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Does talking to plants actually help them grow?

  • 06-02-2011 9:31pm
    #1
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    And what is one suppose to talk to them about, the green party ?


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  • #2
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,460 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    WTF


  • #3
    Brian Plain Doughnut
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Brian Plain Doughnut


    play them some music


  • #4
    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    Talking helps but you also have to feed them.


  • #5
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    realies wrote: »
    And what is one suppose to talk to them about, the green party ?

    Or play some Robert Plant tunes.


  • #6
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    This


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE


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  • #7
    futonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭futonic


    more CO2 in your exhaled breath, which is what plants use to harness sunlight through photosynthesis, so... yes.


  • #8
    Brenireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭Brenireland


    oh dear.....well I guess it would be worth a try


  • #9
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,074 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I remember the Mythbusters trying various things years ago, and IIRC Death Metal was a bit better than Classical, and both were much better than talking nicely or harshly. Headbanging Sweet Peas ... the mind boggles.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #10
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    I sometimes talk to my basil plant, Chris...:o He grows amazingly well. However, I tend to avoid eye contact and not talk to him when I need to use him in cooking....

    /toddles off to nut house..:):pac:


  • #11
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Trí wrote: »
    I sometimes talk to my basil plant, Chris...:o He grows amazingly well. However, I tend to avoid eye contact and not talk to him when I need to use him in cooking....

    /toddles off to nut house..:):pac:

    Why do you call him Chris? Whats wrong with 'Basil'?


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  • #12
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMiVNPXR5qw


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsbM9LxPAk


  • #13
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    looksee wrote: »
    Why do you call him Chris? Whats wrong with 'Basil'?

    Ah, that would have been too easy.... I had a coriander plant called Trevor once. So fookin' high maintenance, no matter how much I spoke to him or watered him. f*ckin' whingey brown head on him... So I let him die.... YEAH.. ha ha.

    This is all true. I'm aware it sounds a bit nuts though.. he he.:o


  • #14
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    I don't know if talking to your plants helps them grow but I do know that you bowl better if you sing to your bowling ball.


  • #15
    Im Only 71Kg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 400 ✭✭Im Only 71Kg


    talk dirty to them..tomato plants are total sluts.


  • #16
    sonic85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,399 ✭✭✭sonic85


    i play some porn in the background and it always seems to make my plants bigger


  • #17
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Im Only 71Kg wrote: »
    talk dirty to them..tomato plants are total sluts.

    This actually made me laugh out loud (I refuse to do the acronym). Well done, keep up the good work.;)


  • #18
    Khyra24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Khyra24


    Trí wrote: »
    This actually made me laugh out loud (I refuse to do the acronym). Well done, keep up the good work.;)
    Im Only 71Kg wrote: »
    talk dirty to them..tomato plants are total sluts.

    LOL that's hilarious...


  • #19
    Crimbouser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭Crimbouser


    Might improve the plant. Might not improve one's mental health.


  • #20
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Yes it does.

    the trick though is making sure they dont talk back.


  • #21
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    looksee wrote: »
    Why do you call him Chris? Whats wrong with 'Basil'?


    I called mine that before. It died soon after as it was Fawlty.


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  • #22
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Im Only 71Kg wrote: »
    talk dirty to them..tomato plants are total sluts.

    I took it one step futher last year.
    My friends were always compaining my tomatoes were too salty. psssh.


  • #23
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Im Only 71Kg wrote: »
    talk dirty to them..tomato plants are total sluts.

    aye, they're proper seedy them tomatoes


  • #24
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Im Only 71Kg wrote: »
    talk dirty to them..tomato plants are total sluts.


    Really? We have a lot to ketchup on.


  • #25
    Lirange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Lirange


    Reminds me of that programme on Channel 4, Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers. One of the Amish fellas informed us that rock music kills plants.


  • #26
    Fremen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    Best thing to do is blast them with piss.


  • #27
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,817 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    When they talk back to you - then it is time to stop.


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