Drop a small pill in the water - the flowers drink it and burst out of the pot, the neighbors turn green with envy

We all keep some common medicines on hand, like digestive tablets, vitamin tablets and so on. Never throw these away once they expire - feed them to your flowers and the results are amazing!

Dissolve digestive tablets in water and pour on flowers for an astonishing bloom

The flower-growing benefits of digestive tablets

The main ingredient of digestive tablets is hawthorn, rich in vitamin C, which aids digestion. Once dissolved in water, it can improve soil pH, reduce yellow leaves and promote blooming. It is especially good for acid-loving flowers like jasmine, gardenia and camellia.

Tips for watering flowers with digestive tablets

Add 2~3 digestive tablets to a mineral water bottle, shake to dissolve quickly, leave it in a bright spot to ferment for 2 days, then dilute with 10 times the water and use it to water your flowers.

Add vitamin C to water and pour on flowers to remove chlorine and clear yellow leaves

The flower-growing benefits of vitamin C

Once dissolved in water, vitamin C makes an acidic solution that adjusts soil pH and also removes chlorine from the water.

Tips for using vitamin C

1. Crush one vitamin C tablet, add it to 1 kg of water, and once it has fully dissolved, water your flowers with it. This makes the soil slightly acidic and reduces yellow leaves.

2. Drop vitamin C into the bucket of water for your flowers. Once dissolved, let it sit for a while to eliminate chlorine and other disinfectants in tap water.

Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid, the specialist cure for red spider mites

The flower-growing benefits of Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid

Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid is made from herbs such as ageratum, perilla, angelica dahurica and ginger, which fight many kinds of pathogenic bacteria and kill trichomonads. It is completely non-toxic and harmless, and spraying it diluted with water effectively kills red spider mites.

Tips for using Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid

Dilute Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid with 600 times the water, then spray it on the undersides of the leaves, once every 2~3 days. After each spray, put the pot in a well-ventilated spot, and within a week the red spider mites will be greatly reduced!

Spray flowers with diluted essential balm and aphids and scale insects all flee

The flower-growing benefits of essential balm

Essential balm contains menthol, peppermint oil and other ingredients, and has the effects of refreshing the mind and repelling mosquitoes and insects. Once diluted with water and sprayed on flowers, it effectively drives away mosquitoes and inhibits the breeding of aphids and scale insects.

Tips for using essential balm

Essential balm cannot be sprayed directly on flowers; dilute it with 600~800 times the water, then spray it evenly on the leaves or other affected parts, twice a week, and it will effectively inhibit the breeding of aphids and scale insects!

Similar essential oil: floral water

Spraying diluted floral water can also kill aphids and scale insects.

Feed flowers with diluted vitamin B12 and big white roots sprout in 3 days

The flower-growing benefits of vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 speeds up plant cell division and promotes rooting, and it also supplies trace elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus for leaf growth, making leaves thick, large and glossy green!

Tips for using vitamin B12

1. Soak cuttings to promote rooting

Crush one vitamin B12 tablet, dilute it with about 1500 times the water, then soak the cuttings in it. After 20 minutes, take them out to dry, then insert them into the medium and they will root quickly.

2. Drench the roots or spray to prevent yellow leaves

Dissolve vitamin B12 in water, dilute it 2000 times, then drench the roots or spray it on the leaves to effectively prevent leaves from turning yellow.

3. Soak the roots to prevent rot

When a houseplant's roots rot, cut off the rotten parts, then soak the roots in a vitamin B12 solution. After 10 minutes, take them out and it effectively sterilises and prevents rot.

Similar tablet: aspirin

Aspirin can also promote rooting and prevent rot!

Pour ferrous sulfate into the soil and leaves grow thick, large and glossy green

The flower-growing benefits of ferrous sulfate

Ferrous sulfate, as the name suggests, both adjusts acidity and supplements iron. Give it to your flowers and there will be no yellow leaves or dry tips - the leaves will be so green they shine!

Tips for using ferrous sulfate tablets

1. Use it when a money tree turns yellow from iron deficiency

Crush 1 ferrous sulfate sustained-release tablet, dilute it with 500 times the water, stir well and spray it on the leaves, once every 2 weeks, and the new leaves will grow glossy green!

2. Use it when jasmine and gardenia turn yellow from alkaline soil

Dilute ferrous sulfate with 1000 times the water, then drench the roots of jasmine and gardenia, once a month, and after about 2 times the yellow leaves will be gone!

Drop metronidazole tablets in the water and all the smell is absorbed

The flower-growing benefits of metronidazole tablets

Metronidazole tablets are generally used to treat inflammation such as mouth ulcers and gastroenteritis. They effectively inhibit anaerobic bacteria and have strong sterilising power. Used for growing flowers, they effectively prevent rot and odour!

Tips for using metronidazole tablets

1. Add to water to prevent odour

Crush one metronidazole tablet and add it to a hydroponic bottle to inhibit anaerobic bacteria, so you no longer have to worry about roots rotting and smelling.

2. Soak to prevent root rot

When a houseplant's roots rot, crush a metronidazole tablet, dilute it with 200 times the water to make a solution, and soak the roots to sterilise and disinfect. After half an hour, take them out to dry and they are ready to pot up!

Apply Daktarin on flowers and there is no root rot or black rot

The flower-growing benefits of Daktarin

Daktarin is an antifungal medicine. Apply a little on wounds on the leaves or roots to prevent infection and rot!

Tips for using Daktarin

1. Prevent root rot when repotting

When you find root rot, you need to repot. First cut off the overly long, rotten and blackened roots, then gently apply a layer of Daktarin to the wounds to prevent further rotting.

2. Prevent infection when taking cuttings

Whether it is a stem cutting or a leaf cutting, before planting, apply a little Daktarin to the wounds on the cutting and the leaf, then leave them in a cool, ventilated spot to dry. This prevents infection by pathogens and greatly increases the survival rate.

3. Prevent black rot after beheading

When a succulent's leaves rot, remove the rotten leaves and apply a little Daktarin to the wounds; when the black rot is severe, you need to behead the plant, then apply Daktarin to slow the rot.

Small pills also have big uses

Fellow flower growers, do you have any expired pills at home?

You can give it a try,

once the flowers have taken them, don't they just get better and better!

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