Having plants at home is one of the best ways not only to give more life to the home, but also to take care of it, since it is always positive to have these types of living beings around us. They improve the air we breathe, they hardly need care in most cases and they are an energizing element and even a channel of feelings . That is why many people even talk to plants. It does not have to communicate, because the conversation has only one way, but that does not mean that the plants do not understand what we say to them. There are even some studies that affirm that talking to plants in a gentle way helps them to grow much better , something that has been transmitted from generation to generation and that today is almost taken for granted, although not is scientifically proven.
There are people who talk to plants to alleviate their own loneliness, something that can also be positive for these people, beyond the effect it has on vegetables. There are those who take care of the plants with nice and sweet, kind and gentle words, thinking that they can understand them . If we water them, if we take care of them so that they grow strong and big, why wouldn’t we also talk to them , so they know what we are thinking of them? There will be those who think that all this is nothing more than crazy and that talking to plants is absolutely useless. However, it appears that there is some scientific basis for such behavior . In this article we want to delve much more into the subject and decipher, once and for all, what happens to plants when we speak to them.
What is the use of talking to plants
You may have seen it in your grandparents, and then in your mother. When they water the plants, when they take care of them by cutting their stems or leaves , they speak to them with great affection and affection, as if they were alive, that they are , but above all as if they could understand them. This is where the first big question we open in this topic is . Are plants capable of listening to us? Of course, they do not have a brain, much less an auditory organ even similar to ours as well, which seems unlikely that they will be able to receive that information , at least in the way in which it is we transmit it. But it is not only possible to intuit a sound through the ear. There are other ways …
For example, through the vibration of the sound itself , which can generate a response in plants. This is something that has to do, for example, with their own need to follow the sun, something they do intuitively, growing to seek that light they need to continue growing. Perhaps plants also have a kind of vibration sensor sound that receives our words and, despite not understanding them as we want them to, are capable of perceiving that there is something. It will not be the same to yell at them than to speak in a friendly way, of course, because the vibration will be very different. This may be the basis for so many people, in so many cultures, feeling that talking to plants makes sense.
What science says about it
Surely, the custom of talking to plants is something very ancient and has its basis in those cultures that considered trees and plants as living beings with spirit, intelligent , just like us. That thought, which was devastated with the arrival of Christianity, still persists in many cultures that are still attached to nature. However, they have no scientific basis , or at least that we know … What there are are certain very interesting studies that have developed the subject in recent years, giving rise to speculation, although not to proof concrete. There are numerous scientists who have tried to explain the intelligence that plants have , different from ours, but no less important and fascinating for that. And there are studies that suggest that plants are capable of responding to these stimuli , both light and sound.
This would explain the intention of many when talking to plants so that they grow stronger and healthier. In the 1960s , a CIA worker had the surprising revelation that he could test that kind of sensory response through a lie detector , like the ones he constantly used at work. He plugged a plant into the machine for days, and while he watered it, sometimes he was silent and other times he spoke to him gently, with sweet words. The conclusion was surprising : the plant responded to those words in a way similar to how a human being would , with a different type of reaction. It was a first step, albeit weak, to demonstrate that plants could perceive sound, although from there to understanding the human being there is a world …
How to talk to plants
In the Hunters of Myths program, specialized in carrying out experiments to show whether those famous myths that we all take for granted are real or pure hoaxes, a test was carried out to show whether plants really they grew better with sweet words . Five greenhouses were built, all equal in size and with the same type of plants. The difference was in the sound . The former was always silent. In the second, the plants received kind and sweet words. In the third, on the contrary, they were shouting and insults. In the fourth they played music by Mozart and finally, in the fifth they played strong heavy metal nonstop for days. The results were amazing, and it is that the plants that grew the best were precisely those of the last greenhouse, exposed to the overwhelming metal music.
This can lead us to think that, indeed, plants have the ability to listen, or at least perceive sounds , perhaps like us or simply in the form of waves and vibration, which would explain that the loudest greenhouse was the one with the best results. But most people do not speak loudly to plants, but more quietly, in a sweeter way. Maybe this also helps them grow , simply by stimulating that kind of sensory aspect that has to do with sound or its vibration. As we said above, many people talk to plants so that they grow better, but also to relieve themselves, to have someone to talk to, even if there is no answer.
