I know plants feel and react to stimulus and also to damage sustained by their nieghbors. I remember in the 70s or 80's there was a book called "The secret Life of Plants". In the book they did similiar experiments to what Somewhereslow talked about. And the plants did react. They would do things like water one plant and not the other right beside it, and both would seem somehow to share the water. They would scald brine shrimp say in a sink and the plants would react to it. Hurt one plant and the others would react in a similiar way...and so on.
They found that classical music or opera gave the optimum growth rate. I am sorry, I admire that music but hey, it is rock and roll in my grow room...just can't listen to the classics too much or I tend to go to sleep. ROCK AND ROLL ALL THE WAY, MAN!
I think they also found that heavy metal was more conducive to growth than elevator music. LOL! I still have that book somewhere...it was very popular at the time, revolutionary. Quite the break through.
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