Introduction to using vinegar for growing flowers: it can treat flower black spot disease

  When it comes to growing flowers at home, many flower lovers know a few little tricks, such as watering flowers with rice washing water or using eggshells to grow flowers. But did you know that vinegar can also be used for growing flowers? Vinegar is an indispensable condiment in daily life, and besides adding flavor, vinegar is also a great material for growing flowers. Flowers watered with vinegar shoot up just like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!

  Which flowers can be given vinegar? 

  Vinegar is an acidic substance and can improve alkaline soil. Flowers such as narcissus, Chaenomeles speciosa (flowering quince), poinsettia, chrysanthemum, Chinese rose and calceolaria all like to grow in an acidic environment. If their potting soil is on the alkaline side, you might as well add some vinegar to the soil to balance it.

  What flower ailments can vinegar improve? 

  1. Foliage plants such as azaleas and camellias often develop yellow leaves because of differences in climate and environment. To give the leaves a change from their "yellow, unkempt look," you might as well dilute 10 grams of vinegar in 3 kg of clean water and spray it on. Spraying the leaves about 3 times every 10 days can improve the yellowing of the leaves.

  2. If flowers such as roses, peonies and Chinese roses break out with black spot disease or powdery mildew, vinegar can also be used to control and treat them.

  The effects of vinegar

  Vinegar can treat pest problems 

  Every year in summer and autumn, flower pests break out. Once you find small insect eggs on the leaves of your flowers, you need to step in and treat them! The most effective way is to apply vinegar to a towel and then wipe the flower leaves with the towel; this can effectively kill the pest eggs.

  Vinegar can promote plant rooting 

  Golden autumn is a good time for cuttings. Soaking the cuttings in diluted vinegar water can both sterilize them and promote root growth!

Growing flowers at home: "drinking vinegar" can bring flowers back from the dead

Growing flowers at home: vinegar has the wonderful effect of bringing flowers back from the dead.

In flower growing, vinegar plays a role that cannot be underestimated, and for poorly growing flowers it has the wonderful effect of bringing them back from the dead. It contains beneficial substances such as sugars, glucose, lactic acid and acetic acid, and vinegar solution can inhibit the biological activity of glycolate oxidase in the "photorespiration" process, raise the net photosynthetic rate by 10%-20%, strengthen photosynthesis, increase chlorophyll content and enhance the disease resistance of flowers. So spraying an appropriate amount of vinegar solution can make flowers grow vigorously, with more blooms and brighter colors. Several ways to use it are introduced below.

Treating chlorosis. Many flowers, such as camellias, azaleas and foliage plants, often develop yellow leaves due to lack of iron, potting soil pH being too high, improper care and so on. At this point, you can add 10 grams of vinegar to 3 kg of clean water and spray it on the plant leaves before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m. Once every 10 days, and after 4-5 consecutive sprays the leaves can turn from yellow to green.

Promoting plant growth. Using a 300-fold vinegar solution and spraying the whole plant before camellias form buds, once every 15 days, can increase camellia leaf size by 0.2-0.4 cm, increase flower quantity by 8% and increase branching by 20%. Watering flowers and trees with a 150-2000-fold vinegar solution can overcome physiological diseases caused by potting soil pH being on the alkaline side.

Enhancing disease resistance. For example, Chinese rose powdery mildew, azalea black spot disease, and rose and peony sooty mold, once discovered, can be effectively controlled by spraying with a 150-fold vinegar solution 3 times. For flower downy mildew, leaf spot disease and so on, spraying vinegar also has a certain therapeutic effect.

However, when spraying vinegar on flowers, you should pay attention to the following points: 1. You must choose good edible vinegar, and never use industrial chemical vinegar or spoiled, deteriorated vinegar; 2. The concentration must be strictly controlled and must not be increased at will; 3. Generally spray in the morning and evening, and never spray under the scorching sun.