OVERALL SUMMARY OF DANCING BUTTERFLY PEA

Overall summary and conclusion

      

     The Butterfly pea is a creeper with beautiful flowers shaped like a conch. It belongs to the pea family.Also known by other names such as Ciltoria Ternatea,Bunga Telang, Aparijata, Shankha Pushpi, Anchan, Vishnukanta. Butterfly pea flowers come in shades of Blue, White, Purple, and sometimes it’s a mix of two colours like White and Blue together due to cross pollination there are also double petal varieties. Through this mini project, we have planted 5 pots of dancing butterfly peas plants with 20 seeds for each pot.  The soil we used to plant the butterfly pea is a loamy type of soil which is soil ideally is about 40% sand, 35% silt and 25% clay by weight and it’s pH is 6.37 which is provided fertility and water-holding capacity is high. This is because butterfly pea is adapted to pH 4.5-8.7 but prefers medium to high pH to a wide range of soil types.

      

       Other than that, the soil we used shows sulfate has the highest macronutrients followed by nitrate and phosphate has the lowest macronutrients in the soil. There are 10 heavy metals that we found in the soil, which are  (Pb, As, Cd, Ni, Cu, Mn, Fe, Zn, Mg and Ca). Some of them are essential heavy metal and some of them are non-essential metal. Meanwhile our soil is not contaminated because the FAO/WHO had defined the permissible limits (ppm) of the various heavy metals in soils. Give some examples of some heavy metals, their statutory permissible limits are: manganese (44.6-339), iron (261-1239), nickel (1.63), copper (20-150), zinc (27.4), cadmium (0.3) and lead (10). From the comparison of our results with these defined permissible limits, it can conclude that the levels of heavy metals that present in the soil fall in the permissible range.

       

     There are researches saying that the sound of music affects the growth rate of a plant. Plants are complex multicellular organisms considered as sensitive as humans for initial assaying of effects and testing new therapies. (Vidya Chivukula, 2014). The butterfly pea plant that listen to Indian classical instrument have the higher germination rate and growth rate among the other butterfly pea that listen to different genre of music as we posted before this.  It is proven here that classical or devotional music tends to enhance the growth of the plant. Other than that the music also will influence the ability of the plants to absorb nutrients from the soil. This is proven by the average length of root that we dug out for analysis while it has higher moister content and also water holding capacity in roots. So it is proven that the devotional or classical music has higher influence in the growth of a plant. Other than that it’s stimulate the plant to move according to the beat of music. So it is proven. So that from this we conclude that the butterfly pea that listen Indian classical instrument have highest germination meanwhile growth also. Thus, music can influence the growth rate of a plant.