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An effect of 110Hz to 523Hz sound vibrations on

plant growth: An empirical study
Snehal S.Shete, Dr. Rajendra gode College of Engineering, Amravati, India
[email protected], K.M.Pimpale

Abstract—There are around 7.4 billion people are in the world. An agriculture industry is continuously serving for those people. Every
year many engineers, Researchers and farmers are working hard to increase the productivity and quality of the agriculture products. Many
researchers till now are working to find how many and what parameters are responsible for plant growth. as an outcome of their work
different fertilizers, chemicals have been invented. Now a days these solutions itself having its own hazards impact on plant as well as
human life. Hence people are looking forward for the natural way to increase the productivity and quality of plants. I am strongly motivated
by Dr. J.C.Bose’s Experiments which proves Plants are also a leaving being and has emotions. My proposed research work is centered
with a thought that plants are alive ,has emotions,they response light, sound. And hence they have different responses to different sounds.
We are attempting to find out those sound frequencies which will enhance plant growth for these we are giving A3(110Hz) to C5(523Hz)
Musical notes (Healing Sounds) to First group of plants. Second group of plants Are expose to Traffic Sound. And Third Group of plants are
placed in normal conditions. Different parameters such as height of plant, Appearance, Area of leaf, No. of leafs etc are measured. Area of
leaf is calculated by using image processing technique.

Index Terms— Plant growth, healing sounds, musical notes,traffic sound,productivity,plants response,light ,sound.

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1 INTRODUCTION

Living pattern of modern world leads to many physiological

and psychological problem and many researchers are working
to find the solutions to them. Medical science proves that dif-
ferent meditation techniques, music therapy, sound healing
processes are beneficial to remove stress, anxiety and fear.
Indian culture is having many remarkable techniques to prac-
tice meditation during day to day life which is a low cost med-
icine. Healing sounds are used to guide a meditation and it
has been proved by many researchers that healing sounds are
beneficial during meditation. However dr. J C Bose proved
that plants are also having feelings. And hence such healing
sounds must have some effect on their growth and develop-
ment. We are going to analyze the effect of healing sound and
traffic sound on plant growth. we are highly motivated by the
thought that is it possible to enhance the plant growth and its
productivity using healing sounds. Healing sounds have the
medical properties. plant dimension such as height of plant,
leaf area, stem diameter, physical appearance etc. are the im-
portant parameters for deciding the quality of plant growth.
We will make two set of plants in which first set will be ex-
posed to the healing sound and another is to a traffic sound on
regular interval of time and the above mentioned parameters
will be calculated and observed on the regular interval of time.

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Days Vs Height of plant

CONCLUSION
From Above Graph it is observed that C3 Musical Note is hav-
ing highest growth where as G3 Musical note has very poor
growth in terms of height. Note D3, F3 and F4 took much
more time to sprout than other notes. Traffic plant initially has

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a bad effect on leafs and it growth rate is less than that of
Sr.no Musical Number No Height Diameter Normal plant.
Note of Branch of In cm In mm
leaf ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I give my sincere thanks Dr. Rajendra gode College of En-
1 A3 2 8 12.5 3 gineering Amravati for providing the platform to work. I also
2 B3 3 8 14 3 thankful to my guide for their valuable guidance.
3 C3 3 8 15.5 3
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