Saturday, April 24, 2010

Dorothy Retallack's Experiment

I've looked at some websites about the music on effect of palnt growth, and a few of them contain information about Dorothy Retallack's experiment. So I looked at these websites about her experiment:
http://www.ukpianos.co.uk/plants-respond-to-music.html
http://www.dovesong.com/positive_music/plant_experiments.asp

In her experiment, Retallack placed the same types of plants in 3 different chambers. In each chamber she:
  • put music on for 8 hours non-stop
  • played music on for three hours intermittently (irregular times)
  • played no music

She watched her plants grow and observed that:

  • the plants that was in a room with 8 hours of continuous music died the quickest
  • the pants with the music played for 3 hours grew quickly and healthily
  • the plants with no music on grew not as well as the second one, but better than the first one

She also did some other experiments to extend that experiment. I'm not sure if her results were accurate or reliable. She did publish a book called 'The Sound of Music and Plants' based on her experiment though.

I am going to buy some plants, put them in two different rooms. In one room, the plants will be listening' to a classical music for 3 hours non-stop, because many websites state that classical, soothing music helps plants grow better than hard rock music. In the other room, there will be no music played.

I will allow the plants to grow, and record their appearance and height, etc.

So far, I still dunno which plants to get. I might probably get wattles or weeds.

1 comment:

  1. OMGGG. I WAS GOING TO DO THIS EXPERIMENT!
    but.. no. ):
    people laughed at my idea. LOL

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