Aunt Wu Has Grown Flowers for 10 Years: Add "This" to Fermented Rice Water - No Bad Smell and Plenty of Nutrients

Aunt Wu has grown flowers for 10 years. Add "this" to fermented rice water - no bad smell and plenty of nutrients.

More and more people are growing flowers, and many keep some green potted plants at home, such as spider plants, pothos, snake plants, Christmas cacti, kalanchoes, and lucky bamboo. These are all very common household flowers. When caring for these flowers day to day, you not only need to give them plenty of water, but also pay attention to loosening the soil, fertilizing, and watering. So growing flowers also takes a certain amount of patience and time to take good care of them.

In the daily process of growing flowers, fertilizing is very important for every kind of flower. Generally, when growing flowers, you can buy some quick-acting compound fertilizer or nutrient solution to supplement fertilizer for the flowers. Of course, you can also supplement fertilizer by making organic fertilizer yourself. Take Aunt Wu, the neighbor of Shitou, for example. She loves growing flowers very much and often ferments rice water and then uses it to water flowers. It is a very good organic fertilizer.

Of course, many flower lovers may have heard of using rice water to water flowers, but when using rice water to water flowers, you must ferment the rice water fully, then dilute it with water before using it to water flowers. Sometimes during fermentation it can also produce some odor, and when poured into the flowerpot it will also smell bad. So in her own flower-growing process, Aunt Wu discovered a trick for fermenting rice water: when fermenting rice water, add some orange peel, tomatoes, and so on to the water to eliminate the odor. Moreover, after orange peel and tomatoes are fermented, they make the rice water even richer in nutrients.

The specific steps are as follows:

Put the rice water into a plastic bottle, then put orange peel into the bottle, or add some rotten tomatoes, then tighten the bottle cap and place the bottle in a cool place to ferment for two weeks. When you see foam forming, unscrew the cap once to release gas. Continue fermenting, and when you see a large amount of foam forming inside, it means fermentation is sufficient. Then dilute the fermented fertilizer water with clean water, mix them at a ratio of 1:10, and use it directly to water flowers.

The fermented rice water is rich in elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and the whole aqueous solution is slightly acidic. It can be poured into the flowerpots of spider plants, pothos, clivias, and kalanchoes. It not only fully supplements nutrients, but can also acidify the soil conditions of the environment where the plants grow. Watering flowers with fully fermented rice water over the long term not only makes the plants grow densely and healthily, but also keeps the soil loose and breathable.

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