Is watering flowers with milk really a good idea? Be careful not to be fooled and harm your own plants

?We often hear people say that tea can be used to water flowers, beer can be used to water flowers, rice-washing water can be used to water flowers, that any kind of water can be used to water flowers, that this or that kind of water is wonderful for watering flowers and makes your plants shoot up vigorously.

Well, recently Huahua also found people in the backend comments saying that milk can be used to water flowers too, so I quickly wanted to chat with everyone about it.

Milk really is a good thing, containing rich nutrients that can ensure our body's nutritional needs, but can milk also ensure a plant's nutritional needs? Not necessarily~

Next, Huahua will carefully explain to everyone whether milk can actually be used to water flowers, what kind of milk can be used to water flowers, and so on. Huahua will help everyone solve these questions one by one!

1. What kind of flowers can milk be used to water? Is it better for acid-loving or alkali-loving plants?

At first glance this question looks very professional, asking about acid-loving and alkali-loving plants, but little do they know that the first sentence already gave it away. Milk is not suitable as water for watering flowers; whether acid-loving or alkali-loving, no kind of flower is suitable for it.

2. Can expired milk be used to water flowers?

For us, milk that has not expired is a good thing, and milk that has expired cannot be drunk, as it easily causes stomach upset. But for plants, it makes no difference whether the milk has expired or not; no matter whether the milk has expired, it is not suitable for watering flowers.

3. How do you ferment milk?

In fact, after fermentation, milk can be used to water flowers, and of course it can also be converted into fertilizer that plants can absorb. Normally we can put the milk into a bottle and mix it with water at a 1:1 ratio. Then leave it in the sun to ferment, and be careful not to screw the bottle cap on too tightly. Successfully fermented milk generally does not smell too bad; if it smells very foul, that means the milk has not fermented completely.

4. How do you use fermented milk to water flowers?

Mix the fermented milk with clean water and it can be used to water flowers, but note that the lower the concentration of milk, the better, as this will be relatively safer.

5. Will plants grow better if watered with milk?

No. Watering flowers directly with unfermented milk has the most direct result of killing the plant. This is why "one man's honey is another man's arsenic": milk can be absorbed by our bodies as a nutrient, but it cannot be absorbed by plants, and blindly "replenishing nutrients" for plants will only make them die faster.

Does everyone understand now that milk cannot be used to water flowers? As Huahua sees it, there is no need to insist on using milk as fertilizer; ordinarily, the rotten leaves left over in the kitchen make better nutrients than milk. You may think rotten leaves are not good enough, but plants still consider them a "treasure." So don't force-feed nutrients to your plants.