Effect of Sound on the Growth of Plant: Plants Pick Up the Vibrations

Just like humans, plants react to the attitude they are been exposed to. They are also sensitive to heat, cold, light and noise, as like humans. This project is intended to prove the hypothesis that Plants pick up the vibrations and does affect the plant growth.

Hypothesis: Plants pick up the vibrations and helps plants grow accordingly, and playing Ancient Indian Tradition chants helps grow plants better and faster.

Method: Seeds of plant Vigna radiata were been selected due to their relative fast growth. Seeds were then potted and housed in an ambient condition which were regulated in three different environmental chambers, completely covered by glass and made sound proof. One chamber was used as a control for the plant kept in silence, the second plant was provided with the Sanskrit sholkas (Indian traditional ancient chants) and the third plant was provided with discouraging words. Each chamber was provided with equal amount of water and light energy 111,000 lux to 120,000 lux. And the recording was being played for 2 h on the daily bases for each chamber. The elongation of the shoot and the axis length of leaves were being recorded.

Results: Variable growth of the shoots and leaves were being observed with the highest length of the plant’s shoot measured were from the plants provided with the Sanskrit sholkas with the measure of 13 cm in length.

Conclusion: It was seen that the plant exposed to the vedic chants showed the maximum elongation of the shoot which clearly states that subjecting plant to the vedic chants helps the growth of the plant in the significant manner.

Author(s): Patel Ankur, Shankar Sangeetha and Narkhede Seema

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