I love that you started this thread there is plenty of evidence that plants do better around running water for all the reasons sea maiden said and more for instance
this awesome piece here
By Andrew Porterfield
The word in the garden is that basil is good to have around. Plants are known to communicate with each other via shade, aromatic chemicals, and physical touch, promoting processes such as growth and defense against disease, as well as attraction of bees and other pollinators.
Now, online today in BMC Ecology, researchers report a new type of mechanism that some plants use to communicate. The team planted common chili pepper seeds (Capsicum annuum, pictured) near a basil plant, with barriers that prevented the basil from deploying its usual growth-promoting tricks.
Despite the separation, chili seeds germinated faster when basil was a neighbor, suggesting that a message was getting through. Because light, touch, and chemical "smell" were ruled out, the team proposes that the finding points to a new type of communication between plants, possibly involving nanoscale sound waves, traveling through the dirt to bring encouraging "words" to the growing seeds.
Understanding this novel communication could help growers boost crop yields and increase global food supplies. How neighborly.
they even sell bio wave units to make a specific sound vibration plants respond to well, we can also take into consideration Aquaponics this almost constantly has has a running water flow going back into the rez and from what I have seen of this technique it works very well for vegetables and it wouldn't be to bold to say this has a little something to do with it. Whenever I run my flood tables I use large baskets of hydroton instead of rookwool so I flood every 15min and my rez sets under my tables and just pours into them this makes a nice waterfall sound and I have come to love vegging my plants this way they just grow so fast and become so chunky in the stem again wouldn't be to bold to say that the RH Ambient sound and as sea maiden said negative ions don't have a very positive effect on the plants
so I hope you don't mind @DismalDude but I am going to use your idea in my room I am building now as my ac is going to dry the place out im sure. The ac is kinda overkill and I really like the idea of a bucket and fish overflow pump don't worry tho I give all credit to you cuz I didn't think of it just think its a great idea
