Using rice water to water flowers: an old gardener reminds you that used right it is fertilizer, used wrong it is poison

Using rice water to water flowers? An old gardener tells you: used right it is fertilizer, used wrong it is "poison"!

More and more people love growing flowers, and many of them grow all kinds of plants and flowers in their lives, placing them in their homes or offices, which not only greens the environment but also makes their living space warm and healthy. In their spare time, looking at the plants they grow can shift their attention and relieve work fatigue and stress.

As more and more plants and flowers are grown, more energy is needed to care for them, and over time some small flower-growing tips are discovered, such as using rice water to water flowers, using peanut shells to ferment fertilizer, using expired aspirin tablets to water flowers, and other little flower-growing tips. Using these little tips to grow flowers is not only efficient but also very convenient to carry out. But some flower lovers have some misunderstandings when learning these little tips.

Take the common rice water in daily life, for example. Many flower lovers know to use rice water to water flowers; rice water is rich in elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which can promote plant growth and supply abundant nutrients. But when using rice water to water flowers, you must pay attention to some techniques, otherwise it will not only fail to promote plant growth, but instead will make the soil compact and cause the flowers to rot and die.

Correct method of use: rice water must be fully fermented and then diluted with water; used this way to water flowers it is safest

Every household has rice water. When many flower lovers use rice water, they pour the water just used to rinse rice directly into the flowerpot. In fact, this method of use carries a certain risk: the water just used to rinse rice is alkaline, while the flowers commonly seen at home like to grow in neutral or slightly acidic soil, so adding rice water is not good for plant growth. The most serious thing is that after rice water is added to the flowerpot it will ferment, and the heat produced will burn the plant's roots, so it very easily leads to the flowerpot soil becoming compact and the plant dying. So rice water used correctly is fertilizer, and used incorrectly it is poison.

Put the water used to rinse rice into a plastic bottle and leave it in a cool place to ferment for two weeks. When you see white foam at the mouth of the bottle, it means the rice water has fermented fully. Then dilute the fermented rice water with clean water at a ratio of 1:5 and pour it directly into the flowerpots at home. For flowers grown at home such as pothos, spider plant, clivia, kalanchoe, Christmas cactus and money tree, you can use the diluted rice water directly as water and pour it into the flowerpot, watering thoroughly and wetting the soil at one go. It not only supplies water for plant growth but also supplies fertilizer.

So when using some flower-growing tips, you must pay attention to the methods and conditions of use. If the earlier handling method is not right, it very easily backfires. Not only will it fail to help the plants grow, but it will cause the plants to rot and die. Growing flowers is also something that needs to be done with care; only by carefully looking after the flowers will they grow lush and sturdy and bloom beautiful flowers for people to admire.

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