Can you water hydroponic pothos with beer? The correct way to use beer to grow pothos

Potted pothos has very high ornamental value. Placed indoors, it has a great decorative effect, and at the same time it can also eliminate harmful indoor gases, making the air fresher and more natural. Not only that, since pothos is an acid-loving plant, we can also promote its growth by applying beer to it, making its stems and leaves grow more brightly and verdantly green, thereby overall enhancing the practical value of the potted plant.

But besides being grown in soil, pothos can also be grown hydroponically. Since soil-grown pothos can be watered with beer, sprayed with beer, and its leaves can even be wiped with beer, then can hydroponically grown pothos be watered with beer? Can a little beer be dripped in as a nutrient solution when changing the water of hydroponic pothos?

Actually, although potted soil-grown pothos can be watered with beer, for hydroponic pothos, it is generally not suitable to water it with beer, and beer should not be used as a nutrient solution for hydroponic pothos. Because if beer is applied to hydroponic pothos, it tends to easily cause the water quality to deteriorate, and pothos prefers a clean, clear water environment; when the water quality is damaged, its normal growth is seriously affected.

After all, after applying beer solution to hydroponic pothos, when the water quality deteriorates, pathogens will naturally breed in the pothos's water-grown environment, thereby invading the pothos's root system and causing root rot. Not only that, since beer contains quite a lot of sugar and ethanol, if the dilution concentration is not scientific, it will often also have a negative impact on the plant's growth.

However, although we cannot apply beer solution to hydroponic pothos, we can use beer to wipe its leaves, which can make the leaves neater and cleaner, thereby improving the ability to exchange air through the leaves, which is harmful and in no way beneficial to the growth of pothos.