Clever flower-growing tips: veteran flower growers use pills to make flowers grow like crazy

As people's living standards rise, many households like to grow flowers and green plants. First, they are beautiful and decorative; second, they purify the air and benefit human health; third, watching the flowers you grow go from seedling to bloom is a deeply fulfilling experience. At the same time, to help flowers grow better, many flower lovers have come up with their own little tricks. Today I'll also share some flower-growing tips an old flower farmer told me.

1. Vitamin C tablets

Vitamin C is very common in daily life, but many people don't know that using it to grow flowers works very well too. It is especially effective for gardenias and jasmine. This is because vitamin C becomes weakly acidic when dissolved in water, and watering flowers with a vitamin C solution makes alkaline soil weakly acidic. This way, for flowers that like acidic soil, once the potting soil has become alkaline, watering with it helps the flowers grow better.

2. Using ferrous sulfate tablets to grow flowers

Ferrous sulfate tablets are fairly common in daily life. If they expire, people usually just throw them away, but many people don't know they can actually be used to grow flowers and are very good at adjusting potting soil, regulating the soil's acidity and alkalinity. In everyday flower care, if you put a ferrous sulfate tablet in a spray bottle and spray it on the leaves, the leaves become more glossy and shiny.

So if the flowers at home are not growing well, or if the leaves turn yellow, you can try using ferrous sulfate tablets to grow them, and the flowers are sure to grow vigorous and full of life.

3. Metronidazole tablets

Metronidazole tablets may not be familiar to some people; they can treat toothache. In fact, they are also very effective tablets for growing flowers, with excellent sterilizing and disinfecting effects. For flowers with root rot, when repotting, soak them in a metronidazole solution. This not only sterilizes the rotten roots but also raises the survival rate, making the flowers grow more vigorously with greener leaves.

4. Aspirin tablets

Aspirin tablets are found in every home, but if they sit too long and expire, they become useless. That's the perfect time to use them for growing flowers. This is because aspirin contains salicylic acid, which promotes plant rooting. If you add an aspirin tablet when taking cuttings, the cuttings will root faster. Moreover, aspirin tablets not only promote rooting in flowers and plants but also have sterilizing and disinfecting effects. In short, using aspirin to grow flowers works brilliantly.

Those are the flower-growing tips compiled by the Huinong website editors. Have you all learned them? As long as the method is right, a small pill can make flower leaves thick and green.

Clever solutions for potted flowers that have overgrown their pots at home (save this!)

    With economic development, almost every household now grows potted plants, because they purify the air and help cultivate the mind. But many growers find their flowers do not grow well. Why is that? The reasons are actually simple: either improper water and fertilizer management, or soil compaction. So how should this be handled? Below, the editor explains it in detail for everyone.

I. Criteria for judging soil compaction in pots

    1. Look with your eyes: check whether the soil surface in the pot has turned white or has dry cracks. If so, it is compacted.

    2. Grab with your hand: grab a handful of soil from the pot; if it does not crumble in your hand and comes as clumps and lumps, it is compacted.

If the soil in your flower pot shows the above two signs, then soil compaction has already occurred, and you should repot or treat the compaction promptly.

II. Why does potting soil become compacted?

1. Soil choice

    Flowers should be planted in relatively loose, breathable soil. If you use yellow clay soil or heavy clay soil that easily compacts, then compaction is unavoidable.

2. Watering issues

    It can be said that most potting soil compaction is directly related to watering. First, each time you water, if the amount is too large and the flow too forceful, the soil easily hardens and compacts. Second, long-term direct use of tap water or hard water for irrigation is a problem: tap water contains a lot of irritating chlorine, which easily damages roots; with long-term use it accumulates in the soil and easily causes compaction.

3. Fertilizer issues

    On one hand, long-term single use of chemical fertilizers easily causes compaction; some soils are rich in calcium, and applying fertilizer such as ammonium sulfate can also cause soil compaction. On the other hand, people who grow flowers at home like to give their flowers special treats; some often water flowers with protein substances such as milk, soy milk, and egg white. If too much is used and the flower roots cannot absorb it all, it causes soil compaction.

