Sonic Bloom

[Beekissed]

Anyone ever heard of studies done on sound frequencies combined with foliar sprays? I read about it years ago and the increased bird song this morning brought it to my mind.

http://www.relfe.com/sonic_bloom.html

 

[Smart Red]

Hum-m-m. I would think that if the frequency is what works, the foliar sprays wouldn't be needed. I do know that plants grown in a classroom of sweaty, talkative children grow outstandingly well.

I thought it was the extra O2, but it could be the higher humidity and/or the noise levels.

 

[Beekissed]

Hum-m-m. I would think that if the frequency is what works, the foliar sprays wouldn't be needed. I do know that plants grown in a classroom of sweaty, talkative children grow outstandingly well.

I thought it was the extra O2, but it could be the higher humidity and/or the noise levels.

The sound frequencies open the stomata, allowing them to take in the nutrients in the foliar sprays they otherwise would not be as open to.

 

[Beekissed]

I wouldn't buy into this system at all...too pricy and too much hyping the product, but I would make an effort to spray foliage fertilizers early in the morning or in the evening, when bird and bug songs are at their highest frequency.

I'm thinking about conducting a little experiment with that, spraying only some of the plants to see if they do better and yield more with this practice.

To me it makes huge sense that the plants respond to bird and bug song by opening up stomata for more nutrient and CO2 exchange as it seems much like many of God's perfect designs for His creation. A perfect symbiosis!

 

[Smart Red]

Love experiments! Keep us informed.

 

[Beekissed]

Me too! I love to learn hands on about methods about which I read. I found recipes for different foliar sprays and the most interesting one I found was just fermented weeds in water. Said that weeds have the most perfect ratio of nutrients that one needs....how neat is that? Another one of God's perfect designs, I guess.

 

[thistlebloom]

I guess somebody's making money on the idea.

Excuse me if I'm in error but the stomata are naturally open in the morning and evening when the air is cooler, and close as the day warms. I would assume this is true even for houseplants and greenhouse plants. I didn't read every word of the article, but I did read the bulk of the first part and then skimmed when it started getting on to the mysterious hypey part.

Did they do any double blind studies with no foliar, just foliar, foliar with sound, foilar when the air is cool and the stomata are naturally open, and in the heat when they are naturally closed but the sound theory should open them etc. etc. etc.?

 

[Beekissed]

Not sure...it's been a long time since I read about the initial study that was done back in the 80s. I haven't reread the material as of yet, but hope to get to it and see. From what dim memories I have of it, seems like the frequency of sound they experimented with caused more stomata to open than normally would?

I'd have to read it again to be sure. The increased of stomata open was the reason the foliar sprays were better utilized or some such.

It doesn't seem to have caught on over the years so it could be that it's just hype and that's all there is to it, but I can believe the frequency of the songs of birds would encourage better growth....they've done other such experiments over the years about music and the increased growth and yield of plants, increased yield of milk from dairy cattle, etc.

Not sure about double blind studies...I don't put much faith in those anyway. If I waited until everything in life underwent a double blind study before I tried it, I wouldn't get much living done! If something seems plausible, I try it out in my own backyard and if it works, that's great and I've learned something. If it doesn't, I've still learned something. Meanwhile I'm doing something proactive towards first hand knowledge I can own.

 

[thistlebloom]

Me too! I love to learn hands on about methods about which I read. I found recipes for different foliar sprays and the most interesting one I found was just fermented weeds in water. Said that weeds have the most perfect ratio of nutrients that one needs....how neat is that? Another one of God's perfect designs, I guess.

Then you have to ask what is a weed. So many things that are growing in the wrong place have medicinal qualities.

I did the fermented weed fertilizer for a bit. But we lived where we had closer neighbors and the solution really does reek when you apply it. The neighbors house was closer to my garden than my house was, and I didn't want to be offensive, so dropped the practice.

 

[thistlebloom]

Not trying to be negative, but theories like the one being pushed by Sonic Bloom shouldn't be too hard to test. There should be more to it than before and after pictures and personal testimonials. In other words if you have some miraculous wonder product you ought to be able to put some objective, substantial evidence up for review.
Not saying they didn't do that, there was just a lot of vagueness to wade through in that article though.
But by all means Bee, I hope you keep us informed of what you discover in your garden.