Assessments are made of the conditions required to test stochastic growth theory (SGT) in laboratory plasmas, with illustrative applications to the generic class of beam-plasma experiments motivated by their close connection with solar radio emissions. The experiments should operate in the bump-on-tail instability regime in unmagnetized and collisionless/weakly collisional plasmas, in which density fluctuations scatter Langmuir waves out of resonance and lead the beam-Langmuir system to reach a SGT state. The density fluctuations vital to the experiments may pre-exist or could be launched as ion-sound or ionsound-like MHD waves, with characteristic scales to optimize the evolution of the system to a SGT state. The required conditions appear feasible on representative current devices, provided the required density fluctuations are available.