IS this factor? Isn't it the ability of anything to receive information from the surrounding environment, process it, and respond to it? Computers are doing it these days. And plants have always done it. If you run into another human being who speaks a different language, which you do not understand, do you automatically think that person is unintelligent because of that? Of course not. All that is needed is the key that lets us into the "interpretation process". When we think that another thing (animate or otherwise) does not possess "intelligence" don't we really mean that we haven't yet discovered the key to that door?
I suggest that you might try researching under the key word "Intelligence" and take it from there. You might be surprised at how much thought it will provoke.

Answer 3

I have always thought it was the same way music effects us. Plants are alive and have nerves like us and they enjoy the stimulation. It is possible a vibration thing of the instruments. They will also grow faster when spoken too. Stimulation Hey sara, you should keep your mouth closed until you are at least 10

Answer 4

singing produces carbon dioxide helps plants
Recorded music depends on the speakers used. Larger speakers viabrate more with heavy metal type music and stirr up more CO2 which helps the plants. little vibrations from small speakers have no effect and the actual music has no effect as plants have no ears (except corn)

Answer 5

Have no idea but I do know of a song that might interest you. It's called "Houseplant Song" by Audio Adrenaline. It's on the album called "Underdog". It's about music and plants and you might be able to confirm it or deny it based on your project. It's a funny song. Check it out.

Answer 6

sounds like a terribly interesting experiment how it affects growth things like that would be hard to determine as seeds from the same packet can have very different growth rates. It might be hard to define your results without several studies as compared to a control group with equal lighting things like that.

this link is to what sounds like a similar study. You might be able to use some of this info.

http://www.dovesong.com/positive_music/plant_experiments.asp

Answer 7

My science teacher said classical music is good for growing things so maybe it works on plants too.