Well, you’re probably here because you have heard this rumour somewhere. But how much of a rumour is it? Does playing music to your plants help them grow?
With cannabis growing, there are many different ways to grow, and so many different opinions on everything. Some people will swear their plants saw a massive growth spurt when they started playing music to them. Maybe some growers will even say that certain types of music had different effects.
For example, classic rock, or riff based guitar music and hip hop, made their plants grow, whilst, whiney pop ballads killed them within 24 hours….. these stories are not true, and are biased by the grower. What does the science say?
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Music and Cannabis Plants
Many studies have been done to find out if playing music to plants will increase their growth rate. They all find the same thing, yes, it does.
Plants have a far more complex nervous system than most people realise. They can hear, feel, smell, and essentially see, by detecting where light is coming from and growing towards it.
It’s not just music that has been shown to increase the growth rate of cannabis plants, but many sounds will. Nature is an amazing thing, and many things are still not fully understood. But studies suggest that plants communicate with each other via vibrations.
Sound waves are just vibrations, our eardrums convert vibrations on a membrane into electrical signals to our brains, that then make sense of those vibrations. The same may be said for plant and trees.
Sound and Plant Evolution
Studies have shown, that some sounds will switch on, or turn off certain genetic characteristics in plants. Studies suggest, that a plant can detect when it is being eaten by insects. It will then signal to the plants nearby there is a problem, and the plants react to it.
They may slow down growth, to preserve energy, or increase immune defenses to deter the pest attacking. This kind of behaviour makes sense biologically, and evolutionary. But, the studies still havent been done to a proper scientific standard.
Final Thoughts on Playing Music to your Plants
So, does playing music to your plants help them grow? It’s still hard to be sure. Plants definitely seem to respond to sounds and vibrations, but not specifically to music, and certainly not to a specific genre of music. If anything was going to make a difference, it will be giving your plant the sounds of wilderness.
Breeze blowing through the trees, rain, birds tweeting, natural sounds. The idea of growing cannabis indoors is to simulate the perfect environment for a cannabis plant to grow. Why not add some extra sound effects and see if it makes a difference to your next grow. If you do try it, please let us know the results!
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Playing music? Not sure. Vibration can be felt.
But SINGING? Definitely. Lol. Lucky it doesn’t die with my incredible, amazing singing talent. Haha. Carbon dioxide. That’s the only good thing about my singing.
I keep a radio playing classic rock in my grow room 24/7 but from time to time when im in there i like to toss in my pink floyd CD’s
You mean….. Multi horti, cultured? lmao thank you, im here all night pmsl 😉
@macky Don’t start on shit jokes my Mrs would tell you how sick she is of those lol They’re also in an old Ikea tub as pots are so expensive right now. So they also have a little of Sweden in them too!
@diy-rik I guess you might say…. Horti, cultured lmao 😉
Haha, love this post. I often play to my outdoor plants any they have had a lovely growth spurt 🙂 Maybe this is why! I have a shower radio which is hung up in my conservatory, I often put it on when gardening and leave it on by accident.
Varies from local radio to rock and even classic fm so they’re really cultured plants!
Just make sure its not rap music lol
I wonder if Hifi 4g like listening to tunes hmmmm lol
Damn rights it does. I’ve never grown without playing tuneskies for the girls (so I guess I can’t really confirm or deny… ?). I have an old mp3 player loaded with maybe 2000 songs that I toss on shuffle. Tons of metal, lots of rock, a fair bit of classical, some folk, a little pop, and one country song ?. Just kidding. There is at least 2. But basically yeah, I figure my ladies would like the same things as I do… naturally.
thats the best era of jungle though 🙂
Lol…very long time ago…think it was called Shadow something, not sure though, released around ’93
oh mate that is awesome, which tune are you on? lolI still rinse a bit of jungle here and there 😉
Yeah, still listen to Skream, Skrillex, Bassnectar…I am also included on an early Jungle track, well my tool sounds are anyway…as I was building a studio responsible for some of the early UK stuff at the time 🙂
I used to listen to a lot of Remarc and jungle stuff and also some of the earlier dubstep like Kromestar, Skream etc more of the dubby stuff 🙂
Liquid DnB FTW ? …yeah, some pretty shitty Dub about, I think the concept escapes a lot of people…I’m into EDM too but the latest stuff is crap 🙁
Old school for me, but rarely nowadays. Like dubstep too, when it’s good lol. But my main preference is hip hop, blues and classic rock
what kind of DnB do you guys listen to?
They’ll have to get used to it I’m afraid…I’m here (with my music) to stay 🙂
pmsl!!!!!!! Oh yer
Neighbours ?
Who doesn’t though lol
My girls like a bit of Drum n Bass 🙂
Yes mate perfect, good read too =)
Fixed now?
Nice one mate. Ill sort it 🙂
Reading this via my phone, it got bit hard to read, just thought let ya know