OT: music to make irises grow?
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- Subject: OT: music to make irises grow?
- From: J* C*
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:15:24 PDT
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
><< I'll hum a few bars (which, unfortunately, for a Music Major, I can
>barely carry a tune!!) >Perry,
>Yes, but do you sing to your irises? Seems talking to plants was >all the
>rage to help growth oh, back a few years. I read somewhere >that they
>studied the effects of different types of music on plants >with Heavy Metal
>stunting growth, Classical having the best overall >effect along with "easy
>listening" type...I believe they said plants >were indifferent to Country
>Music and Pop. Janet Natale
I seem to remember discussing this with someone privately recently. Like
Perry, I am a pianist who can't sing, although, much to the amusement of my
students, I often try!
I have had much success with sprouting PCN seedlings on my music studio
window sill, and someone suggested it might be the music. Perhaps the dear
little seedlings worked out that if they grew quickly, they wouldn't have to
put up with all that clumsy student playing for so long!
The real reason they thrive there is that my music room is a 'cat free'
zone, out of respect for allergy prone students. Thus the seedlings don't
constantly get tipped on the floor!
Cheers, Jan
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