Don't panic if your potted plants have problems at home, just give them something good to drink and they will recover
People who love growing flowers all like to keep ornamental plants that look beautiful, carry especially auspicious meanings and have real substance, to decorate their company or home. Take the money tree (Pachira aquatica) for example, just hearing its name is delightful, and in fact if it grows well it is also very ornamental. It stays lush green all year round, and its form is especially grand and imposing, and it also means bringing you wealth and treasure, making it especially suitable for placing in a company or at home.
The money tree also needs careful attention during cultivation, because its root system is not very developed. If you feel sorry for it and water it too much, the roots will have too much moisture and cannot absorb and evaporate it quickly, so the roots will slowly begin to rot. Once the roots have started to sicken, the outer leaves will show a sickly yellow. It was originally lush, vigorous and beautiful, but now it is so listless and yellowish, which makes people feel bad too. When the money tree has problems, people will inexplicably wonder whether their fortunes are declining too. In short, looking at the yellowing leaves is very irritating. But there is no need to worry so much, because just one kind of water commonly used at home can bring it back to life.
You can't avoid eating at home, right, and every few days you will surely eat some meat, right! Before eating meat, everyone puts the meat into boiling water to blanch it, to remove the blood and the gamey smell in advance, so that later processing tastes better and is easier for people to accept. So the remaining meat broth surely has no use for us, and will be poured away, right? Now I will tell you that if you grow flowers at home, don't pour it away anymore, it's a real pity. Because water that has boiled meat retains meat residue and contains the nitrogen element that plants need for growth. Give it to the plants in your flower pots to drink, and the plants can replenish their nutrients too!
It is best to put the water that has boiled meat into a water bottle and place it in a sunny spot to ferment for a few days. If you think the fermented water will smell even worse because of its own odour and affect the smell in the room, then you can try adding some orange peel or pouring in some rice vinegar, which can reduce the smell a lot. Well-fermented meat-boiling water is even more nutritious for plants.
However, do not directly use the well-fermented homemade nutrient solution to water flowers, to prevent excessive nutrients from burning the flowers. It is best to first take a portion of the clearer liquid on top, dilute it with water, and then use it to water the flowers. There is no need to water often, once or twice a month separately is enough. Once your plants have sufficient nutrients, they will become full of life again. Your money tree will start bringing you wealth and treasure again!
This method is not only useful for the money tree, it is very useful for all large-leafed plants. Because as mentioned earlier, water that has boiled meat is rich in a large amount of nitrogen, and after fermentation and mellowing it is even more effective, with higher nutritional content for plants!
Every little bit in life is actually useful, you just need to be good at discovering and making use of it!