Don't throw away expired medicines - they're treasures for growing flowers
Introduction
The practical experience and wisdom of flower enthusiasts always surprise us. When it comes to those little tricks in life, as long as you pay attention, there are always new discoveries.
Expired medicines can be used to grow flowers - another clever trick summarized by attentive flower enthusiasts.
Many flower enthusiasts know that aspirin works well for growing flowers, and we've mentioned that before. Today, let's take a look at what other medicines work well for growing flowers after they expire, and what precautions to take when using them.
Aspirin
Aspirin, also called compound acetylsalicylic acid tablets, breaks down into salicylic acid and acetic acid after dissolving in water, providing antibacterial and preservative effects, promoting root growth, and enhancing photosynthesis.
Spraying and watering flowers with aspirin solution not only speeds up plant growth with lush leaves and abundant blooms, but also prevents and treats various fungal diseases - multiple benefits in one.
When taking cuttings, soak the cuttings in a solution of a cup of purified water plus one aspirin tablet for half a day to promote rooting and budding.
Precautions:
Use purified water to achieve the expected results. One aspirin tablet dissolved in one liter of water is best. It has the most obvious effect on solanaceous plants.
Vitamin C
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Vitamin C is a common household medicine, and people often buy it and forget to take it. What benefits does it have for growing flowers?
After vitamin C dissolves in water, the water becomes slightly acidic, and the chlorine in the water is also driven off, so it has the effect of improving water quality!
Watering flowers with dissolved vitamin C tablets can enhance plant stress resistance, reduce light damage, make leaf colors greener, and make plants more robust.
Precautions:
Add one vitamin C tablet to one liter of water. After adding, don't use it immediately - let it sit for a while before it takes effect.
Vitamin B
This vitamin has an inhibitory effect on many types of fungi. Using it for spraying or cuttings can reduce plant root problems and promote healthy plant growth.
After dissolving in water, spraying it on leaves also has a similar effect to foliar fertilizer, increasing disease resistance and making leaves greener and shinier.
How to use: Add one vitamin B tablet to one liter of water and let it dissolve completely.
21 Golden Vita / Centrum
21 Golden Vita tablets and Centrum tablets contain various vitamins and trace elements. Using them to grow flowers, foliage plants have beautiful and shiny leaf colors and never get dry tips, while flowering plants have longer blooming periods and "flowers that never fade."
Precautions:
They can be crushed into powder and buried in the pot soil away from the roots, or mixed into the potting soil as a base fertilizer - the effect is very good.
For watering with the aqueous solution, one tablet can be diluted in one liter of water. If watering frequently, dilute one tablet in two liters of water - it's like
wise effective.
Ferrous sulfate tablets
Plants deficient in iron will develop yellow leaf disease. Ferrous sulfate is one of the effective methods for supplementing iron. After use, leaves and flowers become healthier and more beautiful. In addition, ferrous sulfate can adjust soil pH and is used for acid-loving plants such as camellia,
azalea, gardenia, etc.
Precautions:
When using medical ferrous sulfate tablets to grow flowers, they must be diluted sufficiently to avoid harming the flowers and achieve the purpose of promoting growth. It's best to use purified water when preparing. If using tap water or other alkaline
water, you can add a small amount of monopotassium phosphate before preparing.
The solution concentration should ideally be between 0.2% and 0.5%. Use immediately after preparation (the solution deteriorates after sitting and is not easily absorbed). The interval between two uses should be more than half a month.
Antibiotics
Aminoglycoside antibiotics (gentamicin, streptomycin, tobramycin, etc.), diluted 2000 times with water, have obvious effects on the prevention and treatment of bacterial soft rot in plants (orchids are the most common users of this method), making your
plants healthier and more robust!
When using, dilute 1000 times and water the plants (about one bottle of antibiotics diluted in 3 liters of water), or apply antibiotic injection to the affected areas of the plant.
Precautions:
Frequent use will produce drug resistance, so do not use continuously more than three times.
Daktarin / Piyanping
Daktarin is one of our common effective antibacterial drugs. Actually, it's not just for treating people - it works for plants too. In summer, many flower enthusiasts rely on it to improve the survival rate of their succulents.
The most common use is for stem cuttings and leaf cuttings of flowering plants: apply Daktarin to the wounds on branches and leaves. It's perfect for treating fungal leaf spot disease, brown rot, and preventing black stem rot!
When using, simply apply it directly to the wounded areas of the plant where you want to prevent or treat disease.
Precautions:
The earlier you discover the problem and apply it, the better the effect.
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