Can music effect plant growth?

by Robert
(MA Stoneham)

Well here's what i found out.

There have been a lot of studies, whether music effects plant growth. Some experiments have shown that classical music has more of a positive out come from whom or whatever is listening to it. The music also effects how you behave; if the music effects how you behave it must have an effect on the plants behavior (growth/health). More recent, better controlled studies disprove the connection between calm, "cultured" music and better plant growth, and even show benefits of loud music for plants.

In Colorado, Denver at a woman’s college there was a researcher named Dorothy Retallack. She published a book The Sound of Music and Plants, which was her work on music and plants in 1973. In one experiment, Retallack found that plants thrived when she played a tone intermittently, but died when she played the same tone constantly. In another experiment, she found that plants grew better when she played "soothing" music on the radio, where as rock music affected plant growth negatively. Her finding might have a play in my experiment.