Gardeners swear that house plants like to be talked to or prosper with music. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto is said to be a particular floral favorite.
Research indicates plants react to a threat of fire or even pruning shears.
It is now known a whole forest will put out chemicals to fight certain insects when only one tree is infested. Clearly something is going on with plants. At the very least it takes the guesswork out of when to irrigate, an increasingly expensive operation for growers the world over. And the information comes from the plant itself . The Plant Water Status Console measures the negative pressure or tension with which water is held in the plant, revealing how much water stress the plant and thus the whole crop is under.