do plants respond to music?

Answer 1

In 1973, Dorothy Retallack's book The Sound of Music and Plants based on scientific experiments created ripples.

Retallack began her experiment at the Colorado Women's College in Denver. Using three separate laboratories containing the same species of plants, Retallack began her experiment. Piping in different types of music to each facility, she recorded the daily growth of each plant.The plants in the laboratory where music was played daily for three hours a day grew twice as large and became twice as healthy as those in a music-free environment. On the other extreme, plants in the laboratory where music was played for eight hours a day died within two weeks of the start of the experiment.Dorothy Retallack tried experimenting with different types of music. She played rock to one group of plants and, soothing music to another. The group that heard rock turned out to be sickly and small whereas the other group grew large and healthy.

Answer 2

Though sometimes we here, but how can a plant respond to music? as a plant never response to stimuli, a plant can never respond to music

Answer 3

I have been doing a makeshift experiment upon plants under different kinds of stimulations. I have a control group of five marigold plants. Which in four days, they have grown 8 mm, with frequent watering. The group subjected to classical music, has grown 13 mm! Considerably, larger than the control group! I believe music helps plants, and talking does as well!

Answer 4

The results are conclusive!!! People with near death experiences have made the claim that plants were in harmony with beautiful music. We can see that this experiment shows that peoples account of plants and music relationship is true.

Answer 5

I play Led Zeppelin in my greenhouse because Robert "Plant" is in the band. My plants also like the bands Bush, Screaming Trees and the Cranberries.

Answer 6

yes they do. I have also found it amazing that they react to the moods of the music. I have heard that classical music is good for babies. I do know that plants react more positively to it. They also like the sound of your voice, and like to be spoken to.
This is true, though I already feel the weight of grinding thumbs.hehe

Answer 7

yes, they do...the phenomenon is SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION. this phenomenon is present in every plant . even for "touch me not" plant (Mimosa pudica) this is the reason of leaf bending and this is the cause of response towards music by plants ....it has been observed that with gud soft music plants grow earlier nd faster than usual rate.

Answer 8

yes obviously plants responds to the music i am not scientist but i had seen an documentary film on doordarshan in surabhi program that one kerali farmer adjust sound box in his farm of rubber and he daily plays Indian classical music on it and result is that growth of that rubber plant is 50% faster than normal speed

Answer 9

Yes as they are living they respond to everything like music, light etc.

Answer 10

yes they do and to gentle speech. they do react badly to drunken stupor and hate stuff - shouting, loud slams like a door etc. flowers are often larger and more fragrant and the growth faster with positive effects.