Watering succulents with beer added makes them grow fast, with plump, translucent leaves

Don't just pour leftover beer down the drain, because beer is an excellent fertilizer for flowers. If you have foliage plants at home, dip absorbent cotton or a clean, soft cloth in beer and gently wipe the leaves. Don't press too hard when wiping, to avoid damaging the leaves; leaves wiped with beer absorb the nutrients directly, becoming shinier and greener. Using it to water flowers can also give them plenty of nutrients.

Beer contains a large amount of carbon dioxide, a substance succulents need during growth, and pouring beer into the soil can improve the soil's acidity and alkalinity. At the same time, beer can also supply elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus that succulents need to grow. Note that beer cannot be used directly to water succulents; it must first be diluted with clean water, mixing beer and water at a ratio of about 1:8, then poured into the soil, making the soil weakly acidic, which benefits succulent growth.

Never use beer as flower fertilizer too frequently, or the plants will easily get fat to excess. I give my aloe about once a month, and my Haworthia and Lithops once every two months. As for the amount, roughly the same as the usual watering amount is fine; using it too often is not recommended, because the fertilizer power really is strong, and whether it's aloe, Haworthia or Lithops, one dose makes them nearly a size bigger. Suitable targets: best for aloe, use sparingly on Haworthia succulents, use in small amounts on Lithops, and other plants remain to be confirmed.

Using beer to water flowers, all the potted plants at home grow very well. Some friends who don't want their family drinking too much secretly use the beer to water the flowers, and that works too, since beer contains nutrients plants need to grow. Mix water and beer at a 1:1 ratio and spray it with a spray bottle onto flowers with small leaves such as asparagus fern, spider plant and orchids, which gives the flowers a "beauty treatment". Beer contains various amino acids that plants can absorb, and the leaf pores of plants have the function of absorbing nutrients, just like the principle of foliar top-dressing.

Beer works so well for growing flowers because it contains a large amount of carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide is an indispensable substance for the metabolism of all kinds of plants and flowers; moreover, beer contains nutrients such as sugar, protein, amino acids and phosphate that benefit flower growth. It can also be used for cut flowers: pour one tenth beer into a vase to make the arrangement even more radiant and extend its viewing time by several days. When arranging fresh cut flowers, just pour a little beer into the vase and the color and fragrance of the arrangement can last 15-20 days longer than usual.

Using chemical fertilizer for a long time causes the soil to harden, and making the water a bit more acidic will reduce the hardening; rainwater works too, as rainwater naturally already has fertility, so you can add a little less of the extras. Cacti need only a very low concentration of chemical fertilizer, so using less won't cause rapid hardening. Globular cacti generally don't need urea, as the fertilizer strength is too high and hard to control; the bit of nitrogen in potassium nitrate is enough.

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