III. How to effectively prevent and treat potting soil compaction?

1. Repotting with new soil

    The most direct and effective way to solve soil compaction is to change the soil. You can buy special flower soil and repot. Repotting is best done during the season when the flowers grow vigorously.

2. Rational fertilization

    Flowers need relatively little fertilizer, so there is no need to fertilize excessively or too frequently; fertilization should avoid long-term excessive use of chemical fertilizers. When fertilizing, on one hand you can switch from covering with soil after fertilizing to dry fertilizing, directly sprinkling fertilizer on the soil surface and then watering, so the decomposed nutrients are washed into the soil by the water. On the other hand, apply more decomposed biological organic fertilizer or use some microbial agents to increase the organic matter, humus and beneficial bacteria in the potting soil. On yet another hand, it is recommended to avoid chemical fertilizers as much as possible.

    In addition, you can collect leftover peanut shells, sunflower seed shells, chestnut shells, eggshells, walnut shells, rotten vegetable leaves and the like from home in a plastic bucket, add soil, and use them after composting and fermentation, which can make the fertilizer effect last longer!

3. Loosen the soil regularly

    On one hand, you can dilute a soil conditioner and pour it onto the compacted soil (for example, 1 gram of soil-loosening agent plus 1 kg of water). On the other hand, loosen the soil regularly. On yet another hand, you can put a few earthworms in the pot to help; you can dig earthworms yourself in the wild, or buy them at a fishing tackle shop for 1-2 yuan.

4. Rational watering

    First, correct the habit of pouring large, forceful amounts of water. You can either pour water slowly along the edge of the pot, or alternate normal watering with the soaking method (soaking method: set the pot in a tray full of water and let the water slowly soak upward through the bottom of the pot). When using tap water, let fresh tap water sit for 1-2 days before use. In addition, river water and rainwater are quite good for watering, and the rice-washing water left over from cooking at home is a very good water for flowers too~!

III. Which flowers are suitable for beginners to plant in autumn?

    Here are 30 ornamental potted flowers suitable for planting in autumn.

    Herbaceous flowers: Madagascar periwinkle, moss rose, pansy, horned violet, petunia, million bells, etc.;

    Woody flowers: Chinese rose, azalea, camellia, etc.;

    Bulbous flowers: kalanchoe, orchid, clematis, clivia, narcissus, daffodil, tulip, iris, saffron crocus, hyacinth, grape hyacinth, etc.

    Hydrangea, large-flowered oxeye daisy, marguerite daisy, geranium, dahlia, dwarf dahlia, honeysuckle, hosta, spider plant, ferns, ivy and others are also very good.

    Growing flowers in daily life is something that makes people happy, because besides being a beautiful sight they also purify the air. But when planting, you must pay attention to the methods, otherwise the flowers may die or fail to grow well. The above are clever solutions for potted flowers that have overgrown their pots at home; everyone can refer to them.

What are good indoor flowers to grow? Which flowers are suitable for growing indoors?

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Flowers suitable for growing indoors: Aloe, spider plant and snake plant

Aloe, spider plant and snake plant can remove formaldehyde (especially spider plant: place one pot in a room, and within 24 hours its leaves will "eat" harmful gases such as carbon monoxide from the indoor air, with an effect even exceeding that of an air filter);

Flowers suitable for growing indoors: English ivy, aloe and lucky bamboo

These flowers can effectively remove indoor trichloroethylene, hydrogen sulfide, benzene, phenol, hydrogen fluoride and ether, etc.;

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Flowers not suitable for growing indoors:Chinese rose, azalea, tulip, lily

Although the Chinese rose can absorb large amounts of harmful gases, its rich fragrance can also make people feel depressed, uncomfortable and short of breath, and in severe cases even cause breathing difficulty; although azalea, tulip, lily and others can also absorb volatile chemicals, azalea flowers contain a toxin, and eating them by mistake causes poisoning in mild cases and shock in severe cases; tulip flowers contain a toxic alkaloid, and prolonged contact accelerates hair loss;

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The fragrance of lily, if smelled for a long time, overstimulates the human central nervous system and causes insomnia; the pollen of the redbud flower, with prolonged contact, can trigger asthma or worsen coughing; the mimosine in mimosa is a highly toxic organic compound, and excessive human contact can cause hair loss.