I heard a theory that they grow better when someone speaks to them, because they get bigger amount of Carbon dioxide that's being breathed out :P

The mythbusters did this experiment and used music and also was angry towards a few plants and nice/encouraging to the others. They had the same results. Obviously plants don't speak human, but they sense energy apparently.

How do you know this so well, Markus? Are you a plant?

Dude, its energy, negative one, its not the language.

Can you prove that? They have intelligence, it's just different than human intelligence.

Well: Chamovitz, D. (2012). What a plant knows: a field guide to the senses. Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Plants are less numb and dumb than we might imagine. If of course cannot be bullied by words. Saying "Dumb plant" will have the same effect as saying "clever plant". Whether a subtle influence might be given is hard to assess but in a larger controller study. In this Ikea case, it might be as little as employess not even deliberately treatening the bullied plant not as good as the other one, because they themselves believed in the message behind this campaign.

Please see my comment above. It is now scientifically proven that we have an effect on the physical world with our words and thoughts.

Well, it's part of the "plants can feel our feelings" c**p. Like if I talk bad to a tulip, it will fall into complete despair. Pseudo-science at its best. Another example: astrology... And voilà, I just hate myself for even writing this word...

This world is extremely complex and these sort of things could have had many chances in variables and things. Don't jump to conclusions so quickly. U didn't have to put the whole thing down, without enough evidence.

Ok whether it's true or not, it was used to portray a great message, and I think that's all I care about 🤣

Perhaps people release different pheromones when they are angry than when they are happy that could affect the plant. Perhaps they can be affected by different frequencies of sound. Perhaps there's some other mechanism that we don't understand yet. Just because we don't know how it works right off the bat doesn't automatically mean it's fake.

Actually, there's a field of science that studies the effects of sound/wave energy, etc. It's proven that the frequencies of sound actually have "physical" impact on the environment. Especially, our everyday words! This is fascinating, because it ties two things together: 1) The law of attraction (theory or not), and 2) the biblical account of the words of Jesus spoken to the fig tree... You are free to your opinion, however, I do believe that sound frequencies (on whatever plane of this existence realm), especially through our own use of everyday language, coming from our positive or negative thought processes, DOES produce physical results in this world. Lastly, you have to understand, that nothing in this reality has been created without the fact that some human thought about it. So, please do some introspection into the use of your words, and make them kind and encouraging. Because, well... "the universe and it's creator knows". Peace!

Actually, there's a field of science that studies the effects of sound/wave energy, etc. It's proven that the frequencies of sound actually have "physical" impact on the environment. Especially, our everyday words! This is fascinating, because it ties two things together: 1) The law of attraction (theory or not), and 2) the biblical account of the words of Jesus spoken to the fig tree... You are free to your opinion, however, I do believe that sound frequencies (on whatever plane of this existence realm), especially through our own use of everyday language, coming from our positive or negative thought processes, DOES produce physical results in this world. Lastly, you have to understand, that nothing in this reality has been created without the fact that some human thought about it. So, please do some introspection into the use of your words, and make them kind and encouraging. Because, well... "the universe knows". Peace!

Is just for kids to understand that bullying is bad

Can you source anything to back up your theory that it makes no difference? I've heard of this experiment since I was a child and although I have never personally done it I was always taught the results were similar to what you see in this article and I'm part of the generation before bullying was seen as a terrible issue. The one who was taught to stand up for yourself and the school wouldn't suspend you if you were just defending yourself.

Master Markus That's exactly why I came to the comments for

Nope. It's real. Quantum Mechanics.

Beautifully sure this is not BS. There has been data about this for over 40 years .

They've done similar experiments with one being played classical music while another was played heavy metal. They react to their surroundings

That may not be true. While a plant can't speak English, it is thought that they are able to "understand" stress hormones, since plant stress hormones are very similar to those of many animals (something often used by plants themselves as a defense mechanism). Aggressive behavior often produces stress hormones. Of course, it's only a single study. Further studies could investigate whether stress hormones are the common factor, or whether the whole study was borked.

Even so... it's a wonderful message.

Its called the law of vibration. Vibration: a person's emotional state, the atmosphere of a place, or the associations of an object, as communicated to and felt by others. Everything is composed of energy, including thoughts and emotions. Nicolas Tesla is said to have stated, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration ." The plants may not hear the words spoken to them, nor have the capacity to interpret the world beyond whatever senses they possesses. They are however, exposed to the energy projected upon them. Make of that what you will. http://attractionlawof.com/applying-the-law-of-vibration/ https://lawsoftheuniverse.weebly.com/law-of-vibration.html

I just logged in to call you and a*****e..."master" Markus. ...A*****e.

F**k u a*****e, sorry for bullying you but you don’t seem to understand the meaning of this, so go take a hike you hatter

No, plants dont understand words, but the understand vibration and energy. Energy I'd undeniable. You've heard of the phrases, "you could cut the tension with a knife". That's because Energy transfers. Every living beingpick

Pretty sure u r****d you don't know what are you talking about. Informate yourself before writing shits

This is very likely an anomaly rather than an accurate experiment. First, there is no control (like another plant that is not being spoken to at all). Second, there are not enough of each variable for an accurate data collection. In order for this to be an accurate experiment, it needs to be able to be recreated by other people many times over. If it can be recreated again and again with the same results, then we could reasonably say this actually works. However, what you see here is anecdotal and may or may not actually work.

The only way I could see it working is if they didn't give the bullied plant something that the other plant was getting and lied about it. The point was to make kids understand not to bully someone else, I don't think that the reason the plant wilted was because of mean words.

Yes, what's the (peer-reviewed) science behind this please?

I have other comments in this comment section, but basically: Plants can't understand human language. Words are not magical and do not carry emotions in them. Plants can't understand human emotions. Therefore, doing this cannot produce any results related to what you say to the plants (there's evidence that CO2 or sound waves from speaking can have effects, but the words and intentions behind the words, no).

Its called cheating.

It doesnt

PLEASE go and watch MythBusters' episode about an accurate experiment they did on this subject.