Talking to your plants

[rainbox]

Do you talk to your plants? Do you notice a difference? :D

[Riz]

well i dont..

But i have read that vibrations can stimulate the roots and aid in growing quicker, so there is some truth in it... i am all for talking, i love talking so its cool with me :)

sometimes though, when a small seedling has yellow leaves and looks droopy and really ill, i kinda say things like "cmon boy you can do it " it works as well,

[Kirsten]

One of my friends (I'm a biology major) wanted to run an experiment like this once. She'd plant three batches of seeds and keep them isolated from each other, then see if there was a difference in growth:

batch 1 = control, no talking
batch 2 = tell them every day what wonderful plants they are and how much you love them
batch 3 = tell them every day that they're terrible plants who don't deserve to live, etc.

It never got carried out because it was too hard to find a way to control exactly what the plants "heard" lol... i have heard studies that music helps with plant growth though, that vibration theory makes sense :)

[~Obsidian~]

One of my friends (I'm a biology major) wanted to run an experiment like this once. She'd plant three batches of seeds and keep them isolated from each other, then see if there was a difference in growth:

batch 1 = control, no talking
batch 2 = tell them every day what wonderful plants they are and how much you love them
batch 3 = tell them every day that they're terrible plants who don't deserve to live, etc.

It never got carried out because it was too hard to find a way to control exactly what the plants "heard" lol... i have heard studies that music helps with plant growth though, that vibration theory makes sense :)

This one sounds a heck of alot more sane than the one about belly button fluff!

No I don't talk to them...first sign of madness...:D (apologies to those that do)

[dhakiyya]

One of my friends (I'm a biology major) wanted to run an experiment like this once. She'd plant three batches of seeds and keep them isolated from each other, then see if there was a difference in growth:

batch 1 = control, no talking
batch 2 = tell them every day what wonderful plants they are and how much you love them
batch 3 = tell them every day that they're terrible plants who don't deserve to live, etc.

It never got carried out because it was too hard to find a way to control exactly what the plants "heard" lol... i have heard studies that music helps with plant growth though, that vibration theory makes sense :)

When I worked as a science teacher in the UK, I suggested this as a year 8 practical... didn't carry it out, I think I might have asked some year 8's to design an experiment to find out if talking to plants works. The stuff about controlling exactly what they heard is less of an issue in yr 8 practicals, there are lots of things in school science that you can't control, and it gives them something to write in their evaluation :p

I'd love to carry out an experiment like this, although I'd feel soooo mean telling poor little plants they don't deserve to live.

I'd also include 2 more groups, one which you breathe on, but don't talk to, and one which listens to a tape recording of a voice. The reason being that the air you breathe out is richer in carbon dioxide than the rest of the air, and its possible that regularly talking to plants simply increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air around them for a short time... more CO2 = more photosynthesis = more growth. Having these two groups would mean that you are separating a possible effect from increased CO2 concentration, and from sound vibrations.

[Foz]

hmm..cant say i do.....i guess im a bit like riz...when they look sick im like whats your problem? lol

but the plant below it used to be in the kitchen...and it kept growing so i wasnt sure where to put it ..... one day i was like really stressed and i was like i dont even like you!!! (my hubby wanted it) and i go to it ive got nowhere to put you.....

few days later lit ooked like it was going to die (but probably more to do with neglect lol) buts it bounced back after some tender loving care lol

[Tania]

If the sounds theory its good it means my plants will like my garden because my dogs bark every day :)

[Riz]

batch 1 = control, no talking
batch 2 = tell them every day what wonderful plants they are and how much you love them
batch 3 = tell them every day that they're terrible plants who don't deserve to live, etc.

:)

lol..

i am sure there is PHD. thesis in this and maybe even a nobel peace prize for the person who can prove that plants can actually understand words like love and hate
what about the plants which are in Pakistan, do they understand urdu !!

shame though i would have liked to have seen the results to this unique experiment :D


:AF2FlowerA036: <------ i love you ( ya know i think its working) i take it all back....... ;)

[rainbox]

I think it would be hard to prove anything with an experiment like that, because if anything I'm sure it's not the words but the energy behind the words they pick up on. Otherwise yeah you'd have to have bilingual plants:p

And no I don't really talk to mine either, not much anyway;)

[Tania]

got poked in the eye. At that point I decided that the pineapple didn't like him either and they were not going to get along, so I left it with another friend instead.Who dare to say the plants are not bilingual? :) Last night i told to the both coconuts that Riz coconut is very close to sprout and i think they both were ashamed by doing nothing on the windowsill.

[Riz]

^ Hee hee-

[Pashmeena]

loll... I read somewhere that if you take two glasses of water and keep them in separate rooms and say all the nice stuff to one glass and all the bad words and curses to the other glass...they change colour in 24 hours...like the water will be sweet for the good one but the glass with bad language change becomes kinda dirty and taste bad too!!
Maybe... something similar works on plants aswell!

[edibles]

mythbusters did a thing with plants and noise
classical music
punk
bad mouthing
and no noise

they found that plants did equally better with any noise than compared with no noise

[aamirc]

I don't talk to my plants, but I do talk around them when I do show and tell around the house with them. I don't know if it counts though. hehe

[farah]

my dad tends to sing to his, lata mangesher songs in a falsetto... poor plants :p

[Foz]

loool! love it!

[Riz]

my dad tends to sing to his, lata mangesher songs in a falsetto... poor plants :p

the classics are the best .. :) :GreenThumbs:

i play the plants "borderline" by madonna :)