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i want to know does anybody play music for your plants in a grow room? if so what kind? mythbusters had a thing about plants and music wondered if anybody tried it or does it?

I am a big fan of Jamie and Adam. I was going to set up a radio in my first room until my wife reminded me that they busted that myth. I cant bring myself to do it simply because of their tests.

Professor Puff.n.Tuff said:

I am a big fan of Jamie and Adam. I was going to set up a radio in my first room until my wife reminded me that they busted that myth. I cant bring myself to do it simply because of their tests.

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Didnt their test show that the music did help? Even though their water pump went out and damn near killed their plants lol.

kysmoker said:

Didnt their test show that the music did help? Even though their water pump went out and damn near killed their plants lol.

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i think you may be right, i think the one that got played rock or something of that nature did a little better

FullDuplex said:

i think you may be right, i think the one that got played rock or something of that nature did a little better

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Yea, thats what I was thinking. IMO it may have had something to do with the vibrations that music puts out. The one that played death metal (lol) put out alot of vibrations, and the plant adapted by making thicker stems? (just like they adapt to wind). Its an idea, though certainly not tested by me.

i gave this a shot since im a dj i played some of the meanest deepest breaks, dnb, and electro bringing in trance and what not sometimes. after a lil more research i have found that the frequencies put off by the music change the crystal structure of water some freq changes help the plants some dont. the wierd thing is that i found the darker and more evil the tones are the more the plants like it.
i dont know that its the bass tones themselves or movement of air cause i am using a small boombox in one room every plant in there is a healthy lush bushes noticeable difference from the other room

In 1973 Dorothy Retallack a student at the Colorado Woman’s College conducted and experiment with plants and music to find out if music is beneficial to plants and actually leads to an increase in there growth, Retallack published her results in The Sound of Music and Plants. For her experiment she placed one plant in each of the three Biotronic chambers, playing a constant tone in the first chamber, an intermittent tone in the second chamber, and one without any tone in the third chamber. Retallack found the plant which listened to the eight hour intermittent tone in fact grew the most and looked the healthiest. The plant that received no tone had some plant growth, and the plant that listened to a constant tone died after two weeks. For my project I chose to conduct the same experiment to see if my results would match Dorothy Retallack and prove that music is beneficial to plant growth and health. Therefore my hypothesis is, if plants are exposed to music or some type of vibrating tone, then plant growth and the overall health of the plant will increase. The dependant variable is music and the amount of the music the plant is exposed to, and the independent variable is the rate and overall growth of the plant.

Conclusion, I give give my vegging and flowering plants 3 hours of classical music a day. ..The music is piped into each room, and on a timer.

I have done lots of research on this subject, and 3 hours is the maximum time for optimal effects.

I play Sonic Bloom for 3 hrs at the start of the light cycle - plants seem to like it just fine. Trichome production, at 4 weeks of flowering, seems better than usual-about what I would see at harvest. This is the first time I have used this particular music, but I have played classical for the last 2 years. There are many studies on-line that explain the benefits of music.